{"id":2451,"date":"2010-10-02T22:39:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T22:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2019-05-05T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T18:05:15","slug":"poem-sonnet-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/poem-sonnet-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Sonnet II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poem George Santayana wrote on the early death in 1893 of his close friend, Warwick Potter, who apparently died in Brest of cholera caught after being weakened due to severe sea-sickness experienced while yachting. More about Potter&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2017\/01\/8121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Sonnet II, from &#8220;To W.P.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nWith you a part of me hath passed away;<br \/>\nFor in the peopled forest of my mind<br \/>\nA tree made leafless by this wintry wind<br \/>\nShall never don again its green array.<br \/>\nChapel and fireside, country road and bay,<br \/>\nHave something of their friendliness resigned;<br \/>\nAnother, if I would, I could not find,<br \/>\nAnd I am grown much older in a day.<br \/>\nBut yet I treasure in my memory<br \/>\nYour gift of charity, and young heart&#8217;s ease,<br \/>\nAnd the dear honour of your amity;<br \/>\nFor these once mine, my life is rich with these.<br \/>\nAnd I scarce know which part may greater be,&#8211;<br \/>\nWhat I keep of you, or you rob from me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previous posts of poetry are <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/category\/poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem George Santayana wrote on the early death in 1893 of his close friend, Warwick Potter, who apparently died in Brest of cholera caught after being weakened due to severe sea-sickness experienced while yachting. More about Potter&nbsp;here. Sonnet II, from &#8220;To W.P.&#8221; With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2010","m10","d02","h22"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9780,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/9780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}