{"id":578,"date":"2009-04-25T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=578"},"modified":"2009-04-25T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:06:33","slug":"poem-at-the-round-earths-imagined-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/poem-at-the-round-earths-imagined-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  At the round earth&#039;s imagined corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Donne&#8217;s Sonnet #7 from the <em>Divine Meditations<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the round earth&#8217;s imagined corners, blow<br \/>\nYour trumpets, angels, and arise, arise<br \/>\nFrom death, you numberless infinities<br \/>\nOf souls, and to your scattered bodies go,<br \/>\nAll whom the flood did, and fire shall o&#8217;erthrow,<br \/>\nAll whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies.<br \/>\nDespair, law, chance hath slain, and you whose eyes,<br \/>\nShall behold God, and never taste death&#8217;s woe.<br \/>\nBut let them sleep, Lord, and me mourn a space,<br \/>\nFor, if above all these, my sins abound,<br \/>\n&#8216;Tis late to ask abundance of thy grace,<br \/>\nWhen we are there; here, on this lowly ground,<br \/>\nTeach me how to repent; for that&#8217;s as good<br \/>\nAs if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>References:<\/em><br \/>\n[tag]John Donne[\/tag] [1971]:\u00a0 <em>The Complete English Poems.\u00a0<\/em> London, England: Penguin Classics. Edited by A. J. Smith. pp. 311-312.<br \/>\nPrevious posts in this series can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/category\/poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Donne&#8217;s Sonnet #7 from the Divine Meditations: At the round earth&#8217;s imagined corners, blow Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go, All whom the flood did, and fire shall o&#8217;erthrow, All whom war, death, age, agues, tyrannies. Despair, law, chance hath slain, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m04","d25","h14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","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=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}