{"id":842,"date":"2009-08-09T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T10:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=842"},"modified":"2009-08-09T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T10:59:28","slug":"poem-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/poem-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the poem, <em>Dreams<\/em>, by Thomas Traherne (c. 1637-1674), whose poetry was only\u00a0first discovered 200 years after his death, and quite by accident, and with new writing being found as recently as 1997.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May all that I can see<br \/>\nAwake, by Night be within me be?<br \/>\nMy childhood knew<br \/>\nNo Difference, but all was True,<br \/>\nAs Real all as what I view:<br \/>\nThe World its Self was there: &#8216;Twas wondrous strange,<br \/>\nThat Heav&#8217;n and Earth should so their place exchange.<br \/>\nThings terrible did awe<br \/>\nMy Soul with Fear:<br \/>\nThe Apparitions seem&#8217;d as near<br \/>\nAs Things could be, and Things they were;<br \/>\nYet were they all by Fancy in me wrought,<br \/>\nAnd all their Being founded in a Thought.<br \/>\nO what a Thing is Thought!<br \/>\nWhich seems a Dream: yea seemeth Nought,<br \/>\nYet doth the Mind<br \/>\nAffect as much as what we find<br \/>\nMost near and true! Sure Men are blind,<br \/>\nAnd can&#8217;t the forcible Reality<br \/>\nOf things that Secret are within them see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Previous poetry posts are <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/category\/poetry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the poem, Dreams, by Thomas Traherne (c. 1637-1674), whose poetry was only\u00a0first discovered 200 years after his death, and quite by accident, and with new writing being found as recently as 1997. May all that I can see Awake, by Night be within me be? My childhood knew No Difference, but all was True, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2009","m08","d09","h10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}