{"id":11722,"date":"2012-02-14T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=11722"},"modified":"2012-02-12T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T10:25:08","slug":"tuesday-poem-for-valentines-day-whenas-in-silks-my-julia-goes-by-robert-herrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2012\/02\/14\/tuesday-poem-for-valentines-day-whenas-in-silks-my-julia-goes-by-robert-herrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem for Valentine’s Day: “Whenas in Silks My Julia Goes” by Robert Herrick"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHENAS in Silks My Julia Goes<\/strong><\/p>\n

WHENAS in silks my Julia goes
\nThen, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
\nThat liquefaction of her clothes.<\/p>\n

Next when I cast mine eyes and see
\nThat brave vibration each way free;
\nO how that glittering taketh me!<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

by Robert Herrick, 1591-1674<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Today is Valentine’s Day and I wanted to choose a poem that was both “romantic” in tone, but also light hearted. I also wanted to go with this one because of the very different content given to the word “liquefaction” compared with what we have come to know, far less pleasantly, in Christchurch during the past eighteen months.<\/p>\n

Robert Herrick was a 17th century clergyman and poet, and a member of the group of Cavalier poets known as the “Sons of Ben”—poets with an enthusiasm for the work of Elizabethan\/Jacobean dramatist and poet, Ben Jonson.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHENAS in Silks My Julia Goes WHENAS in silks my Julia goes Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; O how that glittering taketh me! . by Robert Herrick, 1591-1674 — Today is Valentine’s Day and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11722"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11730,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11722\/revisions\/11730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}