{"id":31027,"date":"2016-01-12T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=31027"},"modified":"2016-01-09T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T04:49:06","slug":"o-dreamy-gloomy-friendly-trees-by-herbert-trench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/o-dreamy-gloomy-friendly-trees-by-herbert-trench\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;O dreamy, gloomy friendly trees&#8221; by Herbert Trench"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-canvas-width=\"271.66799999999995\">O dreamy, gloomy friendly trees,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"256.66799999999995\">I came along your narrow track<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"278.3399999999999\">To bring my gifts unto your knees<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"233.328\">And gifts did you give back;<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"343.4319999999999\">For when I brought this heart that burns\u2014<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"299.46400000000006\">These thoughts that bitterly repine\u2014<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"292.83799999999997\">And laid them here among the ferns<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"253.90599999999995\">And the hum of boughs divine,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"253.368\">Ye, vastest breathers of the air,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"336.63599999999997\">Shook down with slow and mighty poise<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"277.20400000000006\">Your coolness on the human care,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"203.30400000000006\">Your wonder on its toys,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"311.5800000000001\">Your greenness on the heart\u2019s despair,<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">Your darkness on its noise<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">~ by Herbert Trench, 1865 &#8211; 1923<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">&#8212;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">I am starting my year in poetry by featuring poems that concern trees.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">Herbert Trench is not a well-known poet, but you can read his Wikipedia entry <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Herbert_Trench\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\"><\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">You may also like to check out the following, if you missed it last week:<\/div>\n<div data-canvas-width=\"217.20000000000002\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/the-most-read-tuesday-poem-posts-of-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Most-Read \u201cTuesday Poem\u201d Posts Of 2015<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O dreamy, gloomy friendly trees, I came along your narrow track To bring my gifts unto your knees And gifts did you give back; For when I brought this heart that burns\u2014 These thoughts that bitterly repine\u2014 And laid them here among the ferns And the hum of boughs divine, Ye, vastest breathers of the [&hellip;]<\/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-31027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027","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=31027"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31031,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31027\/revisions\/31031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}