{"id":746,"date":"2022-01-09T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T14:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=746"},"modified":"2022-02-06T14:10:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:10:37","slug":"edmund-pollard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/edmund-pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmund Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-188.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-543\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-188.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would I had thrust my hands of flesh<br \/>\nInto the disk-flowers bee-infested,<br \/>\nInto the mirror-like core of fire<br \/>\nOf the light of life, the sun of delight.<br \/>\nFor what are anthers worth or petals<br \/>\nOr halo-rays? Mockeries, shadows<br \/>\nOf the heart of the flower, the central flame<br \/>\nAll is yours, young passer-by;<br \/>\nEnter the banquet room with the thought;<br \/>\nDon\u2019t sidle in as if you were doubtful<br \/>\nWhether you\u2019re welcome\u2014the feast is yours!<br \/>\nNor take but a little, refusing more<br \/>\nWith a bashful \u201cThank you\u201d, when you\u2019re hungry.<br \/>\nIs your soul alive? Then let it feed!<br \/>\nLeave no balconies where you can climb;<br \/>\nNor milk-white bosoms where you can rest;<br \/>\nNor golden heads with pillows to share;<br \/>\nNor wine cups while the wine is sweet;<br \/>\nNor ecstasies of body or soul,<br \/>\nYou will die, no doubt, but die while living<br \/>\nIn depths of azure, rapt and mated,<br \/>\nKissing the queen-bee, Life!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/searcy-foote\/\">Previous: Searcy Foote<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/thomas-trevelyan\/\">Next: Thomas Trevelyan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would I had thrust my hands of flesh Into the disk-flowers bee-infested, Into the mirror-like core of fire Of the light of life, the sun of delight. For what are anthers worth or petals Or halo-rays? Mockeries, shadows Of the heart of the flower, the central flame All is yours, young passer-by; Enter the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":68,"menu_order":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-746","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-edmund-pollard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746\/revisions\/889"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}