{"id":19,"date":"2008-09-02T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=19"},"modified":"2008-09-02T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T17:25:49","slug":"recuerdo-edna-st-vincent-millay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Recuerdo &#8211; Edna St. Vincent Millay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:recuerdo.mp3] (1:35)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by Edna St. Vincent Millay.  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\" target=\"blank\">salon.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We were very tired, we were very merry &#8212;<br \/>\nWe had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.<br \/>\nIt was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable &#8212;<br \/>\nBut we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,<br \/>\nWe lay on the hill-top underneath the moon;<br \/>\nAnd the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.<\/p>\n<p>We were very tired, we were very merry &#8212;<br \/>\nWe had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;<br \/>\nAnd you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,<br \/>\nFrom a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;<br \/>\nAnd the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,<br \/>\nAnd the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.<\/p>\n<p>We were very tired, we were very merry,<br \/>\nWe had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.<br \/>\nWe hailed, &#8220;Good morrow, mother!&#8221; to a shawl-covered head,<br \/>\nAnd bought a morning paper, which neither of us read;<br \/>\nAnd she wept, &#8220;God bless you!&#8221; for the apples and the pears,<br \/>\nAnd we gave her all our money but our subway fares.<\/p>\n<p>(1922)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[audio:recuerdo.mp3] (1:35) read by Edna St. Vincent Millay. audio from salon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-and-i-ate-a-pear","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}