{"id":27,"date":"2008-11-24T14:08:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=27"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:54:52","slug":"there-was-a-man-of-double-deed-anon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"There was a Man of Double Deed &#8211; Anon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-27-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/audio\/doubledeed.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/audio\/doubledeed.mp3\">https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/audio\/doubledeed.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">read by Robert Pinsky.  audio from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200516\/\" target=\"blank\">the slate poetry podcast<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was a man of double deed,<br \/>\nWho sowed his garden full of seed;<br \/>\nWhen the seed began to grow,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like a garden full of snow;<br \/>\nWhen the snow began to melt,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like a ship without a belt;<br \/>\nWhen the ship began to sail,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like a bird without a tail;<br \/>\nWhen the bird began to fly,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like an eagle in the sky;<br \/>\nWhen the sky began to roar,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like a lion at my door;<br \/>\nWhen my door began to crack,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like a stick across my back;<br \/>\nWhen my back began to smart,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas like a penknife in my heart;<br \/>\nAnd when my heart began to bleed,<br \/>\n&#8216;Twas death, and death, and death indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>read by Robert Pinsky. audio from the slate poetry podcast. There was a man of double deed, Who sowed his garden full of seed; When the seed began to grow, &#8216;Twas like a garden full of snow; When the snow began to melt, &#8216;Twas like a ship without a belt; When the ship began to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-began-to-smart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poem.oftheweek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}