{"id":344,"date":"2010-11-19T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=344"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:51:22","slug":"william-butler-yeats-a-last-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/344\/poems\/william-butler-yeats-a-last-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"William Butler Yeats &#8211; A Last Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What lively lad most pleasured me<br \/>\nOf all that with me lay?<br \/>\nI answer that I gave my soul<br \/>\nAnd loved in misery,<br \/>\nBut had great pleasure with a lad<br \/>\nThat I loved bodily.<\/p>\n<p>Flinging from his arms I laughed<br \/>\nTo think his passion such<br \/>\nHe fancied that I gave a soul<br \/>\nDid but our bodies touch,<br \/>\nAnd laughed upon his breast to think<br \/>\nBeast gave beast as much.<\/p>\n<p>I gave what other women gave<br \/>\nThat stepped out of their clothes.<br \/>\nBut when this soul, its body off,<br \/>\nNaked to naked goes,<br \/>\nHe it has found shall find therein<br \/>\nWhat none other knows,<\/p>\n<p>And give his own and take his own<br \/>\nAnd rule in his own right;<br \/>\nAnd though it loved in misery<br \/>\nClose and cling so tight,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not a bird of day that dare<br \/>\nExtinguish that delight.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What lively lad most pleasured me Of all that with me lay? I answer that I gave my soul And loved in misery, But had great pleasure with a lad That I loved bodily. Flinging from his arms I laughed To think his passion such He fancied that I gave a soul Did but our <a href='http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/344\/poems\/william-butler-yeats-a-last-confession\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}