{"id":295,"date":"2010-11-19T22:31:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:31:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:31:08","slug":"john-donne-the-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/295\/poems\/john-donne-the-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"John Donne &#8211; The Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come live with me, and be my love,<br \/>\nAnd we will some new pleasures prove<br \/>\nOf golden sands, and crystal brooks:<br \/>\nWith silken lines, and silver hooks.<\/p>\n<p>There will the river whispering run<br \/>\nWarm&#8217;d by thy eyes, more then the Sun.<br \/>\nAnd there th&#8217;inamored fish will stay,<br \/>\nBegging themselves they may betray.<\/p>\n<p>When thou wilt swim in that live bath,<br \/>\nEach fish, which every channel hath,<br \/>\nWill amorously to thee swim,<br \/>\nGladder to catch thee than thou him.<\/p>\n<p>If thou, to be so seen, beest loth,<br \/>\nBy Sun, or Moon, thou darknest both,<br \/>\nAnd if my self have leave to see,<br \/>\nI need not their light, having thee.<\/p>\n<p>Let others freeze with angling reeds,<br \/>\nAnd cut their legs with shells and weeds,<br \/>\nOr treacherously poor fish beset,<br \/>\nWith strangling snare, or windowy net:<\/p>\n<p>Let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest<br \/>\nThe bedded fish in banks out-wrest,<br \/>\nOr curious traitors, sleavesilke flies<br \/>\nBewitch poor fishes wandering eyes.<\/p>\n<p>For thee, thou needst no such deceit,<br \/>\nFor thou thyself art thine own bait;<br \/>\nThat fish, that is not catched thereby,<br \/>\nAlas, is wiser far than I.<\/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>Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks: With silken lines, and silver hooks. There will the river whispering run Warm&#8217;d by thy eyes, more then the Sun. And there th&#8217;inamored fish will stay, Begging themselves they may betray. When thou wilt <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/295\/poems\/john-donne-the-bait\/' 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-295","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":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}