What is the charge, young god, what have I done
\nAlone to be denied, in desperate straits,
\nEpitome of Calm, your treasure, Sleep?
\nHush holds enmeshed each herd, fowl, prowling beast;
\nThe trees, capitulating, nod to aching sleep;
\nThe raging floods relinquish their firm roar;
\nThe heavy sea has ceased and the oceans curl
\nUpon the lap of land to sink and rest.
\nThe moon has now in seven visits seen
\nMy wild eyes staring; seven stars of dawn
\nAnd twilight have returned to me
\nAnd sunrise, transient witness of distress,
\nHas in compassion sprayed dew from her whip.
\nWhere is the strength I need? \u00a0It would defeat
\nThe consecrated Argus, thousand-eyed
\nDespite the watch that one part of him keeps,
\nNerves taut, on guard relentlessly.
\nOh Sleep, some couple, bodies interlocked,
\nMust shut you from their night-long ecstasy;
\nSo come to me. \u00a0I issue no demand
\nThat you enfold mine eyes with your wings—
\nLet all the world, more fortunate, beg that.
\nYour wand-tip’s mere caress, your hovering form
\nPoised lightly on tiptoe: that is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is the charge, young god, what have I done Alone to be denied, in desperate straits, Epitome of Calm, your treasure, Sleep? Hush holds enmeshed each herd, fowl, prowling beast; The trees, capitulating, nod to aching sleep; The raging floods relinquish their firm roar; The heavy sea has ceased and the oceans curl Upon […]<\/a><\/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-305","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\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}