{"id":314,"date":"2010-11-19T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=314"},"modified":"2010-11-19T22:39:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T03:39:55","slug":"john-milton-from-il-penseros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/314\/poems\/john-milton-from-il-penseros\/","title":{"rendered":"John Milton &#8211; from <em>Il Penseros<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And as I wake, sweet music breathe<br \/>\nAbove, about, or underneath,<br \/>\nSent by some Spirit to mortals good,<br \/>\nOr the unseen Genius of the wood.<br \/>\nBut let my due feet never fail<br \/>\nTo walk the studious cloister\u2019s pale,<br \/>\nAnd love the high embowed roof,<br \/>\nWith antique pillars massy proof,<br \/>\nAnd storied windows richly dight,<br \/>\nCasting a dim religious light:<br \/>\nThere let the pealing organ blow<br \/>\nTo the full voiced choir below,<br \/>\nIn service high, and anthems clear,<br \/>\nAs may with sweetness, through mine ear,<br \/>\nDissolve me into ecstasies,<br \/>\nAnd bring all Heav\u2019n before mine eyes.<br \/>\nAnd may at last my weary age<br \/>\nFind out the peaceful hermitage,<br \/>\nThe hairy gown and mossy cell<br \/>\nWhere I may sit and rightly spell<br \/>\nOf every star that heav\u2019n doth show,<br \/>\nAnd every herb that sips the dew;<br \/>\nTill old experience do attain<br \/>\nTo something like prophetic strain.<br \/>\nThese pleasures, Melancholy, give,<br \/>\nAnd I with thee will choose to live.<\/p>\n<p>from <em>Il Penseros<\/em> (1631). Milton was born on December 9, 1609.<\/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>And as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister\u2019s pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/314\/poems\/john-milton-from-il-penseros\/' 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-314","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\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}