{"id":362,"date":"2021-06-21T09:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=362"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:20:06","slug":"flame-heart-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/flame-heart-2\/","title":{"raw":"Flame-Heart","rendered":"Flame-Heart"},"content":{"raw":"So much have I forgotten in ten years,\r\nSo much in ten brief years! I have forgot\r\nWhat time the purple apples come to juice,\r\nAnd what month brings the shy forget-me-not.\r\nI have forgot the special, startling season\r\nOf the pimento\u2019s flowering and fruiting;\r\nWhat time of year the ground doves brown the fields\r\nAnd fill the noonday with the curious fluting.\r\nI have forgotten much, but still remember\r\nThe poinsettia\u2019s red, blood-red in warm December.\r\n\r\nI still recall the honey-fever grass,\r\nBut cannot recollect the high days when\r\nWe rooted them out of the ping-wing path\r\nTo stop the mad bees in the rabbit pen.\r\nI often try to think in what sweet month\r\nThe languid painted ladies used to dapple\r\nThe yellow by-road mazing from the main,\r\nSweet with the golden threads of the rose-apple.\r\nI have forgotten\u2014strange\u2014but quite remember\r\nThe poinsettia\u2019s red, blood-red in warm December.\r\n\r\nWhat weeks, what months, what time of the mild year\r\nWe cheated school to have our fling at tops?\r\nWhat days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with joy\r\nFeasting upon blackberries in the copse?\r\nOh some I know! I have embalmed the days,\r\nAll innocent of passion, uncorrupt,\r\nAt noon and evening in the flame-heart\u2019s shade.\r\nWe were so happy, happy, I remember,\r\nBeneath the poinsettia\u2019s red in warm December.","rendered":"<p>So much have I forgotten in ten years,<br \/>\nSo much in ten brief years! I have forgot<br \/>\nWhat time the purple apples come to juice,<br \/>\nAnd what month brings the shy forget-me-not.<br \/>\nI have forgot the special, startling season<br \/>\nOf the pimento\u2019s flowering and fruiting;<br \/>\nWhat time of year the ground doves brown the fields<br \/>\nAnd fill the noonday with the curious fluting.<br \/>\nI have forgotten much, but still remember<br \/>\nThe poinsettia\u2019s red, blood-red in warm December.<\/p>\n<p>I still recall the honey-fever grass,<br \/>\nBut cannot recollect the high days when<br \/>\nWe rooted them out of the ping-wing path<br \/>\nTo stop the mad bees in the rabbit pen.<br \/>\nI often try to think in what sweet month<br \/>\nThe languid painted ladies used to dapple<br \/>\nThe yellow by-road mazing from the main,<br \/>\nSweet with the golden threads of the rose-apple.<br \/>\nI have forgotten\u2014strange\u2014but quite remember<br \/>\nThe poinsettia\u2019s red, blood-red in warm December.<\/p>\n<p>What weeks, what months, what time of the mild year<br \/>\nWe cheated school to have our fling at tops?<br \/>\nWhat days our wine-thrilled bodies pulsed with joy<br \/>\nFeasting upon blackberries in the copse?<br \/>\nOh some I know! I have embalmed the days,<br \/>\nAll innocent of passion, uncorrupt,<br \/>\nAt noon and evening in the flame-heart\u2019s shade.<br \/>\nWe were so happy, happy, I remember,<br \/>\nBeneath the poinsettia\u2019s red in warm December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-362","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":346,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/346"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/362\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}