{"id":472,"date":"2021-06-21T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/claudemckay\/?post_type=chapter&p=472"},"modified":"2022-02-03T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:34:32","slug":"romance","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/chapter\/romance\/","title":{"raw":"Romance","rendered":"Romance"},"content":{"raw":"To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed,\r\nScented and warm against my beating breast;\r\n\r\nTo whisper soft and quivering your name,\r\nAnd drink the passion burning in your frame;\r\n\r\nTo lie at full length, taut, with cheek to cheek,\r\nAnd tease your mouth with kisses till you speak\r\n\r\nLove words, mad words, dream words, sweet\u00a0senseless words,\r\nMelodious like notes of mating birds;\r\n\r\nTo hear you ask if I shall love always,\r\nAnd myself answer: Till the end of days;\r\n\r\nTo feel your easeful sigh of happiness\r\nWhen on your trembling lips I murmur: Yes;\r\n\r\nIt is so sweet. We know it is not true.\r\nWhat matters it? The night must shed her dew.\r\n\r\nWe know it is not true, but it is sweet\u2014\r\nThe poem with this music is complete.","rendered":"

To clasp you now and feel your head close-pressed,
\nScented and warm against my beating breast;<\/p>\n

To whisper soft and quivering your name,
\nAnd drink the passion burning in your frame;<\/p>\n

To lie at full length, taut, with cheek to cheek,
\nAnd tease your mouth with kisses till you speak<\/p>\n

Love words, mad words, dream words, sweet\u00a0senseless words,
\nMelodious like notes of mating birds;<\/p>\n

To hear you ask if I shall love always,
\nAnd myself answer: Till the end of days;<\/p>\n

To feel your easeful sigh of happiness
\nWhen on your trembling lips I murmur: Yes;<\/p>\n

It is so sweet. We know it is not true.
\nWhat matters it? The night must shed her dew.<\/p>\n

We know it is not true, but it is sweet\u2014
\nThe poem with this music is complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":61,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-472","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\/472","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\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/472\/revisions\/473"}],"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\/472\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/claudemckay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}