{"id":192,"date":"2021-11-03T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/thebigsea\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=192"},"modified":"2022-01-28T10:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T15:37:36","slug":"poem","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/chapter\/poem\/","title":{"raw":"Poem","rendered":"Poem"},"content":{"raw":"Sitting in my little attic room that spring, I thought a lot about Mary after she went away. Then after a while, I didn\u2019t think about her so much. But when I did, I felt sad. So one day I wrote this poem (that later Grant Still set to music) which I called, \u201cThe Breath of a Rose\u201d:[footnote]Reprinted by permission of G. Schirmer, Inc., from whom the musical setting may be obtained.[\/footnote]\r\n<blockquote>Love is like dew\r\nOn lilacs at dawn:\r\nComes the swift sun\r\nAnd the dew is gone.\r\n\r\nLove is like star-light\r\nIn the sky at morn:\r\nStar-light that dies\r\nWhen day is born.\r\n\r\nLove is like perfume\r\nIn the heart of a rose:\r\nThe flower withers,\r\nThe perfume goes\u2014\r\n\r\nLove is no more\r\nThan the breath of a rose,\r\nNo more\r\nThan the breath of a rose.<\/blockquote>","rendered":"<p>Sitting in my little attic room that spring, I thought a lot about Mary after she went away. Then after a while, I didn\u2019t think about her so much. But when I did, I felt sad. So one day I wrote this poem (that later Grant Still set to music) which I called, \u201cThe Breath of a Rose\u201d:<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"Reprinted by permission of G. Schirmer, Inc., from whom the musical setting may be obtained.\" id=\"return-footnote-192-1\" href=\"#footnote-192-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Love is like dew<br \/>\nOn lilacs at dawn:<br \/>\nComes the swift sun<br \/>\nAnd the dew is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Love is like star-light<br \/>\nIn the sky at morn:<br \/>\nStar-light that dies<br \/>\nWhen day is born.<\/p>\n<p>Love is like perfume<br \/>\nIn the heart of a rose:<br \/>\nThe flower withers,<br \/>\nThe perfume goes\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Love is no more<br \/>\nThan the breath of a rose,<br \/>\nNo more<br \/>\nThan the breath of a rose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-192-1\">Reprinted by permission of G. Schirmer, Inc., from whom the musical setting may be obtained. <a href=\"#return-footnote-192-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":299,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[49],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-192","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":99,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/192\/revisions\/297"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/99"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/192\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/thebigsea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}