{"id":10,"date":"2023-03-03T16:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/?p=10"},"modified":"2023-03-03T17:13:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:13:35","slug":"john-rollin-ridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/john-rollin-ridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts of Her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"311\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/622e0fd8-b6d8-4eb9-ab03-15d0bd430416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/622e0fd8-b6d8-4eb9-ab03-15d0bd430416.jpg 311w, https:\/\/elikas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/622e0fd8-b6d8-4eb9-ab03-15d0bd430416-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/elikas.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/622e0fd8-b6d8-4eb9-ab03-15d0bd430416-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/john-rollin-ridge\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poet\/john-rollin-ridge\">John Rollin Ridge<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem-a-day#\"><\/a>I gaze into her eyes\u2014their tender light,<br>And strong, illumes my spirit&#8217;s darkest night,<br>And pours rich glory on me as a star<br>Which brings its silver luster from afar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sweet thoughts and beautiful within me burn,<br>And heaven I see what way soe\u2019er I turn;<br>In borrowed radiance of her soulful glance<br>All things grow tenfold lovely and entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I touch her willing hand\u2014as gentle dove<br>It rests within my own, in trusting love;<br>And yet it moves me with a power so deep,<br>My heart is flame, and all my pulses leap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I breathe her name unto the flowers: they bloom<br>With rarer hues, and shed more rich perfume!<br>The skylark hears it, as he floats along,<br>And adds new sweetness to his morning song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh magic name! deep graven on my heart,<br>And, as its owner, of myself a part!<br>It hath in all my daily thoughts a share,<br>And forms the burden of my nightly prayer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Rollin Ridge I gaze into her eyes\u2014their tender light,And strong, illumes my spirit&#8217;s darkest night,And pours rich glory on me as a starWhich brings its silver luster from afar. Sweet thoughts and beautiful within me burn,And heaven I see what way soe\u2019er I turn;In borrowed radiance of her soulful glanceAll things grow tenfold lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elikas.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}