{"id":250,"date":"2007-10-03T07:02:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/whatever-while-the-thought-comes-over-me\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T07:02:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:02:42","slug":"whatever-while-the-thought-comes-over-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/whatever-while-the-thought-comes-over-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever while the thought comes over me"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<pre>\r\nWhatever while the thought comes over me\r\nThat I may not again\r\nBehold that lady whom I mourn for now,\r\nAbout my heart my mind brings constantly\r\nSo much of extreme pain\r\nThat I say, Soul of mine, who stayest thou?\r\nTruly the anguish, soul, that we must bow\r\nBeneath, until we win out of this life,\r\nGives me full oft a fear that trembleth:\r\nSo that I call on Death\r\nEven as on Sleep one calleth after strife,\r\nSaying, Come unto me. Life showeth grim\r\nAnd bare; and if one dies, I envy him,\r\n \r\nFor ever, among all my sighs which burn,\r\nThere is a piteous speech\r\nThat clamors upon death continually:\r\nYea, unto him doth my whole spirit turn\r\nSince first his hand did reach\r\nMy lady's life with most foul cruelty.\r\nBut from the height of woman's fairness she,\r\nGoing up from us with the joy we had,\r\nGrew perfectly and spiritually fair;\r\nThat so she treads even there\r\nA light of Love which makes the Angels glad,\r\nAnd even unto their subtle minds can bring\r\nA certain awe of profound marveling.\r\n\r\n\r\n                                  by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever while the thought comes over me That I may not again Behold that lady whom I mourn for now, About my heart my mind brings constantly So much of extreme pain That I say, Soul of mine, who stayest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/whatever-while-the-thought-comes-over-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[382,407],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-personal","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}