{"id":271,"date":"2007-11-01T21:56:17","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/evening-solace\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T21:56:17","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T21:56:17","slug":"evening-solace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/evening-solace\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Solace"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nThe human heart has hidden treasures,\r\nIn secret kept, in silence sealed;--\r\nThe thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,\r\nWhose charms were broken if revealed.\r\nAnd days may pass in gay confusion,\r\nAnd nights in rosy riot fly,\r\nWhile, lost in Fame's or Wealth's illusion,\r\nThe memory of the Past may die.\r\n\r\nBut there are hours of lonely musing,\r\nSuch as in evening silence come,\r\nWhen, soft as birds their pinions closing,\r\nThe heart's best feelings gather home.\r\nThen in our souls there seems to languish\r\nA tender grief that is not woe;\r\nAnd thoughts that once wrung groans of anguish\r\nNow cause but some mild tears to flow.\r\n\r\nAnd feelings, once as strong as passions,\r\nFloat softly back--a faded dream;\r\nOur own sharp griefs and wild sensations,\r\nThe tale of others' sufferings seem.\r\nOh! when the heart is freshly bleeding,\r\nHow longs it for that time to be,\r\nWhen, through the mist of years receding,\r\nIts woes but live in reverie!\r\n\r\nAnd it can dwell on moonlight glimmer,\r\nOn evening shade and loneliness;\r\nAnd, while the sky grows dim and dimmer,\r\nFeel no untold and strange distress--\r\nOnly a deeper impulse given\r\nBy lonely hour and darkened room,\r\nTo solemn thoughts that soar to heaven\r\nSeeking a life and world to come.\r\n\r\n                     by Charlotte Bronte\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed;&#8211; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. And days may pass in gay confusion, And nights in rosy riot fly, While, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/evening-solace\/\">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-271","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\/271","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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}