{"id":2491,"date":"2014-01-31T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2014-01-20T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T23:06:15","slug":"friday-illumination-through-my-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2014\/01\/31\/friday-illumination-through-my-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Illumination: Through my tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nlscotland\/5372136429\/\" title=\"Phoebe Anna Traquair\u2019s illuminated copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u2019s \u2018Sonnets from the Portuguese\u2019 - Sonnet 30 by National Library of Scotland, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5009\/5372136429_8a917f589f_o.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"659\" alt=\"Phoebe Anna Traquair\u2019s illuminated copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u2019s \u2018Sonnets from the Portuguese\u2019 - Sonnet 30\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phoebe Anna Traquair\u2019s illuminated copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u2019s \u2018Sonnets from the Portuguese\u2019 &#8211; Sonnet 30.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nls.uk\">National Library of Scotland<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/commons\">Flickr Commons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I see thine image through my tears tonight,<br \/>\nAnd yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How<br \/>\nRefer the cause? Beloved, is it thou<br \/>\nOr I, who makes me sad The acolyte<br \/>\nAmid the chanted joy and thankful rite<br \/>\nMay so fall flat, with pale insensate brow,<br \/>\nOn the altar-stair. I hear thy voice and vow,<br \/>\nPerplexed, uncertain, since thou art out of sight,<br \/>\nAs he, in his swooning ears, the choir&#8217;s amen.<br \/>\nBelov\u00ebd, dost thou love? or did I see all<br \/>\nThe glory as I dreamed, and fainted when<br \/>\nToo vehement light dilated my ideal,<br \/>\nFor my soul&#8217;s eyes? Will that light come again,<br \/>\nAs now these tears come \u2013 falling hot and real?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoebe Anna Traquair\u2019s illuminated copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning\u2019s \u2018Sonnets from the Portuguese\u2019 &#8211; Sonnet 30. From the National Library of Scotland, via Flickr Commons. I see thine image through my tears tonight, And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How Refer the cause? Beloved, is it thou Or I, who makes me sad The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2014\/01\/31\/friday-illumination-through-my-tears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Illumination: Through my tears<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1593],"tags":[1901,1887,1902],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-commons","tag-browning","tag-illumination","tag-traquair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}