{"id":6417,"date":"2022-08-28T19:54:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T19:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6417"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T10:00:39","slug":"poetry-leisure-w-h-davies-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6417","title":{"rendered":"POETRY: Leisure, W. H. Davies, 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"466\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_4149.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_4149.jpg 466w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/img_4149-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">What is this life if, full of care,<br \/>We have no time to stand and stare?<br \/>No time to stand beneath the boughs<br \/>And stare as long as sheep or cows:<br \/>No time to see, when woods we pass,<br \/>Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:<br \/>No time to see, in broad daylight,<br \/>Streams full of stars, like skies at night:<br \/>No time to turn at Beauty\u2019s glance,<br \/>And watch her feet, how they can dance:<br \/>No time to wait till her mouth can<br \/>Enrich that smile her eyes began?<br \/>A poor life this if, full of care,<br \/>We have no time to stand and stare.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I was made aware of both poet and poem by a guest public gardener, and their garden, on BBC TV\u2019s terrific <em>Gardener\u2019s World<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare?No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows:No time to see, when woods we pass,Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night:No time &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6417\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POETRY: Leisure, W. H. Davies, 1911&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,77,107,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1Fv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6417"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6417\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}