{"id":2326,"date":"2014-03-12T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2014-03-12T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T18:07:00","slug":"endymion-a-thing-of-beauty-by-john-keats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2014\/03\/12\/endymion-a-thing-of-beauty-by-john-keats\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Endymion&#8230;A Thing of Beauty&#8221; by John Keats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZgU8KiXkB6E\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reading and video by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/SpokenVerse\" target=\"_blank\"> Tom O&#8217;Bedlam<\/a>. The full text of Keats&#8217; Endymion may be read herehere:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endymion_(mythology)\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endymion_(mythology)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The paintings are:<br \/>\n&#8220;Sleeping Endymion&#8221;, by Nicolas Guy Brenet, 1756<br \/>\n&#8220;Sleeping Endymion&#8221; by Pietro Liberi, c1660<br \/>\n&#8220;Selene and Endymion&#8221; by Nicolas Poussin, 1630<\/p>\n<p>A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:<br \/>\nIts loveliness increases; it will never<br \/>\nPass into nothingness; but still will keep<br \/>\nA bower quiet for us, and a sleep<br \/>\nFull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.<br \/>\nTherefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing<br \/>\nA flowery band to bind us to the earth,<br \/>\nSpite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth<br \/>\nOf noble natures, of the gloomy days,<br \/>\nOf all the unhealthy and o&#8217;er-darkened ways<br \/>\nMade for our searching: yes, in spite of all,<br \/>\nSome shape of beauty moves away the pall<br \/>\nFrom our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,<br \/>\nTrees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon<br \/>\nFor simple sheep; and such are daffodils<br \/>\nWith the green world they live in; and clear rills<br \/>\nThat for themselves a cooling covert make<br \/>\n&#8216;Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,<br \/>\nRich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:<br \/>\nAnd such too is the grandeur of the dooms<br \/>\nWe have imagined for the mighty dead;<br \/>\nAll lovely tales that we have heard or read:<br \/>\nAn endless fountain of immortal drink,<br \/>\nPouring unto us from the heaven&#8217;s brink.<br \/>\nNor do we merely feel these essences<br \/>\nFor one short hour; no, even as the trees<br \/>\nThat whisper round a temple become soon<br \/>\nDear as the temple&#8217;s self, so does the moon,<br \/>\nThe passion poesy, glories infinite,<br \/>\nHaunt us till they become a cheering light<br \/>\nUnto our souls, and bound to us so fast<br \/>\nThat, whether there be shine or gloom o&#8217;ercast,<br \/>\nThey always must be with us, or we die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading and video by Tom O&#8217;Bedlam. The full text of Keats&#8217; Endymion may be read herehere: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endymion_(mythology) The paintings are: &#8220;Sleeping Endymion&#8221;, by Nicolas Guy Brenet, 1756 &#8220;Sleeping Endymion&#8221; by Pietro Liberi, c1660 &#8220;Selene and Endymion&#8221; by Nicolas Poussin, 1630 A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}