{"id":137066,"date":"2025-05-15T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137066"},"modified":"2025-05-15T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:43:30","slug":"more-poetry-for-easter-by-edmund-spenser-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137066","title":{"rendered":"More poetry for Easter by Edmund Spenser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,<br>Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;<br>And, having harrowd hell, didst bring away<br>Captivity thence captive, us to win:<br>This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin;<br>And grant that we, for whom thou diddest dye,<br>Being with Thy deare blood clene washt from sin,<br>May live for ever in felicity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that Thy love we weighing worthily,<br>May likewise love Thee for the same againe;<br>And for Thy sake, that all lyke deare didst buy,<br>With love may one another entertayne!<br>So let us love, deare Love, lyke as we ought,<br>&#8211;Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Easter to all who celebrate (which includes me)<br>The Empty Tomb by Mikhail Nesterov, 1889<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gNZ1AwBUEr\">https:\/\/t.co\/gNZ1AwBUEr<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mw8OJjmbdf\">https:\/\/t.co\/Mw8OJjmbdf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mgzzVXtq96\">pic.twitter.com\/mgzzVXtq96<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bob Rich (@WritingRobert1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WritingRobert1\/status\/1644893476302241792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,Didst make Thy triumph over death and sin;And, having harrowd hell, didst bring awayCaptivity thence captive, us to win:This joyous day, deare Lord, with joy begin;And grant that we, for whom thou<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137066\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137068,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137066\/revisions\/137068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}