{"id":137090,"date":"2025-05-16T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137090"},"modified":"2025-05-16T06:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:46:59","slug":"still-more-poetry-easter-by-george-herbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137090","title":{"rendered":"Still more Poetry&#8211;Easter by George Herbert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise<br>Without delayes,<br>Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise<br>With him mayst rise:<br>That, as his death calcined1 thee to dust,<br>His life may make thee gold, and much more, just.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part<br>With all thy art.<br>The crosse taught all wood to resound his name,<br>Who bore the same.<br>His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key<br>Is best to celebrate this most high day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccel.org\/h\/herbert\/temple\/Easter.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy and blessed Easter! &#x1f425;&#x1f425;&#x1f425;<br>In this Resurrection Hamburg painter Meister Francke, a Dominican friar born circa 1380, did something strikingly original: he painted Christ with his back turned to us while he climbs out of the tomb. &#x1f424; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PvbbypAILn\">pic.twitter.com\/PvbbypAILn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rembrandt&#39;s R&#x1f440;m &#x1f58c; (maaikedirkx) (@RembrandtsRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RembrandtsRoom\/status\/1378648492609056768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praiseWithout delayes,Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewiseWith him mayst rise:That, as his death calcined1 thee to dust,His life may make thee gold, and much more, just. Awake, my lute,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137090\">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-137090","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\/137090","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=137090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137092,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137090\/revisions\/137092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}