{"id":2998,"date":"2016-03-16T03:03:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2016-03-16T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T11:03:06","slug":"daily-poem-when-you-are-old-by-william-butler-yeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Daily Poem: When You Are Old, by William Butler Yeats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s poem for Hela is one of my favorites poems, from one of my favorite poets.<\/p>\n<p>When You Are Old<\/p>\n<p>When you are old and grey and full of sleep,<br \/>\nAnd nodding by the fire, take down this book,<br \/>\nAnd slowly read, and dream of the soft look<br \/>\nYour eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;<\/p>\n<p>How many loved your moments of glad grace,<br \/>\nAnd loved your beauty with love false or true,<br \/>\nBut one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,<br \/>\nAnd loved the sorrows of your changing face;<\/p>\n<p>And bending down beside the glowing bars,<br \/>\nMurmur, a little sadly, how Love fled<br \/>\nAnd paced upon the mountains overhead<br \/>\nAnd hid his face amid a crowd of stars.<\/p>\n<p>~William Butler Yeats<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5TcmrJi1688\" target=\"_blank\">lovely version<\/a> on YouTube, read by Tom Hiddleston. It&#8217;s even better with headphones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s poem for Hela is one of my favorites poems, from one of my favorite poets. When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375],"tags":[397],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-for-hela","tag-william-butler-yeats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}