{"id":496,"date":"2015-03-04T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishhistory.net\/?p=496"},"modified":"2015-03-19T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:19:26","slug":"lines-on-the-mermaid-tavern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/keats\/poetry\/lines-on-the-mermaid-tavern\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines on the Mermaid Tavern &#8211; John Keats Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Souls of Poets dead and gone,<br \/>\nWhat Elysium have ye known,<br \/>\nHappy field or mossy cavern,<br \/>\nChoicer than the Mermaid Tavern?<br \/>\nHave ye tippled drink more fine<br \/>\nThan mine host&#8217;s Canary wine?<br \/>\nOr are fruits of Paradise<br \/>\nSweeter than those dainty pies<br \/>\nOf venison? O generous food!<br \/>\nDrest as though bold Robin Hood<br \/>\nWould, with his maid Marian,<br \/>\nSup and bowse from horn and can.<br \/>\nI have heard that on a day<br \/>\nMine host&#8217;s sign-board flew away,<br \/>\nNobody knew whither, till<br \/>\nAn astrologer&#8217;s old quill<br \/>\nTo a sheepskin gave the story,<br \/>\nSaid he saw you in your glory,<br \/>\nUnderneath a new old sign<br \/>\nSipping beverage divine,<br \/>\nAnd pledging with contented smack<br \/>\nThe Mermaid in the Zodiac.<\/p>\n<p>Souls of Poets dead and gone,<br \/>\nWhat Elysium have ye known,<br \/>\nHappy field or mossy cavern,<br \/>\nChoicer than the Mermaid Tavern?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host&#8217;s Canary wine? Or are fruits of Paradise Sweeter than those dainty pies Of venison? O generous food! Drest as though bold Robin Hood Would, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}