{"id":385,"date":"2017-03-06T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2017-03-23T19:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:06:12","slug":"the-city-in-the-sea-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/en\/2017\/03\/06\/the-city-in-the-sea-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"The City in the Sea &#8211; Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"poem\">Lo! Death has reared himself a throne<br \/>\nIn a strange city lying alone<br \/>\nFar down within the dim West,<br \/>\nWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best<br \/>\nHave gone to their eternal rest.<br \/>\nThere shrines and palaces and towers<br \/>\n(Time-eaten towers that tremble not!)<br \/>\nResemble nothing that is ours.<br \/>\nAround, by lifting winds forgot,<br \/>\nResignedly beneath the sky<br \/>\nThe melancholy waters lie.<br \/>\nNo rays from the holy heaven come down<br \/>\nOn the long night-time of that town;<br \/>\nBut light from out the lurid sea<br \/>\nStreams up the turrets silently-<br \/>\nGleams up the pinnacles far and free-<br \/>\nUp domes- up spires- up kingly halls-<br \/>\nUp fanes- up Babylon-like walls-<br \/>\nUp shadowy long-forgotten bowers<br \/>\nOf sculptured ivy and stone flowers-<br \/>\nUp many and many a marvellous shrine<br \/>\nWhose wreathed <a class=\"vocab\">friezes<\/a> intertwine<br \/>\nThe viol, the violet, and the vine.<br \/>\nResignedly beneath the sky<br \/>\nThe melancholy waters lie.<br \/>\nSo blend the turrets and shadows there<br \/>\nThat all seem <a class=\"vocab\">pendulous<\/a> in air,<br \/>\nWhile from a proud tower in the town<br \/>\nDeath looks gigantically down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town; But light from out the lurid sea Streams up the turrets silently- Gleams up the pinnacles far and free- Up domes- up spires- up kingly halls- Up fanes- up&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/en\/2017\/03\/06\/the-city-in-the-sea-edgar-allan-poe\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunaescarlata.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}