{"id":910,"date":"2004-05-20T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T15:18:06","slug":"lm-montgomery-on-mrs-hemans-poems-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"LM Montgomery on Mrs. Hemans\u2019 Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why have some lines of poetry a potent and indescribable influence over us &#8212; an influence that is not conditioned by their merit?  There are four lines of Mrs. Hemans which have always, from the time I first read them as a child, opened the doors of magic to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sounds of the sea and the sounds of the night<br \/>\nWere around Clotilde as she knelt to pray<br \/>\nIn a chapel where the mighty lay<br \/>\nOn the old Provencal shore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today they recurred to me and I shivered with profound delight.  Why?  They are not great poetry.  Her lines make my heart ache with a supernal fleeting ecstasy.  Is it because of the picture they paint?  Is it because &#8216;the sounds of the sea and the sounds of the night&#8217; were around me in childhood?  Is it because of the romance always associated with &#8216;the old Provencal shore&#8217;?  It does not seem to me that the secret is in any of these things.  It goes deeper still &#8212; to some former life and some intense moment in that life &#8212; perhaps!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B00NDI5AX8&#038;asins=B00NDI5AX8&#038;linkId=2QOYEF2YT523E7MA&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why have some lines of poetry a potent and indescribable influence over us &#8212; an influence that is not conditioned by their merit? There are four lines of Mrs. Hemans which have always, from the time I first read them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=910\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[183,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101420,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/101420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}