{"id":1743,"date":"2013-01-09T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T14:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2013-01-23T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:37:49","slug":"invocation-book-i-the-parliament-of-poets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2013\/01\/09\/invocation-book-i-the-parliament-of-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"Invocation, BOOK I, The Parliament of Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1436\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2012\/08\/14\/open-letter-to-the-new-york-times-book-review\/pp_200\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1436\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1436\" alt=\"The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/PP_200.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>FROM the Invocation, BOOK I, <em>The Parliament of Poets<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>O Muse, O Maid of Heaven, O Circling Moon,<br \/>\nO lunar glory of the midnight sky,<br \/>\nI call on thee to bless thy servant\u2019s tongue,<br \/>\ndescend upon thy pillar of light,<br \/>\nmoonbeam blessings, that from my mouth<br \/>\nmay pour out at least a fraction of the love<br \/>\nI hold for thee, sweet blessings, for service<br \/>\nto God\u2019s creation, and His Creative Word,<br \/>\nthe Bible\u2019s thundering verses, Brahma<br \/>\nof the Upanishads, Allah, the Compassionate,<br \/>\nBuddha\u2019s meditative mystery,<br \/>\nConfucius and the Dao. O Great Spirit<br \/>\nof the many peoples and the tribes,<br \/>\nif I have ever sacrificed for thee, long years,<br \/>\ndrinking water from a wooden bowl,<br \/>\nhear my appeal and inspire me to sing<br \/>\nthe tale supernal, upon the moon,<br \/>\nThe Parliament of Poets, assemblage<br \/>\nof thy devoted ones, God intoxicated,<br \/>\nsurvey the cosmos and the centuries&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>From the Invocation of the Muse, <em>The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem<\/em>. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O Muse, O Maid of Heaven, O Circling Moon, \/ O lunar glory of the midnight sky, \/ I call on thee to bless thy servant\u2019s tongue&#8230; From the invocation, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2013\/01\/09\/invocation-book-i-the-parliament-of-poets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[804,29,186,645,644,187,643,184,475,232,524],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epic","tag-epic","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-inspiration","tag-invocation-of-the-muse","tag-moon","tag-muse","tag-parliament-of-poets","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-poetry-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}