{"id":4528,"date":"2020-09-17T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T07:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T09:10:29","slug":"the-rose-from-lesbos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/the-rose-from-lesbos\/","title":{"rendered":"643 | THE ROSE FROM LESBOS | HENRIK NORDBRANDT, Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Foto-Ithaca-643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>THE ROSE FROM LESBOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I got that rose from an unknown woman<br \/>\nwhen I was on my way to an unknown city.<br \/>\n\u2014And now that I\u00b4m in town<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">slept in its beds, played cards under its cypress trees,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">drank myself full in its taverns<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and have seen that woman coming and going, going and coming,<br \/>\nI don\u00b4tknow, anymore, where to throw that rose of mine.<br \/>\nEverywhere, where I was, hangs its fragrance.<br \/>\nAnd everywhere, where I wasn\u00b4t,<br \/>\nits withered leaves lie crumpled in the dust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HENRIK NORDBRANDT,<\/strong> Denmark (1945)<br \/>\nTranslated by Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<br \/>\nfrom: &amp;quot;Digte \/ Gedichte&amp;quot;, Kleinheinrich Verlag, M\u00fcnster 1988<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ROSE FROM LESBOS I got that rose from an unknown woman when I was on my way to an unknown city. \u2014And now that I\u00b4m in town slept in its beds, played cards under its cypress trees, drank myself full in its taverns and have seen that woman coming and going, going and coming, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4561,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}