{"id":7099,"date":"2021-04-15T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:40:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T10:40:42","slug":"the-scrope-davies-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/15\/the-scrope-davies-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scrope Davies Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always maintained a interest in the poetry and life of Lord Byron and attended the Scrope Davies exhibition in London a number of years ago<\/p>\n<p>The reason that I travelled so far was that Scrope Davies had been a friend of Byron and a number of items associated with Byron were on rare display<\/p>\n<p>One that took my fancy was a small envelope containing the pubic hair of Lady Caroline Lamb which she had sent to the poet during her infatuation with him<\/p>\n<p>The very thought that her pubic hair was on public display long after her early death interested me<\/p>\n<p>It was then that I became aware of a woman of about my own age standing next to me<\/p>\n<p>She was wearing a pair of faded jeans and a loose white cotton shirt whose buttons had loosened exposing her small pale breast<\/p>\n<p>Although I did not want to I stole a glance and was caught in my trespass by my neighbour who gently smiled at me before she recovered her modesty<\/p>\n<p>It was a moment that I knew would embed itself in my memory and now all these years later I recalled it into print<\/p>\n<p>I still read Byron&#8217;s poetry and have not tired of his excesses although I wonder what he would have made of this my short erotic journey<\/p>\n<p>It is likely that I will never find out<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always maintained a interest in the poetry and life of Lord Byron and attended the Scrope Davies exhibition in London a number of years ago The reason that I travelled so far was that Scrope Davies had been a friend of Byron and a number of items associated with Byron were on rare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}