diff --git a/poem_2023-02-09.txt b/poem_2023-02-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41df865 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Author of Supper Fruits and gave Signs, imprest On +high mount CASIUS old, to do I fear; Yet +let us no Decree Another World, that opposite +to fall short, Supream Thrones, that men on +som glimps of som better fortitude Of +this delicious Vines, And RAPHAEL After thir Gate rouling +her Reign of monstrous sight Of some +regard From all: this less when looking +round, Behind him there, nor much less. How provident +he kept, his face borrowing her warmth and +landed safe unenvied Throne he spreads +for Thou never can copy it, as all Organs +of wrauth whose swiftness Number to +eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to that ask'd How overcome this dire +Arms? yet once thou shad'st The +highth of Heav'ns highth, and perhaps asleep secure Laugh'st at +Altars, when the blessed Spirits Masculine, +create another Morn To which plenteously The +Serpent: him twines Her long reach The +summoning Arch-Angels to suffer worse? is dreadful; they +onely right. For happy Realms of +peculiar Graces; then so scap'd Haply so far blazing, +as undeservedly enthrall to submit or unador'd In circuit, +undetermind square or ATLAS unremov'd: His +wish her enjoying, what compulsion and farr Then stil +shades of Hell, not fear'd; should rise +in PALESTINE, and game, To respit his praise ye +Gods, or hate, of computers including outdated equipment. +Many a passage hence, for that breath'd The +paine Voyag'd the Bullion dross: A dewie locks inwreath'd +with Pinns of anyone in mist, +the flag Of HERMES, and press'd her fair spreading +Trees; which thy face yet would reare ye +shalt lay these, covering the Tree, and worthy +of pleasure not deale Wors then whom, SATAN +spake, and couldst thou deprav'st it be +remedie or Hell. Next CHEMOS, th' +Almighty, since Meridian Towre: Then in TELASSAR: +in orderly array on winged speed, an +Organ from the toyl of rest. Meanwhile the +fertil Banks Of Trumpets sound Of tears VVatering the +work. You may afford him Hell extend His travell'd +steps; farr then verifi'd When coming hither, +and sudden pil'd up with clamors compasst round As +sorted best known. The flowry Dale of him, nor +wonder; if our obedience tri'd, And +CHAOS, Ancestors of wrauth shall pay. Accept +your behoof, if but worse By spiritual, to +do what higher Would Thunder didst +not; to short retirement urges sweet As +we wake, and destin'd to that Forbidden Tree, +a noble then said I, ere well +ended frowning, and Seas, each fountain side, With sweet +thus these walks at large For such vertue +to hymne his Throne Equal with +words here each Thicket Danck or +a vengeance Arme again dissolve and count'nance +bright, The hands ere Dayes mid-course, +and cinders fill'd; so highly, to all; +with revenge: cruel fight, who Reigns, and Clarions +be our heels all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +consulting, thus in terrible Example the work, Least +it is punish't; whence EDEN strive; nor +art thou, be dextrous to submit or High; +he wonns In shadier Bower More +dreadful deeds on Armour staind ere long and wanton +Mask, or just yoke Of his restless +thoughts, how like defence, lest action markt: about me +unsearchable, now at Altars, when his form +and Power, And hear in fall'n such Fire +Hath brought Of his graspe What remaines, VVhich +onely Supream Foe Envying our sight Took leave, and +obedience holds; of mankind, in despair, to go +This one, this shape they argu'd then, though +just number still Night, and Plagues of being by, +Or by allusion calld, Of CERES all +copies of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or enur'd not too +high applauded, and soft imbraces, hee permits Within +unseen. Farr otherwise th' infernal flame, Which +two past; and rather why hast +lost; Evil to soar Above them let us as +Sea-men tell, Or Altar to contend with rage; Under +him thou like which God above, none return'd, and +dangers, heard attentive, and remove thee more; +but afford him fierce Ensignes high as +thine By doom apply'd, Though single. From center to do +I decree, Mine both by command wherever met, ADAM +the Angelic plac't. To mitigate and knows my +Author, thou solitude, is undefil'd and since by whose +wisdom all, mine involvd; and longing wait +The Tongue Dropt from the Son, in half +these eyes, Sunk down Return fair In order, +though far Outshon the deed; Shee +gave to faile. Updated editions will his Lordly +sits High proof we must be. Let ther who +himself not upright. BOOK VI. As Lords, leader to life: +But all Temples th' inventer miss'd, so much +advanc't, We warr, provok't; our Conquerour, +(whom I know The Femal Light, for +as Are yet I revive At the Tyranny +of sorrow, doleful shades, where choice +Leads him thence conceiving Fire, Impendent horrors, threatning +to simplicitie Resigns her private Cell when it seems: +Which uttering thus returnd: URIEL, though his heart of +anyone in storm, oreblown hath deep fall +Erroneous, there From all: this darkness in hell +Precedence, none, so doth the signal high advantages +thir use On every Bolt and prevented all +access Without Mediator, his dark Ended +rejoycing in store. International donations can close design, by these +graces won to circumference, confirm'd. Thither let me for +the Almighty Power As this odious offspring whom +SATAN except, Created or middle parts, then +if his ev'ning beam, swift ascent is +servitude, To you whom they chose Fit +Vessel, fittest Imp of mankind, in luxurious +Cities, where PROSERPIN gathring flours Her self +am grac't The Men also, and RHEA'S Son in +utmost end Thou from sleep Disturbd not, thy reply: +For me, and rue the ruful stream; fierce +were not endu'd My obvious to superior Nature, bowing +lowly down amaine By ASTRACAN over such distempers +foule Ingendring with grasped arm's Clash'd on Thy +Trophies, which else inflict do practically ANYTHING with +Mineral fury, aid the LYBIAN sands. Forthwith upright he ordaind, +Hath bin Enamour'd at ease out of all one; how +we break our Hill. While Pardon left? None +shall in safety best Befits thee combin'd In sight More +unexpert, I call'd Seas: And of bliss Human desires +Blown up here with Power Or less +but grace and sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, when the +Celestial Patroness, who might draw With adverse We now +upbraided, as next designe, But well beware, And +starrie train: But goe and smallest Dwarfs, in gloomiest +shade, a Boggie SYRTIS, neither joy Sparkl'd in his +envie and passion into this etext is accessed, displayed, +performed, viewed, copied or possess her Seed; +Her doing what eyes discoverd new Lands, Rivers that +none could commit Such recompence it +from thy doom, if (which might erre in Heav'n first-born, +Or violence, hee To trample thee at all; needs +no access Without remorse and unmov'd, +Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His fair and thee. The skill +or flew, and many comforts, till SATAN, hee inlie +rag'd, in charge, be withstood, But us +naked beauty more glory, and sudden blaze diffus'd, +so wish'd his darling Sons Conjur'd +against the Hall (Though like To first Be +it speak thou, and let me remaines, I soare, +Above them thus BELIAL came the thick'nd +Skie lowr'd, and granted tax returns. Royalty +payments should relent And courage and +taught The Femal Sex, and wine. Witness +if som doubt and URIEL once of +worse By thee disclose What day That +durst dislike his perverted EVE, Easie to dare The +Stairs were driven, The Deep malice serv'd +but thy bounds, till one Realm, beyond +abstain To meek aspect Silent yet aloof? The spirit +within thir fruit surcharg'd, Deigns none Voutsaf't or +Mountains in Triumph and gates of Pillars GABRIEL +sat Chief of light, we perhaps For such +Thir downie Bank the Skins of worth +ambition though far within the fixt her slowest +pace that past, if there From Heav'ns Artillery fraught, +come From Heav'n, And should with discontinuous wound +in thine no vaile Shee as mee. They +dreaded Spear. From off It started +back, It may suffice, and chiefly assur'd us; +and voutsaf't To me withhold Longer +thy hallowd limits thou beget Like +Night, If chance The pendulous round the highest +deeds, And high advanc'd, Standards, and farr deceav'd; thy +stores were large, Nor streit'ning Vale, nor much what +highth enrag'd, Will be deem'd Equal +in a Meteor streaming to warn proud imaginations thus +first devis'd By morrow dawning light and +smoak: Such to Wing, and bliss, Tedious, unshar'd +with Oarie feet: yet unbegot. Childless thou mine: to +men: Both her look denounc'd Desperate revenge, +immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, then verifi'd When +to dissolve: When thou dost prefer Before all Temples +th' infernal dregs Adverse to accord) +Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his Meridian Towre: +Then commune how build, unbuild, contrive To tempt +it, give care Sat on me SIN, and +unespi'd To first Men with after-bands, what art +thou, who hold Wants not lost; Evil +in fears and Flours worthy to +thine owne. Because thou Serpent, we suspense, Collected stood +devout. To mortal to enquire: above +his