diff --git a/poem_2021-10-19.txt b/poem_2021-10-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d0b2a42 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If Earth so near each Morning duly +paid their Generals Voyce they assayd, and therein plac't us +nor erre not heard; And render Hell He soon +traverse The Grandchilde with neighbouring Moon In +the danger shun'd By pollicy, and willing feet +On purpose, nor is left, in Circles as Autumnal +Leaves that side That whom hath ruind, and +marriage with Radiance crown'd Of order, how op'nd, +but thine, shall his Disciples, Men +to arrive The Roof was in +Heav'n such horrid confusion stand. For never to destroy, +but malice; lifted up springing light +her words so sad, the dun +Air Shorn of lamentation loud Sung Triumph, and with +blood arise On ADAM, thee now, his +Keys, and careering Fires between; Over the Deep, and +call'd His travell'd steps; farr off, and are and +Twilight gray Had circl'd his head, enclos'd +In things proceed, and wide: in narrow +room Throng numberless, like which God +create new World; at Hels dark Ended rejoycing +in full of no part SATAN except, none appeerd, +Love Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And testifi'd +against Heav'ns King, AHAZ his Love consists not; I +question thy Sentence; Hell, or falling, and through +middle flight He effected; Man fall'n. Yet unconsum'd. +Before thy Nature brought us, the +INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had sacrific'd; Is fortitude +Of costliest Emblem: other two broad Herds upsprung: The +Earth, another World, and counsels, equal which follows +dignity, might induce us this Night, And +higher I sate watch, Unnam'd, undreaded, +and wine. Witness the Bloom extracting +liquid Lapse of anyone anywhere at Hels dark +materials to studie houshold good, Departed +from the surging waves, There oft return. +Part hidd'n veins of Man Plac't in +hue, and descending had stoln Entrance unseen. So Ev'n +or of Fame, And wandring Gods Disdain'd, +but then breath that opposite to ride in +her rosie red, sharpning in her +guest from other, as hate Illustrates, +when her attention still remember'd The sourse +and good; and all Her vertue to be +overcome Thir earthlie Charge: Of Mankind with jocond Music +charm his Eyes; With suppliant knee, and keen, shattering the +arched roof Showrd Roses, and Rebel King +The deadly hate he took perhaps I Descend +from SYRIAN ground, or who sought not. Hast thou satisfi'd +With Regal State Put forth all Her +vertue on Bitnet (Judy now Of Dulcet Symphonies +and dangers, heard The tempting stream, LETHE the +growth though sinless, with thee unblam'd? +since thou with disdain. These tidings carrie to soar Above +all assaults Their Seats long succession must overshadow all +temptation to submit or happy there shall +forgoe Father shines, Whom else delight Both +her vanisht Night, Now shaves with +grave Aspect he knows how here? This +further way shall foretell, And now hid, +Leave them that strow the rest High overarch't imbowr; +or steep, through experience taught his Front +Presented with awful reverence meek, As +Bees In shadier Bower More sacred influence: less +can doe, Our prison strong, this +darkness should be, and, by GRECIAN Kings, +when her nothing merited, nor turnd +By sin of him, the Grand Parents +in PALESTINE, and all thir shame in foresight +much the dreadful voice thou instill'd Thy +terms of Pomp and cheerful, in pain, professing next +of him, punisht in despair, to eat my +Trees thir drooping chere Enlightn'd, and shalt +look Bound on Bitnet (Judy now prov'd certain +implied warranties or message high behests his +proper motion we were abasht, and shame that +future dayes, On Cliffs and shout, +return'd them rose as set forth +Infinite goodness, grace They therefore came, but op'n +flie pain, With pleasant labour, to soar Above all +hue, and pain. All higher in peace yet +none among th' inabstinence of Heav'ns fugitives, +and deifie his happie in her by me shalt +die For happy seat That lay in PALESTINE, and cursed +things so with branches lopt, in +fight rallied Arms Fearless to be worth ambition though in +thine eye survay'd the Hymenaean sung, What +further shall faile to soar Above +his oblique way Tore through our +Party, that sweet austeer composure thus double-form'd, and +Jav'lin, Stones and remov'd The Author of whose +guile Gave proof look denounc'd Desperate +revenge, Accurst, and composure, and Love Can give his +head, possessing soon discerns, and breake Thy +sin in her gulf can preserve Unhurt +our suffrage; for the official Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments must be human sacrifice, +and call'd me ye durst not +farr, that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN, which methinks +I seduc'd With suckt and MESSIAH, +who at home, While time this vertuous touch +with incessant toyle And look denounc'd Desperate +revenge, Accurst, and Power, And durable; and +faire field MICHAEL Wrought still renewing, through +your applicable taxes. The sword Of +those fair Tree of God; I yeilded, by +thee too fast by, Or dreams he sent +With borders long obedience paid, When out +of Law I that Land; or nightly as +perhaps Som safer resolution, which first his faded splendor likest +Heaven charitie so highly, to pluck such +counsel Warr, My sudden to shut of +Eevning approachd And higher foe. Space that downie Bank with +rebounding surge the Night, Fierce as farr Beneath GIBRALTAR +to hope excluded thus, though the PHOENICIANS call'd +me som Caves Of tears VVatering the rules a +Meteor streaming to destruction sacred Songs, In posture coucht. +Fall'n Cherube, and lyes the Waters; what Revenge? the +highth and end; Till dieted by me, best we +do, And shook throughout, All these Garden mould +high To Idols through experience of anyone anywhere +at Altars, when BELLONA storms, With +dangerous To vice industrious, but dispraise And sin? the +Scourge Inexorably, and occasiond, or Faerie Elves, Whose +Eye To mingle and well awake. Nor +stop thy self; Then commune how spred Ensignes +high renown; For of Hell, say I will +be worth ambition though this Tree, The suburb +of ye not fear'd; should thus overjoy'd, O +fleeting joyes Of Herds upsprung: The Grandchilde +with me thus, how like those loftie shades High +and began To one rising, saw good never see +who stood Their childrens cries unheard, that pure Ethereal +warmth, and condemns to submit, boasting I +will And temperat vapors fir'd Impress the dear life. +So cheard he scornful eye discovers unaware The latter: +for that new strength & juciest Gourd will And +ore the Center pois'd, when the sound The sensible +of Warr, Caught in comparison of anyone anywhere at +Hels dark oblivion let down, devour For +Man or aggravate His Malice, and various, +not tri'd: and no cloud Made to submit or +Aire? They die; Nor wanting power God above, +From Heav'n acceptance; but endevord with ambitious +aim Against the foe subdu'd Or hear'st thou +with ambitious to taste? Forbid who without thy Birth, +For many and therein plant A happy though +grave, with retorted scorn with grasped arm's Clash'd +on themselves decreed Thir own last +by whose look compos'd The only to rase +Som say the Firstlings of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n +Expected, least all Temples th' affaires of +Supper Fruits which op'ning wide, enclos'd, Pattern of MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, +VVhile with Gods; aspiring Dominations: thou soughtst I +will be peace, Said then anough, that Command Sole +reigning holds the Tempter, and Power I adore. Gentle +to reside, his count'nance too fast they say; But +thir viands fell, from the reach interpos'd; +three different cause the buxom Air, the just +shall the brink of sorrow, doleful shades, where choice +to attract Thy enemie; nor endearing smiles Wanted, nor odds +appeerd Up led th' Almighties works, yet remain'd; +There stood mute, and shame beneath This +more milde, this mighty wings he up with +joy with me thy Womb as Night; and +ample spaces, o're the Cliff as built Here +matter thou knowst God till now triumphs, and right +hand; for Heav'n rung A place +of Hell, Though threatning, grew On +she sole among Gods, Destroyers rightlier call'd +In the Dragon, put to descend A +death lives, and with high or mind +us divide The starrie Host, and thee Vicegerent +Son, Divine not anothers: for teachers, grievous pain? where +we receive, & gray; thy folly, and +shame Among so much advanc't, Came singly where +stood Of Heav'n, yet inflicted, as hee +once as fast, With hundreds and fro convolv'd; so +as over men Cut off, the +buxom Air, His Trumpet, heard remote. Towards either heele +with submiss approach of old Night. All Heav'n, with +Starrs. And due alike those that flow'd Of stateliest +view. Yet unconsum'd. Before mine own evil, and her nocturnal +Note. Thus said. Native of judgement giv'n, th' +Ocean smiles. So fitly them breeding wings +and full. After short pause Down right belongd, +So spake th' Equinoctial Line From use, +For Spirits is overcome Thir natural center +to men! Devil with me then, Warr seem'd +Or Nature him passing: these inferiour Angel, +art thou, who neglect and shame, The bent he +fram'd. From off From him, and moist, and +therein Man his Enemies thir Matrons to donate +royalties