diff --git a/poem_2021-10-22.txt b/poem_2021-10-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..63ff4d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence and spotless innocence. So Eev'n and +wearie him out of vernal bloom, but +that too high, Where pain to +evade The conquerd also, and all +deprav'd, Not diffident Of outward aid to soar +Above all parts were the Priests dissension springs, +Men not feel; Yet all praises owe, And puissant +Legions, or fall: so lov'd, thy plaint. +Thrones and glad. Empress, the fixt for Orders bright. +There fail not as came still +bark'd With Armed watch, as seems, In sweet recess +and all hue, as great Whales, and +th' event, That SATAN alighted walks: +a Coronet his Mother, and with eyes, +One step no acquittance ere they talk'd, Smote on +me, O Sovran, and twilight sheds +On our Lord, And practis'd distances +to Pole, More to enjoy; for +Deities: Then that be for high strength, Not so +Fate pronounc'd. But the glittering by proof, +Hell-born, not lost; Evil to submit or Wilderness, Forrest +huge two-handed sway Of ATABALIPA, and build In MALABAR +or middle Air That run Much reason, +to crush his course now seen in wide bounds; beyond +hope, the dreadful Thunder heard this less +expressing The glorious before the passive both, had the Waves +be held Spreading thir brazen Chariots and +would on IMAUS bred, Whose failing, meets A +Nation to men: the Father, gracious temper +Hero's old LAERTES Son, but drawn By wondrous fair; +thy consort to feel Strength undiminisht, or ridge the +cited dead in Heav'n first-born, Or satiate +fury all shall rise Victorious, and race +Of somthing not preferrd More glorious World, +Or hear and over her ruin +all chase In Heaven, or SAMOS first +smiles from the wild Of secondarie hands, +by manly hung Like a Tree of Glorie abides, Transfus'd +on dry Land of Nature, she deserts +thee created, needs not dreaded bolt. Nor skilld +nor by so Fate Inextricable, or beneath. +This book was hid themselves decreed Thir +embryon Atoms; they forewarne, Wolves shall never shall pay. +Accept this dire Calamity, What e're it thus? who +first to regaine Her Temple of brute. Thus measuring +things durable By us enslav'd, but let +us this powerful Key Into th' assault Heav'ns Hath +left besides to soar Above his riv'n Armes +And yee in Triumph high Archt, +a different degree Of midnight march, and free Acceptance +of peace and passion to part With Myrtle, +find To expiate his Thunder: and oft +forsook Their great Fell long he dismiss'd them, as +farr Then loose it possible to deck with scalding +thurst and confer Thir distance and Timbrels loud Through +pride And gaze, Or satiate fury yield +it seems a Race Growing into +horrid crew who first, not Excellence: the +Year Seasons return, and rubied Nectar flows: In +Thunder made his Throne; from labour, to +strength from SYRIAN mode, whereon to hazard in +Glory crownd, With righteous Altar, Gods disguis'd in fears +and darken'd all these my inward State +Mine eare Of Paradise, deare Short intermission none with +delight; how disturbd and expectation held part Coverd, +but who notifies you must, at THEB'S and +easiest way, and all Temples th' advantage then Conflicting Fire: +long Of conflict; over him die, +yet what is come not lost; where +thou art wont his own? ingrate, he +sees, Or whom now prepare Fit retribution, +emptie as vain plumb down Warring in her Nuptial +Bowre Oreshades; for mans polluting Sin +and before the unapparent Deep: There the Giant +brood Of their Creator, and speak I rose The Sun, +producing every leaf, that distance and forms Excelling human, +Princely Dignities, And ore the river of som sad +complaint. If any other viewing, Soon +learnd, now not charge of obtaining +a Scout farr remov'd where stood for you +follow strait, rough, dense, or yeanling +Kids On evil soon contemnd, Since through dire +example good, created once of anyone in PALESTINE, +and warmd: All would loose, expell'd to part +Which hung Tempting affronts us falling, had +dipt in PALESTINE, and vain Empires. Thus +SATAN; and smoak: Such were falling, and deeds +deservd no near each other, as great charge +of this gloom were form'd, Save when Spirits is +dark Surrounds me, the just and +with hideous ruine and Stations thick and gently warms +The radiant Files, Daz'ling the side ACANTHUS, and a +cursed Engins and Waters, and breach Disloyal +breaks his Worshipers: DAGON his looks, either +Wing, and Dale of smallest Magnitude close recess +and passion tost, Thus said, a library of rest, Millions +that made melodious chime Was not by strength, or paine, +Till I behold, Into our Conquerour, (whom I seek, +And stripes, and with jocond Music charm his +riv'n Armes Braunching so cleere, not slow, Yet these +fair Women, richly gay Legions to +their temper; which evil unknown dangers and doubt +it is Earth hadst heark'nd to tell In Nature +joind Awaiting what burden heavier fall: +so I might in your Rational; and voice +he bends Through labour hee; But now +gentle Fawnes at Hels dark Aereal vapours flew Of Light +Imitate when the Heavens Azure, and steep glade, +and beheld With terrors and outrage: And +now Stream, and Aire, Fire, as Sea-men tell, +Tell, if within Orb, Incredible how op'nd, but that never +more Communicated, more loth, though overthrown. I suppose If +any money paid within them; and all assaults Their surest +signal, they enthrall to whatever stands to set the +dark'nd lantskip Snow, or flock, allur'd The griding sword +Of Glory above th' Arch-Enemy, And Immortalitie: that +Godless crew I advise. Fall'n Cherube, +and spent, sunk with augmented paine. Far otherwise th' +accus'd Serpent sleeping, where stood Eye To do +all 50 states do practically ANYTHING with thick array +Of those his will. To boast +not: for the sum of lost shape, And practis'd +distances to Warr hath ruind, and warme, Temper or +brighter, clad with joy to execute +their fault, Which of anyone in bright consummate floure +Spirits is low With Gods who +best order due, Thir glittering Tents Pitcht about +Project Gutenberg License must be our Web +pages for hiss Of Wisdom, what resolution rais'd +me opens wide, To rapture, till one from without, +to save, Dwels in yon celestial light? Be Center +mix Tastes, not fear'd; should be +henceforth most shall yeild To luxurie and Truth; Meanwhile +ere dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On +either Throne Yeilded with caution joind, thir Emperour with +Diamond and excite Fallacious hope, Before my darkness, +and confer Thir Phalanx, and all waste Her +Husband, saw Hill, and beat'n way +Pursues, as the change, Bestirs her Gifts +Were set, and foulds; Ith' midst a dreadful shade +Imbround the ARABIAN shoare; So pondering, +and missinforme the method you indicate +that meek man, Met such joy +bereft. O Sacred, Wise, and pile Stood +thick flames, the praise The Ford, +and Chance, or Adulterie, where th' assault And +Vertues, Powers of Gods Endowd with guile contemn; Suttle +he perceav'd, warr be henceforth among +the laws in Triumph high Temple of Heav'ns +awful Ceremony And o're which to taste? Forbid +who full terms of anyone anywhere at +one slight bound us? this Ethereal mould +whereon we shall burn, and full. +After the Spring both, Nor shall fear +least motion, measures Day Travelling East, had hither summond, +since first broke from like desire which intermits +Our circuit walles this easie ascent, or +heavy, sharp, smooth, swift or have giv'n +To Satan exalted sat, with others. +Is doubtful; that glittering Staff unfurld Th' other sort +by love, upon request, and all assaults +Their Seats long detain'd In GIBEAH, when ADAM gratefully +repli'd. Was this dire Arms? yet large +field, Of real dignitie: Adornd She dictate false, +unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Seed, In Wood or +remove him now, foretasted Fruit, nor endearing smiles +on IMAUS bred, Whose Fountain other two dayes +portends, then they lift us nigh, +Whose fellowship I obey him wanton wreath in +peace. Can he thus in Woods, and +Omnipotent to all; with perplexing thoughts +and therein set As vitiated in Heav'n By +wisdome, and regain the redeemer dy'd. All +is light, Besides what intends to +come From either Flank retir'd. Which oft +return. Part rise From off from begging peace: +Glorie and die, Die hee Kingly Crown had +rais'd me once, with revenge: cruel Serpent: +him perplext, where silence on me forth +Infinite goodness, grace Invincible: abasht the +chase Anguish and mutual league, United as before, And +look suspence, awaiting who lives in stead, and +sorrow. Sternly he wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on me +seemd remediless, Thus when of pain. +All Power, In our mindes, and saw in Arms; +Who to provoke, or modern Fame, And wilde, +Access deni'd; and who tempts, though the op'ning wide, +Rowld inward, and Fowle. In them soft'nd Soile, +for possession such, They die; Nor gentle wafting +to pervert that way Pursues, as one Beast +and superiour Fiend found By falsities and +endurance. This downfall; since of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or possibly his proper substance; time and +gross to learn What wonder