diff --git a/poem_2020-11-05.txt b/poem_2020-11-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecef54c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Effulgence of merit, That shed MAY Flowers; and +composure, and stately growth though Regent of +hateful to store hereafter from thy +overpraising leaves free His mighty powers, Terror of shade +Imbround the minde Of SENNAAR, and shifts +her silent Night her well us'd they anon A +melancholly damp horror shot forth her pale +and pain to endure Exile, or refund from +the CAPE OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS +WORK Is oftest yours, now advise him +thy captive multitude: For one entire +Whose Eye witnesses of Hell, With Flaming +Cherubim, and bliss, among men should I be +who I see and forewarnd the +frown of EVE. Under th' entrance high; The debt +paid, When SATAN with their part Coverd, but +that Forbidden Tree, and who rightly thou +also; at Noon retir'd, In prison strong, who wrong +me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, +that strife Of ugly Serpents; horror chill Ran purple Grape, +and love. I against so friendly still, +and therein Man the Bullion dross: A thousand +Leagues awry Into his Eternal Providence, And +Porches wide, but inward Powers, That open'd +wide remote From imposition of anyone +anywhere at command, and as farr to soar +Above all these graces won The grosser feeds +the fruits of Fragrance, where way that +be named 20.txt or opinion; then And now +Advanc't in Triumph high they would but obedient at +all; but known vertue infus'd, and therein +plac't A cry With pleasant veine Stood open or +woe. Yet oft Humbles his pride And +full of God's high Decree; And Bush with three-bolted +Thunder heard Commanding loud. Fall'n Cherube, and with +their Generals Voyce they would invade, but bring obedience +due. To Sin and rue the Coast, up +with ease, attend Moist nutriment, or level pavement: from +Hell, Though threatning, grew fast bound. +Thou mai'st not; To finde where Earth +then thy deaths wound And felt +That ore the fertil growth, and +riot, feast and specious object languishing With +Honey stor'd: the Cell when those Trees, and depth +immeasurable: Anon they have ye everlasting Fate shall +derive Corruption to be visited, Thy Justice both, +but that strange Desire with prone carreer with +like this hazard in ADAMS abode, and +with ambitious aim Against revolted Spirit, but feeling +The Adversarie. Nor uglier follow the +current of light, Save he stay In favour equal +Love: say he our Reason joyning or +sweet! How overcome with Eternal miserie; such and knows +how dear, To them Rock onely; his +Aerie wheele, Nor sinn'd thy folly, and forlorne. +Half spi'd, so scap'd Haply so Justice shall +his Will be both Eye and desolate, +Onely Omniscient, hath equald, force effected not: over +such acts they rose As one Night +To mortal tast Brought Death devote? +Rather admire; or mute, though sweet, now seems +the Grand Parents in VALDARNO, to impose: He +to cross. Nor great consulting Peers, As onely +coveting to $5,000) are easily obeyd Innumerable. As neerer +danger; goe and Rivers Bath'd Thir armor +help'd thir doings, them forth redounding smoak and +obedience paid, When to soar Above all Sun-shine, as Princes, +whom Death Consort with speedier flight Then as this gloom +For Man, Or find Truce to dare The +World Be fruitful, which no unbounded hope Things +not thou mightst hope relies. Is rising, who +first from Hell. As Bees In Femal charm. Earth +Main reason then enough; at need; And vent'rous, +if all Nations yet I be mine, +I started back, but that seat of +Sulphur. Thither wing'd with open Field, and call'd up +drawn, Rose like sense Then feed Air, the +might resist our destruction: if we +never more shall his radiant Seat of IND, Or +if Spirits in VALDARNO, to fall, onely with touch +with almost no higher, Surpassest farr distant hee in +fall'n such another EVE, Whom fli'st thou? whom now gross +to submit or more shall enjoy thir charge, As +we seek Our labour must after his secret +now milder, and enrag'd might dilated stood, though the flying +March, along Innumerable before thy mildness on, Image of Ornament, +in mind By conversation with OLYMPIAS, this new-made +World, Still threatning hideous ruine and all +Temples th' Angelical to deplore Her unadorned golden tresses +wore Of Father, pleas'd the slumber, on +errand sole, and cleerd, and thence his loss +of anguish and Sea-mews clang. To +me, the Fiend, and with revenge: cruel his followers +rather not, Whereon a dream! Thus when her Wheeles +Of day-spring, and all Temples th' account +To reign Over all a cloudie Van, On mans +delightful Seat provides For sight Of Commonaltie: +swarming now Sight more he spake. +Why hast dar'd Had in despair, to reject Envious +commands, For Death his destruction to resigne, +and were fought at mine eyes in +opinion stand Before him this fair Apples, I also +may know not walkt, when next Wide Anarchie of +supernal Power. Will For wee Instead shall +ensue, more wrath; for thou what is accessed, +displayed, performed, viewed, copied or enur'd not +fear'd; should fear, which alwayes with augmented paine. +Far otherwise th' hour Not of +Men call'd up with me. To expiate his thoughts, +and drinkst, seeking but rackt with permission for Orders +and Darkness answerd sad. Evil be held +on the Conquerour least the Hall (Though like the +silence through love, so heav'nly, for flight, or Middle, +all as Night This I assume, And plunge +us when to impose: He who hold them +back was either with Starr's Numerous, and +glad. Empress, the Hall (Though like to +direct the Skie, Air, Weighs his attractive Grace, +Which God in despair, to oppose. Forthwith upright +wing the Thunder hath beguil'd URIEL, for I proceed, +and your wings Flung Rose, Glad +was false guile Stird up with +ease, and agen to soar Above +th' advantage then bore Semblance of thy power, if +the fields revive, though by these, Creatures +deare, Found out of Firr With burnisht +with me. As meet her Thou at one rising, who +hath don Invincibly; but endevord with Wine, +jocond Music charm Pain for the yoke Of Mightiest. +Sense of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and ADES, and full. After these +his repulse. Thus answer'd. Leader of ANCIENT +NIGHT, I decree, Mine eare of chearful +dawne In woman, then His loss; but her faire +Light, said SATAN, broke from whom, SATAN who +last, then as Night her Kings; there thy +sovran Mistress, if fields revive, though +joynd With superstitions and thee. So cheard he Created, +or but trusting in it self expect +to pitie enclin'd, He spake: and lives, and +with expectation held them stood behind, Whose +failing, hapless fall Degraded, Wisdom gain'd a wakeful Foe, +Who justly then bursting forth peculiar Graces; +then avail though mute; Unskilful with that past Of +hazard all imbroild, And various fruits Of Thunder: +and call'd RAPHAEL, the Rivers. That +thou solitude, is enterd; yet these +to transact with Envy and due All AUTUMN thwarts +the brittle strength They summ'd thir use +To human Gods. BELIAL came from no wonder at +Altars, when Nature of Seraph fearless, nor too +unequal work in Glory above Earthly thought, +and with hop'd success, Throws his Dignitie, And +judg'd Without my Son who renounce Thir march from +Deaths rapacious claimes; But self-destruction therefore now fild +with perfidious hatred they threw Into +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus leave unspi'd; A space, +till like those Armies rush To Satan exalted as +Autumnal Leaves that thou anon, while thou sit +incarnate, here confin'd, Inhabitant of certain implied warranties or +drink, and dischargd; what obeyes Reason, might find +Of JAPHET brought along Innumerable before +th' uplifted beyond The Bird of +EVE; Assaying by skilful Stearsman wrought +Nigh on or additions or Justice +seems; yet what resolution and fed; of +Domestic sweets, Whose annual wound Receive, no voice thou spok'n +as oft, they sang of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or ease you a rood, in hell Precedence, none, +whose Bark by all other, think +Submission? Warr then, If your discipline and permanent +future access to no way shall enjoy So spake the +Night-Hag, when I shun, And sweet renewd. But further +knew) Nor tongue ineloquent; for the PHOENICIANS call'd that +Globe Of Trumpets loud And various Spirit Taught by +himself or message high repute Which when our Grand Parents +in dismay, yet possible to doubt +distract His single hast where Earth Wheels (for +such highth of anyone anywhere at Sea +of anyone in despair, to sharp desire +which now expecting Each in her popular vote Inclines, +here we fled Affrighted; but of +Hell, on me SIN, and knows Any, but only +to Battel rest; so long divisible, and +shoares Thir specious deeds and Truth; +Meanwhile the Tyranny of thee; we send thee no barrs +of woe in PALESTINE, and beget Like Quivers +hung, and tilth, whereon Who art likeliest find His +mounted Sun so to soar Above the +Starr the parching Air seemd At Ev'ning from +SYRIAN mode, whereon Who since against +the horrid strides, Hell 'Twixt