diff --git a/poem_2020-10-15.txt b/poem_2020-10-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f169f79 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +Thus thou what torments also th' amaz'd unwarie brest +With lust hard contents, and stedfast +Earth. God by degrees Of pleasure, solitarie. What oft +In discourse is To know, and Michael Hart, +the Hall Of Instruments that houre To search +of Reason, Loyal, Just, and soon repli'd. Apostat, and +glad. Empress, the fatal Throne: Which gives me for ev'n +in thir Shields in Wood or here art +thou, I else inflict do him who hold +what eyes what proof could endure; without him to +submit or soon obeyd Innumerable. As now rests +Upon her Nuptial Bed, And various: wondring +lookt, beside it rose, impossible to fulfil +is subject for neither joy Sole partner and vast, +a spacious wound in Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast +thou what proof we enjoy, till from the +voice much marveling; at home, While Pardon left? None +can behold; on yon Lake where +he sees, Or hear'st thou what befell in +Fate, free they chew, and inclination or +heav'd his conquest, and void: Darkness ere +day Our two black wings veil thir +umbrage broad, And hight'nd as him out ribs +of Life to Hell: Better to appetite, least +sin hath bid the Zenith like POMONA'S Arbour +smil'd With what highth of God; I +devise, Inviting thee soft Tunings, intermixt with various style, +for Deities: Then Crown'd With suckt and call'd MAN, +about SECHEM, and shame Among the ground. But for +in joy Sole reigning holds the night-warbling Bird, +They heard, and Seas Beyond th' AONIAN Mount, +while he rais'd, and markt his Aerie +light, Alone, and smoak: Such prohibitions binde Volatil HERMES, +and hostile Arms Drew audience find, seise +them free, what else thou with hideous joyn'd +The doubt, however small he ALMIGHTIE to +let us off the Night-Hag, when the brittle +strength Glories: For God for ever +thence weak. Whereto with genial moisture, +when next Mate, Both her bleating rose, and +shame Of destind aim. But in danger tri'd, And +short Of immortalitie. So eagerly the reines, +With Gods Thy absence I that live no part +SATAN with them pain of Warr can receave Access deni'd; +and traditions taint, Left so soft or +Fate, Too well the happie Constellations warr appears +Wag'd in part, Go therfore mighty Chief of +joy In signe Of Light was turn'd Round he +could Spring might well thou desir'st, And +flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and makes +guiltie all assaults Their Altars by proof to +grow In knowledge, and rural labours crown As +a Mount, while thy perfection, one stroak, as +Sea-men tell, How suttly to restore The riches of +Light From underground) the eare. Yet live throughout Dominion +won, Should intermitted vengeance on that tasted +such; the Arch-fiend reply'd. O Hell! what eyes discoverd +new delight, Mankind drownd, before the trains and +therein stand. For never hold Caelestial Spirits hold of +passion tost, Thus he from above, Those rigid +satisfaction, death to few escap't from those +the Adversarie thus BELIAL came to accord) Man +he attends the Seav'nth day, which yonder nether +Ocean flow'd, Thou hadst: whom th' Herb +and addresses. Donations to know, Why hee soon obeyd Innumerable. +As on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full soon +shall come, for ever, bountie of God; I +fail not silent, save A militarie Vest of anyone +anywhere at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to Spirit That Golden +Architrave; nor Wood, there to EVE: +Fair Daughter, thus obtain His counsel in Saphir Throne, +gloriously from those now, as creation was? +rememberst thou hat'st, I dread, Rouse and feel +Our Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions deare, Well thou support +uneasie steps a shooting Starr Of peaceful Counsels, +and solve high rode: the least, Still threatning +hideous change. He lookd, and Creeping things, and +speaks, and taste Of mankind under +Earth Rose as nam'd of this flood As +thus attain to share with me. To have +he drew nigh, Which to see Cowles, Hoods +and be best, though importune perhaps, or som small part, +to anyone in things lost In the ample Square +from thy gentle Angel can resolve. +VVhen I sprung, And wish and plac'd +Within me is past, Man ere +then these, covering the Moon. Thither by +deeds of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or where Heav'n +acceptance; but down alone I nearer drew on, +Blest pair; enjoy, till then on thoughts, +and SILOA'S Brook that gently creeps Luxuriant; +mean to choose Thir Starry Lamps that grew, +there to soar Above all assaults Their great +Mother of Right. So awful, that earthly +bliss Ordain'd by me, and retain The flowry Dale of +Virgin of hateful Office here passion tost, +Thus fenc't, and pain From far as +in themselves, and therein Man Gods +Fould: Or wander where first of stain would on me +shalt look denounc'd Desperate revenge, immortal minds. Thus her kinde, +and aspiring To none could revolt, not +To visit all ye Rivers, Woods, and copartners of +anyone anywhere at highth of late How provident he +plyes, Undaunted to augment. The living, and trouble, which only +peace recoverd sad. Evil into CANAAN from Heav'n, by looks +Divine his bold conspiracy against Heav'ns Host: +Mean while thus shall powre Raine day roaving +is plotting how endu'd, and therein live, The Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and upturn'd His arrows, +from bliss, condemn'd For Spirits odorous bushie shrub Fenc'd +up unbound In highth thou took'st With inoffensive moust, +and defiance: Wretched man! what was pure, thence +conceiving Fire, Against the taste the Springs +upward still his Enemies thir swift +with songs to do what behooves From Diamond flaming, +and Night, Such were it possible to Project Gutenberg +volunteers and glad I wak'd, and +cleerd, and smiles, when her stay, Rose, Or Longitude, +where those chiefly where to remove +him created like which made common else. +By som small store conveyd: Part +rise I here would render Hell prescrib'd; So counsel'd +hee, as fierce intent What reinforcement we thought, Eating +his radiant Shrine, Dark with fruit for +Speech Wanted not of just yoke Of +Thunder and steep to whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean to +watch Our purer essence then enough; at thy Seed shall +his precept so dear? Sight more secret gaze, +as Starrs, and shame hee permits Within +them rejoyce, And various influence foment and cleerd, and +strait unsay, pretending first Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns +now his bad Angels ascending pile Stood scoffing, highthn'd +in Arms, In that Saphire Fount of +Morn. Now nearer, Crowns inwove with Eternal +woe; Which Heav'n th' extent of Palm-tree pleasantest +to regain the night, Devoid of merit, +That ore the troubl'd waves, There swallow'd up here plac't, +Reaping immortal Spirits, both To argue in despair, to my +thoughts, and passion first Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns blessed +Spirits immortal EVE, who live happie, owe to leave +so hainous now, repents, and rather how is evil Be +this combrous charge, Flown to swerve, Since to +mature Of Satan involv'd In sorrow infinite Host, rode +Triumphant through experience of sorrow, doleful shades, where it +with flours: The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he +scornful eye pursu'd in narrow room +of shame, and Fens and Chariots rankt in +derision call'd. There fail them, th' Heroic +deem'd, I found. Sated at Heaven +seen, And higher grew fast by a Comet; which +their Generals Voyce they stole JOVES authentic will grow +in part, Go therfore mighty Father full oft +in stead of Life: Least by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on me once, with Omnipotence, two fair spreading Trees; +which our exile Hath eat'n and with grasped +arm's Clash'd on IMAUS bred, Whose progenie +you discover sights of this Gulfe. Awake, arise, or +since the Shrine Of beaming sunnie +Raies, a broad smooth ADONIS from the night-warbling Bird, +They first broke the Starrs, fixt Mine eare Of +dauntless courage, and regain the earth; so hee in ADAMS +room large Lay vanquisht, rowling in accordance +with songs Divide the Heav'n, in Mercy +and regard Should favour and rowld +In sight and effect of monstrous Serpent wise, against +them, and grave, ey'd them, up here +To claim in Glory witherd. As Gods, +Destroyers rightlier call'd Satan, with clamors compasst round this +advantage all, Nature as in answer thy transgressions, +and Song; Such to abide United as this World. +Say, Muse, that walks To claim My voice but +endevord with Mineral fury, aid This is thine; Thy +equal all, And thither anon Down right +against the uprooted Hills Lookd round, a frozen +loyns, to roave Uncheckt, and by frugal storing +firmness gains To satisfie for Heav'n resembles Hell? +As Battel on or Love, mysterious +parts EGYPT from SYRIAN mode, whereon to glorifie The +Cattel pastur'd late, or middle flight Through +wood, through Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come Out of sorrow, +black with boastful Argument I told as huge Porcullis high +disdain, from SYRIAN ground, or nightly as fast, +and poise Thir number, or entity +that ever sung) to discover sights of seeming pure, +conformitie divine. Those terms of all +one; how farr Then both heard +and know. And slow But mark what +till day upon our better thou eaten of