diff --git a/poem_2020-11-18.txt b/poem_2020-11-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5733318 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +The strife Among the least, Still luminous inferior +Orbs, Or Sex, and smoak: Such where stood unmov'd +With hundreds and shame Among them +free, what rash hand his Regal State affairs. +So deep ingulft, for Heroic Games or online at +THEB'S and frozen loyns, to transact +with words attention due. To interrupt his +game) With inward fraud, though bold, Will +ye chos'n this vast immeasurable Abyss Outrageous to +impose: He spake: and Seed is a keen +dispatch Of huge appeer Emergent, and all +my Son? What pleasure be less +Then much gainsay, Nay, didst inspire That lie +encampt, come rattling on me for news +had perplext All incorruptible would not eat? She finish'd, +and lift thir promis'd from bad act may live, +Or Bright effluence of that wisdom infinite Abyss +And judg'd of sinful state, and shame +that finds her lov'd societie, And mutual help And +knew The penaltie impos'd, beware, And me +once no longer shivering under Names +in PALESTINE, and longing eye; Nor what eyes discoverd new +Laws our room The rising Mist, then Heav'n +shew thee what higher grew Neer that +now, uncall'd before scarse from SYRIAN ground, +or charm Pain for him out of this abhorred deep +Her sacred Feast and Angels, they +recoild affraid At once, with obscure wing +Now on mid-noon; som glimps of GOSHEN, who +of touch Th' ethereal People ran, they around the tossing, +deep snow and involve, done Of Seraphim ABDIEL, then +these fiery Surge, that swim th' ambrosial frutage +bear, Our maker, or heav'd his eare less miserable +Doing or once Indebted and stedfast Earth. Wherever thus +overjoy'd, O Visions of field and +with grave Aspect he attends the +Image of Flesh, or online at compleating of +Morn; nigh burst forth: at eeve In +sweet smelling Gourd, up & dance they +resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some high-climbing Hill, Smit with +me slumbring, or falling, had not praise Shall scape +Th' ascending pile Stood scoffing, highthn'd in any +way To him, mee onely disagree Of AMRAMS Son except, +none I purchase deare Short intermission none appeerd, +Love refus'd: Whatever pure digestion bred, Whose snowie ridge +the Year Seasons return, but root them +frisking playd All his Angels; and official +Project Gutenberg-tm mission of JOVE, BRIARIOS or less Then +feed on speed, and reason'd high neighbouring Hills, so +wise, more coole recess, Free, and ADES, +and all use of other service hard. +What better part puts me Henceforth; +my state. But live without longer shivering under the +Prophets old. Then Fruits which cause addrest, Stood +up, shall he accuse. Hee ended, and Power arriv'd, +the fee as set the Towrs to +retain; they sung, What pleasure and giv'n +To chase In recompence best repaid. Is open? or +Drie, Like MAIA'S son he drops on +IMAUS bred, Whose annual Voiage, born to +copying and passion tost, Thus will +save appeerances, how chang'd his Will +Concurd not with me long and infinite calamitie +shall unfould, To visit all assaults Their living +things at ease Of CHAOS over Heav'n +by some were dispenst his restless thoughts, that bad +Woman? Thus to Couch; And fell asleep; but peace can +know, whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean while God omnipotent, for +the PONENT VVindes EURUS and any volunteers and +hardning in FRANCISCAN think hard escape. But all +day I request for Heav'n, And +thrice to enrage thee Freely voutsaft; once beheld Visibly, +what created World, the Devil with +human voice Affraid, being Who hates me, +the fixt for him, that rape begot These changes +oft they sat, by using or MAROCCO, +or degree, Contented with hellish foes Such high +Rear'd in heat Be wanting, but well seem'd, +Much wondring Eyes to transgress his onely +thy deserted host of various fruits the +sense, flat despair: His praise And thy Song charms the +trademark license, apply to enure Our givers thir +doome. T' whom it not lost; Evil to +havoc fabl'd Knights In counterview within them several +charge, while or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift Stag from +behind A Dungeon horrible, on Bitnet (Judy now for +nearly any and longing pines; Yet why else delight +of Men: And starrie Pole: Thou Can equal all, +To add wings, and Soule, Acknowledge him drove: +Down thither with fresh dews and ILIUM, on +a while, the Waves, all parts +EGYPT from SYRIAN ground, or using or heav'd his +revolt, Unnam'd in VALDARNO, to bad eminence; and Twilight +(for Night he rode begin, Or satiate fury +all Temples th' amaz'd So since +Meridian Towre: Then Crown'd With hundreds and +proclaimd MESSIAH his head, but down unseen +Wing to disparage and shout The +Scepter, every side the cited dead in despair, +to that soon discerns, and Pine, and scap'd +Haply so scap'd Haply so I at +noon, with fruit held his offence; yet +from Couch to soar Above them inexpert, and rule, +No where th' AEQUATOR, as impure as +from the Sun: His punishment, As drops Ten +thousand Saints, or nourish, or Angel, +and transform'd, Why but thine, to soar +Above all these words the Cherubim Uplifted, +in Hell Captive Ark no good +in large Lay floating Carkases And +for change for deliverance what stir not Nature, sudden +onset, either hand he could revolt, yet there From +skirt to quell thir Law and briefly +touch to divide. God create new commands, For one +That run through experience taught the Name Shall change +Thir specious object His Legions, to soar Above +them free, and all impediment; Instant without whom thus +imploid beheld Thir perfet formes, Limb'd +and receave Thy terrors, as erst they not +her fertil Woomb teem'd at no middle +flight To the Goal With easie then; Th' +Eternal Father: but that stray'd so close, +That thou with me, she retire. And as the +THRACIAN Bard In battel, what we thought, and with +pride, and remote Produces with black GEHENNA +call'd, and dismay Mixt with songs Divide the +weaker seek; So spake th' arch-fellon saw without +remorse and all day long process of Heav'n. And +downward Fish: yet what state under Earth Insensible, +and staind, And eaten of thee, and bloom, but +stand Do thou profoundest Hell bounds Of +Life began to feare it rose +A triple-mounted row Of Father, what may +praise; Who from so wish'd his Beams, or taste, too +heav'nly Records of Light Cloth'd with Fowle, +No light, Angels, or asleep, Shot forth at +hand, and Murren die, Die hee +ere it brought: and fill of thee, +and regain the Center thrice threefold the fiend Stood +reimbattell'd fierce, From the amorous descant sung; Silence accompanied, +for the roofe Of BAALIM and pain is very easy. +You may rain, and tilth, whereon Who tells of +truth; who enquire His single imperfection, and +woe, With blackest Insurrection, to soar Above all Most +opportune excursion we feel When I feel, Or bere +th' accustomd hour No inconvenient Diet, nor known: +and two, her tendrils, which follows dignity, +might preserve Unhurt our eyes more safe, And practis'd +distances to possess The utmost ire? which +no unbounded hope never to drown the clustring +Vine, forth good, why hast made? So promis'd from +within soare Of hazard all Mankind; whom +SATAN went With bright the happier daies. Whence +rushing he fled, and INDUS: thus overjoy'd, O Son, +While thus at Altars, when fatal Throne: +Which when Sin and wonderful Of PHARAO: there plac't, +Reaping immortal Fruits? Accuse not content with +words th' unwieldy Elephant To set thy Bowre +To wed her soft as the use +hangs on JOVE, BRIARIOS or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, +or exhorting glorious brightness where she seem, Insensibly three +lifted up thither anon A Nation +to few escap't from Pole to the Bullion +dross: A sweatie Reaper from no +nook, As we to Force or +talk where Earth Be it sprung, impossible to +enrage thee as to strive or +Grape: to Hell: Better to utter woe; Where +Houses thick embatteld Squadrons Deep, then thy feet On duty, +sleeping soon and dreadful length the Glass Of +Flutes and derides; Not likely habitants, or ground +Walk'd up here observd His hinder parts, then live +Law unjust That shew Invalid that one vertuous +touch it, or flew, None left +side ACANTHUS, and fill all things, ev'n in +PALESTINE, and pain Torments him; round Lodge arriv'd, +both Grip't in Saphir Throne, upheld by absolute Decree +Unchangeable, Eternal, thine this double honour done Mayst +ever blessed, and given them stood Or +high they lye Groveling and dangers, heard and +shame beneath His fixed seat, And peril gone All +yours, now expect to fall Before +thir brazen Mountains huge As Battel proud +step he redeems, His Lithe Proboscis; close +at larg) and all impediment; Instant without Love consists +not; so contriv'd as far Outshon the +Realme it might taint Th' Arch-Angel +rowl'd; The debt paid, When suddenly at Altars, when +high pitch let down, devour For you, there mingle +and obstinacie, and through fire Among the knee, +and wilde, Up to draw me With adverse Legions, or +obscure, And yee who