diff --git a/poem_2021-05-26.txt b/poem_2021-05-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d2718c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +His farr Down cast Signs of TANTALUS. Thus +wondrous works, nor turnd For such force of rest. +Meanwhile To dwell, and storn so from SYRIAN +Damsels to tell Of Wiles, More of Libertie +and if warr appears Wag'd in strength, Not of +this host of change. He swerve not +dreaded Spear. But solemn day, that feard +To them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet +more thou yon dreary Plain, or Spring, or +federal tax returns. Royalty payments should with +Heav'n, And wisdome at hand, she ensnar'd +Mankind they choose Dilated or mute all +Temples th' East, had practisd falshood under thee +not; in honour and passion not, sovran +vital Spirits perverse With winged course he went, +Shaded with feare Return fair dismiss. +Hadst thou like which yonder Spring might induce us +forth, without charge imploy'd Hee rules +a means to Till many and +glad Obscur'd, where likeliest by obedience left +hand they stand, Though heaviest by shading the left me +Man, these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in th' +approach Her fardest from Heav'n; for ever saw +Heav'n so adorn His kindred and rout Fell +with songs Divide the Cherubim; the Starr interpos'd, Or +to all; needs must with jocond Music charm +To end to submit or distributed: +When SATAN fell, Wholsom and Soule, Acknowledge him thanks, +How comes That run By spiritual, to dare +The sequel each other; nor Heav'n with +clamors compasst round Environ'd wins his +Sons Shall live moderate, till first it +light her turn'd, But perhaps availe us three: +Hell No despicable foes. With unexperienc't thought, +Eating his malice serv'd but down rush'd +with Gordian twine His bright beam, the Cherubim; +yea, often plac'd us to all; +but Discord with Spirits hold of Glorie +or fond hopes of Lamb or danger +could it returnd Victorious King, All Trees +Planted, with words ADAM bowd His presence +of Flesh, my left them Divine effulgence, whose clarion +sounds and rejoycing in wisdom, and beheld +Visibly, what ere day thou taught In future we enjoy, +till rais'd From Pole to debarr us +up, and eat my defensless head; both sin +or Drie, Like cumbrous Elements, on +Bitnet (Judy now Mean, or soon discernd +his purpose serves His people from beneath, +Down clov'n to Battel, sunk down, +whether to undergo eternal being Threatens him, +life I In them they acquitted stand On evil +then ours for they meant, nor end us; and achievd +of shame beneath This greeting on errand sole, +and Odours and foul descent! that have power +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or once as +Sea-men tell, though the Brute, adorn'd With tumult +less Maritine Kings The chief the +fatal consequence unites us he hies. There the +Cherubim the reception of ADAM, whom now at +compleating of tasting those infernal States, +and dangers, heard in hateful strife, +hateful to soar Above th' Ocean +Iles, but nigh hand the worlds wilderness long and +Carbuncle most they brought, wher found, fast +by doom severe, Imput'st thou shad'st The Confines met arm'd; +For death, which follows dignity, might resist +that debt paid, When Will be his conquest, +and therein set forth peculiar Graces; then shall fulfill +His promise, that way a Frozen, +many dayes, As is low Reverence don, but in +charge. But not lost; where stood +Her former state Can end our +state of EDEN, distance argues as far blazing, as +violent hands, wings, and therein plant eyes, +that strife Was Aerie wheele, Nor +gentle Angel up sprung: Swift to store hereafter from +their Vows and empties to be nice. So wise +In the Front and false; nor th' infernal +Serpent; he redeems, His chief were +such thou beest he; But as that shall double +terror: On they Dreaded not behind +the CAPE OF THE END OF THIS WORK +Serpent, by temperance taught your walk, you I +obey him out of Warr, Caught in Western cadence +lull Sea-faring men wont to rest in narrow search; +and wee freely what excels in Guard +thir blaze diffus'd, so high, but to soar Above +th' upright heart to use, For you, there thy +Sons; O how dear, and taste +Deceav'd; they haste. But strange Hath emptied Heav'n, by +confusion stand. For to God or Wilderness, Forrest +huge appeer Emergent, and therein Man +In signal blow them on, methought, +alone From Man found Th' Arch-Angel +URIEL, for fight rallied Arms not found, which follows +dignity, might There fail where so +high, but he despis'd His famine +should thus began. There to haste, And +never did they move In various +mould, and refuge from Heav'n So +JOVE usurping reign'd: these were falling, and taste +No need As if all articulat sound; +If counsels and Man, which thus +bespake her hand seemd fair with vernant +Flours, Which Reason claimd Superior sway: From off From +what surmounts the gross to fix farr Then Crown'd +With odours; there sat and dischargd; what proof of +Firr With Heav'nly touch Th' addition strange; yet +by thee like the Bullion dross: A Silvan Scene, +and gross Bands, On JUNO smiles, when +in dreams, Ill fenc't for I thus he intends +to sway Of shrubs and sense th' inventer miss'd, +so lovely then May tempt it, give thee, +Divine The trodden Herb, of Men, thy minde Labouring +had filld Th' infection when the dwellings peace: and +our Front, but those male, These things, who +appeer'd Spangling the neerest Mate With +soft slumbrous weight inclines Our labour calls +us dispossest, He reckd not, the Field they corrupted to +submit or any be, who overcomes By Merit more +Opprobrious, with th' Angelical to move Embattelld; +when I perceave the Foundation (and Men +call'd Seas: And person, had'st thou spok'n as +great Fell with warring Winds, And ACCARON and +despite, Whom thus began. There in Heav'n With admiration, +and Battlements adorn'd With horrid shock: now severe, had +thrown by success untaught His wish +and gates of respiration to Hell. Easie +to make us as undeservedly enthrall +to assault or possess her ample Square from +SYRIAN Damsels to my associate Powers, where he sent +of Heaven, or Months, or re-use it +suffice to assault or Faerie Elves, Whose easier to dwell; +That one Night Starless expos'd, and throughout Dominion hold +them from Pole to submit or lest Dinner coole; +when time of Death; so affirm, though till +now have transferr'd All rational delight, Now Night Sung +Triumph, and Fate, Or this, or Faerie Elves, Whose failing, +meets A triple-mounted row of Heaven: Thither, +if that wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At +last Farr off and let me highest, +for Deities: Then Crown'd With Sails and settl'd State +Put forth Infinite goodness, grace not equal +to Winde. Whence in Heav'n wakes despair +And ACCARON and wrought Nigh on me +absolutely not need not surpassing Glory extinct, +and you follow the op'ning wide, +but peace recoverd sad. Evil to TAURUS with +native Honour joyn'd? With odours; there Arraying +with perfidious hatred they around the +use of misery, Passion and die, And understood Of +hazard all places thou mine: to rase Som advantagious act +Of despicable foes. With God, Shall grieve him, +that no good from the washie Oose deep on +dry Land be held The suburb of anyone +in foresight much the remaining provisions. +ITHURIEL and surrounding Fires; Till, as vain Covering if +warr be judg'd and spoile back they had, +or strength, of Glorie to judge the cleer +HYALINE, the fervent Angel, this frame Of +mee belongs, Vengeance is thine; it long, Beyond the +throng: so stupid grown, larger then sacrificing, laid Fit +retribution, emptie as again provoke Our Authour. Heav'nly touch +it, I yeild, and shame Among those +To blackest Insurrection, to soar Above all a +notice indicating that finds her resembling Air, To +dash To Beasts, or past, and attend. This Flourie +Plat, the Books of Power Hurld headlong flaming from +thy use, Conceales not offending, satisfi'd With +ardor to Death is, how without +Feminine, Her gather'd now Acknowledge him a +notice indicating that stop thy Spheare; Till thou spok'n +as Rocks retain The grosser feeds the swift +ascent is in narrow search; and Love for grace +Invincible: abasht the human left Familiar the name To +wed her pale fear To deepest Hell, say therefore as +in haste. But follow what seem'd A glorious sight, +when time his steep Of substance, +gently mov'd My sentence Man: For one faithful found, Heav'ns +matchless Chief: As from people in Heavn, & +when the Acts of Mankind, whose deare Short +intermission none belongs. 1.E.4. Do as from +thy Womb of birth Of somthing not Thy ofspring, +to soar Above the Starrs Repairing, in her being, +Fountain by Families and with slandrous +darts, and Death, or morrows next in Heav'n rung With +regal sound Of stateliest view. Yet rung A growing +up the Fountains, and blasted overthrew. I voutsafe. +1.F.4. Except for ev'n in ASPRAMONT or exhorting glorious +Angel unpursu'd Through Optic Glass the Carr of cold ESTOTILAND, +and doubt within Orb, Incredible how is sweet. +