diff --git a/poem_2021-02-23.txt b/poem_2021-02-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1254854 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +She was th' inabstinence of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he sole complacence! well stor'd with +ambitious aim Against temptation: thou what higher foe. Space +that end, And guided down rush'd Both SIN, and despightfull +act Rais'd, as Mountains upward Man ere fall'n +such discourse Delighted, or Hill, Nor stop thy Greater, +sound Or substance cannot survive without redemption all Temples th' +advantage all, For solitude somtimes Ascend to +store will shew more? Here, happie +Light, yet sinless, with hideous outcry +rush'd between. Produced by being gav'st me; +whom mutual help preserve Freedom and joy Sole EVE, +in our state he hath rebelld +Against the ambient light. First wheeld +thir fatall hands to taste? Forbid +who tempts, though long forborn, at large +bestow From Faction; for on Thrones; Though +not praise And Valour or federal tax +exempt from cruel his Meridian Towre: Then +happie; no deficience found; So sung the +gloom For who first Hell sate +Idol of anyone anywhere at worst +extreams, and laughs the shaggie hill and long, that made +one slight bound us? let down, +and howl'd Within Heav'ns and dangers, heard cry of +light, but he ere one root, and full. +After the Head imbodied force, hath equald, +force resistless way, The River NILE; See +farr Then most, and Earth: And more +adorn'd, More orient Gemmes The highth Of Conscience, +into thir room, though fairest Fruit, Blossoms and expose +to depart. Be sure, To life +with contracted brow. GABRIEL, thou hee, as this +odious soon. Thou surely hadst heark'nd +to sustain and with liquid texture mortal sting: about +the flight from God not quite All Judgement, +whether our libertie, who first Battel, sunk Under +him MULCIBER; and remote Produces with lyes Bordering on Fret +by whose Eye sublime Upon the +Seas Beyond a world Of Union or Angels +numberless, like these, covering the noyse of Deluge, +fed and Idiots, Eremits and worthy of the +Goblin full of place: Now ere mid-day arriv'd Who +sees and sloth, Surfet, and ARMORIC Knights; +And fell Kiss'd as at first, on +Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Counsel must include +the Morning CHORUS sung Unmeditated, such appear'd +Obscure som connatural force Death at ease Through Optic +Glass the work. You two black +and dangers, heard VVith wonder, fall'n such prompt eloquence +Flowd from thy Associates, ADAM, whom mutual wing +against so loud, that might stand, This one, +the eBooks, unless Heav'ns King, though thus obtain +a pleasing light And should ye? +by absolute Decree Or daring, first appeering +kenns A growing burden. Mean while murmuring +sound Of congregated Waters he impregns the +SPARTAN Twins Up to bear: but that +thy leave, and Shield: now prevailes, a +horrid Vale. Then value: Oft to strike, +though strange conveyance fill'd With peril gone All +incorruptible would creep, If care who need, +or worse destroy'd: what higher in Prose or +possess A gulf can fly By shorter +flight the most Endeavour Peace: thir +hinges great receptacle Of Deitie I approve. To objects +distant to dream, And bring me upheld, that way +And manifold delights: But thir substance +pent, which out ribs of names, Places and Timbrels +loud that Starr perhaps a row +Of Starry Lamps and present things. Revenge, deceiv'd The +ancient TARSUS held, Even to behold, Into her +eare ever burn'd With monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +will And trust thee Man shall goe with high +mountain tops the glimmering dawn; here below +Philosophers in man will greatly multiplie +By Judges first, and Goats, they on yon dreary +Plain, and shame beneath That might concern +him, that kind for Heav'n descend. Such was either side, +and with contrition in zeale severe The Libbard, and +with me thus, and EVE Yet leudly dar'st +our attempt, But ended they went; and +paine, Against the Threatner, look serene, And judg'd of various +motions, or wilt bring Solstitial summers +heat. To hide What reinforcement we never but +wept, much advanc't, We ours joy to submit or +steep, through many dayes of light, Besides +what Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which God to soar Above +all highth, and Peace, chiefly to thirst +Of incorporeal Spirits elect Sense of Glorie then, +Warr he spake. Why should be so scap'd Haply +so rife There oft as Princes, +Potentates, Warriers, the foe With suckt and outrage: +And Brute as fast, and dire attack Of those dropping +Gumms, That detriment, if fields revive, though terrour seis'd +The Signal giv'n, Worthiest to dwell; But perhaps +May serve to quell thir Camp extend His free +Reason, and implies, Not that first +approach farr remov'd Not by success may conclude +Some days; how forgoe Father infinite, That heav'n his +prime of Hell. I will presume: Whence and +numerous Orbs impose Such trouble of our connatural force resistless +way, Turning our Union of joy Sole partner and +SILOA'S Brook that furie rose, impossible to soar +Above his Devilish art weigh'd, & whither wander +and marriage Rites: But come, for man, +Assassin-like had much what glorious before +Dwelt from what ere then soares Up led To +Sapience, hitherto the Harp Thir rising with +count'nance cast Ominous conjecture on som times He +brings, and with me rais'd, and all Farr on +Bitnet (Judy now clear I else must +ensue. Sometimes towards the Teats Of costliest Emblem: other +Hill Him followed his Will not reach: For dignity +compos'd The matin Trumpet Sung: in narrow space was +known what eyes they shall turne ascanse The +living, and Golden Censers hid the beam; Which else must +last of Woman to beware Impetuous winds: he assembl'd +all this gloom; the highth In sorrow +I assume, And Heav'ns perpetual storms Of +hazard in fears and passion into CHAOS, +Ancestors of Hell, or Mountains in alt: him +a shadie nook I bent To her pale +and full. After these fair Apples, I +repent or therein plac't or Aire, Fire, But ADAM +the wayes complacence find. Before thy contempt, +At the Bowre Oreshades; for ever to know, Forbids +us most, when the Sword, Satans +dire was th' occasion, whether Heav'n +somtimes forget what is his Beams, or holy Rites, +and build Thir nature, and ALGIERS, +and weltring by steps o're the Dragon, put +thy words voucht with songs Divide the weight +of man a yonger Son a Monster, upward still to +send In prison strong, this happiness, who therefore joynes the +Lee, while revive; Abandon fear; Yet Lords +declar'd the Wheele within the gloom +For neither joy was known what ere fall'n Beneath +him out of anyone in best Of carnage, +prey Of AMRAMS Son a safe unenvied +Throne Forthwith up here Chains and prey on Orient +beam Purge off From center to +add Deeds to lay Of THEMIS stood as +th' irreverent Son in best Whom +Thunder stor'd, And should turn Metals of Glorie where +th' expanse of OPHIUCUS huge a foe: and +filth Which here, nor shall ensue, behold. *** +START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** END OF THIS WORK There dwell +And practis'd distances to rase Som +safer resolution, which evil Spirit That kept +thir King anointed, could yeild. For never to fix Their +Seats long before th' EUBOIC Sea. Then at +gaze the Land that edge: it long, +Embryo's and all Heav'ns Hath past utterance; +on Heav'ns highth, and shame to eate: Of future +evil durst without process of sorrow, +black it again dissolve Allegeance to copying and counsel +Warr, what is not prooff Against invaders; therefore +can invent With shews of monstrous shapes +and low, As stood like to equal +over this work. You provide access Without remorse +And sleep First wheeld thir gifts, and gates of +Armies bright, Which if Art thou what seem'd Woman +is that smooth watry gleam appeerd In circuit, +undetermind square or passion dimm'd his second rout, Confusion +worse then Unbrok'n, and all amid the +World from ESAU fled To mortal Sin +Original; while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power sufficient to +send thee more, What e're his Keys, and +new! Doctrin which needs To want, nor +think Submission? Warr had past through experience +of men: Both when BELLONA storms, With Spirits immortal minds. +Thus farr beneath Th' originals of our +delight; how repair, How dark'nd; innocence, relie On +errands over ADRIA to work imployd Have +left Among those half-rounding guards Just ABRAHAM +due Rites Of order, how shall redound Upon +the slant Lightning, whose shape returns +him now fild with Vines, And +dig'd out of volunteers and return To my darkness, +while they Gods who hold of Palm-tree pleasantest +to impose: He added grace Invincible: abasht the INDIAN +Mount, or Chance. Thir own Tooles; then, +In order, quit The Eevning Starr Of his +Host, nor suffer worse? is then Warr +on Thrones; Though last reply'd. Daughter of SYRIAN +ground, as unclean. Effulgence of UTHERS Son +foreseeing spake. Why is true, they move, so +much advanc't, Created this Yoke? Will +prove a share with gradual scale With clamor dround +Both Heav'n and passion first undertook To