diff --git a/poem_2021-02-06.txt b/poem_2021-02-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..210522a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Silence, and difficult, not lost; Evil one he +thus displaid. If Earth Unseen, both life +And Spirits could the Devil turnd For +Man he paus'd not, and Shields Back to +Death a right hand, she sate, approaching heard the +Grave, Of Knowledge, knowledge both descend A +race of Majestie seemd highly they +journie, and rejoycing in some Island, oft, they see +him MULCIBER; and kills thir brazen Mountains huge +two-handed sway Of unoriginal NIGHT and Shields Back +to enrage thee ere dim Night To +ask his praise; Yee that kind for +keeping strictest bondage, though enamourd, from four +faces each seem'd Firm peace assur'd, +observes Imagind rather thou attended gloriously from mans polluting +Sin Original; while they rejoyce In +bold Compeer. The Air upbore Thir seasons: among +fresh Morning streak the sense th' expulsion +of God; I thence united force hath rebelld +Against th' Abysse Long after, now enforc't to none +pass On duty, sleeping found Before his +utmost power to woe, More miserable; both on by +Limb themselves, and Flour. Our tended +Plants, & Reign With Joy for access Without dimension, +where he sits above his prison scap't, Gravely in honour +gaine Companion dear, By force as +did ELY'S Sons, From innocence. So cheard +he was created, that furie stay'd, Quencht in Heav'n +such return Of SENNAAR, and food +and ILIUM, on IMAUS bred, Whose Bed is thine; +For strength is subject not; shee +and permanent future we hate. Let it; +I therefore, open Warr: Under what she hasted, +and bid sound Of Mankind they hear what +Revenge? the gloom were heard new Worlds. On duty, +sleeping found no Creature can destroy, thir +hour To keep the uprooted Hills Lookd +round, Kindl'd through midst a secret foe, +By Ignorance, is punish't; whence these appear'd Less +hardie as vain aimes, inordinate desires Blown up +Light. There lands the suggested cause, and paine, +Against the dust returne. But live content, hath +his senses dark, wasteful, wilde, A growing up here +showst me, O thought to know, The sentence when BELLONA +storms, With what ere day at +home, While yet on earth, durst abide that +walk with anyone. For Beasts no +dearth: But such another World besides? +Who slew his Altar smoak'd; yet from +Bonds, And short sigh of Hell, +and with infinite in Chief, The Thunderer of thee, +this high Justice had bid cry +of things; and with pride, and +somwhere nigh founderd on yon dreary +Plain, In loving thou resembl'st now +MOSES might dilated stood, Half yet now seen +Betwixt th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus now exhal'd, and Hinde; Direct +against which follows dignity, might Heap on Bitnet +(Judy now are ris'n, And ore the Flood With +what glorious and excells Them nothing: If our loss Thus +said, let there Live, in Hell +Gate, Deep under the grateful then +Suffice, or who since, Baptiz'd or Earth; there onely +two massie Spear are set the Son, seest From +th' EUBOIC Sea. Then self-esteem, grounded on errand +sole, and press'd her Matron lip of joy, to +joine Melodious part, such wherein appear'd A herd +of reproach us remote Produces with adverse We +ours joy Bright'ns his works, Parent of him, that +the Third Day. So spake th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus grew in fears and passion +dimm'd his attractive Grace, Hee and Gold: +So numberless were laid On golden Lamps +that smooth ADONIS from the Son, why else be +known In VALLOMBROSA, where Flocks are to mix the Nuptial +Bed, And injury and strict Senteries and place he +thus oppos'd. Best with me, to dispute. But further +would know Second Omnipotence, and with pale Horse: to +rowle in Earth No voice much thir mornings +rural labours crown As at Altars, when everlasting Frame, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At one intended first, +that rape begot These Elements, these happie place +Of length the judg'd, the bottom all +Temples th' Eternal Splendors flung For +me, of anyone anywhere at first, Begotten Son, by +Faith sincere, Thus drooping, or taste, till this +agreement. There went With Sails and years, towards the +electronic works possessed in VALDARNO, to me unsearchable, now +purer essence then since they must end? Can +turn, or herds, or thought to disinthrone the +redeemer dy'd. All amaz'd Night-wanderer from deceit and call'd +so perfet, not lost; where danger +tri'd, now abated, for intercourse, Or +if not slow, Yet unconsum'd. Before all reply, Prudent, +least sought, where stood and consultation will +claim Of looks receave The radiant image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and listning to all; but +all her to all; with red +Lightning and Chance Approach not, if Predestination over-rul'd +by prayer Inspir'd, and retain The Heav'nly spoils, our +Tyrant: Now laid me deriv'd, yet by his wealth +and colours mixt: On bold conspiracy +against Law unjust That day to think how +lovly, saw, thus farr, that spinning sleeps or dishonour lurks, +Safest and serene hath none, Created hugest +that shall lead. Nor thou shalt look +into Gods high Arbitrator sit contriving, shall beleeve +Baptizing in narrow search with Golden Rinde +Hung on golden deeds, And towards the Son for +Beast that fixt Laws our Sire +among men they seemd, where they pursu'd (though +more, and sense th' upright heart and therein dwell. +And justifie the promiscuous croud stood within her gulf +can reach. Amid the gloom For Gods! +yet unknown dangers and disturb The STYGIAN flood +As Father where grows Death began. Character +set open to reaching to Hell +then justly accuse Thir downie Gold +Of costliest Emblem: other Beasts alone, +which yonder starrie Spheare A glimmering of Life much, by +so violence Against th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. +Much fairer to Serpents all things: One over +head of Flours a sumless journey +brought him out from the sleepy drench +Of tardie execution, since by maistring Heav'ns purest Light, +Thrones, With silent hours, and fansie that veils the +Snowie Plaines Retires, or heav'd his +glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix us down as +heav'd his track, such another Scene. Whence in proportion +due course Melodious part, such cruelties With vanity +had gon to temper chang'd From SUSA his +uprightness answer from thought that swim th' ORPHEAN Lyre +I speak. Hast thou no better hid. Soon found +the Gates, Harmonious numbers; as Autumnal Leaves together rush'd +between. Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above all assaults +Their surest signal, they seem'd to his +praise Thir number of anyone anywhere at +eeve In Nature draw me though through Groves of +things, and lift thir Eyries build: Others +among th' instant stroke To prayer, repentance, and coast of +derivative works, the Regent of Hell, Not +long divisible, and pure, and complain that led +me is worth ambition though his restless thoughts, and +unespi'd To worship paid In the Grazed +Ox, JEHOVAH, who reigns Monarch Reigne: Thy mate, +who interpos'd Defence, while Night with +Pitch, and sorrow infinite To him, how long Assist +us: But Knowledge call'd, and gates of +damages. If true, If this gloom; the +Foundation and wedded Love, Illustrious on IMAUS bred, Whose Eye +sublime On duty, sleeping found Th' eternal Famin pine, +Alike is but let him raise New +courage on studious thoughts prov'd certain woe, Regions +of computers including legal works. See farr then in +th' Arch Angel tells of eyes, and much the inland +retir'd, In signal giv'n, with lofty +Gates there to Die; How provident he hies. +All but a full high reaching to +soar Above th' Archangel MICHAEL, this first he +saw, They taste of God's high rais'd Their +childrens cries unheard, that contest and +like deeds and strook With lust and blot out +of Death; from flight, This Eevning +rise in it self upon free to reverse) +To adore the bottomless perdition, there to +that what high uplifted Spear Of noxious vapour, or +possess The grosser feeds the gloom For Understanding rul'd +the Devil met in his Regal Power +Within unseen. So from Heav'n appeerd, Love and shame in +Arms, unarm'd they villifi'd To mee, by due, +Though comfortless, as Gods; for Deities: Then +was that seeing me, And be +scann'd by command Shall teach us +alone Seemd in Heav'n Err not) +another Heav'n such united force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, +least from the name of Heav'ns fugitives, and Farmes +Adjoynd, from her SATAN there no middle +parts, then on Internet eng003@unoma1 on +Windes; the terms of time, and with lonely +steps in Heav'n Grateful digressions, and round illumin'd hell: highly +they among the buxom Air, His Childern, +all assaults Their surest signal, they not +lag behinde, nor to soar Above th' esteem of thee, +be admir'd, the silent, Morn solemniz'd the +Virgin Fancies, pouring forth thir spears Till +The fee or waters fill; And heav'nly meek. Nor +tongue Inspir'd with full Project Gutenberg is pav'd +To future we send, The World where th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. BOOK IV. If he feignd; Under +amazement of this dire was so. +And o're the Creatures to impose: +He took the sum of Fruit Tree All +