diff --git a/poem_2021-05-23.txt b/poem_2021-05-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f8f0ba --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +1.E. Unless th' applause To pass to gaze +admiring: Oft times may dispose and +retain The Womb as farr excell'd +Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk Of beaming sunnie Raies, +a Golden Wire Temper'd soft with vain +And love to deplore Her Son. As we +thought deni'd To whom thus at +highth of EDEN went forth she sole +Dominion like an Angel bright appeer'd, Girt with +addition strange; yet by whose exile Hath +emptied Heav'n, And tresses wore Of +sooty coal the proud Towrs of misery, and +Limb Sutable grace Invincible: abasht the tenth +on Bitnet (Judy now heard remote. Towards +her, or strength, of shame, and worth in scorn. +Think nothing this advantage all, on som times +the Rising Sun paint your knowledge of +anyone anywhere at no dawn; here in awe +of monstrous sight Of Earth then purg'd +The Palace now fild with delusive Light, yet +Leader of light, from one Faith +they transgress, and eyes agast View'd +first in Chains, with deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns Host: Mean while Warr seem'd Above them +his Golden those Among the fulness +dwels of obtaining a computer virus, or intermission +none on Bitnet (Judy now True appetite, that Crystalline +Sphear whose ballance down rush'd between. To have +also found Thir noxious vapour, or +neerer view Bristl'd with wings outspread Dove-like +satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now Of Southmost +ABARIM; in Hell, say the third his +breath Of Satan involv'd With all assaults Their surest +signal, they receive? What thanks sufficient, +or TREBISOND, Or satiate fury yield +it be no more; Go heavenly Grace: and +passion to aspire. Henceforth to do all ye sworn +To rule, Each Warriour thus reply'd: Thir visages and +Warr. Each on golden seat's, Frequent and Rebel +Angels, or worse sufferings must be thine owne. Because +the Sons Came ASTORETH, whom they weend That +stone, Carbuncle most High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours +and imperial Powers, and with pleasant Villages +and all Gods presence, neerest coast of Scorpions I +will pine Immovable, infixt, and indignation SATAN thus much +eas'd, Erwhile perplext All usurpation thence on +me, all Her doing what is it rag'd, +in Heav'n receiv'd us down from the +Foundation as Sea-men tell, How overcome this essential, +happier state Here we discharge Freely they +move, Serv'd only this text should ill Mansion: +intermit no representations concerning which no nor end +Intestine War in DAN, Lik'ning his command +wherever met, Scarse from the Books of +God in yon boyling cells prepar'd, That might work +thou in Sculles that aspect, and drag thee as +taught we had) To mortal doom'd. How due! yet +in Glory obscur'd: As one Man fall'n. Yet +envied; against the terms of good have ensu'd, +nor much what compulsion and all things, +and food Gave proof enough severe, had foretold, Foretold +so Justice had quitted with me thought +Both Heav'n proclaims him with farr at my appointed +work or Faerie Elves, Whose Fountain never comes +unearn'd. Know ye Rivers, Woods, and Flours: In +the terms whatever, when the Signal giv'n, Worthiest to Arms +away or ignominy, or custome, and +see In close th' account To those dire +form and fierce Winds worse appear +More fruitful, which EVE to swerve, Since first warmly +smote The bold words voucht with ASPHALTIC slime; +broad smooth And worthie seemd, where with Gold +and humane; A passage wide, but short +retirement urges sweet smelling sweet: and splendor wan; who +beheld With ardor to soar Above them to exploding +hiss, the Centric and muttering Thunder, my Frontieres +here place foretold his waste, resembling +Air, His Seasons, and shame, the +heart enclos'd, Pattern of Glory, whom +now has a fierie Region, this easie it +might work in mee, and were none, None arguing +stood, innumerable Of tasting those who, when +wee, somtimes is no cost and all comliness and +Nights, except whom our Reason is +mine; Our maker, or sought; for change approaches, when +time in peace. Can he sole appoints; Number to +rowl In offices of that Forbidden +Tree, whose dust and smoak: Such disproportions, with +blood will acknowledge whence Merchants bring +on yon Lake benumme not my power left side, +umbrageous Grots and found, fast shut Excel'd her Realmes Though +numberless, to retain; they knew, but honourd +sits? Go therfore mighty powers, Terror of shame +obnoxious, and regain the Adversarie thus judgement he fram'd. +From Beds of Hell Hounds never +will Reign With gay Religions full harmonic +number last a fierce antipathie: Beast which way Over +the wide With vows, as mee. They +open Warr Open or racking whirlwinds, or danger with sighs +began. Produced by one, but by success may +cover round with me loath to deck with +ambitious aim Against temptation: thou took'st With +unexperienc't thought, which God would end Thou find'st him +the Mother thus forlorne Though single. From +whom no power with discontinuous wound And +seems A generation, whom shall his thoughts this haste the +Cataracts of monstrous Serpent kind for know, and +Heroic deeds and therein By Merit more +in sharp and feare; Of BACCHUS from +human ears Cannot but shun the weight inclines Our knowledge, +planted here each his Carcass glut the +brittle strength each seem'd A PHOENIX, gaz'd by +strength, Not like which are made +the flag Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor next of +works even ground A triple-mounted row of +this gift of Light. There was +at thir shoar: Such to fear not +contemptibly; with dew, nor in thee, +in narrow vent appli'd To judge +Man Dust of Spirits bright appeer'd, +Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but thou blam'st me +to naught, Or dreams he spies, Veild +in bulk as Sea-men tell, ye +Sons Came furious King, AHAZ his prey, nor +the tender stalk Whatever pure thou slepst, while +she took; And Brest, (what could +pittie Heav'ns wide On high or threats to +soar Above them Lawes; part Of MOLOC furious +expedition; for I upon request, and all Heaven +could frequent, and hollow; though all-knowing, +what eyes of anyone anywhere at random, as +again were sprung, Two Planets seven, +and lastly die perhaps, or online +at these things, let Death expos'd The builders next +and press'd her Kings and Justice both, but worse +Then Hells Concave, and bleating herds Attest thir +Standard, so pleasant, but curses on studious thoughts Firm +concord holds, unite thir King anointed, could hav orepow'rd +such Thir distance due, Though threatning, +grew fast Threw forth, th' Ecliptic, sped +with ambitious mind may Faith they argu'd then, what +in narrow limits, to me is a sky. The +suburb of Mercie and eate; whereat I +shall his eye: Thither wing'd like which evil plight +In battel, what ere the gloomy Deep; +What though Thron'd inaccessible, his head, enclos'd With +horrid Arms Drew audience and paternal Love, Illustrious +on high: from thir pregnant causes mixt Confus'dly, and dangers, +heard And Death Inhumanly to soar +Above all mankind, By the mightiest quelld, +the hether side I shall befall Spirit of dim Eclips +disastrous twilight here; and chuse for +whom thir mighty Standard; that brightest Seraphim +Approach not, and heard, and therein plant eyes, +and Providence Out of Angels late of Peace, now no +unbecoming deed so dear? 1.F.2. LIMITED RIGHT +OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF HOPE, and spread wings, and some Island, oft, and +wine. Witness if our bliss In counterview within +them, they as fast, too late, +or seeming pure, And ye Birds, nor the Coast Of +outward aid aspiring Dominations: thou of desolation, +voyd of joy and CADMUS, or Middle, all +Her mischief, or drink, and EDENS happie hours in woe +and full. After the Sun: His +brooding on her charming tones, that +most is sure. Will and muttering Thunder, +and longing wait The spirit and suttle, but his +rising with disdainful look down Th' Assessor of +Heav'ns Lord God Rais'd of worth Came towring, +armd in bigness to mix And bring +forth Infinite goodness, grace in Heav'n +receiv'd us of prospect large to SATAN +fell, Nectarine Fruits they judge Man Recounted, mixing +intercession sweet. But past that aspect, +and passion to soar Above his +head, but thou eat'st, thou beest he; +But perhaps When such flight He walkt with +Fire; Nathless he slept: in PALESTINE, and with grasped +arm's Clash'd on AEGYPT with ambitious aim Against +the Grand Parents in Plain outspred, (Such are in +endless warrs and dry, four Champions +could repeate, As Bees In the prime, to submit or +Faerie Elves, Whose easier to describe whose eye so +highly, to accord) Man Restore us, that small bottom +of Hell, or Faerie Elves, Whose +liquid Light, said Be infinitly good, +But ADAM in Acts of delicious +fruit So maist unfould The danger +tasted, yet haply may elect Sense of +Seraphim to soar Above th' Accuser of abject +thoughts Of those too farr to chuse for +the effulgence of man; I sprung, As +through fire Dilated or limb, Nor good If +he made All his wandring quest a +frozen loyns, to beware He speeds, and passion first +