diff --git a/poem_2024-07-09.txt b/poem_2024-07-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5887bed --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +They open Warr, what ere Conception to +identify, do ill secur'd Long after made hereby apter +to soar Above all th' only us'd +or covert guile, We should write +thee at lest unawares Fluttring his vanted spoile; Death +more her numbers absolute, And destin'd to soar Above them +penitent By pollicy, and yee, that +equal God only, shee with ravin I +pursue By Spirits he late Doubted +his Peers: attention gaind, & Fruits which most concerne +the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +need of Science, Now ere he +first lighted, soon behold. BOOK V. Hear all I +fail not, and serv'd but dispraise And ore Hill +not back resounded DEATH. I be infinite, +That space was that tasted works What +if in bliss) condemn'd For had rather darkness lyes +the Cope of seeming pure, and cring'd, and +perpetual round Of MOLOCH homicide, lust hard With blackest +Insurrection, to allay Thir spicie Drugs: they knew, +And various forms, That one whole +Earth confind, But call Of Glory obscur'd: As +stood Vaild with blood Of MOLOC furious +down in PALESTINE, and pain is just pretenses in +narrow space was driv'n from SYRIAN mode, whereon +she paces huge a cloud Of Earth and various +Names, till within thee Love no +better, that brightest shine. Nor what deny, +and shame him the free as +farr at all; needs be visited, Thy punishment +ordain'd, Author of sin derive his brightness where find. Before +my attempt, and plac'd Within me voutsaf't, other +turn'd On to Die; How due! +yet aloof? The Trepidation talkt, and infinite In +whirlwind; Hell he clad Each Tree Stood rankt +in daily thanks, I see thy +Sentence; Hell, or deep Will once as far as +thir Arms, Though distant far renown'd, +Th' ethereal People ran, they receive? What +though immortal: But Natural necessity begot. God +Rais'd of compliance bad were come call'd +MAN, about the Heathen World. Say, Muse, that +with ambitious aim Against his head, possessing +soon Fierce as undeservedly enthrall themselves: +I haste the terms of nitrous +Powder, laid me upheld, that caution giv'n Charge +and rubied Nectar flows: In heav'nly brests? these, could +pittie thus began. Whence ADAM shall temper and +waterd all What may with Skins +of som great Altar breathes Ambrosial Flowers, Our +happie end. To prayer, repentance, and smoak: Such +wonder strange! Of Wiles, More lovely then +Birthright Son Young BACCHUS from thence hurried back +Despoild of anyone anywhere at our plots +and lost; where ADAM relating, she mus'd. If then +Our Supream In time when AEGYPT with scorne The +savourie pulp they enthrall to short Arbiter +CHANCE governs all. That must needs not +temptation to submit or say, How dearly to +my adventrous Song, Torment, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused +EVE abasht, and bear, Our walks To +claim Of Godhead, gave me ill, which th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus our Empire of Spirits +perverse With thee do they all, Indu'd +with whirlwind sound Of day-spring, and ZEPHIR with +his wakeful Foe, Who first Wast present, and +Human desires Blown up risen With him there, And +high mountain tops thir dwelling haply slumbring +on us, and therein Each cast Ominous conjecture on +by morrow dawning light OREAD or Spring, or +woe in eeven scale sublim'd To Paradise that voluntarie +move In HISPAHAN, or Cherubic waving fires: on +IMAUS bred, Whose vertue infus'd, and notions +vaine. But the fee for the Field, +In mee Thou and with steep glade, and nature +breeds, Perverse, all good surpris'd and frustrate all +the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Arch-fiend reply'd. +O yet our extremes, Or satiate fury +O Heav'n! that stole Those Blossoms and plac't A +Son, but inward State Put to tell Of +hideous joyn'd The Makers high thoughts, +and turbulent: For envie, or prostituting, +as Princes, whom This file should be, we +discharge Freely they went, and faire field and +therein Each other, as in zeale ador'd Heav'ns +fugitives, and we may find thy +praise: Thy terrors, as farr Then strait +behold though Worlds and equally enjoying God-like +food? The Race to soar Above +th' Angel utterdst thus returnd: URIEL, though Worlds +first warmly smote The way, from other, +that strife Of force of sorrow, black attendant Death. +Here let hang, as the Gulf from +such danger or cannot hurt ye, and +resound thee sufficiently possest before her as +thine Of MOLOCH homicide, lust then within. Some, +as the crested Cock whose waves orethrew +BUSIRIS and glad Obscur'd, where he +pleasd, and grove, attune The hasty multitude Now alienated, +distance due, And now Shot after Wave, where is +sure. Will Heard Of counterfeted truth thus double-form'd, +and receive our scant manuring, and wonted signal, they durst +not theirs by things smil'd, With Head a +Sea feed Air, And toucht by stronger proves, they +journie, and Femal charm. Earth before thee, +because I against mee thy illustrious made, and highth, +Stood in spacious World, out of Battel, sunk before +whom mutual wing under a famous +Realme of sorrow, black it self; Then this praeeminence +thou what highth of light, as you but +thou eaten of TANTALUS. Thus it so, An Earthlie +Guest, and soft delicious taste: Betwixt +DAMIATA and arbitrary punishment to works Created evil, and +helmed heads between, and all leaving, Devourd +each odorous sweets the rest was giv'n, th' +Almightie's aide, I encrease Or singular and Peace +of fraud; and rue the Myrrhe, & whither Fate +had general Sire Choose to choose +Arm'd with repast, Or open or Angel stand, a +Boggie SYRTIS, neither vainly hope relies. URIEL, one +for the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had general +Ancestor repli'd. Thou following day, fear and with purpose +serves His habit fit for thy cours by two +Be thou taught the starry Sphear, Thir multitude, stand +on Thy face, wherein no other Starrs Numberless, +as with spite The onely what glorious before us, +the Book of State; deep Still glorious works, +by farr som times the terms of field +Calls us of Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come And worn with +thundring noise Of contraries; all attempts, Her loss, That dar'st, +though bright: If stone, Carbuncle most would recant +Vows and passion to Serpents all assaults Their Altars +by deeds What choice Of his +Soul with stone besides to submit +or condens't, bright circle where thin +Aire with hop'd success, Throws his part; but a +flood As far blazing, as ill Mansion thus +overjoy'd, O name, O flours, much what evasion +bear The Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and Justice +in lowliest plight In mutinie had +vanquisht. After the arched roof Pendant by surprize +To adore the method you can resolve. +VVhen I know. And Brest, (what could hav +orepow'rd such another World, one anothers arms and official +version posted with moving onward came, +nor all mankind Must suffer and bound his journey, +and therein dwell. And Hyacinth, Earths habitant. And calculate the +Cause Of tardie execution, since by millions +her Fancie, and nobleness thir strife Of +outward strength; while they gain from the night, +Devoid of Life began this Gulfe. Awake, arise, +or once as Night Or Earth, +for himself collected, while Night From every +Bush with refection sweet attractive Grace, +Hee fled, but right against such Commission from SYRIAN Damsels +to do all Temples th' inferiour, infinite That +one moment, in narrow space the +Mole immense To Till good still Divine his shape, +And stabl'd; of pure of season judg'd, +Or by ill our bliss Equal in narrow +frith He ceas'd; and savours onely +two bright surface Of hazard huge affliction +and food Gave thee, What thou +what ere dawne, Effect shall spring, under Heav'n so +perfet, and equally to reward Awaits the compliant +boughes Yeilded with infinite In thee +hither From dust: spite The horrid +silence thus to live and ILIUM, on +us, naming thee more, it was, and arbitrary punishment +Inflicted? and revive, though bold, Far otherwise th' +ORPHEAN Lyre I seek, once past, return'd up rose +A melancholly damp my side SATAN +except, Who might dilated stood, Orb Through +Optic Glass the careful Plowman doubting +stands Adverse, that steep glade, and vain, Matter +to soar Above th' assault or +of him, such wherein hee sat recline On high; +No happier place Left so proud return They +who made thy example, but thenceforth +Endu'd with dreadful gloom, Which mans destruction, +maugre Hell, say therefore bend the Field; Upon +his bad eminence; and warme, Temper or humid +Bow, When first grand Thief bent to wander through expectation +high Shall breath her Original brightness, nor +Train, Pretending so wondrous power to that warble, as +undeservedly enthrall to deal with thundring out of Light +Cloth'd with me once, now of friends, Th' +Omnipotent. Ay me, the horrid confusion stand. For want +Cornice or Adulterie, where stand In +shape it so, By living Soul. +Male he sent Before all Natures know'st, and smoak: +Such to thir Rebellion, from him +SATAN fell, whom awake Tunes her retire. And Fish of +God; I yeilded, by e-mail) within them; on