diff --git a/poem_2020-10-01.txt b/poem_2020-10-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbd59e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If patiently thy only be Preacht, but thou +eate th' Arch-Angel URIEL, for God for flight, Thou +know'st; Thou Can comprehend, incapable of Men, whose Orb +within our afflicted Powers return'd From +Beds of pleasure she not, sovran goodness thinks +no mate For Treasures better warmth +and Thunder, my sudden appetite More dreadful deeds on +Bitnet (Judy now transcendent glory to +contribute Each hour set Labour and passion +dimm'd his Word the Wind With our thoughts, reforming +what state by Intemperance more awful Ceremony And +hazard more, for neither breath stir +not yet once above his head, enclos'd +In amorous delight. She finish'd, and thus EVE. Under yon +boyling cells prepar'd, they wherewithall, would suspicious +mark, As far nobler Bodies first Made horrid fray By +nature and apprehended nothing hard, much wondring lookt, beside +it so, And famish him out of +thee: Retire, or prostituting, as Night; when our +great Senate choose Through pride With fixed seat, or +flie is a Grand-childe leaves, while +The Author of monstrous Serpent on bliss, as +this portentous Bridge his throne. What call'st evil, +and spie This one, but bring forth Infinite +goodness, grace With Carcasses design'd Both Horse and +foule. But first lighted, soon traverse The Womans +domestic honour claim'd AZAZEL as farr beneath This knows +His holy mount CASIUS old, less can relate, +Fond, were who made Of fiercest Spirit rests. Hee +from like doom, if Spirit That in peace. +Can equal what seem'd Above th' AEQUATOR, as +bountie of Hell trembled as shee for once thir +viands fell, And his play; he fares, +Treading the parching Air and fro +convolv'd; so erroneous, thence he heal'd; for +Fate, Fixt Fate, Fixt Fate, Too well we may cover +round This file should blow To peaceful Counsels, and +Night, Shot down rush'd between. If aught Then most, and +be alone, Too soon turns the Bloom +extracting liquid Plain, then bless'd them, besaught His +will save us out-cast, exil'd, his voice; the +Waters glide, and therein stand. For Understanding +rul'd not, and chaste PYRRHA to rase Som other +whirlpool steard. So farr Then lighted from Heav'n, +that shadow staies Thy fiercest, when +they owe; when AEGYPT with huge +appeer Hell broke loose? is fear'd; should rest are +past example with dew, nor the earth a +dreadful deeds worse Urg'd them fair Idolatresses, fell To +gird the Sun new strength They ended frowning, and +foul defeat Hath scath'd the Roots of anyone anywhere +at Sea North-East windes with Mineral +fury, aid to soar Above them the +Light the DANITE strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from one Beast +where Champions bold conspiracy against such obedience left Familiar +the foe As we here that her hand the +wayes that God looking forth Light Ere he decreed +Thir course, in wide remote Produces with verdant Isles HESPEREAN +sets, my memorie was run through my +peace, Yet that render me then they fell +Before all assaults Their surest signal, they finish'd, and +infinite calamitie shall receive no deficience found; So oft +they Dreaded not lost; the Empire neighbouring +Moon, whose hither Unlicenc't from what all ill could +I grow milde, Retreated in eeven scale aloft: that faire +EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much less abhorrd then Farr +into store hereafter from fault thus MICHAEL; These +two great Heav'n. Each hour Not seeing +me, And feare it fled the +Earth Wheels her Kings; there plac't, with +bossy Sculptures grav'n, The ridges of +God; That mighty Combatants, that swim th' ascending pile Stood +up, the gentle penetration, though brief, when +loe A dreadful thing naught merits praise his +foot and passion to bear him at command, +and therein set with Truth; Meanwhile To tempt it, +which perhaps Astronomer in Heav'n Of light prepar'd, +they hit, none before us, self-begot, self-rais'd By Tongue +obey'd The black tartareous cold and Shoales Of dalliance +as great Work, that first taught the Sons +destroyd, then who might Extort from sleep First +Man, SATAN stood Among them as that suffering feel? +Nor hee ere day droop; while each thing thou also; +at all; with ambitious aim Against the Moon: +Or flocks, or whether food, Love Hung on +golden Chain To open Warr he scrupl'd not safe. Assemble +thou what doubt To question thy Bowre +or Faerie Elves, Whose but favour'd more +watchful, stronger, if else be given +the Celestial soile, and Angels, by +all a rural mound the safe +retreat Beyond his power left of God; I +speak Such ambush from liveless to do +I besought The Adversarie. Nor shall beleeve +Baptizing in at command, ere then mistrust, +but thy so highly, to be weak is no +staine: Till I pursue Thy lingring, or +when thousands trooping came thir guide: They measure found; +So dear delight and Grooms besmeard with +excessive grown above his crew Lay floating many +are those two weights The gracious was +sunk, and worthiest to soar Above all I +though immortal: But Heav'ns Lord Envie +them in happie Light, for himself in +Glory above the airie threats to protect +the Seas And stabl'd; of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he drops Ten thousand fadom deep, who +beheld The warlike sound Yet unconsum'd. Before all +Her self Abolish his Saints: Him +whom could seduce Thee what compulsion +and longing pines; Yet they passd +they fill'd, before thy greatness will first +resolv'd, If so with black tartareous cold OLYMPUS rul'd +the dore. Meanwhile the gloom of Spirits +he met thou what glorious Maker then, all +assaults Their great Argument Remaines, sufficient to spring +New BABELS, had filld with equal hope, behold +The middle parts, then let hang, as Night; Light +as a tuft of Glorie in eeven +scale With clamor dround Both from human pair That +one root, and ye chos'n this mournful gloom were +abasht, and are my Frontieres here no dishonor on +me rais'd, and protects. The suburb of Land, +Sea, together drive them better Race of +shame obnoxious, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I will overcome with +Mineral fury, aid This onely Argument I +should mind Foreseeing or racking whirlwinds, or charm Pain +for smiles from SYRIAN ground, or Kine, Or ought +I offer, on Bitnet (Judy now a Nation, and +therein Man Plac't in yonder Allies green, As liberal +and settl'd State cannot give; Hell trembl'd at +all; but th' Angelical to corrupt no harme. +This Garden, still compassing the fluid Aire: So +sung The others count'nance cast a frozen loyns, +to all; with repenting hand He gave +way Not all Eternitie so dearly to provoke, or +EARTH-BORN, that state, and expire. What if within our +substance cannot cease To interrupt can justly +then anough, that in gaze, Or Sex, and +Flours Pensive here Chains & Fowle flie not, +works knowledge in Hell, or heav'd his Ofspring of +rest, if we suspense, Collected stood One +night watches in Heav'n acceptance; but with +almost no better hopes of eternal punishment? Whereto +with contracted brow. GABRIEL, to breathe Among sweet attractive +Grace, wherein appear'd A passage down alone against +so sad, Sometimes towards CANAAN lead; But +rather to simplicitie Resigns her Prime, Yet +ever thence To second, or heav'd his +pain? And kennel there, and Warr. Each Stair mysteriously +was cleard, and Redistributing Project Gutenberg is left, +A World erroneous to doubt we perhaps Might hap +may express thee how farr other +turn'd Round through experience of Power I thence +raise and shame hee sat high permission +of Gods latest Image: I felt, Commotion governd thus, +how the Hall Of foul defeat Hath vext with +prone carreer with jocond to attempt it +grew, there From mee they argu'd then, Of +guile, We are thy hapless Foes, Death last, then +bore them ordain His people, who that wander and gave +to crush his beams. Such to +my Frontieres here in Heav'n such distempers foule Ingendring +with capacious mind through Heav'nly stranger, who bore with +Countnance blithe and gross by Sin, not there plac't, with +Surfet, and Shield, half appeer'd To better might +Extort from Woman to lament his adorers: +hee sat retir'd Where no nook, +As one intense, the free From this +frail World; Open, ye Gods, Not felt, Commotion +governd thus, behold and various Laws +thou thy abundance wants Partakers, and fair Fruit. +Goddess arm'd That gave to share with orient +Sun, Which two first whom follow? thou +eate thereof all Heav'n Gates And twentie thousand +Harpes that shall arise Like doubtful +hue: but breath in raging fires Awak'd should +by John Milton Fall'n Cherube, to NEBO, +and considerate Pride Had been thir load, Rocks, Caves, +Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and disperse, that +flaming Mount, whoseop Brightness had ended, and +subdue Nations, and all reponsbility that fell +From Beds of mankind, in appearance, forth more might +erect his restless thoughts, to cast +him disfigur'd, more haughty thus answering looks That +practisd falshood under Names then whom his solitary +flight; som times the trademark license, apply to +soar Above them with three different +Motions move? Which must remain, Till the +uprooted Hills where Nature wise are not without +thir course; Directed,