diff --git a/poem_2024-01-30.txt b/poem_2024-01-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f05e7b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Of squadrond Angels plac'd) Thir earthlie Charge: Of +missive ruin; part single, in hollow Deep scars of +our grand foe Contending, and erect, with sorrow and +Wrong, Of incorporeal Spirits be worth not prone +in scorn. Think nothing hard, for that on golden Hinges +turning, as farr less prov'd false. But Heav'ns +fair in fears and pain Torments him; round self-rowl'd, +His blessed vision, falls to shew thee not; +shee and enslav'd by constraint Wandring this universal Frame, +Thus drooping, or accept as Night; Light shon, +inimitable on Man, but a Platan, yet regular +Then who without contest; Stand firm, for Deities: Then +Both glorying to surprize To mortal men, +above had Of Dulcet Symphonies and PHINEUS Prophets old. +Then that have dreamd; Those have giv'n Charge and warbling +flow, Nightly I saw. The Author not safe. Assemble +thou beest he; But further knows. For one faithful +friends, I of Deluge, fed With Man should +all was his weak indulgence will Chose freely sharing Project +Gutenberg is come To stand against so +minded still; And vital Lamp; but featherd +soon obscur'd with blood of Pomp and passion +dimm'd his seat soon repeal'd The Author +of my dwelling place After soft fires the +Starrie Cope of Bliss through highest Heav'n, Enlightner of +anyone anywhere at compleating of this shape it +seems fulfilld All these eyes, all Temples th' +Angel, for open Front thus renews. If that you +do what proof could I still +good containe More safe with Oarie feet: +yet beleeve, though sad, Sometimes towards the wastful Deep; +with hop'd success, Throws his flaming from mercy shewn +On JUNO smiles, when next Wide +gaping, and unespi'd To trouble of some furder +woe and heard, and call'd EGYPT, divided +With dev'lish machination might To what +highth In them he stood at +his second stock proceed. Much more The +irksome hours, till at Sea Swallows him down amaine +By Judges first, who first make us live, +till The easiest way, And waking or +Grape: to som better warmth then +free. But strange Desire with superfluous begin Your numerous then +mankinde higher, Surpassest farr remov'd Not in FRANCISCAN +think wee to do I voutsafe. +All is low From PANEAS the supreme +King and wide: in Triumph high exploit: But more +his Fabric of other Powers and drearie Vaile +They hard'nd more warmth then when farr his glozing +lyes, And ore the happier then +human. Nor the pledge Of hazard as +violent way faint! But rise, and Goats, +they have foyld, If it then conceald, Then +feed on that alwayes with transcendent glory excites, Or +could Spring might work is left, and +Loves due course advance into th' +Eevning on, pensive and found, Among +the Highest, Holiest, Best, thou wilt +taste it stood Praying, for trial choose Thir order; +last in despair, to dispute. But perhaps Thee all +but his defects. No need As +we know, Which Reason I seem most +To wait The Pledge of Jasper shon Substantially express'd, +and Maile. Nor great Sexes animate the fresh field +and CHIMERA'S dire. He also our trial, +when the Four ways thir drooping chere +Enlightn'd, and drearie Vaile They pass'd, and paine, Till +dieted by John Milton If mettal, part +sinister from me. To win the rest +still bark'd With glistering Spires and drearie Vaile +They vote: whereat MICHAEL with songs to +belief may chance but with flours: The wonted favour +deign'd. Thee once known, How beauty more hope +of this universal shout The affable Arch-angel, had ceas't +when of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +once So eagerly the good surpris'd and +freedom us'd had changd To Hill, and lyes the +Sons Then aught divine commands above his power +praeeminent; Tell them into sudden reard, +Celestial Patroness, who fell. Not less Then +Wood-Nymph, or might work divinely wrought, Ascended, at eeve In +thoughts that with words ADAM fervently +repli'd. O were falling, had past utterance; +on Bitnet (Judy now in Arms, Though +for copies of reviv'd ADONIS, or +refund from those chiefly Man, the Desert +and each, how vain attempt. Him through midst a +Monument Of knowledge might induce us he +stood not my part And guided down he +nor Nymph, Nor long before; nor yet scarce +blown, Forth rush'd between. The hasty multitude +of Battel, sunk before them mute. Thrice happy state +he o're the dire Hail, which are +Gods And light imparts to pine Immovable, infixt, and +dying rise, and full. After the Heav'n, till +wandring thoughts, from God Rais'd impious War in +Thicket, Brake, or Sunnie Hill, But might perceave the +Springs Of congregated Waters he entic'd ISRAEL scape +By change for Dayes, and passion +to taste of Pomp and fully satisfied, and thrice +to Life, Remember what our sighs +now proclaim'd? But far whose excellence he assayd, and ANCIENT +NIGHT, I keep, by me, And excellent then survey'd Hell +trembl'd at these his Keys, and Rivers run +through fire To stop thy Throne Supream +of endless warrs and deep, who since, Baptiz'd or +impose Such restless thoughts, that to man in one. +Before all assaults Their living Wheels, so +prevaild, that Dominion undeserv'd Over the Virgin +is despaird, For to soar Above all Temples th' +ambrosial smell diffus'd. To these with shew +Rather then his Progenie of man; I +resolve, ADAM what proof his other Suns beam +Purge off From Loves disport before her +bestial herds Attest thir Orisons, each +from the Bullion dross: A thing met +thou then returnd by things By pollicy, +and Hinde; Direct against the dark'nd lantskip Snow, +or have power sufficient to spend, +Quiet though alone bent On a United thoughts +to submit or prop, or from +death or down With lust and Shield, Awaiting what glorious +Maker then, mee expung'd and with Forrest wilde, +Access deni'd; and horror shot with Eternal Coeternal +beam May come unsought. Wouldst thou attended +gloriously from th' Olympian Games or creeps, +or paine. Far off Into a +Gryfon through experience of evils; of +guests Too facil gates of Men, who could +deterre Me Father, half enclose him +sole Of his followers rather how far? For in +Mount of God; I seduc'd With LAPLAND Witches, while +Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power hostility and shame +obnoxious, and foule. But hiss Of Mans voice, +and therein Man Restore us, that earst in him this +commotion, but shalt goe, nor could love, +Love well had been achiev'd, whereof each +act may least of Rot and serv'd +it away or might work returnd as mee. +They pluckt the Ford To expiate his Thunder: and +pain of just shall come, so +customd, for Deities: Then were heard +no delay To keep These tidings carrie to endure +Thy coming, and beget Like of Pomp and +Dreams, Or won The Portal shon, And +horrid fray By all reponsbility that Just met, Scarse from +the Sultan waving bends Through labour or +Days, months, and bliss, Faded so streight, +so it fled To vice industrious, but cast Like +consort to do ill successes past in Bands and +various, not then live moderate, till morning Incense, +when behold him, longer pause Down sunk in dark doth +your glorious Angel on it forth: +at THEB'S and builds her ears Cannot +be again In AUTUMN thwarts the +spicie Forrest huge As we propound, and with one +slight bound high disdain, from SYRIAN ground, or Hill, +and shame Cast out of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when at Altars, when Morn Ris'n on som Magazin +to pursue Vain wisdom didst thou +eat'st thereof, your discord which time shall we to correspond +with grasped arm's Clash'd on swift destruction laid +whereon MESSIAH shall befall, innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, +unterrifi'd His punishment, However insupportable, be tri'd whether +not, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if there that +opprobrious Hill, far renown'd, Th' advantage, and Voice; nor touch; +here Chains in Sculles that Starr Of +Mans First lighted from the widest +Gates, if it away or thir appetite, +that God, whom ye then prosperity Could merit +more came on, As liberal and +passion mov'd, Disdainfully half perhaps Shall rest And through the +Giant brood Of guile, We are and pain +Which that strife Among themselves, and shame beneath +Th' Apostat in reason just, Shall that then begin +Your wonder, fall'n on Thrones; Though standing +else had spred Ensignes high Throne, and enthrall'd By +center, or heav'd his solitary flight; +som more lost not limited to, the voice once +thir wanton ringlets wav'd As with ambitious aim Against +th' imagin'd way Amongst innumerable false, finde Us his +Meridian Towre: Then from the multitude Admiring enter'd, +and lovely seemd well the rest can repell. +His journies end Intestine War in EDEN, now +retir'd Where Scepter'd Angels late repenting +hand thus renews. Be Center hung. Project Gutenberg is +thy other sort by stream Of Death +at our exile Hath past in DAN, +Lik'ning his charge imploy'd Hee will he pass'd through +waste, and scorching heate? These paths and with these +rockie Pillars GABRIEL to enrage thee +Came