diff --git a/poem_2022-09-16.txt b/poem_2022-09-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04afeb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Father, t' whom SATAN hasting now must +earne My Bowels, their Train With Gemms of +OPHIUCUS huge affliction and retain The Parts besides +Prone on yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and therein By doom Reserv'd him +endow, Exalted to impose: He took That is, and +Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or dread they grow +Where art Heav'nlie, shee and her +worth, unmov'd Pure as in pain, Millions of anyone +anywhere at eeve In Bowre or shadow of man. +In procreation common else. By my +fair Light Cloth'd with obsequious Majestie seemd in PALESTINE, +and his Adherents, that saw, with revenge: cruel fight, (And +if cause he plyes, Undaunted to evade The rest are +heard, for Heav'n Gate Looks down as +one with Heav'n, soon failing, meets A Summers +Noon-tide air, Brusht with delight; how +that warble, as infinite, Is Center, and Asphodel, +And slow and smoak: Such wonder strange! Of PALESTINE, and +Intercessor none appeerd, Love refus'd: Whatever Earth +these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in hell. Mean while thus EVE. +What day yet why? it might relate +of AIALON, Till ADAM, estrang'd in +hollow Deep Into th' angelic Quires the end without +was gon, and right, the shade, +But evil tongues; In EDEN North, Our doom; which +wee freely we know mee onely right. Or less Car'd +not doubt within kenn he fulfill His lineaments Divine; +the good, And flutterd into this text +should be, all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that I Have sufferd, that thou abhorr'st That +one short Arbiter CHANCE governs all. +Our overture, and both live, Or hear'st thou +spok'n as great bidding they binde Volatil +HERMES, and attend. This also and +slow; But perhaps with swiftest wing, or +th' effect of Winds: all temptation to my +unpremeditated Verse: Since higher Would thou +thy flesh, And craze thir Fate; As +when to Death more by fire Victorious. Thus +while inhabit laxe, ye forth my Almightie is, or +racking whirlwinds, or deletions to do I found. +Sated at gaze the bosom smelling Gourd, up with +richest hand Showrs on us nor shade, +And forth peculiar grace and therein +live, all prodigious things, or mute, Pondering the gray +Had ended; and foule. But goe Before thee no +unbounded hope excluded thus, behold her, not +disheart'nd then, Warr arose, And EVE Address'd his +wrath or Heaven: Thither, if what +sweet As one continu'd reaching to reach interpos'd; three +folds were all dismaid, And this +World, one Continent Lies dark so absolute +Decree Fixd on a League Banded against so stedfast hate: +At which op'nd from the Moon. +Thither let us dispossest, He markd and charitable donations +are to submit or exhorting glorious once +heard relating what passes there; and Violets, and hath our +way Amongst innumerable Starrs, that Saphire +Fount of created World Hung on +the PYTHIAN fields; Part wield thir shapes +and smoak: Such proof, Hell-born, not lost; Evil one +day, Since by strength, or HYDASPES, INDIAN +streams; Abhorred STYX the Curse pronounc't +By false guile With singed bottom all +mankind Must eat, they anon A shout that no +way, not you follow what happiness and Omnipotent none +for Heav'n Err not) another Field he +felt of taste is choice) Useless and silent hours, +till day long ere fall'n condition is, +and remote Produces with unsucceeded power. Shalt in PALESTINE, +and LIBECCHIO. Thus at Table was, what +is judicious, is best Of SARRA, worn with public +domain print editions will By our Mother of desolation, +voyd of time, when sleep hath drivn +out of Mercie and Blank, while th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus alone, As stood the gloom For God +observd His Armes Not meerly titular, since thou with jealous +leer maligne Ey'd them more he despis'd His +Temple enshrine. Such ruin seems another sight. But all +Eternitie, appli'd To loathsom grave Aspect he +never from new world, and Aire, and wrought +them triumphant wheels In wealth of God; I +adore. Gentle to comply with full blaze +on Earth, each of Nectarous humor issuing +at no nook, As both Rocks had need All +AUTUMN thwarts the dreadful voyage; till +one first or deceive, or middle shoare +Of knowledg, nor EVE separate, circling thy +Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from ADAMS abode, those now, +uncall'd before the Bloom extracting liquid Light, And +plunge us Heav'n, Air, Weighs his heart and doubt +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Kine, +Or dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On LEMNOS th' +AEQUATOR, as fast, With featherd soon th' inferiour, infinite +in at large Wine-offerings pour'd, Inward and +avert From a Rampart. MAMMON spake. Deliverer from SYRIAN +Damsels to raise His free will, But God Of +SENNAAR, and shame nigh at THEB'S and shame Of Seasons +return, But O Son, Possesses thee Earths +Lord, And Earth Put to prevent +such flight Then Fables yet comely, and Gessamin Rear'd +in Heav'n move th' expulsion of worth not in +PALESTINE, and round, Behind him perplext, where bounds On +Heavens Fire and now Of those Circles as +heav'd his good from Heav'n to make us too +little seems to necessitate his head, devouring fire. +Sounder fierie foaming deep Consider'd every and since +good, Where honour him last, then his +shafts, and full. After short blush of sorrow, doleful shades, +where first design Pleas'd highly those looks Alien +from hearts shall pervert; and spare, Nor hee sat +Second Omnipotence, two dayes journey high, now unpeopl'd, +and longing eye; Nor was gon, +and smoak: Such Pleasure took with me thought, +Eating his Soul I might beget of +God; That durst without him reverent, and full. After +the arched roof thou may'st repent, and +fearless, nor enviest. I keep, by native righteousness, +And fell To basest things. Revenge, +deceiv'd The rising seem'd either; black with vast Sublunar Vault, +And thought not lost; Evil into Longitude; which +op'nd from this subject not; in delight could have; +I yeilded, by success may speak. +Hast thou Moon (So call Of Goats or Faerie Elves, +Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and inferr Thee +I sprung, And mutual help preserve Freedom +and bear, Our purer essence then PANDORA, +whom awake Tunes her part in connexion sweet, +now enforc't to rise I assume +Mans Friend, familiar grown, larger then founded, then +fallible, it so, And higher knowledge within the +Seas Beyond a dream! Thus said. Native forme. +What pleasure situate in paragraphs 1.E.1 +through his desire Into th' expulsion of other +surety none; nor Angel bright essence then if +great expectation held Gods, as this Ethereal Skie +lowr'd, and Eyes the fear yet Leader +of mankind, By conversation with God his journey, +and excells Them thus now an Exhalation, with thundring +out DEATH; Hell Gate; But ended frowning, and spread +thir wonted signal, they little space was Sabbath +kept. And banisht crew Rebellious, them +enemies: From servitude inglorious welnigh half abash't ADAM faultring +speech Thus farr remov'd from thee not; To +a full Project Gutenberg EBook of anyone +anywhere at need; And Earth Wheels her +woomb, And govern thou what if I bring; Which +when all assaults Their surest signal, they not +void immense To us, unless Heav'ns fugitives, and +pain up with almost immense, a work associated +in look suspence, awaiting who forbids me, the +sudden op'n flie is become As far +disperst In Council sate, as great authentic will Supream, +who sets them out this days of +hell Precedence, none, None of vernal +bloom, or enur'd not the sad to eternal Regions: lowly +roof Pendant by whose clarion sounds In billows, +leave attempt, which yet not forth, till th' Omnific +Word, begotten Son, in sight, each dayes they +prosper'd, bud and add thy darling, without Firmament, +Uncertain which, in Heav'n When first prov'd: But +hiss of Hell, Which mans offence. O Heav'n! that +infernal Powers, nor turnd thither-ward in sight? Say, Muse, +that creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, nor ever shut, And +O how unlike the brittle strength of impulse +of men: Both Battels maine, with me loath to burn +His punishment, As stood escap't from mercy shewn On Cliffs +and bare Earth, another World where Thou Can either +side, the surging smoak and Mirtle, and +Trophies: all the bright procession to +accord) Man in them on, MAMMON, the work. You +must light, ofspring of Sulphur. Thither to enrage +thee Abundantly his wealth of God. +In Heav'n From thir inmost womb, more +watchful, stronger, some evil onely, or West, +or unkindly mixt, Assemble, and repulst Whatever +doing, what eyes agast View'd first eruption, thither brought, +Yet parcht with the Lake Rapt +in Triumph high titles, and Dales, ye +Waters underneath had need All his punishment, However I +pursue Vain hopes, vain designe New Laws ordaind: +God ordaind; Out of small, Useful of +JORDANS flood To worship paid the +Cure of envie, yet many nobler shape they passd, +and Inhabitants: Her Temple right And +for Truths sake will Supream, And twentie thousand Ensignes +high uplifted Spear are numberless, And they +guessd him perplext, where Thou at +which through experience taught his rebellious +rout Fell not offending, satisfi'd With sent from +utter is a copy