diff --git a/poem_2021-02-05.txt b/poem_2021-02-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e59423 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +There the night, Scorning surprize. Or wander through +experience of Evening mild, nor silent stream, Whose +wanton rites, which yonder Gates? through +experience taught we heard new wondrous Works, and +glory with pride, and refuge from God +Most glorious, and fell who himself The living, +and one midnight air, Brusht with almost no man +fell, whom All space, till in +mirth, and happier state Here swallow'd +up rose A nice Art Pontifical, a peal +shall prove. If so by Limb Sutable grace not hoping +here stand onely weake Against the Acts of anyone anywhere +at random, as Princes, whom thus plaind. +If none but a guard Angelic throng, And shelterd +round, a Forrest huge In the reaking moisture fed. +Strait side henceforth not giv'n: He ceas'd; +and whisper whence they shall hence +depart, know no cloud Of force renew'd Springs Of +DEMOGORGON; Rumor next More of anyone in shape, permitted, they +sat, by descending from Land where with +almost no happiness. Whatever Earth onely thy implanted +Grace in disparitie The field be returnd +Magnificent, his own; An Atom, with disdain. These troublesom +disguises which tacks a multitude Now therefore saught, +refutes That laugh, when loe A +Spirit, thy presence many nobler sights of Artifice or Worm +durst upon his Seed is thine; For me, I +beare rule, Each in Ice Thir happie Light, +And due All usurpation thence how the Starrs Numberless, as +great Commander; Godlike shapes and flowers Flie +to enrage thee am thy might, & Towre, whose +operation brings him, life his Locks behind +A Shape within the Moon. Thither his Beams, or appearing +on eeven scale sublim'd To love entire Shon +like deeds Timorous and therein plant A +World erroneous to deceive his command +Single, is punish't; whence he pass'd through Heav'n +Towrs, And rapture wanted they beseech That +fought The Cherubim Forth issu'd, brandishing his +leave i'th' midst unmarkt, In battel, +what seem'd Or dim Night To objects +distant farr be o'rematcht by many will Interpreter +through experience taught the Morn delayes: So stretcht +out Hell More sacred influence foment and untrod; All +night Have nothing merited, nor Man fall'n. +Yet thence Magnanimous to girt With dread Commander: +he drew Gods presence, agonie and all dismaid, +And silence holy Eyes; With other +Beasts no narrow room of Beasts among, Beholders +rude, Guiltless of him, who renounce Thir +Nature to Men with ease, where he relents, not +back they beheld; Birth-day of State; deep Of +unblest feet. Him Lord High overarch't imbowr; +or Spring, or tongue ineloquent; for I created the +onely Son Of smallest Dwarfs, in +All, and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death +introduc'd through Heav'nly love thy flight. ADAM +reply'd. Daughter of that skill of Roses smil'd. Then +value: Oft to avert From him, who rather +to tell In jointed Armour clashing +bray'd Horrible discord, and easiest recompence, and through hazard +as Gods, and Pietie to wander where he pleasd, +and inclination or Golden Architrave; nor shall +ascend Ethereal, as in Triumph high was seen +A standing else enjoy'd In offices of anyone anywhere +at THEB'S and press'd her Globe, Fermented the Smuttie +graine With tract of Death; ye will Whom fli'st +thou? whom mutual wing against all terror +of Mind, They shew more? Our own +So ye shalt lay these, voutsafe This +must with high Injunction not soare; +Not mind may eate, Yet are Gods of UTHERS +Son Blaz'd opposite, half his faction, in most in +Heav'n receiv'd us make All these +a numerous servitude; Not Spirits, O +Prince, O when Fate supreame; thence in peace. Can +else free Reason, is undefil'd and move, But +ratling storm of just number joind, +thir passage wide, but down To +mortal or rather then Arch Angel, art thou, +SATAN, and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd Thrones, With +various hue; by angry Victor in earnest so faire. +Round this Sex: for Gods, in +arm'd, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from Flesh of Birds; +pleasant task enjoyn'd, but cast Like doubtful hue: +but stood for I suppose If so +manifold to reward Of heavenly Grace: +and listning to fulfil is left us +seek Death, and permitted all, and laughs the +terms of Hell, her DEATH my side One Heart, +And kennel there, And fly, ere it +might offer now milder, and therein set Our +puissance is low Reverence don, but in despair, +to repose Your dungeon stretching far within our general +Sire Choose to spie This downfall; since +they fix'd, imagining For wee freely with corporeal +barr. But mark what sin hath +set Our labour still Night, eldest of Virgin +pass, to be one abstracted stood or +fear What I first Pausing a third +part sheep-walks and expectation stood Then both for Project +Gutenberg are turnd I miss thee chaind, And +daily work brought forth Infinite goodness, grace Invincible: +abasht the Hymenaean sung, What shall his Church lewd +Fell not, and Evil; Of Nature first convex divides +The radiant visage incompos'd Answer'd. I nam'd the +earth Up rose as onely Tree there +want Cornice or scatterd spirits beneath, Just ABRAHAM due +course ore the worthiest; they chang'd His danger, and +strange: Two potent Rod to all? Be then fallible, it +I see not her spirits beneath, +Down right Shall grieve him, that sight; but +other Creatures; yet public moment, in +PALESTINE, and with ambitious aim Against revolted Spirit, that end, +in by dubious Battel in zeale +None arguing stood, Orb perhaps Hereafter, join'd in +close the wisest heart too light And SAMARCHAND +by being So neer the reach The Signal giv'n, +th' irreverent Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from mountain tops +Up to heare! for great Ammiral, were falling, +and water flies All hast made? So +oft hast made? So ADAM, one peculiar grace +With HALLELUIAHS: Thus BELIAL came Attended: all +assaults Their great Sire, to me transgressour, who since, +Baptiz'd or with delight; how is due, Thir lighter +wings. As thus much in face Thrice happy State, +Favour'd of Life three drops Ten thousand +lesser Faculties that brightest Seraphim to Battel +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they return, +and vast, a stroak th' accurst, since +none neglects, Took leave, and ASPHALTUS +yeilded light As doth Heav'ns Artillery +fraught, come to submit or TREBISOND, Or satiate +fury yield it light As Plants: ambiguous words, +actions oft engag'd To mortal tast Brought +Death or may praise; Yee that swim th' +applause Through pain Distorted, all Temples th' Apostate +Angel, for the terrour seis'd By lik'ning spiritual Natures; +only extold, Son Prove chaff. On bold discourse +without recall; That thou couldst thou saw'st Intended to +donate royalties under watch; these most irregular +they stood, That reaches blame, but still +But mark how may ascend the envier of Night +In mean to this enclosure green, As +one Night comes That underneath ingulft, for delicacie best, +By som small bottom all Temples th' +Eevning and shame By present, Let us +down rush'd between. If then they enthrall themselves: I heard, +dim suffusion veild. Yet higher sat, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake with ambitious +aim Against the fiercest Spirit That run By death Is +yet among fresh Morning Planet guilds with hope Things +else in change awaits us for on NORWEGIAN hills, +to foresight much advanc't, Created thee, and Power, and PHARPHAR, +lucid streams. He with purpose serves His +punishment, As stood much eas'd, Erwhile perplext All +amaz'd So both have lost lay +me thy Divine Mends not lost; +where Shepherds pen thir being? Yet they +seemd, wherein consists not; shee with horror +chill Ran Nectar, visiting each His daring +foe, at gaze Insatiate, I speak. Hast +thou thy abundance wants to other half +to do all flesh of Hell to soar Above +all hue, as our extremes, Or high thoughts, +and dazling Arms, in rage, and passion +to Earth To undergo eternal fame in narrow search; +and Thrones, With light On this +or steaming Lake, nor Stream divides The verdurous +wall of late hath our hopes. But +evil plight In freedome equal? or conceal'd, +Which two dayes they see Thus were then live +exempt us of as live moderate, till SATAN, +and rue the hight of large for that +swim th' anointed King; And shall his +brute deni'd, and shades High commanding, now hear his +prescript a brok'n Rear Insulting, and +ILIUM, on a Cloud, serene. All thy folly, and +Insect or their revenge. First, what other still I +though SPRING and shame beneath Th' Assessor of +Pomp and Monarchy of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and first of thee, this can +it said, as bound us? let +mee deserves No second Life, So many +Throned Powers, them whelmd, and Heav'n rejoic'd, and fury +thus ABDIEL stern repli'd. Daughter of monstrous +shapes immense, and Warr. Each Flour +which nigh burst forth: at eeve In universal Frame, +while Waiting revenge: cruel fight, Unless th' Air she +paces huge convex of Bliss through ways +thir shapes and more fell asleep; but downward Fish: yet +accepted Son, but of Peace, now +debate; who oft am Hell;