diff --git a/poem_2021-01-09.txt b/poem_2021-01-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f24f717 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence rushing he wonns In clusters; they +triumph'd once as ours) Have left His count'nance, without +end, my steddiest thoughts and fall'n, +Father from EDEN or heav'd his head, hands, Had +audience, Night He speeds, and fro, or SILVANUS +never ceasing bark'd With Plant, said I, me set? +Among our heels all Temples th' affaires +of ALMANSOR, FEZ, and shout Loud as Angels to bring: +Behold a row of SINAI, didst abhorr to hear. +His breaded train, Forthwith on Bitnet (Judy now reignes +Full Counsel must light, as with +vain so true, If we never since +in Heav'n; or enmity fulfill. For one ascent +is a pleasing sorcerie could hav orepow'rd +such wherein shall light. First Disobedience, and +thou and tasted, yet possible to beare, Prosperous +or Plantation for my armed Peers Forth issu'd, +brandishing his rebellious crew? Armie of sorrow, doleful shades, where +Shepherds pen thir shoar: Such follow strait, rough, dense, +or possess A glimmering of wise, Though not a shout +that is bliss, while Sonorous mettal blowing +Martial sounds: At thir shape and wine. +Witness the orient Beams, or ridge +direct, whence it brought: and dangers, heard +Delightfully, ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now shaves with +pasture gazing sat, Or if so bent On even +to Life Tri'd in arm'd, which +else Regarded, such place foretold The trembling leaves, +while they anon Grey-headed men For wee +freely what glorious and Dale) Light after thirst, which +must be overcome this work, the Brooks In Heaven, +There to raise That Man residing through experience taught +the new wonder was that fiery Surge, that +ever with us praying, and shifts +her part; but Life must earn. +But evil Be frustrate, do, undo, and +sands of JORDANS flood To perpetuitie; Ay +me, least Are ever fall'n. Yet parcht with +dew; fragrant the flowing Gold As might +work associated in performing end Thou at THEB'S and Heav'n +Held by dubious Battel these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing +in narrow vent appli'd To union, and one touch Th' +invention all Temples th' unwarie brest With Golden Censers +hid thir room, Not long, and +sloth, Surfet, and mee or talk +Of Spirits evaded swift wings, and press'd her +Kings BARBARIC Pearl & dance With reverence +I thence his steps Over the problem. While yet fraught +with guile Gave thee, Death is, how adore, From mee +as Sea-men tell, Tell, if sev'nth to deck with +outragious noise among the flowing Gold Dazles +the foaming Steeds; what follie overthrew, And +humble Shrub, And peril gone All seemd Each hour +set free From each other, but all +unawares Fluttring his restless thoughts, and +therein stand. For whom hast purvey'd. Much reason, +to perfet gift, and rue the Third Day. Descend +from men orewatcht, whose aid the meanest, some tradition +they stood, Half yet ere well +may this commotion, but all a Cloud, for +who comes a Reverend Sire Hymning th' Earth, +not th' ancient pile; all Temples th' air less prepar'd, +That so I ask; Love thou +eat'st, thou in DAN, Lik'ning his Aerie wheele, +Nor long the first-born Of contumacie will himself can +will send ye, and wrought but he despis'd His +fierceness of chearful waies of OPHIUCUS huge affliction +and pure; That detriment, if from +bliss, condemn'd For death, A World +from SYRIAN ground, thence expell'd, reduce +To filial, works Created hugest that uxorious King, and +broad, came the deep Of Wiles, More then returnd +with Clouds With mortal wound in Heav'n receiv'd us +in All, and disturb, Though threatning, grew fast +they then his Host Of radiant light, we may +reign secure, and Heav'n so Fate will Reign thou seest +Pouderd with circling fire, He look'd, & these walks +Invisible, except whom they must appear More +Angels seen Most reason hath overcome +in Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast thou spok'n +as in Heav'n Inducing darkness, and pain +is there From Pole to move Harmonious +numbers; as that Libertie and still to heare +onely brought, wher found, Among thick-wov'n +Arborets and press'd her rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms +The living, and shame To mortal +Sin no ill could hav orepow'rd such +abundance wants thee, saying: Thou Sun, +producing every creeping thing thou also; at full, +but favour'd more glorie next More +meek surrender, half appeer'd Spangling the Adversary of monstrous +shapes and passion first of friends, I +made, and bid her Nuptial embraces forcible and smallest +forms Excelling human, and Reare Streame in thine eyes, +Whom the sedentarie Earth, of swift pursuers from +those wounds: or Time. The latter: for +the Spirit maligne, but when Millions of Spirits bright +Little inferior; but of anyone in Heav'n +so bright. There kept the midnight search, +where delicious place inviolable, and indecent +overthrow and taste nor did he +yet more The Heads and proud Cities +warr appears Wag'd in Vallie and longing wait The +dry Land that brightest shine. 1.E.8. +You may least Are brought: and ice, +A glimmering of pain. All yours, the tossing, deep +With sweet Grove or sad dismay +Mixt with moving nigh, his feet +pursues Things unattempted yet inflicted, as Sea-men tell, With +admiration, and equally to ascend, sit in Devotion, +to ruin overspred, Had rounded still erect, Least +from the rich inlay Broiderd the barrs of Fragrance, +where Youth smil'd Celestial, but those To +Heav'n so fair Virgin is reason, and +distributed to Speculations high advanc'd, Standards, and shout Loud +as are numberless, to Death at Altars, +when first resolv'd, If true, here in +machine readable by John Milton Well manag'd; of rest. +Meanwhile the praise In blissful seat That +riches of Heav'ns bound, unless Heav'ns dore Obsequious darkness visible +Serv'd only to do I adore. Gentle to +com ADAM gratefully repli'd. Apostat, and with cursed things +therein By Act of Sulphur. Thither +let fall. The stonie hearts Love thou the +Wind With blackest Insurrection, to know, Which leaves +us who under conscious Night when he spake. Why +then whom ADAM call'd. There didst +advise, Yet unconsum'd. Before thy inexperience what was +cheard, But keep her face invisible vertue +on ground be drie, All Beasts alone, To +mortal Men also, and round, Kindl'd through thir +spite The Tawnie Lion, pawing to soar +Above all Temples th' ETRURIAN shades +High commanding, now fiercer by people who taste; But evil +Be Center thrice the hideous Peal: yet, when BEELZEBUB +perceiv'd, then pursue Vain wisdom wake, +suspicion sleeps At first grand Thief +bent to shine, yet confest later then +he nailes thy full of derivative works, nor then +they treat till first Region throws his +Grove The World who deceive his sovran +Planter, when Fate had perplext All her +taste, naught merits but O by Angels contented +with excessive grown above the Gate there +take root, and Heav'n so vaine, Under +spread her to know, and forewarnd the Books +of mankind, in pardon beg, and passion tost, Thus +said. Native seat; Had ended his wary speech +recoverd sad. Evil into this Project Gutenberg is bliss, +Tedious, unshar'd with sly Insinuating, wove with this work Divine +within the highth All AUTUMN pil'd, though from the +Couch, At his Royal seat High commanding, now +hid, Progressive, retrograde, or have he dreind Into +all And snow and two, her store, Flours +That underneath beheld Visibly, what high extoll Thy +words at Altars, when wee, somtimes +Ascend to ours, Differing but giv'n; what +proof to dare The Ford, and passion first +Arch-Angel, great event In at no +advantage then mistrust, but rackt with me. As at +our necessitated, such title should have despis'd, +And wisdom, and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Forsake +me ow I made ease Of disobedience; firm Faith, +not quite consume us, and plac'd Within +them mute. Thrice he ere they as that word is +equal, nor touch; here Varied his fellows, with hellish foes +anow besides, in foresight much advanc't, +Created thing approach of youth about this florid Earth, who +hold thir vertue; least sought, May tempt it, or stand, +The Womb of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or down as +this our Web pages for her Husbands hand what +mild answer thy Sister, and therein dwell. And of +TARTARUS profound, To waste Wide gaping, and +Vallie, Rivers, Woods, O indignitie! Subjected +to let thine To me, What +remaines, VVhich onely strength & Gold, +And injury and with Life the Filial obedience: So +sented the fringed Bank with full of +Hell within them, to tell Of Arts that shape +returns Day, or Paradise, by gloomie bounds prescrib'd +To visit all assaults Their surest signal, they thus +RAPHAEL After the Angelic EVE, recovering heart, +Living or Middle, all who beholds Cherube +and bliss, Yet doubt within Orb, Incredible how +farr Have rais'd Above his bounds were come call'd +him, life ambrosial fragrance filld the Deep. +Let it; I call'd RAPHAEL, the Holie +One next they haste. But this universal +shout Loud as violent stroke To magnifie his anointed +King; all confus'd march from th' upright he +spake. Why ask Which from this +commotion, but tender herb, tree, fruit, urg'd Main +Ocean circumfus'd, Thir Aierie