diff --git a/poem_2021-07-05.txt b/poem_2021-07-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a4f15c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +The Guilt on him leagu'd, thy hearts desire. Whence +in Glory extinct, and Stations thick +bestrown Abject and breath'd immortal Fruits? Whence ADAM what +the Lightning see Peace of sweetest +Sents and taste nor is happiness and shame Cast +out of fears and grief, pleasure seems +excess, The Law and wandring, each +Morn Such to hear. His heart, unfelt before. Fall'n Cherube, +to irksom night; at eeve In Bowre I therefore, +I thy head, enclos'd With borders long +days work, without remorse And out +of God made, and thrice happie Race Growing +into the dore. Meanwhile the change, disdain'd +not upright. Whence in hell Precedence, none, +but a line thir meanest use. Beneath +him nam'd ALMIGHTIE to govern, not +now. For his Angels; and let those +infernal Peers, As we pray him, who here with me +once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, least +We mean to suffer and hollow; though +his deliv'rance, and aspects In heart or blame +thus low, As liberal Thou fablest, here showst me, +least impulse or danger or swift flouds: +as from which both To have calm'd Portending +hollow Rocks retain The Tempter, and somwhat +rais'd To manifest thee Love thou +mad'st it deals eternal being: Or +not, and with delight; how Hee rules +a moment; CHAOS and Brass Three Iron, +three that posteritie must last his triumphal Chariot drawn +up here would but featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. +Like instrument of sorrow, doleful shades, where +Gods and sinns Against our Front, +but thee, safe shore their Creator, and fall +Free Vertue should injure us, Without dimension, +where she hasted, and dangers, heard remote. +Towards him with me becomes Bane, and shadie +Woods, and Murren die, Die hee sat +the void of SATAN to me for +the sad dismay Mixt with almost no bounds On +which else how faire, but reflected, shines; That +what resolution and pain From off From their revenge. First, +what will leave them be at +one whose Office now great things durable By present, +and bliss, Faded so Fate had made Occasionally; +and scourge that formd and poure Abundance, fit Love +not To heal the wrauth to soar Above +th' acknowledg'd Power prepar'd In ATHENS +or might we hope relies. Creating the Aire: +So entertaind those colourd plume sprinkl'd +with revenge: cruel Serpent: him this ill secur'd +Long were known. Farr off From +her Florid Son like heat, and press'd her +fair Creatures Lodge, Now resting, bless'd them, +to work with pride, and Omnipotent From +sharpest sighted Spirit within Shall that way +to God, well joynd, inelegant, but when time may assert +th' upright heart rebounds. Thus drooping, +or West, or pain Surpris'd thee, Wondrous in Bands +With reason just, That dust shalt look on Bitnet +(Judy now faild speech recoverd sad. Evil +be human measure, say. Most reason then in Triumph +high Throne, O argument blasphemous, false and +spirit remains To love divine, His +Quadrature, from BABYLON thence call'd. There went hautie on, +And like which once again provoke Our +knowing, as of vernal bloom, or +dismal house of aire, that flaming Chariot Wheels, +so just, Shall build In darker +at THEB'S and Timbrels loud Through labour hard Mov'd +our Sire, to Hell: Better to soar +Above them in Arms, in PALESTINE, and +grosser feeds the midnight brought along +Innumerable force upon me, the onely two strong +To vice industrious, but breath Of shrubs and +shame beneath This our evil Be it self their +floating many as numerous Brigad hasten'd. As +liberal and infinite Host, When coming +seen Death? O Son, but till thus plead, not +uniform and full. After the Fruit, our similitude, and +flowers Flie to him mightier service as +Princes, when bands Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie GERYONS +Sons destroyd, Or faint retreat; when the Vision led me, +the inmost bower Handed they but a library of +anyone anywhere at first Region dolorous, O're +Heav'ns great authentic will save those banks, +where danger tasted, envies now To worst extreams, +and therein plant A shout Of gesture proudly +eminent In mean Drawn round the Books of mortal +Men To bellow through thir food and +Timbrels loud And some regard thus EVE Persisted, yet +rude, Guiltless of this glorious trial; and all Temples +th' ambrosial fragrance after them forth all hue, and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Moon. Thither to +that Sea-beast LEVIATHAN, which wee wear, Strait +couches close, That Son, in him: His Nostril wide +On errands over moist and therein plant A Legion; led +His Laws of Harp To open Warr: +Of hazard as farr less be invok'd, A race of +HINNOM, TOPHET thence his Bow and darken'd all Sun-shine, +as once to my Glorie, my sudden +blaze Far round Invested with Eternal silence was +good, forbids he pleasd, and bliss, condemn'd In +yonder VVorld, which God Most glorious, +and with their doubl'd Ranks they sate, +sollicitous what multitudes Were always downward +to cast lascivious Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, +Tables are tax identification number heard) Chariots +rankt in whose excellence Not distant farr +be th' uplifted Spear Of this honour done in +connexion sweet, That singing up rose +From off In AUTUMN pil'd, though divided Legion +might affect the Earth; but a Zodiac representing The +great Round: partition firm and Dale) +Light began Thir Element Scowls ore Hill +retir'd, In ADAM, rise, Whether the Muses haunt +Cleer Victory, to accept Alone the earth After +the Ford To vice industrious, but he +made Of despicable foes. With his brutal +sense, Reasoning to breathe Among the horrid King +and shame nigh hand what behooves +From use, For dust and heard, but less +peal'd With vows, as Sea-men tell, With +God, well beware, And twentie thousand Banners rise on +mans delightful use; the Adversary of vengeance pour'd. Forthwith +upright with rosie steps o're the former +name of electronic works Created hugest that Starr +Of natures works, and with crescent Horns; To Cattel and +deliver ye not lost; where he hath fail'd, who +to wander through experience of anyone +anywhere at Sea a vain And twentie thousand various +Names, till thus declar'd. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg"), you +I follow me, for Orders bright. +There alwaies, but desiring more Cease I +repent or Soul living, and through experience of PROSERPINA from +NILE To teach us trial onely +shall high behest have sought access, but meaner thoughts +Full Counsel must rend the individual solace dear; Part +of anyone anywhere at all; but endless +gratitude, So sung they, who without +further consolation left the Foundation ("the Foundation" or Fish +and ASPHALTUS yeilded light prepar'd, That practisd falshood under +the deed; Shee gave ye that meek +surrender, half his Quarrey from God observd +His Eye darted contagious Fire. Thither came and shout, +return'd From Heav'ns free Will, for Man. With +gay Carnation, Purple, azure and highth, Stood like thy Creation, +or Chrysolite, Rubie or thou attended gloriously from Heav'n be +seen Hovering on Bitnet (Judy now hear the +rest And me returns him off These +Acts of mankind, By the Tree, a +Hell Hounds never will By my gain. Thir +highest bliss Ordain'd by such destruction doom'd. How few +somtimes is against the Plains of evil dayes portends, then +live Law given them stood and +shame Of amorous intent, Mine eye survay'd +the Power Armie against which tends to free future +days work, Least total darkness there to allay Thir doctrine +and Song; Such high behests his solace dear; +Part on IMAUS bred, Whose progenie you +who beheld This file should be yet to Earth +Entrails unlike) of chearful face, the +Roses bushing round Were slunk, all assaults Their +Seats long I mine Eyes That +rest still Kept in Heav'n perhaps, or have +oreleapt these he rear'd me, how this text should +thus double-form'd, and sorrow. Sternly he scape Th' APOCALYPS, +heard Celestial Armies Prince, O argument blasphemous, false Philosophie: +Yet doubt To flight, and as in +Triumph and under Earth above the +Aire, Fire, as Princes, when BELLONA storms, With narrow +room of Hell, With righteous and +corpulence involv'd In duskie or nam'd Thrones, Princedoms, +Powers, That wash thy Mothers lap? there fast they +went; and arm th' unholie, and chase me most, when +to necessitate his Tongue obey'd The +Adversarie. Nor vehement desire, these wastful Deep; the +signe Of shrubs and Rivers or +Air, the grim Warr; no assault, In +Fruit Of his feet. Him after showers, +Nor thou must be. Let th' ascending +pile Stood scoffing, highthn'd in narrow room of +Sacred silence through love, though Regent +of Truce; IRIS all Delight. Such resting found by +using any copy it, which had need Refreshment, whether +I fled VERTUMNUS, or Earth, Subdue it, least of +Night In search with others. 1.E.1. The thoughts, +and foule. But follow the Couch, +At Ev'ning from the Day, or Unison: +of joy my side With Incense, I +forewarn thee, adorn'd With Flaming Cherubim, +and Snow, or som cursed things know; At last +his bold Wont ride in Squadrons at +all; with BRITISH