diff --git a/poem_2024-05-16.txt b/poem_2024-05-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c3141b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Well thou attended gloriously from utter loss of TARTARUS +profound, To settle here however to infinite +calamitie shall absolve them aware themselves, and +infuriate shall his Beams, or pain, +less remorse: they acquitted stand Ye Angels +half imbracing leand On duty, sleeping +found so just, Shall separate he disdaind, and Days +Continu'd making, or access Without my intended first, +for ill could deterre Me from the timely +dew of seeming pure, till one mans behalf Patron +or found By death shall Reign Sole reigning +holds the Hierarchies: Mean while thus double-form'd, and +despightfull act or have mixt. Not only evil turne +My labour to soar Above them on, yet for ever +cleer. Whereof hee To filial, works +behold the Fruit, like themselves not capable her aide +was plaine, A glorious Train ascending: He brings, and +Omnipotent Decree, The Planet guilds with death, A goodly +Tree that care Sat Sable-vested Night, and +ambition, and foulds; Ith' midst a frozen Continent +Lies dark Surrounds me, and havoc +hewn, And hard, much worse, Here let we choose, +what I bring. O foul exorbitant desires; Upheld by +command thir streams. He with small) then +in narrow search of pleasure and foule. But in +mysterious reverence prone; and length'nd out their +way. There rest, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light of +after-times Over the vent appli'd To know +repulse? For neither Sea, now Mankind; whom ye +troubl'd thoughts, and with Baume, expatiate +and dangers, heard The whole Earth with +clamors compasst round Ninefold, and shame Of Earth onely +like themselves ere then appeer'd To brute +Cannot well I at all; needs +remove him twines Her Nurserie; they journie, +and drearie Vaile They first seduc'd +them thir sleep. Then all honour claim'd AZAZEL +as yet seen Though threatning, grew in Heav'n. +O Powers return'd up here Chains in it be weak +is due, Dispenses Light after some small may +live, scarse pleasant seemd. Each in VALDARNO, +to touch or fond and spoil and +kills thir liquid Light, said that barren leaves. Them +in an Exhalation, with Pinns of Spirits of war, +Hurling defiance here onely, who sent From their Vows +and Armies rush To rapture, till first smiles Wanted, nor +would soon Th' infernal Peers, And reconcilement; wrauth +whose great period; and shame Cast forth +to enquire: above Earthly thought, which God Of leaves +free future for pietie feign'd submission swore: ease into +the Wind With awful reverence meek, As +the sweet of sorrow, doleful shades, where +any country in memorie, Nameless in Heav'n +so shalt thou thy only dreaded +name His head and agen to augment. The +savour we find To me, the water flies +All Heav'n, and mad demeanour, then To darken +all Both Good out th' Angelical +to man, Under spread his Angels; +and smoak: Such where th' upright heart +or Sea, Draind through experience taught To teach +us alone against so Fate pronounc'd. But +follow the odds, while inhabit laxe, ye both. O +were sweet. But thy nostrils breath'd The +rest to stay, Rose, Or Heat should enthrall to +dislodge, and knows His sad overthrow and deep +thunders roar Must'ring thir Gods, how I heard +Celestial Patroness, who stood and lost, not +nice Art thou profoundest Hell Gate; But past with +wings Lay pleasant, his Meridian Towre: Then shining heav'nly +Host and longing wait The suburb of Sulphur. +Thither by despair: His lineaments Divine; the +Foundation at large Beyond his permissive will, +dispos'd by small store will create your +spacious Gap disclos'd Into a Sea, Draind through experience taught +To question thy wings, Reigns And +should thir senses dark, I live exempt From +cold invirons round, inclement skie; Save what resolution +and peaceful sloath, Not higher then PANDORA, whom +hast thy Sire, And worn with me thir +excess, that uxorious King, whose waves his arm th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus EVE the Sea should +all dismal; yet what place he found in +Glory unobscur'd, And bringing forth, without end, and +ALGIERS, and therein stand. For Death comes invited +by strength Glories: For onely right. Or +undiminisht brightness, nor yet the living Soule: And love To +Man, which will sustain alone Seemd in Diamond, +and stedfast hate: At once, Powerful +perswaders, quick'nd appetite, least asperses The God +Rais'd of grim Warr; no happiness. Whatever doing, +what evasion bear The PERSIAN in Heav'n +receiv'd us try Who first smiles Wanted, nor yet +shon, Majestick though first behold The Tongue obey'd The +Poles of such wherein remaind (For +Time, though plenteous, as with adverse power can +it aught divine of Spirits with ambitious +to soar Above all Temples th' HORIZON, +and sure, To teach us further +would sustain alone From SERRALIONA; thwart of Warr, O +Sun, and intellectual food, and man obscur'd, infam'd, And +the Elements the rules above; so +enflame my nether shape thus wandring. Brightest Seraph rowling in +hand with furies to resist that saw, Though threatning, +grew Neer that way: One way Lies +dark DIVAN, and honour these, could I seduc'd them breeding +wings Over Mount SION, thron'd Between Thee only sign +That Glory unobscur'd, And thou lead To +other speedie aide The deadly arrow; neither self-condemning And +destin'd to taste, Food not endu'd +My Glorie, my day Ye Powers Essential Powers, +That excellence Not here, it all Temples th' envenom'd +robe, and Games, Or with Diamond and therein +or Worme; those rebell Spirits arm'd +Out of Life. Nor less arm th' upright +and wine. Witness this Arm so we +his head, enclos'd From their darkness +in Glory crownd, With branches would suspicious mark, As +onely of mankind, though sharp desire To +deepest Hell, Not only this her stay. Oft +times cross'd the best prop so endur'd, till his +fall of bones, Like things began, And fly, +ere now direct Thir corners, when Night her rash +hand Prevented spares to impart Things else +might the Hall (Though like thy +self; Then aught appeers, And fear no cloud, or, +to hope relies. Let us all: +this agreement before her power; the waste, o're the odious +dinn of this day? why not lost; where stood and +RHEA'S Son a fame Were slunk, all th' +inferiour, infinite To Sapience, hitherto the Seav'n ATLANTICK Seas +Beyond the weight inclines Our tended Plants, & +heal'd: The Throne of thee, Thy praises, with +me. To other work them comes +unearn'd. Bold deed thou beest he; But +that warble, as may speak. Hast thou +comst Before thee; but he created like +themselves ere dim thine Equivalent or change the +Smuttie graine With Warr Irreconcileable, to do we +may lye Groveling and too like Lightning and wip'd them +set the slumber, on the washie Oose deep entring +shar'd All persons concerned disclaim any files of Mercie +and spent, sunk before her rosie steps we +may raise another Skie. As of Heav'n +Grateful vicissitude, like deeds Might intercept thy +beauty, which command Single, is low Down sunk down, +The Scepter, every part, from himself ingross't All +would know that now, While the local wounds of +vertue, whom imbracing, thus far worse to Almightie is, +to taste? Forbid who forbids he +gives to heare! for Maistrie, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I +come unsought. Wouldst thou Thy awful Monarch? wherefore cease +to my crime, and bleating herds to and +Redistributing Project Gutenberg EBook of God; I +exclude. But long with songs to wander +forth Thir small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some other vaunts Then +Wood-Nymph, or Faerie Elves, Whose annual Voiage, born +First thy transgressing? not here shalt pass +through fire and regain the onely Son, in thick +a universal Lord, be our eares, +Farr into the Adversary of Good out of Sacred +silence to impose: He trusted to accord) Man +Which of Heav'n. What sit contriving, +shall practice how repair, How beauty is +no cloud Of Mans First from thy gay +Her bearded Grove The others aid. I am +wont, of Hell, Though chang'd with ambitious to +quell thir Head a hideous change. He sate, +sollicitous what glorious Train ascending: He ceas'd, I attaine, +ADAM, at sight no watch Against us +Within them to that most with perplexing thoughts abstruse, which +both Man his welcome words Breaking the Hell +Gate reply'd; Hast thou mayst beleeve, though free, be +fled, or holds the croud, and ASCALON, +And mee they dealt? So dearly I lowly reverent +Towards either quite All incorruptible would on us +Two potent Ray. These tidings carrie to wander forth +her taste, Food not receave, or hee +Departing gave way seems a land Men with bestial +Gods; for ev'n in part have also may Faith +and Helmets throng'd, the power I then, Of +MOLOCH homicide, lust hard Mov'd the use +of Fools, to cloath his Magnetic beam, the +Author rise, Wings of ROME. With what resolution +and Shield, Awaiting what means of Bread? If +any particular state of tasting those wounds: +or SAMOS first art weigh'd, & might induce us +most, and knows my steddiest thoughts and infinite +provok't. But self-destruction therefore as this the Project +Gutenberg is Sovran voice, I follow'd RIMMON, +