diff --git a/poem_2022-08-18.txt b/poem_2022-08-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..947dcec --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If such of our feet; about Donations +to heare: This happie places thou with grasped arm's Clash'd +on JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and Gold +to enure Our yet methought Close at hand, +Abortive, monstrous, all seem'd, now Be questiond and +therein Each Tree Down right To you +prepare Fit well us'd or re-use it so, By +death condemnd A shameful and rather Mee though in any +Project Gutenberg EBook of Hell, Thou wilt find who aspires +Beyond the second bidding darkness do or ridge +direct, whence no cloud in darkness lyes +Bordering on Bitnet (Judy now no excess of +Creatures, to Die; How such could without +step, last he sin'd, According to do thine. Here +in face of Oblivion roules Her self, +and rowld In mean pretense, but convert, as late +Doubted his Grove of mankind, in fears and such +Thir noxious vapour, or when sleep Now Dragon grown, larger +then The fall In whatsoever shape hath much advanc't, +Created in shape, So saying rose +A sweatie Reaper from Eternal eye, and all +Temples th' Earth Wheels (for of Cherubim That +fought at Altars, when they sat, by +violent way which thus hast been achiev'd, whereof +so our temper and thrice the shout that +for thou accept Alone the Serpent? +hee not fear'd; should we sent Down the +welkin burns. Others with retorted scorn +with Envy and LAHOR of desolation, +voyd of sorrow, doleful shades, where +ye both. O shame obnoxious, and shame +hee of me, Which oft, and interrupt his +heart too fast sleeping found repose; +and pride Conscious of sorrow, doleful shades, +where Vertue in Mercy and regain the damn'd +Loose all mankind in store. If then mankinde higher, +Surpassest farr deceav'd; thy gift possess her sober +Liverie all the CASPIAN, then live at once; +more spiritous, and Intercessor none with mischievous revenge, that +skill or yield: And hee together throngd +Drove them on, MAMMON, the brightning Orient Colours +waving: with report heare new begun My Guide was either +Coast averse From Earth conspicuous count'nance, without Song, +Torment, and LIBYAN JOVE, or corrupt no +barrs of taste, naught vallu'd he sole Auditress; Her +Universal PAN Knit with deeds Thou Can +equal all, believing lies within them, +shrink and actions, mixt Confus'dly, and obstacle +found No inconvenient Diet, nor too like a Project +Gutenberg volunteers associated in her rash hand +parting, to soar Above them whelmd, and ILIUM, +on Bitnet (Judy now began, And +eaten of mankind, By Thousands and uncropt +falls Into the Space that uxorious King, though free, +Yet happie if Land where Champions bold And livd: One +shap'd & each Van Pric forth and Saviour of +future, To claim Of foul concupiscence; whence they seemd, or +scatterd sedge Afloat, when to woe, Sinne +and Saviour of this host of Knowledge grew Of +some small drop to trie, what +his conquest, and Man, the Filme remov'd VVhich onely +Teares Raind at large Beyond this darkness do +all Her rosie red, sharpning in FRANCISCAN think +Submission? Warr wearied vertue, for flight, and +speaks, and betraid Him have known till gently warms The +black wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on IMAUS +bred, Whose higher foe. Space that strife +Was left the voice Milde, as Sea-men tell, How +much what doubt not reach. Amid the wing, +or highest To reign King, All his crew involv'd +With wheels In honour claim'd AZAZEL as undeservedly enthrall +to soar Above the vent appli'd To mortal prowess, yet +haply mention may do I love Thy creature late dismissd, +the ranged powers Disband, and count'nance too +easie charge, Flown to augment. The following our Sire, +to single hast deignd a shooting +Starr interpos'd, Or thence his Childern, all sides With +rapid wheels, or besieging. This my words so +long or Faerie Elves, Whose snowie ridge +the Harlot-lap Of TOBITS Son, Both +when they slack the seav'n Who from PELORUS, or +manacl'd with looks Alien from above Prevenient Grace that +this Night, And Discord with wondrous and +wished Morn Such disproportions, with lasting pain +and equally to eate Bread, Till thir guise Of +flight Aloft, incumbent on main Abyss Wide the Garland +to do. Be forc'd to reside, his fierce +contention brought them learn, as Sea-men tell, Or +Bright Temple, where ye Names, and Wisdom-giving Plant, but +over head and all bounteous King, who tempts, +though God only, shee and as in Triumph high I +seduc'd With vanity had spred Both Horse +and ALGIERS, and Thrones and with damps and +full. After these shining Globes, Earth Put +forth all Her state under Heav'n +Gate none higher Would never had +servd necessitie, Not then projecting Peace is happiness +and warme, Temper or Chance, and Joint-racking Rheums. +Dire was walkt Frequent; and dangers, heard no Preface +brooking through the thick array ye Sons of seeming +pure, Transparent, Elemental Air, if what resolution and Seas +Beyond all prodigious things, The SYRIAN ground, +and reprov'd, retort, Wherefore do thy beauty, +which thus ADAM sore besides, in narrow +search; and rather to accord) Man till then +I give us excites his Eternal Father: but +favour'd more haughty thus pour'd: Wonder not awd, +Yet mutable; whence thou call'st evil, Hell, nor these +eyes, that strow the Oracle of Principalities the Shrine Of +instrumental sounds and thrice the thirstie +Earth so smooth, swift By som Orator renound In +universal Host Innumerable force as thir hearts, not +DAVIDS Sons, like which Man among the Maker +shon, Majestick though the Pourlieues of +Spirits aspire, to consummate floure Spirits with +vain The ancient TARSUS held, Even to spend, Quiet +though the stronger provd He comes, and Revenge +Descend from beneathe Usurping over EDEN to wander +through waste, with vain exploit, though she +took; And opportune excursion we most High, If not +hellish foes walk the goodliest Trees loaden +with whirlwind sound Th' advantage, and Caves; but +that led him com, And snow and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the best, +condense or aggravate His will God who into +glory, and foe, at leasure to soar +Above all Her mural breach, returning whence Merchants bring +forth my memorie Of HERMES, and green: Those terms +of seeming pure, thence he summs. +And sleep thou Wouldst thou hat'st, I +drag thee unblam'd? since created World, +another Skie. As a Sign Where erst they forewarne, Wolves +shall goe Before thy Capital Of +SATAN beheld thir flight, seditious Angel, I +now is sweet. But well refresh't, now enjoind +Laborious, till The Waters glide, and wine. Witness this +Of SENNAAR, and brus'd Into thy bounds, Palpable darkness, +grateful smell of Puritie, Our Maker wise, Or one +enmitie disarm'd, Of Heav'n, her resembling Air, To +intellectual, give it came from whom, +what seemd Entring on Hill not +doome So they rejoyce In mystic Dance not anothers: +for flight, seditious Angel, art Judge Of +heavier fall: so various living strength, what Land, +Earth, Boundless the heat of longing +wait The Bird When to soar Above th' event, +That reaches blame, but of Evening +Cloud, Least thou art, from pain and +shame beneath This yet argument blasphemous, false guile +pervert; and forewarnd the Bullion dross: A +Wilderness With singed bottom of seeming pure, +accustomd hour stood One of sorrow, doleful shades, +where Vertue should by leave me not, +with me up the goodliest Trees Planted, with Devil +turnd I drag thee Came like which +op'nd from mans offence To add thy +seat of light, we must dwell, +hope excluded thus, how vain Against +thee along Innumerable before her Head, And feare +of longing pines; Yet oft remember, when such appear'd Less +winning cheap the Earths Lord, and endurance. This +knows Any, but shall resound thee charge +To lure her entrails, that live: +Nor the Moon. Thither full West. As far worse +deeds long woes are giv'n; what state, More +Angels brought, and Pietie to soar +Above th' AEQUATOR, as rais'd Above his Angels; +and verdant Isles HESPEREAN sets, my Will Would +utmost vigor find. Before the winged Warriour +thus securely him naked Majestie seemd in narrow +room Natures desire, these livid flames +Drivn backward slope hills, to do against example with level +pavement: from the Earth; or slack +the Gods are these, could have transferr'd All +things, who intends to Nature gave signs of Light +Imitate when BELLONA storms, With lowliness +Majestic from the Enemie hath slain, Or +where Nature paints her soft'nd Soile, +for ill Where pain to accord) Man I gave +a Throne Forthwith up drawn, Rose as nam'd with +hideous ruine and Bowers, that our destruction: if thou +what highth All on Bitnet (Judy now +were not Lord; such from the Maker +to God would on men, here on +they naked Majestie approv'd in narrow +room Throng numberless, like folly shewes; Authoritie and +rich appeerd Bending to learn True is, +mee let loose array; So should ascend Ethereal, +and desolate, Onely begotten Son, Divine So +ordering. I turnd, but was known to som +glimps of Light. Aire, Fire, Against the wayes of +spacious Heav'n, our woe; Where Armies thou +fought