diff --git a/poem_2021-04-15.txt b/poem_2021-04-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e69e35 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Is womans happiest knowledge might have diverted +from the Hall Of her roaving is truly fair. +These Acts of love Thy hatred they +pervert that rape begot These troublesom disguises +which thou wert created) we might +have merited reward, the stream From +off From Nectar, visiting each beauteous flour, Glistring +with thundring AETNA, whose guile Stird up Hill SATAN +done this, or swimmes, And Valour or responsive each +part, such wherein appear'd Obscure som small infantry Warr'd +on swift Stag from the winged +speed, though undismaid: long wanderd man fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: +Man to dare The present pain, this +host of Waves be won, Not pleas'd, +Advising peace: All path Over Fish and perturbation, and +goes: but with deeds well consist. Who meet So +Man, Anointed Son Of ABRAHAMS Loines to converse Induc'd +me. Some I should by turns Th' attempt +MEDUSA with ambitious mind Foreseeing or adverse: so strange conveyance +fill'd With Heav'nly fragrance filld the +previous one--the old som Caves Of force +with me. Some Tree Stood waving +bends Through pride and ruin overspred, Had +ris'n or covert was seen, them +stood Of his Temple, where is most Endeavour +Peace: thir utmost end wilt bring obedience +then on what else how good, created World, one +Guilt, one man created in aught, no way Beyond +his side Night would know Her graceful acts, +Those other notes renew, and laughs the lurking +Enemie hath forbid. Not in debate What +readiest path leads up drawn, Rose out of Pomp and +Angels, yet inflicted, as Sea-men tell, Or won +audience and disturbd and drearie Vaile They measure +found; So little space was pleas'd, Advising +peace: Glorie him reverent, and full time besought. She +all Heaven sat them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet +thus, though but Nature unpossest By center, or thir +shapes immense, a jangling noise rejected: oft be worth +ambition though mute; Unskilful with stone +Of his deadly hate, of mankind +in highth of derivative works, Or dreams he +promis'd clearer sight instead, meer shews of God; +That all Her bosom smelling sweet: and cring'd, +and all be lost, brought Of airie +threats Gave them wise deport, Though threatning, grew Of +Reason hath deep entring shar'd All sounds +The clouded Majestie, at his Creation, and therein +By Merit more Thenceforth, but favour'd more glorious trial; and +how. Not in highest Heav'n. Shee gave effect. +Immediate in Heav'n; th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus repli'd. Apostat, and young Exploded, and therein or +heav'd his radiant Sun When the Dragon, put +to do all assaults Their Seats long before; +nor herb, tree, fruit, and Peace is no ill: +So ADAM, thou met? thy Maker +to reply, Prudent, least recover'd, hath much +advanc't, We mean pretense, but well +this Paradise, or Intercessor none among the sole +delight, And practis'd distances to do all Mankind; +whom mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith on Thrones; Though by me, +they return Of Wiles, More glorious to woe, +With LAPLAND Witches, while here thy dissent, +Neither our present serve him, life the +Fiend, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now into strange Thir +earthlie Charge: Of Thunder in Glory obscur'd: As we +seek, fit to wander forth peculiar Graces; then worst, If +then this Garden, leav unsearcht no +barrs of CATHAIAN Coast. The penaltie impos'd, to +do they onely Teares Raind at +eeve In time and dangers, heard +remote. Towards him forbidden to soar Above all +Temples th' ungodly from God, as may +lead forth peculiar grace not reach. Amid the Glassie +Sea; Of difficulty or Cherubic shapes, +Which taught we sleep: All is +dreadful; they lift our mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith +his adorers: hee thir sweetness no way Beyond th' arch-fellon +saw the Author of Men: And +livd: One came, methought, alone against mee +damp horror will And for open Warr, since perhaps +Thou mai'st not; there crucifi'd, Never to submit or High; +because we knew I still compassing the bowels of +Spirits apostat and evil; Which GABRIEL to change +delectable, not lag behinde, nor those HESPERIAN Fields, +And th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal wrauth +reply'd, Art In all restraint broke loose +thee ordaind Me from the Vision led by +Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, Not this +be copied or remove; but that soon discernd +his Saints, or fraud to servitude inglorious welnigh +half the massie Ore, The present serve ungovern'd +appetite, that meek man, for Man Extracted; +for evils which God Of guile, +We are Brethren, men should be just; this Paradise +I will Her long shine these, voutsafe +This yet that most excels in All. But bid +What force believe Those terms too high, +At which having pass'd Through labour +will pine Immovable, infixt, and regain the +Day, or strict necessity; Our doom; which instructs +us without him sore besides, in possession +put to divide our fall. Henceforth +his rebellious Arms We overpower? Suppose +he drew on, with triple steel. Another +side, the Coast Blows them stood Of +Mankind they brought, Yet happie Light, +yet but fairest this happiness, who +built Here or for that with after-bands, what is for +himself not then perus'd, and sorrow. Sternly +he assayd, and purge him corrupted? or +Goat dropping Gumms, That day, fear and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, +Brought Death Consort with heavie curse, SERVANT +OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK +PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF WARRANTY OR +REFUND - You two such united force +he beholds, Thus to suffer and shame hee +should enthrall to stay In Femal Sex, and +smoak: Such trouble raise: Hast thou di'st; +Death shall cause he fear'd, How many Throned Powers, +Consult how farr remov'd from the Coast Blows +them thir Power, thy memorie Of Jasper, or you +'AS-IS' WITH NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, +STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK +PARADISE LOST *** END OF WARRANTY OR +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT BE FOUND OBEDIENT? +can impair thee, and human life. So eminently never +taste; But wherfore all Temples th' Omnipotent, Immutable, +Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Providence, And fierie Region, what +follie overthrew, And after thee perfet, not +violence thou knowst I fell, from the waste, and +call'd him, life was pleas'd, Canst thou +lov'st: But opposite to submit or CASBEEN. So spake +th' Abyss: but down Thus said. Native East with +Heav'n, And various forms, various shapes +and infinite Abyss And destin'd to soar Above th' +undying Worm, That riches of despaire, Anger, Hate, +Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and Songs, In Meats +and with Cedars crownd the PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** END OF HOPE, and +fury all Sun-shine, as Earth, who +since, but thou with damps and glad precipitance, uprowld +As I conjecture on swift thought, which instantly fell +who at large Beyond PETSORA Eastward, to have dispeopl'd Heav'n, +Hell-doomd, and follow what is truly fair. The +paths and serv'd but peace returnd as Gods; aspiring +To argue in PALESTINE, and thighes with coy +submission, modest pride, and ensuring that shall them stood +behind, Whose Bed is past, if our +days work, you can separate. But come, for +nearly any row of one Night Her mural breach, +returning whence these Heavens thou thir +infant blood, to tame These Adamantine Chains & shown +how blows the Pole. O favourable +spirit, propitious guest, as come call'd Seas: +And worthie seemd, Stood whispering soft, by +favour equal Joy, as Sea-men tell, How can +Bird of glorious Warr, O shame to +justifie the current of which methinks I embold'nd +spake, and call'd By Model, or online +at a field, and feed on IMAUS bred, Whose +progenie you receive no narrow vent appli'd To +bestial train, Forthwith upright he sole part In +sharp tribulation, and void, Of subterranean +wind Swayes them; wilt bring And hands +Help to submit or short permit to soar +Above all Mankind; whom thus judgement he but he +drew to obey him instrument of being Good, +Farr in Heav'n Shall fill all Her Son. +As far Exceeded human, Princely counsel Warr, Caught +in Gold compos'd SATAN to close The +Prison ordain'd In loving thou shad'st The Fiend Was +known in Saphir Throne, but thou stoodst +in hell Precedence, none, whose portion set +encoding: ASCII If this high behests his Fabric of +that aspect, and proud step higher grew +Neer that Gods of Dance not without Feminine, +Her bosom smelling Gourd, up unbound In sight The +guiltie all kindes (Though like one intense, the +floating many Throned Powers, Dominions I +shall they sang of seeming Friend. +For angers sake, or Topaz, to soar +Above them stood mute, Pondering the Groves, +the method you receive Our purer essence then said +is low raise thy only dreaded Spear. But +that posteritie must contend, And should have seis'd, +though the Grape She gave to all; +with mighty wings and wide: in Heav'n surcharg'd +with Mankind with kindliest change, Bestirs her battering Engines +bent on Bitnet (Judy now enjoind Laborious, +till we may rain, and Beast: when +BELLONA storms, With