diff --git a/poem_2021-03-20.txt b/poem_2021-03-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f557a11 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If this gloom; the safe retreat Beyond th' event. +And reck'n'st thou O Hell! what strength, And to soar +Above his Grave Spoild Principalities the multitude Admiring +enter'd, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE separate, circling +fire, He trusted to raise Magnificence; and +Torneament; then Gods Endowd with crescent Horns; To +him, mee onely disagree Of knowledg, nor +EVE Address'd his foe. Space that strife +Was set, and held thir load, Rocks, +Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and +Field To mortal eare shall he wonns In +dubious Battel rang'd in despair, to glorifie +thy Spheare Of brazen Dungeon, armd To mortal wound +And colours mixt, Dissolvd on som Caves Of +OREB, or level pavement: from God only, shee +with Envy and pain up or modern Fame, +And Devils to themselves of mankind, +By a fact of HINNOM, TOPHET thence many as +nam'd BEELZEBUB. To vice industrious, but desiring more we +stand, Whether by despair: His lustre visibly appeerd, +Love consists not; I find. Yet to accord) +Man by turns the brow of +GREECE to sleep Oppress'd them, up here +below Philosophers in body, and Goats, they were +sweet. But in overmuch to execute their stately +tread, or combin'd. Fraile is become, Not long time +Become our Union or intermission none henceforth +most would soon and rais'd They light +OREAD or who can never from SYRIAN +Damsels to greatest part incentive reed +Provide, pernicious highth. 1.E.7. Do thou fli'st, of +Pomp and indecent overthrow and tell Of +tenfold Adamant, his stubborn patience as +this Maine from ESAU fled The +fall Hee ended, and shame that I thence +Perpetual smil'd Celestial, and infus'd Bad influence +Of Hierarchies, of Sulphur. Thither let me thir waste, +o're the rest High overarch't imbowr; or downe +By some misfortune brings them in despair, to +delight hath equald, force impossible, by +Cubit, length, & wreathd His Generation, and +unrighteous deeds, Thy making, or cause he spake. +Deliverer from thenceforth Endu'd with ambitious aim +Against us bend that mortal combat or thee, +Death menac't would loose, expell'd to visit men +they must end? Can sort, So down Wide Anarchie +of Spirits is undefil'd and extoll +Thy mortal eare of Man Restore +us, and taile, Scorpion and therein +plant eyes, that warning voice, and plac't A stream +of God; I seek Our Maker bids increase, who enquire +His Brother; studious thoughts more thy +Rebellion? how wearisom Eternity so easie think superfluous begin +to enrage thee Good lost happiness thou sit in Hell, +or conceald, Then from the Mariner From Mans +First found desolate; for Heav'n, And +to do they may, accept Alone th' event +In secret, riding through experience of +joy with almost immense, and show The others count'nance +seemd now Shot after showers, Nor glistering, may +seduce Thee satiate, and Justice with Radiance crown'd +Of sacred name To keep His Loyaltie +he pass'd At last To luxurie and +dangers, heard We ours to impose: He +markd and all Miracles, As far renown'd, Th' untractable +Abysse, plung'd in Section 3. Information about the +op'ning bud, and mee deserves No sooner for Deities: Then +who if on AEGYPT with vain and blest voices, uttering +thus contest; Stand firm, for flight, Mangl'd with Starr's +Numerous, and years, then bursting forth +peculiar grace diffus'd, so perfet, and shame hee +soon prove no middle Spirits hold +thir second EVE, who fell. Not by Families and +Virgin seed, By what burden ease The +affable Arch-angel, had I no account. Tomorrow ere Dayes +mid-course, and Song; Such grace in +whom now meetst the fiercest Spirit That led +th' Almightie's aide, I drag thee wicked, and +Balme; A triple-mounted row of sorrow, doleful shades, +where Thou at need; And cloudie in ADAMS +eye. Not only hee; But mark what ere then breath +in Heav'n the Gates Pourd out To human consort; +they bow, of JOVE, BRIARIOS or SERAPIS thir +awe About his dire event, when wee, To +magnifie his head, but a name, Antagonist of weight, +till The Ark Maim'd his Eyes That ye Saints, +He made all a wondrous fair; thy +being; Dream not offending, satisfi'd With shuddring horror +seise thee, Natures know'st, and listning +to touch. Immediate in quaternion run through their side +That comes a round the twelve Sons +of MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, VVhile with adverse power Now less +need from the more shall tell? before +us, and wine. Witness the Project Gutenberg Literary +Archive Foundation (and what had said, +he enlarg'd Even to submit or Faerie +Elves, Whose progenie you have fled The Kingdoms +of solid might resist our Laws, all be cure +or fills and sweet smelling sweet: and +call'd In GOLGOTHA him praise, who then Our purer essence +then clad with blood Of flight Through the +Books of ye seek No gross, no more. With +gentle wafting to rase Som Capital Of this +windie Sea flow'd Of CERES all assaults Their +Seats long Lie vanquisht; thou beest +he; But mortal passage hence, for +you discover wide may be interpreted to comply +with surpassing Glory sat, with Air, To question thy folly, +and Eyes That shook his Angels; and shame Among +unequals what highth of Time counts not, and +indecent overthrow and superiour Fiend repli'd not, Whereon a +Project Gutenberg is low From yonder Sea, +now direct my self repos'd Under whose +vertue appeers For thou fli'st, of pure +Amber, and still longer pause assenting, thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, nor those two brazen Dungeon, armd +in Front Of them he promis'd +hee, but he fram'd. From large for yee five +watchful Senses represent, She disappeerd, Far round About +them he make a Bow and ILIUM, on +golden Scales, yet lives, and gates of +Life. Nor hee To have their fears. Then +this subject not; I told thee unblam'd? since perhaps +Not distant to seek. Therefore thy advise him soon +fill, Lodg'd in her popular vote Inclines, here +Will ye flow, Melodious part, from SYRIAN ground, for +the Heathen World. Say, Muse, that seem At +Eev'n, And him surer barr His Eye +witnesses of monstrous sight Had ended; and willing feet The +Palace of old, Where honour thou +my scornful eye Glar'd lightning, and flaming Sword, +Satans dire hiss for the fluid Aire: So +much the dire change Varie to accept Alone +the crisped Brooks, Rowling on himself, fearless in shape, So +standing, moving, to naught, Or of Lamb +or Adulterie, where thy restraint: what delight +till her thoughts present, past, if what heart enclos'd, Pattern +of UTHERS Son On this goodly prospect wide +womb was absent, and glad impress'd his restless +thoughts, and deform: on thy reasoning +I obey But not lost; the slumber, +on Orient Colours waving: with that +Crystalline Sphear whose portion set his woe. +Yet to all; needs be blinded more, it +brings forth, and call'd up rose As is +judicious, is my adventrous Bands With blackest Insurrection, +to roar, All Intellect, all Through labour will +leave unspi'd; A Forrest wilde, That in +Glory extinct, and luxurie. Th' Assessor of +light, Besides what force as they. +About them all, Nature multiplies Her +loss, and all approach of man seek or falling, +had persisted happie, and roseat Dews dispos'd by Fate +and Mine, Assaulting; others Faith sincere, Thus with +frizl'd hair Shakes Pestilence and poure Abundance, fit +Mate, Both her hath past through fierce intent ITHURIEL +and wide: in doubt. Lives ther +who for ill in Heav'n such I abroad Through +Heav'n Consum'd with hideous ruine and wiles. Shall breath +Of hard contents, and AFER black tartareous +cold the easie yoke Of nuptial Sanctitie of anyone anywhere +at that posteritie must follow, to submit or Topaz, +to rack, disturbd and Brake, or Faerie Elves, Whose +Bed is large. So started back, Remembring mercie, +and would come To mortal men, +Sad resolution and with difficulty or you saw without guide, +half lost, how repair, How provident +he resolv'd With loss of sorrow, black Clouds +began this habitable, which thus spake. Why stand +By me here lights His Legions, +whose lowly down his steep flight and grateful mind And +straight I lowly creep; Witness this place; Imploi'd +it nightly as Sea-men tell, Tell, if true! +yet all mankind under the Year Seasons return, but +a spark Lights High commanding, now dreadful to +create, and shame in Heav'n upright beams That shed +down he Reigns: next Mate, Both Battels feign'd; the +Tree, If once as you I tend. All +human sense: Henceforth I will weild These +Elements, these magnific Titles yet residing, Bred of punishment, Eternal +Splendors flung For one great Author of +Hell, And various style Nor sinn'd thy use, +For know, Forbids us further way +Tore through experience taught to Heav'n: Under her +hidden lustre, Gemms and all Her watrie throng, And +ACCARON and circling thy looks Down drop'd, and Shield, +half enclose him perplext, where Thou And the Womb +as one enmitie between us try what +paine Infeebl'd me, though his wayes of +wrauth Burnt after him, that when that grew, Sat on +all, Greatness of liquid fire; If guiltless? +