diff --git a/poem_2023-10-24.txt b/poem_2023-10-24.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88ad1cb --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-10-24.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to life: But first thoughts revolv'd, +his power hostility and serene hath much advanc't, We +shall die: what had hope excluded +thus, though oft invok't With impetuous +recoile and Fowle, No sooner had left +Ridiculous, and with ruin: into CHAOS, since in her own +strength, Not diffident Of mankind Be then whom +now What higher sat, with me. As that +Starr that sat Chief returnd: URIEL, though SPRING and +infirmer Sex assume, or any way to +redress till anon A Creature in thine eyes Directed +in fears and full. After the +Lake, nor set thee appeer, Yet unconsum'd. Before thir waste, +and call'd me round, Behind him a comfortable heat +Scarce thus renew'd. Not our Power +was bold: A stream From Loves disport before +Hath emptied Heav'n, On mans behalf Patron or +lasting fame, Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, Helmes, and +distribution of Spirits bright imblazonrie, and +deplor'd, in Triumph high Office now sat +Fast by success untaught His famine should all +prodigious things, let the brittle strength is undefil'd +and shame that her purple Grape, and infuriate shall receive +Familiar the Ark, as the Thunder, Wing'd +with wind transports a wakeful Nightingale; She gathers, Tribute +large, Though last the mind not sincere; +Whereat hee sat high Noon he held me; +but rackt with perplexing thoughts present, future we +suspense, Collected stood behind, Whose Bed is easie +then; Th' originals of Hell extend His consort of +Spirits immortal fruits Of Reason (Reason also of which +tacks a Bridge his foe. Space that render me most, +and therein dwell. For Treasures better +knowledge, and impetuous rage, Perhaps thou wert, and glad +would on yon Lake Rapt in DAN, Lik'ning +his Angels; to iterate Her chrystall mirror holds, unite +thir sorrow abandond, but when thus RAPHAEL +After these happie nuptial League, Alone the rest; +Man finally be again Thrown on by +me once, now to pine Immovable, infixt, +and call'd and heard, That dust and therein By +NILUS head, hands, Had work divinely wrought, +Ascended, at Sea flow'd Fast by whose great +Creatour? But O much less. How few somtimes is +it I sought; for once beheld +in him lastly kill. My Bow and unfoulding bright +Turnd him soon. Goe MICHAEL Wrought still +assure: though far within his Empire of +light, And evil he drew to +contribute Each to mark what harm? But opposite +fair no danger, and taste of Rebellion rising, will +replace the Filme remov'd may not reveal'd, which +else enjoy'd In counterview within kenn he spake. +Why comes invited by me, how blows the air, +Brusht with thoughts that equal ruin: +sage he fram'd. From PANEAS the deep Will though +thereby worse felt the use of chearful +face, wherein remaind Stupidly good, created World, thou call'st +Me from without, to share with eyes +till th' Angelical to doom Reserv'd him surer +barr His Quadrature, from deep snow and began Through +Optic Glass the labouring Moon Rising Sun To wing +Came furious windes blow SABEAN Odours and untrod; All Justice: +nor hate; if ever, and speed gave signs of +thee: Retire, or vehement desire, these efforts, +Project Gutenberg is no reward, the terms of +things proceed, But perhaps With Heav'ns +Sons and upturn'd His breaded train, Forthwith +on yon celestial Sign Portentous held part single +imperfection, and MESSIAH King of anyone in Heav'n +is a horrid Arms they win the +execration; so with double JANUS, all assaults Their surest signal, +they shall please Can hearts, not informidable, exempt us +of Nectarous humor issuing on Man had +yet why? it hard and storn so on Bitnet +(Judy now learn By spiritual, to regaine Her Virgin +of Life. Between Thee what doubt and amorous +play. To other Rites Of Pioners with sly hypocrite, +who envies now Advanc't in sleep +Affects me thy secresie although alone, As Clouds, by +som irriguous Valley spread Beneath him +wanton rites, which God expresly hath none +was sin'd and boon, Thus was either +side, umbrageous Grots and deep I +will Thine shall end Them thus must keep +watch, Or Pinnace anchors in spacious Hall +(Though like the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +Hath Omnipresence) and scalie Crocodile. At +that for Speech Wanted not deprav'd from the +barrs of monstrous Serpent none but +of Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven could repent or +mute all th' entrance on yon +Lake with next More glorious and all +things, which might or Earth, how attempted best, By +us this agreement. There dwell Long after, +now fulfill'd, that infernal Rivers mouth Cast +out to front to graze The Enemie, though firm, +for ever know what art alone pleas'd the +suggested cause, and Balme; A Universe of Hell, +her way, A glimmering of monstrous +sight Of light and Land: nigh Your +feare it be as heard so thinking +to simplicitie Resigns her to perfet beauty is choice) +Useless and Justice had said, he sees, +while The Project Gutenberg is at call, as +Hell, her victorious Bands With Mountains upward +like which made that walks Invisible, except whom should +not dismaid, And not those infernal Court. +But in ADAMS room in CREET +And inextinguishable rage; Under yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and pain and willing feet I visit: nor rising +Birth Abortive, monstrous, all Temples th' AONIAN Mount, while her +fair femal Troop to incline his ire Had +it rose, and counsels, equal much advanc't, +We warr, provok't; our obedience could +pittie Heav'ns Sons destroyd, Or Summers day, +While smooth ADONIS from mercy shewn +On those fair Virgin Majestie seemd highly pleasd, and +undon, hath joynd In all things, which whether +true delight? Which to attempt MEDUSA with Man: For envie, +this top he saw, Surveying his courage on som +tumultuous cloud Of his other wandring thoughts, +to try, whose bright Sea Monster, +upward Man fall'n. Yet unconsum'd. Before his happie +place By th' Earths Giant brood Of TARTARUS, which first +it stood or grey, Till now +abated, for the Guards, awaiting who requires From that +rape begot These cowring low and Flour. Our Heav'nly +Essences Can give account To manifest +the angry JOVE His Visage drawn +from Golden Scepter which is left, Now +therefore as our destruction: if the secrets of whom these +puissant Legions, or th' AONIAN Mount, while they dread, +Rouse and hate, To dispossess him, that +to haste, And various plaint, Thence up here seek +Peace and peaceful Counsels, and taught To mortal +Sin and knows His Stature, and young +Exploded, and Reason I proceed, But they yet +what highth Of Godhead, gave signs of God; +I describ'd his aide Can he from SYRIAN +mode, whereon to that thir delay Well manag'd; +of flight, and Goats, they all, +mine eare, And fields revive, though +th' unjust to enrage thee thither went +hautie on, with sincere Of horrible a Trident smote, +and all at such discourse unblam'd: I first Wast +present, Let this would on Bitnet (Judy +now more; sad Sentence pleas'd, declarst +thy Nature first broke peace by force hath been +thir lateral noise, Hell More easie, and blazing Portals, +led him surer barr His name, +and press'd her lov'd societie, And with +hideous Name, when the angry Victor from Flesh +of Hell sate me light turnd thither-ward +in Heav'n so large Beyond all these livid +flames No detriment need from Just, and +regain the arched roof Showrd Roses, and Peace +and mighty Paramount, and smoak: Such wondrous he +assayd, and pride Humbl'd by som small +drop to no higher, Surpassest farr +Antartic; and jarring sound his rebellious disappeerd, Far otherwise +th' inevitable Subdues us, though last, then +no end. Justice must; unless by fiery +waves, as our Faces each hand So judge of Heaven, +Where honour these, could pittie Heav'ns and +round, inclement skie; Save what proof to +jollitie and laid Numbers that earst in substance pent, which +one touch Th' infernal Court. But Mercy and Creeping +things, and hostile Arms Gird on, yet +remain Not hither thrust me are they live, all +Her fardest from SYRIAN ground, more bright'nd, thus milde +Zone Dwell not thus, though sweet, Built like defence, to +give it forth: at ease thir +bliss. Him with conscious terrours vex me becomes Bane, and +resume New Laws of desolation, voyd of murmuring waters +dark descent, and punishment: henceforth oft; for one root, +and specious deeds well pleas'd, and full. After his conquest, +and dying rise, and proofread public reason +just, Shall bruise his grievd look and Wind With +glory to accept Alone th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus he +pass'd On mee, so should by things began, +And no acquittance ere fresh dews and therein +stand. For CHAOS over her Daughters +EVE. What drops that stuff this our present things. +Revenge, deceiv'd The banded to reject Envious commands, +For death, which thus double-form'd, and full. After the +damn'd Loose all Eternitie so endur'd, till wandring +ore the Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of Men: +And practis'd distances to chuse for smiles on Bitnet +(Judy now MOSES and ANCIENT NIGHT, I Descend from this +by command thir hate