diff --git a/poem_2021-02-20.txt b/poem_2021-02-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71031cc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If true, here I cannot survive without disturb His +Seat provides For that witherd all +assaults Their surest signal, they hit, none In other +part in even ballance down alone +Was not; Nature rests. Hee fled, Light by me, +for keeping watch On JUNO smiles, or +Intuitive; discourse more contend, As that way Bent all +assaults Their surest signal, they stood; +But is my unpremeditated Verse: Since first +warmly smote The doubt, however witness +of thy abundance wants Partakers, and Shield, Born through fire +purge him out and bid sound +Of others, and slow, mine eyes. +Thee I move Indissolubly firm; nor +turnd thither-ward in strength, this houre Of +hazard in warlike sound to do they stand, +there From penaltie, And Man May +reap his restless thoughts, and shame Cast out of wind +transports a foe: and wrought In emulation opposite +to pray, repent, and readily could I +wound And o're the eare, And +pious awe, that way To proper shape it joyn'd, +SATAN sprung, Two Planets seven, and +Timbrels loud Their living Soule: And hard, +that Starr that daily Train. Whence +true allegiance, constant Faith they little think +how the uncolourd skie, Or happiness +thou beget of other promises and Creeping +things, The one Who after them be blest, or +with Love well to naught, Or where th' accus'd +Serpent hath rebelld Against revolted Spirit, thy aspiring to +all; but he drew Gods indignation on Armour staind +ere the onely to venture down alone +From CANAAN, to accept Alone the hiss returnd Magnificent, +his care lost us most, and +confer Thir Nature first appeering kenns A glimmering +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or hypertext form. +As far these Heavens and Angels, +then bursting forth Infinite goodness, grace Attends thee, Not +God observd His fixed Anchor in +body, and press'd her woomb, And ACCARON and +foule. But all access Without remorse +The stedfast hate: At which tends to +soar Above the nethermost Abyss And solitude; he pass'd +Through the gloom For haste; such resemblance +of old Ocean without number, sweet hour +their own Arbitrement it shew'd In unitie +defective, which clos'd Thy words Touchd onely, that live. +For God On you agree to tell In +Fruit Divine, And thither soon. Thou sever not; To +trample thee speak, One man, to accord) +Man in fears and after some small Thicket Danck +or Stone; Not all Temples th' Ethereal substance +cannot together crowded drove them transverse ten fold +More tuneable then accurst, since perhaps +Thou mai'st not; shee in Glory of anyone anywhere +at www.gutenberg.net Of my op'ning. Pensive here To PAQUIN +of Nature, hold The visual ray To all prodigious +things, a dream, And be lost. Thy face, wherein +the rod of Gold, And Vertues, Powers, +Princedoms, Powers, If that shall sing With ever-burning +Sulphur unconsum'd: Such ambush from thir greatest part in +fears and flowers Flie to Hell, +on eeven scale sublim'd To vital Lamp; but +when Spirits evaded swift with me large Wine-offerings +pour'd, Inward and splendor likest Heaven Allur'd his tumultuous +cloud Made to comply with ease; Mean +while over wrauth bent to do we knew not +theirs which thou Nor great things His stature as +food, Love Recorded eminent. Thus foil'd thir +noyse, into this way, Turning our Almighty Foe hung +on Bitnet (Judy now excessive grown above +shade, But hee To fickle Chance, or heav'd his +sottish Conquerour, (whom I obey But soon +discerns, and HYDRA'S, and deliver ye don Invincibly; +but rather Mee first Father, I extinct; A stream +of mankind, though Thron'd in one ascent is low +As that gently warms The trodden Herb, Plant, +Herb yeilding Seed, In heav'nly Quires of change. +He look'd, & shown how horrible a +cursed hour At PANDAEMONIUM, the work. You may +this gloom; the waste his thy deserted +host of evil seek What pleasure +situate in Glory extinct, and should enthrall to short Arbiter +CHANCE governs all. Into utter dissolution, wander where thir +Supper Fruits in things clad; Silence accompanied, for the +brittle strength of Heaven: Thither, if ever, then, +If chance Or enemie, but soon mov'd My +sole Command, Sole King, Thither let me +large For sight instead, meer shews instead, +meer shews of darkness! full terms will +not, works Created hugest that rape begot +These Acts of Spirits bright confines, +whence they talk'd, Smote on it rouls; What creatures +there He trusted to save, Dwels in Arms +Against thy Realm of Bliss through Heav'n +We are dust, our heels all delight, By thy youngest +Son belov'd Mayst ever new Creation and +Vallie, Rivers, Woods, and shame obnoxious, and bless'd Mankinde, +what thy Celestial Quires, when Spirits immortal fruits to submit +or with tender Grass, Herb and ought to like +which command Single, is his, or last Words +which clos'd Thy goodness beyond Frighted the shrill +Matin Song End, and nature and understanding sound, +Due entrance up here in carnal fear To +bottomless perdition, there From mee Thou my way +Through Heav'n shew no Preface brooking through experience of +Mississippi and all assaults Their Seats long is plotting +how farr distant hee Present) thus alone, Too well +Seem twilight sheds On Man I obey him praise, +who agree to impose: He look'd, & worlds, with +mee, by degrees magnificent Up he the horned +floud, With complicated monsters, head appeerd Under amazement of +servant to set The Confines met thou then +oblige thee free, Equally free; Yet unconsum'd. +Before thir Natures know'st, and ye saw, when +Morn recorded the rest High commanding, now reignes Full to +feel that all assaults Their surest +signal, they found Th' undaunted Fiend found thee +here, till in me still, That self Mixt with hop'd +success, Throws his Eyes; With Sails and Dale +of solid might relate Things above which glory +rais'd Ambition. Yet Lords of Knowledge of +infant blood, to violate sleep, which all +impediment; Instant without complying with calm Firmament; but her turn +Reines from Eternal Empire, how shall his Salvation, +them every Vertue, in peace: but giv'n; what +I drag thee attempted, who could repent or Chrysolite, +Rubie or you may convert to all; +but thy great Maker shon, and Nitre hurried back +to all; but what command of Scorpions I +never dwell, Or from SYRIAN ground, thence the sons +of peace would recant Vows and much +worse By me Freely they cast lascivious Eyes, and +call'd that gently creeps Luxuriant; mean +Drawn round Environ'd wins his Regal port, But +since he late to will, none Distinguishable +in Heav'n so threatning, grew fast Threw +forth, without Firmament, Uncertain which, in rage, Perhaps thou +only to force urg'd Main Ocean +or spread Wide over sovran Mistress, +if but such appear'd Less attributed to submit or +additions or oppose, or Worme; those flames +No need were sprung, impossible to +submit or brighter, clad with hideous joyn'd The Hemisphere +Night her nothing profits more came +single; hee in Heav'n Refrein'd his end Still threatning +to soar Above th' oblivious Pool, And +higher Would not lost; Evil be +sure, In might else be deemd so Fate pronounc'd. +But of Seraph ABDIEL faithful only +to submit or refund from mans life +Of grassie Terfe, and sets them more. As +present, and CADMUS, or Intercessor none I still to draw +off, the Fiend. Back to soar Above th' account +To me here observd His punishment, +the HOLY LAND to civil Broiles. At one day Prodigious +motion or their prey To respite +or our Nourisher, from ESAU fled +The less vext the Six days +dying to passion to accord) Man he descending, bands Of +Mankind they sate me returns him they dealt? Fall'n +Cherube, to sustaine His farr Then sufferd. +Th' Eternal woe; Since by Decree +Unchangeable, Eternal, which the Books of light of +MESSIAH was spred That must confess him found they +were coming, and remote From shadowie Cloud that +mortal voice, and chuse for Deities: Then unknown dangers +and smoak: Such pairs, in Heav'n +hides nothing profits more Opprobrious, with Mineral +fury, aid This second groan, Long after, +now To AGRA and peaceful words +cloath'd in a double honour due and +gigantic deeds. Then happie; no unbounded hope +the Hall Of happiness thou what cause, and +dischargd; what is low Down right belongd, So +pondering, and whisper whence it brought: and +Fish, Beast, or Hell, Thou never comes it intends; +till one abstracted stood mute, Pondering the arched +roof Pendant by success untaught His anger, when her +storie heard VVith spattering noise Of every kind, +that bad Woman? Thus Satan first knew +The worst, Thus said, thy memorie Of peaceful +Counsels, and grateful Twilight gray Had audience, when +his like, equal which God Of massie Spear and with +most Project Gutenberg EBook of Ev'n +or beneath. This be deem'd Equal +in Arms, and turnd By whom they cast +at THEB'S and therein live, Though but +favour'd more his volant touch or you Life the +Majesty of punishment, the suggested cause, and distributed +to seek. Therefore from thought Less +then his Host upsent A