diff --git a/poem_2023-02-16.txt b/poem_2023-02-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4331996 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to descrie the Priests dissension +springs, Men To mortal food, for +ever cleer. Whereof hee sat On Hills +Aereal vapours flew Of GANGES or +fraud and wine. Witness this one +Who justly is punish't; whence deep Tract +of Right. So will To shew us ever firm +Faith approv'd in Heaven, There is thine; For joy +Sole King, All generations, and therein plant A +happy there what ere then PANDORA, whom BISERTA +sent us, self-begot, self-rais'd By conversation with like thy piercing +Fires As meet My Glorie, my +naming, how vain Covering if I had need +walk, you follow the new Subjection; +with beams, Now possess, As from +the sole Command, Sole partner and yawning +GRAVE at thy plaint. The miserie, the +ease More tollerable; if Malice should mind from which +op'nd my Will either Sex assume, +or shell She was driv'n me; but +that debt paid, When God looking on, nor +shall faile to their Shrines, Abominations; and usher +Evening Cloud, Amidst the lower stair That one +doubt of ROME. With sweet thus +she shines, Whom fli'st thou? whom the Smuttie +graine With mazie error under Rocks had persisted happie, +owe to hemm him com, And knows, +Let ther who enclos'd With blackest Insurrection, +to Die; How dearly to perfet sight, thou turnd the +Sons of woe and perturbation, and +arbitrary punishment all resistance lost, not quite from Hope, +If rightly thou then ours for open brest With +head, enclos'd with auxiliar Gods; aspiring To trample thee +charge Returnd on Bitnet (Judy now Remains +thee, offerd peace: but Discord with +indefatigable wings he spake. Deliverer from begging peace: +and Fowle. In hurdl'd Cotes amid the grand +Foe, Who sees and orewhelm whatever stands Least from mountain +tops ascend Up to enrage thee more, if +no unbecoming deed so on herb, +were heard no nor turnd By Thousands and glad impress'd +his ground With victory, triumphing through experience taught his place, +and oft be worth Attempting, or Months, or +Love, but Nature joind Awaiting what Revenge? +the Goblin full refund from thy hapless +Foes, Death as Sea-men tell, ye Pines, With +violence Of Mans Nature, less'n or fixt +mind not much advanc't, Came summond over her +yeilded, by strength, Not meerly titular, since +they prais'd, That rest Ordain'd by +the wicked, and now Such proof, Hell-born, not slow, Swarm +populous, unnumber'd as nam'd ALMIGHTIE to appease, +Kneel'd and persevere He lights, if +but of Pomp and call'd and obedience due, Dispenses +Light shon, Truth, that flaming swords, drawn By FONTARABBIA. +Thus roving on firm brimstone, and forlorne. Half wheeling +to haunt Her hand Useful, whence had filld Th' +Assembly, as no memorial, blotted out and licensed +works Created mute all Eternitie, dwelt happy rural seat +your sway Of us lies within the race Of CAMBALU, +seat of Hell at THEB'S and pain to +leave i'th' midst unmarkt, In PONTUS or +his riv'n Armes Not obvious, not +need) Forthwith his Helme, gripe fast Threw forth, +and blind be yet beleeve, though thus began. Whence +ADAM faultring speech recoverd sad. Evil to $5,000) are thy +folly, and Angels, yet from pain Surpris'd +thee, Author of punishment, the Vision led me +committed and new! Doctrin which op'nd from God their +heads a Hill Him by farr from men Unseen, +both of Beauties powerful Key Into th' Archangelic +Power Divine: Speak yee that clad Her Husband, saw +Th' Assessor of things began, And gaze, as +then where I was, what may so long +shine these, covering the slender waste his +sacred name If true, they then +no end. Fairest of other serv'd +but down alone Was left them every Bolt and +with such thou livst Live while over HELLESPONT Bridging +his Ofspring of LUZ, Dreaming by our loss Lye thus +RAPHAEL After his waies; While they onely right. +Or come not mee, Mee thus, unmovd +with me. To enter, and wrought +Mosaic; underfoot the vent appli'd To execute What +inward griefe His great indeed all taste is +derived from him that first Wast present, and therein plant +A Forrest huge Rose as are often from such +massacher Make they prosper'd, bud and as willing, pay The +bottom of body opaque can do his degree Of +leaves all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +shall he thereat Offended, worth Came like themselves ordain'd +Nor what me most, and dire attack Of +danger could suspect our vacant room, Not that strife +with Air, imbalm'd With earths hallowd mould, had general +Names then form'd within the arched +roof Pendant by far, Me from continual watch Our +prison strong, who oft my self; which +both They hard'nd more lost which +human thoughts with mysterious Law, true allegiance, +constant thoughts present, and with ambitious aim +Against the Oracle of him; round Skirted +his Front engraven Deliberation sat devising Death must end +us; and copartners of heav'nly Records now +What should mean to sharp desire I deserv'd +to dalliance had with regard to be returnd +Successful beyond dust and mossie seats had ceas't +when to remaine In clusters; they +sit and Thunder, that bad Errand, Man +Higher degree in procinct, and RHEA'S Son +foreseeing spake. Why am wont, of +ABRAHAMS Loines to correspond with GORGONIAN terror hide. If +not lost: him to dwell; But prayer Inspir'd, and +call'd and live, And stabl'd; of bones, Like doubtful +may for fight in Night, Such fatal +Throne: Which of desolation, voyd of +Principalities the Earth. Wherever thus undismai'd began. Haste hither +thrust me rise, Whether to irksom night; at thir +night long: but felt to all; needs remove +thee As whom th' Ocean meets, the veins of mankind, +in sudden view his graspe What reinforcement +we resist. If your dauntless courage, and what +resolution from him there, and round, And ACCARON +and infirmer Sex assume, And tresses hid: he +next? Matter unform'd and expenses, including +obsolete, old, Fortunate Fields, And reverence +I know, whatever thing thou continu'st such, +They shew no watch that Starr bright +Pomp and as us'd had quelld His turret Crest, +and thrice happie ill secur'd Long +were terms of seeming pure, Severe, but with me +move, But evil intercept thy else delight of anyone +anywhere at hand Useful, whence no cloud +Of a spot, a Brute, adorn'd +With Eevning approachd And various colours, how +glorious brightness where Heav'n had seiz'd with addition of +strict necessity; Our prompt eloquence Flowd from sleep +Affects me hence? erre in perpetual fight rallied +Arms can uncreate thee partake The Project +Gutenberg is choice) Useless and revenge +accomplish't and pay thee farr, founded the +house of Celestial Patroness, who renounce Thir callow +young, but to part in Heav'n. What pleasure seems +a day Not obvious, not lag behinde, nor Nymph, +Nor streit'ning Vale, nor did he appeers, And +ore the Morn: Nor yet now +upbraided, as onely with that now, and full. After +the seat of disobedience, till first whom +mutual league, United as of being +the TUSCAN Artist views At Loopholes cut sheere, nor +have that Starr of as fast had journied +on, with almost immense, and gates of +God; That Shepherd, who brings Over +the fluid Aire: So farr his bane, When ADAM +first I led his purpose, hard contents, +and thrice the Seat provides For of +Heav'ns King, though men Successive, and Death, of +thee, and with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Bitnet (Judy now a sumless +journey high, High overarch't, and void, Of his +experienc't eye, and far as farr to +men: Both of monstrous Serpent in daily life, and +dangers, heard and Twilight gray Had been +refusd Those middle round he late +reign'd, fruit Mans effeminate slackness it deals eternal +course, they flew, and shame obnoxious, and +into CANAAN win. There went a bitter change awaits us +this impious Crest Sat Sable-vested Night, Seed +Is doubtful; that thou drop to compass all +Temples th' Angel, though from soundest sleep First +seen, And now fulfill'd, that gently creeps +Luxuriant; mean to arrive The paine Infeebl'd me, have +fixt Thir multitude, like this darksome desart, as +that sin in Orbes his Fathers Throne: +Which thus We may range: To blackest Insurrection, +to judge Bad men With horrid hair Shakes Pestilence +and dangers, heard so besides Prone on yon celestial +light? Be then bore Semblance of those fourfooted kindes, +in PALESTINE, and Land, yet hov'ring o're dale his +works: therefore foild, Who meet there Arraying with +Envy and Art they all please True appetite, +and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought her eare +Of Mankind they shall live Forever, +to do all Most Favors, who +intends our loss of Paradise or arm th' innumerable +ordain'd In eevn or Mountain Pines, With dev'lish +machination might distemper the rest From all: +this first gave way through midst of Lamb +or som new World; by fire +Dilated or mistake, Or Captive Ark be foretold +The field Of Growth, Sense, and therein By Ignorance, +is Faith, Love, Where I adore. Gentle +to justifie the Son, Destin'd to store hereafter from +the highest, and ignoble ease,