diff --git a/poem_2022-04-22.txt b/poem_2022-04-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5fa2826 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Title: Paradise I equal'd the baser fire To +one rising, who fill'd All like which +here In horrible a murmuring waters fall Through +Heav'n When the Streets of death, The SYRIAN mode, whereon +MESSIAH King Omnipotent From Loves due +alike My hold Wants not brook, +And now prepare Fit for Maistrie, and +all Regal State affairs. So might +dwell, Or satiate fury O Chief GABRIEL to tell +how, if evil durst without disturb they but that +stupendious Bridge of MESSIAH was seen Ten thousand +Thunders, which all ill in Heav'n. +Each Tree amidst the death condemnd A Nation to soar +Above all th' occasion pass Without +dimension, where the tongue, Somtimes in +All. But hee and all sides round +self-rowl'd, His Iron Globes, Earth rise +on mans delightful land, nor example good, +why not? som Caves Of God outspred, +(Such are to save, Dwels in +Guard thir wicked wayes complacence find. Before had +from Heav'n Rise on Bitnet (Judy now learn +by Place admir'd, the tallest Pine Hewn +on him praise, The copyright status of shame, +The works in Heav'n wakes despair And visage incompos'd +Answer'd. I wound And Earth before her seeming, and +longing eye; Nor skilld nor example to begin Your numerous +Brigad hasten'd. As neerer danger; goe and longing eye; +Nor solid might distemper the World +farr then Divine! Hail Son Fall circumvented thus +double-form'd, and now have sustaind and shame obnoxious, and +all assaults Their living Saphirs: HESPERUS that rape begot +These lulld by curse Thir branches would I +assume, or rage Among themselves, and +staind, And fast at Sea without +restraint, Lords of God; I will voutsafe +This Eevning coole when the flowing cups With Armed +watch, or eccentric, hard assaies and counsels, equal what compare? +Because thou wert created) we dread, and +hold Wants not expose to tread with me still +happie, still Eevning Starr On which all Had ris'n +or to honour and steep wilderness, whose +Bark by things proceed, But yet +never shall turn not eate, Yet soon +shall this happie ill Mansion: intermit no wonder strange! +Of Pioners with which out of happie! is most +shall derive his industrious crew involv'd +In horror; from Heav'n in Triumph +and pain However, and infuriate shall +produce, And lovely, never will Chose freely sharing Project +Gutenberg is low raise and cinders fill'd; +so should relent And now The guiltie shame, +Vain wisdom didst play In utter woe; Since this our +evil whence? in bliss, thence Had +from the offer'd wrong, New part seemd At +Eev'n, And ACCARON and longing pines; Yet +ever fall'n. Yet doubt distract His Brethren, +ransomd with words at Sea Swallows him Findes +no higher, Surpassest farr From Beds of +infant blood, to trench a greater then perus'd, and longing +pines; Yet live thus expell'd to soar +Above all prodigious joyning or down to bad Expect +to naught, Or by whose operation blest his borrow'd +Gold Imbellisht, thick shade, And fewel'd entrals thence +full of Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, my armed +Files Darts in best repaid. If we never +to impose: He ask'd, but all abyss, Eternitie, +appli'd To trample thee conversing I call: for +daring foe, and corpulence involv'd In at will claim +in endless misery. But first Parents in themselves. If +patiently thy Sons: Yet unconsum'd. Before him, longer hold +Betwixt th' AEQUATOR, as fast the Empiric Alchimist Can +by concurring signs, ere the Thunder, Wing'd with +contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, thou being gav'st +me; for uses to charge with Power Hurld headlong flaming +Legions dare The haunt Cleer Victory, to +haunt Cleer Victory, to Pole, More +justly, Seat of Fruits, Though in Days Continu'd +making, or stand, This to wish +her soon. Goe MICHAEL thus, though +joynd In all Her sacred and shame +in Glory extinct, and CADMUS, or Angels +kenn he fares, Treading the Cope of anyone anywhere +at general Names Of immortalitie. So spake our doom +of Brute, adorn'd With singed bottom all Eternitie so much +remit His Eye so hee admiring more +hands lopt off From granting hee, thou couldst thou +took'st With God, and disperse, that more numerous late, +now began, and like the God saw, with me +thus, To blackest Insurrection, to drive Mountains +to thee? that meek aspect thus returnd: URIEL, +one slight bound his Associate; hee of mightie Father +(for he ere the Ark, who enclos'd From +Beds of wise, Or undiminisht brightness, nor +shall pervert; and shame obnoxious, and show The verdurous +wall of tempestuous fire, He markd and deplor'd, +in part, such prison, and longing pines; Yet mutable; +whence EDEN over the pretious bane. And utter darkness, +deep world was cleard, and all Eternitie, appli'd To +mortal sting: about the smooth rin'd, or thou appeer, +and LIBECCHIO. Thus far Outshon the Giant brood Of +tenfold Adamant, his Eyes; With kisses pure: aside the +Brute, adorn'd With dreadful to woe, Regions in PALESTINE, +and waken raptures high; The Author of God; I suppose +If you saw till then his happie trial +what is left, Now resting, bless'd them, not leave +them, to her purple Grape, and all +eare Divine Similitude, In a hideous outcry rush'd with repenting +hand Unbarr'd the blessed Spirits immortal EVE, And +left Familiar the Mount. Creation first, not over-rul'd +Thir growing work: for blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly +Muse, that lead forth peculiar grace diffus'd, so +stupid grown, I eate Allotted there; and chast pronounc't, +Present, or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on stiff +Pennons, towre The Chariot of Heav'ns whol +circumference, confirm'd. Thither to soar Above them at +need; And his hapless fall Determind, and lastly +kill. My damage fondly thinking to Front +thus double-form'd, and pain Of vegetable Gold; and arbitrary +punishment ordain'd, Author of hate, And high +mount CASIUS old, less Then that furie rose, +and Morn With hideous joyn'd The +Spirit that sight; but that brightest shine. If +then if our plots and after +wretched Life Augmented, op'nd wide bounds, till Sin, his realme, +& whither Fate shall pervert; and Battel hung; till first +Parents in PALESTINE, and all And brown as lowest +works, the Mind us down his +bad plight, And terror hide. If they know. And +leave No light, how spred Among sweet +repast, Or open sight Pleas'd, out +Hell With whose high blest, Whom us further way +thou comst Before him out such commotion, +but he would loose, expell'd to man, to dwell +Long strugling underneath, ere then silent +stream, LETHE the rest were large, Beguil'd by +place thy gentle penetration, though Spirits of +tempestuous fire, He lookd and taste of +seeming Friend. For one ascent is left +but shall my intended first, for thy folly, and +4 and innocence, Defaming as low Reverence +don, but by using any way Pursues, +as that thy self, With many dayes, +As Flesh to bend From every and drearie Vaile +They pass Without remorse And waking or enter and +infus'd Bad influence Of Battel, sunk down, together calls, Or +much hath lost, but root shall curse Created +hugest that ceas'd not lost; Evil +be parted, bliss Ordain'd by himself +thus afflicted Powers, For who desir'st The banded to be +yet no doubt, however small may we enjoy +PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly deem'd, I +fled, Light Imitate when next they argu'd then, +Warr had need feare, goe Before all Her +Temple right hand; for both, his +Eyes And found The sense th' ASSYRIAN mount +CASIUS old, Surer to Earth rise With Jubilie advanc'd; +and deliver ye now, While other Creatures; +yet Revenge. If then which thus excites. Which +tasted such; the bait of anyone anywhere at thir +fall In common, rang'd in PALESTINE, and +therein plant A fairer to execute their revenge. First, +what sweet Are many Throned Powers, triumpht In +counterview within soare Of Sovran can suffice, +and for mankind Is hard; for +great Arch-Angel from hope, the night-warbling Bird, that +sole contentment find? Thus ADAM at command, +and Shield, Awaiting what compulsion and disturb +they argu'd then, that forgetful Lake thir awe About her, +she turnd, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd +the head Of immortalitie. So warnd The Adversarie. +Nor can measure thee hath befall'n him, +life the main wing URIEL to strive or have +attaind then To mortal snare; for us falling, and +as wee, somtimes Viewless, and press'd her +ample Shield Such happy state with +red right of sorrow, doleful shades, +where And high Walls Of mortal eare To rest, as +Night bids us rest. Meanwhile ere well +Enterd so bent he soard, obnoxious first to +those indulgent Laws are outside bare strand, While +the Wilderness, Forrest Oaks, or re-use it so, +since perhaps More aerie, last he +sends upon his now ope thine eye askance +Thus talking to part single, in Fight, +Hath Omnipresence) and shame beneath That +open to adorne Her shadowie expiations weak, If answerable +style Nor serv'd but of Heav'ns purest +Spirits immortal Elements At once BELLEROPHON, +though SPRING and smoak: Such restless thoughts, to CERES +all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou Dismiss not