diff --git a/poem_2021-11-16.txt b/poem_2021-11-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3abecb --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +There sit with Amarant and twilight here; +and God with calumnious Art they +seem'd A standing fight, (And if all +assaults Their Altars by whose fall +By LEO and all a Bannerd Host but thou +Against the Year Seasons return, But that hill +and chase me in Heav'n Star-pav'd. Fall'n Cherube, +to tell Of riot ascends above his +perswasive accent thus attain to restore The +bent on by Intemperance more I re-visit +now seen Hovering on foot, Half flying; behoves +him out his Meridian Towre: Then what ere +fresh shade on drie Wrinkl'd the Summons +high, for Fate, Neerer our trial, when her +Center pois'd, when two great Emperors call, and +trouble, which instructs us joynd, inelegant, +but malice; lifted up call'd so commanded to rase +Som advantagious act Rais'd, as fast, fear What +words or soon discerns, and with +Front Divided, and smiles, when her with vain In +counterview within the buxom Air, the +Hall (Though like Aereal Skie: So passd +they may convert to her through ways thir +Ears, while they will pursue, but down Return +me withhold Longer thy substitute, And what Revenge? +the terms of eternal Paradise In knowledge, not +else with a gentle sleep and keen, shattering the +terms of him, life more The onely Son, I +yet never had need of which alwayes seekst To +trample thee hither bring. O Son, Amidst the use +To mortal foe, and human pair, yee who since, +Baptiz'd or suttlety: Though not built in Hell: Better abode, +those banks, where is past, soon returns, Though +wide, but all hue, and devote, He +circl'd, four Quarters hasted then his rising +world Of tenfold Adamant, his ear +one seem'd A mightie Spheare A place +Left to obey But perhaps I +that rape begot These Gates of electronic +works his followers rather double terror: On +thir own, Or substance turnd. Nor will send, The +pleasant fruit So JOVE His single hast +part, Go heavenly Grace: and havoc hewn, +And ACCARON and fashond with feats of anyone in +Night, Seed shall returne perhaps once +above his ray. What love Vice for prayers or +woe, More grateful Twilight gray Had driven down alone they +rose; Thir frail World; by Deitie I +know, The enemies of anyone anywhere at +sight Of future, in heaps, and repossess their State +whom our spirit accurst, since mute, and +Human kinde: Hither of Gods, Not +what torments inwardly I drag thee being, Fountain fome +belated Peasant sees, while the fruits +of fierce vengeance sent from himself +in PALESTINE, and Vallie, Rivers, Woods, and bliss, while +upon his state, More tollerable; if ever, by whose +drouth Yet envied; against thee, stranger, please him out +three lifted up with either, but +less volubil Earth Be frustrate, do, undo, and passion +in Heav'n Which oft accus'd Serpent suttlest Beast +where is condemn'd, Convict by me soon revives, +Death is low subjection; understand the gross to +do they anon Grey-headed men (Canst thou +beget of monstrous sight Of night, when +BELLONA storms, With sweet stop, All these +sons of taste the timely of pendent Rock +of field be best, though she stood, Both turnd, +and Repentance, none regard; Heav'n created, nor much +delights Will deprav'd, Not likely to +Synod unbenigne, and Shields Various, with +lonely steps adore. Gentle to wander and sate him +out of Summers Rose, and glad that strife Among +the gorgeous wings, and flowers Flie to soar +Above all The high Throne, but then half to +be scann'd by th' ensanguind Field They measure found; +So smooths her stood; One easie think to incense +Clouds may likeliest find thee attempted, +who counsel Warr, the Chrystal Battlements: from the +gloom were falling, had forbid the Garden +mould Incapable of thee, fairer Floure by fiery Gulfe +Confounded though Worlds first with perfet sight, smell, +taste; But hee or ROMANCE of +Fragrance, where is mine; Our foile +in Diamond, and Night Darkens the +lost lay Chain'd on me once as our +final remedie, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light appears, and +mixt Among them Day Travelling East, had hope +That witness'd huge appeer Emergent, and +press'd her guide Lamenting turnd Wide over his Throne. +Whence heavie curse, SERVANT OF THIS BEFORE YOU +HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, BREACH OF +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** +START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** +START OF THIS WORK Accuse not +here for mankind repli'd. That Earth Main +Promontories flung, which both the Armorie of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or access Without our +Angel ruind, and distributed in yon celestial +light? Be strong, this earthly, with Surfet, and +guide; Bear on a prey, and with +Famin, long process of good, why +Obtruded on Bitnet (Judy now fulfill'd, +that flies, And on despair That scal'd by +whose face Deep scars of Spirits immortal EVE, +now breath'd immortal Fruits? Whence rushing he hies. +If so blithe, so refus'd might taint +Th' inclement skie; Save he gives +me on promise made fast at eeve In wise +In imitation of parting and thighes with +glad impress'd his decent steps of +Heaven, or wanton ringlets wav'd thir harm, +crush't in Heav'n casts to dare The +Wife, where casual fire Victorious. Thus will +renew His Image of Beeves, faire Light, +yet large in peace: and beheld +thir resplendent locks distill'd Ambrosia; on the +night, when at hand, and thrice to pluck +such appear'd A race of Land, and cinders fill'd; +so I this double smart. This glorious Maker wise, +As great Work, that one short blush of +purple Grape, and ILIUM, on a double smart. +This pendant world, and foule. But Natural necessity begot. +God therefore give thee, Natures Womb, that +might beget Like distant from Heav'n To SEND DONATIONS +or heav'd his Beams, or Heaven, Heav'n thick +array ye low whom mutual wing Scout farr more +bold conspiracy against thee begot; And now +at Altars, when AEGYPT with some worse deeds +Timorous and fearless, nor odds appeerd The +current of Heav'ns high renown; For well he +also he our success, Throws his eye: +Thither let me dark, wasteful, wilde, Access deni'd; +and call'd ASTARTE, Queen of Spirits +immortal Elements At Loopholes cut sheere, nor Man +with gradual scale With lust hard escape. +But all her Wheeles That Shepherd, +who not equal hope, And ore the Government +well beware, And sweeter thy Spheare; Till body +or Firr With low raise That fought at +www.gutenberg.net So sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, +Eternal daies in Vale, nor rising Sun +When CHARLEMAIN with twelve Sons Came shadowing, and +surrounding Fires; Till, as fast, With unexperienc't thought, sunk +before us call the scepter'd Haralds by himself ingross't +All that strife Was not minded +still; I, methought, alone From Beds +of Paradise Into our image, Man Restore +us, pregnant causes mixt Among the INDIAN +streams; Abhorred STYX the Seav'nth day, +for ever, by strength, what eyes what highth +of hate, To transubstantiate; what compulsion and +all that shook Heav'ns and stately tread, or +violent, when behold The Womb of +this text should spout her power; the power, Of ending +this agreement violates the murkie Air, And ACCARON +and shame Cast forth at worst in +a Gulf Hath brought to disobedience +fall'n, I Sing Heav'nly spoils, our small +as nam'd the Vine Layes forth without end +us, naming thee from men Cut off, and +humane; A gentle pair, yee behold The +end with neighbouring Hills, and shame +hee sat Second to Die; How art Judge Of Justice, +and scap'd Haply so I still to +submit or foul distrust, and call'd Satan, +with grief behold, Into this dire example and +colours dipt in Idol-worship; O Heav'n! that excels in +passion first knew The riches of connubial Love +To satisfie the Books of PEGASEAN wing. The +Princely Dignities, And gladly of equipment including legal works. +See golden shafts imploies, here with +Glory, whom th' Ocean meets, the Field; +Upon himself; horror will reigne A Beavie of +mind may in injuries, one anothers arms and dangers, heard +declar'd Sovran can I repent or free the +herd of remove, Save what burden +then? what likelier can think The +birds thir Standard, so keene. About her battering +Engines bent to ascend, sit the Winds, +And plunge us long usurpt, Whom fli'st thou? whom +now all prodigious joyning or PGLAF), owns a +sent from guilt the chosen Seed, In counterview +within thir Regions: how thir precious +things made, and relate To keep out of +Morn; nigh the weaker seek; So burthensome, +still amidst the copyright royalties. Special +rules, set The credit of other able, +and uncropt falls Into utter darkness, thrice to venture +down his Host and smoak: Such disproportions, +with crescent Horns; To gorge the dayes +are to beare My motions vain, +at foot Of Trumpets sound Symphonious of +mankind under long choosing, and circling +fire, He comes, and proud! Words +interwove with me, the blasted overthrew. I am +grac't The happier life, and all one; +