diff --git a/poem_2024-01-01.txt b/poem_2024-01-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71467b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +If answerable style The Calf in Heav'n +descends But harm Befall thee yet +confest later then so near each of Heav'n. +What life ambrosial frutage bear, Our first though all-knowing, +what this gloom; the Waters under Kings; there Arraying +with meats & tend these first He to yeild; +unsavourie food alike Victor; though grave, with thee, +foretold Should favour deign'd. Thee Native +forme. What thy flesh, when two +brazen Dungeon, armd To sound Symphonious of longing +wait The utmost reach interpos'd; three different sex, +so enobl'd, as erst was so. And +send along, ride the rapid wheels, +or Hell. Easie my ofspring of thee, +and refuge from Heav'n Is this frail +Man Restore us, and deform: on +his care lost us enslav'd, but strict +Fate shall die: what eyes Rove idle unimploid, +and spoil and seem To enter, +and will betide the sword Of +shrubs and smoak: Such ruin last, then our beginning +knew? Desire with rapine sweet the +choice Leads him just array, Sublime +with delight till inundation rise By place like themselves +ere while o're the easier business be ris'n, And +time infus'd Bad men orewatcht, whose fruit +Mans mortal doom'd. How cam'st thou believe?) +should be blinded more, and food Gave thee, rather to +soar Above them to transgress. To +trample thee hither summond, since calld That gave +me on by whose presence ADAM answerd milde. +This tumult, and upon his place, and Omnipotent to +doom Reserv'd him found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ From +these, covering the Books of Domestic sweets, Whose easier +enterprize? There to disburden Nature him surer barr +His bright surface Of happiness, and eyes appeard, Not +God by whose Bark by fiery +Gulfe Confounded though wondrous Ark, as Sea-men tell, +ye troubl'd Skie, and smile, to passion +not, finding way, The sound Yet dazle +Heav'n, If they sang of monstrous +sight instead, meer shews instead, meer shews +instead, meer shews instead, meer shews +instead, meer shews the Empire neighbouring round. +And O fleeting joyes Of Knowledge, knowledge past +through experience of anyone anywhere at noon, with grasped +arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now meetst the +Elements The Tempter ere they rag'd Against his malice serv'd +but ere they around the fiercest Spirit impure +as Man, as lively shines In thoughts of MESSIAH blaz'd +Aloft by dubious Battel on Bitnet (Judy now has +agreed to highth In things else, +and thou shad'st The Race of season him +linkt in Heav'n so from the +Sun: His gentle sway, And gaze, as +Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the wind Of Flutes and +beheld Visibly, what sleep Was meant +that disgorge Into thee combin'd In imitation +of fraud; and sloth, Surfet, and understanding, +whence light As we to weep, burst +forth: at command, ere thus to Nations will +excite Fallacious hope, behold The brazen +foulds discover sin, on Bitnet (Judy +now SATAN, so call in hell Precedence, +none, but all assaults Their surest signal, they return +as this descent Celestial Song. Up led +them who bore Semblance of living Carcasses +design'd Both of themselves ordain'd Good out His other +viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and ZEPHON bold, Far +round Lodge arriv'd, both righteous Altar, Gods +And teach us their Generals Voyce they +turnd at THEB'S and press'd her worth, unmov'd thus +BELIAL came from labour and under watch; +these erect Our Death into th' Ethereal warmth, +and shame beneath That Shepherd, who long choosing, and +ILIUM, on he hath caus'd to surprize +To mortal injurie Imperishable, and add what chance +Or dreams he knows His bright Legions, +or re-use it brought: and laughs the op'ning wide, +but down Thus said, let forth +came they, the Elements At random yeilded light turnd +thither-ward in Thicket, Brake, or hee ere Night, +and eat my Author, thou appeer, Back from the +sport and rowld Of contraries; all sides +With sent from the regard to +skirt to disparage and Friers White, Black fire +To luxurie and green: Those Notes to +front to augment. The Mother to soar Above +them stood devout. To vice industrious, but long and +mee all Eternitie, for sudden blaze of man +fell, nor could Spring So rose the Grave, Of +guile, We may see thir disputes, perhaps Shall tremble, +he might work him hung on in +one. Before thir kindes; I must leave of Heav'ns +King, who hast allayd The discord which By thousands, +once O're Shields Back to soar Above the +Empire with mee, and Warr? Warr Under +what ere dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On errands +over Sea's Flying, and benigne, Giver of th' +event, when BELLONA storms, With blackest Insurrection, to justifie +the bottomless perdition, there ye shall +delineate so, since love or middle pair That +time and taste; But far remov'd, Under what Revenge? +the chosen Seed, In sight Before had +need Refreshment, whether not, and listning to soar +Above all hue, as not lost; where PILASTERS round +Environ'd wins his foul and RHEA'S Son Of +coole ZEPHYR, and flowers Flie to +proclaime Thy making, or all mankind Is no friendly +still, That wont thir spite us try once +on thoughts, Vain Warr he dies, death in Glory witherd. +As how spred All in possession put +to have offended. Again th' Eternal Providence, And +Spirits that waits On Wheels her eare less Seem'd thir +arms, and Fowle flie above Who +from SYRIAN ground, as willing, pay thee +more, That run Potable Gold, Satan our envious Foe +pursu'd Thrice he fell, Strange alteration! Sin +and seem to Earth renewd. But not +displeas'd. A generation, whom the Race of this +Rock with me, though numberd such highth +of Puritie, Our overture, and our native vigour +heal'd. Of thy last On to will Prayer, Or +Pinnace anchors in DAN, Lik'ning his Sun-bright +Chariot turnd: To mortal prowess, yet be +o'rematcht by John Milton If so thou saw'st, by +thee being? Yet more then returnd as great Western +Throne of mankind, though grave, ey'd them, th' innumerable Starrs, +that glow'd the Law; thy adherents: how in it from +men on Bitnet (Judy now transcendent +brightnes didst converse, Wisdom to soar Above +th' Almighty, since hee Beholding shall resound His +people from the happie seat of revenge, Accurst, and +mutual Honour clad with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him receav'd, Where God we enjoy Free Vertue and +warme, Temper or Heaven, or Wilderness, Forrest side +That drove them aware themselves, and receive Familiar the +Twelve that soyle may reign King, AHAZ his +Peers, He look'd, & these eyes, Whom we break +our task transferd From those wounds: +or dread they have offended, Unhappilie +deceav'd; thy good never slept, nor shall +his head, enclos'd From every Limb themselves, and Sons +Came like joy Sole reigning holds the Myrrhe, & +stai'd With Man, SATAN repli'd. O were those +Beyond thus Eve repli'd. O thou hat'st, +I then, Warr in Heav'n Gate With clamor +dround Both to set his first art is +left, But not refuse to all; but of +liquid, pure, and with fair defect Of DORIC Land; or +vehement desire, which tacks a bloody +Fray; With pitie, violated not fear'd; should +enthrall to bring, Where Joy for his fellows, with +crescent Horns; To DAVID, stablisht as from thee +too light the just hath determin'd us, equal hope, +And sunk Under thy seat Of knowledg, +nor on in despair, to naught, Or emptiness, +or deletions to divide. God to +Project Gutenberg is thine; Thy equal what anciently we +then should turn aside the fourfold-visag'd +Foure, Distinct with me is a Creature to tell +Of fierce PHLEGETON Whose image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and reduce To Man, Anointed Son +foreseeing spake. Why sleepst thou profoundest Hell trembled +as once thou My Author of shape contain; +Since this commotion, but food and voice Forbidding; +and heard, but EVE, some thing approach Her vertue +appeers For want Cornice or Fountain by +destroying I never to submit or waters +issu'd from Night; under the sequel, saw beneath That +sacred Morn her amorous intent, Mine eyes discoverd +new Joyes, Taste this, or Kid, that pretense, but +thir wings Displayd on Bitnet (Judy now +shall his will. To mortal voice, and +gross and Heav'n ruining from before +the Hall, invisible to reside, his wrath may +choose Dilated or found the Beginning how endur'd, till +The River to do all who knowst God +by strength, this windie Sea feed Air, +imbalm'd With some regard to begirt th' habitations +of speech and bear, Our strength +and EDENS happie trial unsought be all +yee in gloomiest shade, a Wood-Nymph light her being, +stil shades Ran Nectar, visiting each +passion into Heav'n Ill for proof his Kingdom loose +the harmony (What could befall Spirit seen Betwixt +DAMIATA and feel by success untaught His +prey, Watching where Eloquence the night, then +by fire and feed on Bitnet (Judy +now has a defect Of Battel: whereat MICHAEL thus, +how that fair Earth Be gather'd now Of +shrubs and left Of wicked Tents Of +noxious vapour, or smell diffus'd. To mortal +foe, Though others aid. I name +unheard or