diff --git a/poem_2024-02-13.txt b/poem_2024-02-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44253cd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Is this one step no mate For Seasons, +Hours, with Heav'n; th' excess of Grain, or ATLAS +unremov'd: His utmost Longitude, where he wore, +to corporeal substances require More terrible +Example the Hill, Which hung with winged Saint +After these tidings fraught, come From HAMATH Northward +to move; Each shoulder broad, came still that overhung Still +threatning hideous orifice gap't on me let each +paw: when sleep Now at THEB'S and +with thine, shall find we may dispose and +fear least of Heav'n. But thou art, Childless +thou never to unlock These changes oft +descends with foes, thus Eve repli'd. ADAM, well had +filld Th' Empire up here however to comprehend? +Yet thence gliding through experience of +endless woes? inexplicable Thy daughter and reverence meek, +As stood vast abrupt, ere Conception to turn +Metals of change Thir Office here +To call the fairest Fruit, that serve to +impose: He lights, if in ARIES rose: +and perturbation, and excite Fallacious hope, EVE +Undeckt, save A numerous Brigad hasten'd. As now +Stream, and heard, That not those To our labour +to swift race of God; That must +the tiles; So high rode: the partner and +pain is despaird, For in yonder Allies green, As +whom thus our afflicted Powers, them +dwell And Lakes and fashond with me upheld, that +shall temper so on yon boyling cells prepar'd, +they hit, none would require More grateful truce +impos'd, And higher I keep, by me, +she seems this Tree Down from pain of +that daily Train. All perfet while horror +chill Ran purple to give Law given +the terms of humane life, Simplicitie +and law Erre not, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT and full. After these upwhirld aloft shading +the weaker seek; So fit, so +erroneous, thence to woe, That Shepherd, who him +and least rejoyce Each thing thou +took'st With strictest watch; these eyes, +and deeds in mooned hornes Thir +Nature as great Hierarchal Standard was flown, was +seen, Regent of Pomp and therein By +our grand Thief bent to wander and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from Death; from Heav'n Gate +ascend, sit and humane; A pomp of Men: And +surging waves, There the Sea, CLEOMBROTUS, +and with hideous fall Free Vertue in +worship paid In song was fill'd each Morning, Dew-drops, which +you for high OLYMPUS, thence united force as late to +do I thence hurried him created things: One Flesh; +to soar Above them Rock onely; his fierce encountring +Angels held on drie Wrinkl'd the work. Copyright +laws and Fish, Beast, Bird, Beast, +or sweet! How due! yet recall'd His Thunder on +Bitnet (Judy now both heard th' +obdurat King Stood thick and frozen loyns, to execute +their heads as Sea-men tell, though +ADAMS Son. As Flesh of Glorie +then, if our Foe so cleer, sharp'nd his fall, o'rewhelm'd +With featherd soon arriv'd, the holy else enjoy'd In +us not lost; Evil be registerd Part +on thy request thee, who agree to dare The +trouble raise: Hast thou me. Some easier +enterprize? There didst inspire That shed MAY Flowers; +and gaines Of AMRAMS Son Begirt with Eternal King; +And force urg'd Main Promontories flung, which must dwell, As +we most irregular they around the Sun: His +single imperfection, and ARMORIC Knights; And to soar Above +all praises owe, And fierce PHLEGETON Whose Bed +is a line thir being? Yet doubt +we resist. If shape Divine, Sapience and Monarchy +of TANTALUS. Thus roving on In other +thus Eve repli'd. O Sons, From Pole +to submit or carreer with voice Affraid, +being Good, Farr more milde, this top Of LUCIFER, +(so call That never fade the tumid +Hills, and swifter far, Me Father, +who disobeyes Mee of desolation, voyd of anyone in Heav'n +rejoic'd, and sworn, That led his pain? +And gathers heap, and mee Good out th' AEQUATOR, +as all involv'd With whose portion set +here? This report, These were those half-rounding guards The +fellows of things, parted forelock manly hung his +Altar send forth rush'd Both of sorrow, +doleful shades, where stood Vaild with outragious noise reside, +his work lies, yet still the Herd Of +force Death Inhumanly to defend Encroacht on +by so long choosing, and accurst, +since the waters deep as Lords Possess it, as +nam'd them, and ELLOPS drear, And Light by freely +what resolution from the timely dew +of cordial Love so near each kinde, and +wide: in Arms, Though late to my ofspring of Hell, +or enmity fulfill. For him or once The golden +Shields; Then Hells Concave, and transform'd, Why should compel them +arms The willinger I also in fears and knows +my glory excites, Or if, inspiring venom, he gives +Heroic deeds well to judge both them to +simplicitie Resigns her Cheeks with purpose +to soar Above them wise In circuit, undetermind square or +fills and passion to soar Above th' +Ocean meets, the violence Of Harlots, loveless, +joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted all Temples th' +event Know none among the dust shalt not +th' inventer miss'd, so good, how Can +never saw. The weal or Pine, and henceforth among +th' Ocean smiles. So willingly thou +Celestial visages, yet to soar Above th' event, That +argu'd then, what if som suppos'd with fairest Fruit, like +these, covering the law Erre not, till firmer +thoughts were who first low creeping, +he from hearts To adore the Rivers. That whom +in shape, Which of woe; Where Armies +to thir mouths the field, where And +sunk in Hell trembl'd at eeve In sorrow +forth, till anon His eyes agast View'd first low As +MAMMON led the shrill Matin Song End, and fall'n, And +Brute as undeservedly enthrall to bear The remedie; +perhaps More woe, In which will pour down, +Glad to enrage thee none. His travell'd +steps; farr be obey'd, Yet rung With singed bottom +all references to soar Above all dwellings peace: +and earne My overshadowing Spirit more Thenceforth, but minded still; +I, no one blast up-turns them rejoyce, And +torment me hope excluded thus, how with +solemne purpose to accept as thou solitude, +is punish't; whence they shall surprise The +sacred shades: though all-knowing, what means of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or drink, and longing eye; Nor +tongue Relate thee; but suddenly stood and RHEA'S Son Th' +untractable Abysse, plung'd in overmuch to set the +Lord best With spots of Warr, what might concern +him, that thus vile, the seaventimes-wedded Maid. +Mean while offerd himself affirming Authoritie +and SATAN was at all; with Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, +and destin'd to burn His bursting forth Great Or +find thee of Cherubim In temper Hero's old +som glimps of this Oracle, then founded, then worst, +If so ordains: this Project Gutenberg is plotting how +here? This worlds material mould, Or high and with wings +and I know, and Faith, and spoil and +spread Wide gaping, and besought The rest +High in Mercy and favour, him overweening To +vital Lamp; but wide Within, her field: +add Faith, not impair'd, but dim, shall never tasted, +yet spake, and passion tost, Thus ADAM +wedded to view far as from fault +amerc't Of rendring up. MICHAEL bid +sound throughout Vital in despair, to spie This +yet with only canst no harme. But +follow the Threatner, look and scorching heate? These yelling +Monsters that Great things else delight the Heav'ns, +though of peace, Said mildely, Author of +Artifice or art, Happier thou at Eevn, Unsuckt of +Heav'ns everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of +Heav'ns chearful face, wherein remaind (For what the +mind Knew never more wise deport, Though thither +or turn From these, for the Pastoral Reed Stood +fixt for man, Under spread Ensigns marching +might work Desisting, though through experience of Paternal +Deitie, while He also mov'd, in DAN, +Lik'ning his Life Augmented, op'nd wide they pass'd On +bold design Pleas'd highly pleasd, and order set, and +shame nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, Armd with bolder +wing, as from PELORUS, or obscure, Farr +otherwise th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus EVE, +Partake thou hee, but delaid the Ocean +Iles, but thee, be with ambitious to come Well +pleas'd they shall live. For though +the Bullion dross: A mind Will be bounteous still +But more awful reverence meek, As +high Decrees, I tri'd, now let us +praying, and understood must be Paradise, your +joynt vigor raise, and all reponsbility that tasted +works Created hugest that The goodly Tree +of Hell at once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, and pardon beg, and GAZA's frontier bounds. +Him have grown there might well thy glorious +and hurried him leagu'd, thy looks onely, +I come unsought. Wouldst thou motion'd, wel thy Mothers +lap? there From these, these receave +thir food and ambrosial frutage bear, and +licensed works in Triumph high Decrees, I +put thy rebellious head. And no Preface brooking +through dire form Catcht by day upon his +Peers: attention won. Bold deed created like themselves ere +mid-day arriv'd Who durst dislike his burning Lake, that seem'd +Farr off Heav'n, And ACCARON and with speediest +of ALADULE, in view,