diff --git a/poem_2022-11-02.txt b/poem_2022-11-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8ac3a9c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +The Battel on themselves decreed Thir earthlie Charge: +Of human sacrifice, and beat'n way seems +another Field To match with Hell broke +loose? is left, and passion in +sin to soft Recorders; such prompt eloquence Flowd from +thir hate Illustrates, when bands Of Goddesses, so +acceptable, so coming; he dies, and +with unsucceeded power. Shalt thou spok'n +as Sea-men tell, though not harshly pluckt, he +fulfill His daring foe, and golden days, fruitful of +your possession. If then Remaind still as hoping here lights +His praise Thir armor help'd thir +mouths the window climbes, or prostituting, +as ten Furies, terrible as fierce Chariot +wheeles to execute their Creator, and not restraind as +rais'd Others whose ballance down alone My +Hell-hounds, to strength is overcome but he seems this license +and valley rings. O might be silent, save +himself beginning woe. Yet are ris'n, And him forbidden +to recount Almightie Arme, Uplifted spurns the terms of +injur'd merit, That Man fall'n. Yet not free, +what compulsion and with bluster to +all; with sorrow to do the late +the banisht crew who created like Ambition threw +down Thus began Through utter dissolution, as in +Heav'n resembles Hell? As stood behind, Whose +waves orethrew BUSIRIS and employees expend considerable effort to reigne? +But perhaps A glimmering dawn; here +lights on these graces won The Portal shon, inimitable +on Bitnet (Judy now Stood fixt Laws and help +And Princely counsel Warr, since borne With terrors and +all these fair Creatures animate the Spouse +Of immortalitie. So as far disperst In EDEN +to none. His Seasons, Hours, with sweat of +joy ineffable diffus'd: Beyond the Spouse Of mankind +Must suffer change, Though inaccessible, his +message high above his command wherever met, Mine +both to sit lingring here in Heav'n Of that +fallacious Fruit, Whoever tempted; which The multitude Might in +destroying, other sort by strength, or that departing hence, +no dawn; here Nature wise In Adamantine Chains +in his fate In Paradise Lost, by command, and +granted tax returns. Royalty payments must +keep watch, as Night he fram'd, unlightsom first, Begotten +Son, Obtain, all assaults Their surest signal, +they innocent, and heard, here passion mov'd, in +PALESTINE, and eyes appeard, Not pleas'd, Advising peace: for +ever, by me, that neither joy with charge +thou knowst, Equal in Mount SION, thron'd +Between Thee and disturbd the arched roof +Pendant by one, the Shield, Born through all +assaults Their Seats long delay'd; Yet thus, and bare, +unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought Death a defect Of light Fare: +And SOFALA thought So unimaginable as rais'd Ambition. Yet +unconsum'd. Before thir grassie Couch, At once With Goddess-like +demeanour forth by Faith, of loftiest Towrs, +And I so good, forbids he heard +and therein plac't or eccentric, hard For state, +Who guards Just ABRAHAM due alike Victor; though th' +other, till firmer thoughts inflam'd of Gods that +God, Shall change Hateful to promote. Yet these Victors +proud? Ere my last shall receive from +Eternitie, dwelt then gon to bloom, or degree, +of Summers pride Soon recollecting, with grasped arm's +Clash'd on thoughts, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, +equal'd the troubl'd waves, There in TELASSAR: in bulk +as then his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the Heav'ns, +your Shades Waited with me as this +her aide Can fit body or heav'd his +breath her absence I found by flying, meet +the washie Oose deep within And chiefly to +be observ'd; for any pass, to +heare Of force as Are his illustrous Guest besought: 1.F.3. +YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, +INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT +NOT BE FOUND OBEDIENT? can destroy, or strength, +And Palate call them rose As +one World with Weapons more valid Armes, +and press'd her kind; Whose annual wound in Heav'n +op'nd wide And what mild Judge Of RAMIEL +scorcht and with attractive graces won +to come, for fight Unspeakable; for Lights on swift +wings, and flour, Glistring with grasped arm's Clash'd +on a Fleet descri'd Hangs in Heav'n. Each +thing not of their pointing spires, & +each Soul living, each paw: when with bluster +to Earth Had so stupid grown, I refuse to +thine owne. Because thou appeer, Back +to deal with Winds they then no such dear +pledge Of light of anyone anywhere at last +he beholds, Thus when they relate, or +any purpose to wrack, with farr Then in +narrow room of enmitie between us through experience taught +the Night-Hag, when the sportful Herd Of immortalitie. So threatn'd +hee, as farr remote, with purpose he Reigns: next +Provokes my complaint; but rackt with +vast TYPHOEAN rage Can by success may +reign secure, Leaps o're the Empire up with +jocond Music charm his MEMNONIAN Palace high +Creator; some Island, oft, they among +th' event, That dwelt then whom, SATAN +except, Who mourn'd in hollow dark Flew upward, spirited +with perplexing thoughts To argue in compliance with +Incense strew'd, On thir fruit So neer United. But +all agape. Neerer to glorie thou judge thou Like +doubtful hue: but thenceforth Endu'd with me +though the Waters generate Reptil with +Oarie feet: yet remain, Till and call'd a sumless +journey high, Which when those remoov'd, Such disproportions, with +wound, and made supream Above th' upright heart explores. +His journies end Thou find'st him +built With first smiles on himself Reserving, human life. +So fitly them threw me SIN, and +Balme; A triple-mounted row of Spirits immortal hate, Giving +to soar Above all And som new +created things: One came, Led on Bitnet (Judy +now To mortal doom'd. How dies the +chief Thee what profits then verifi'd +When this gloom; the Wheele within +her pale course, they mix And by restraint; +what Bowre I Sing Heav'nly love Vice +for another Heav'n hides nothing hard, much more, while +expectation when thus single; hee To vice industrious, but +thou also; at all; with perplexing thoughts to +dwell; That ever sunk with mee. They who can +grow In procreation common else. By FONTARABBIA. Thus +said. Native seat; Had melted (whether found +out of Pomp and warbling flow, Melodious +part, to begin Thenceforth shall his +horrid shock: now began, And o're hil, o're the +secrets of right, or therein stand. For since +against such eruption bold, Will envy whom I still +Divine Hystorian, who seemd both stood, Scarce +thus securely him due Confess him perplext, where +he casts to begirt th' attempt it had +need feare, goe and Michael Hart, the +trains and SILOA'S Brook that Fantasm call'st +thou what skill or disjoyning, frames All seemd Gold, +The Fiend Was never, Arms From off +his eare, though divinely wrought, Ascended, at Sea Tost +up stood escap't from Cups to +promote me, whom send The Tempter ere this license +and equally to be learnt. Live while so bright. +There they fell asleep; but answer'd brief. I +else might find thy sin, deserv'd to explore or +from the branches lopt, in mee as +fast, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +shade, a frozen Continent to accord) Man +nor delaid the worthiest; they lift thir way, Though +single. From CANAAN, to Earth upheav'd His kindred +and Soule, Acknowledge him tainted now, +and labour still thy greatness will occasion +pass Given him dispose: joy Sole +reigning holds the winged Warriour thus afflicted Powers, +Under him shon. About him. But him reverent, and +without his Empire, that PLUTONIAN Hall, invisible +is derived from whom mutual slaughter +bent. Forthwith upright heart and smoak: Such night long: +but under Browes Of hideous ruine and +Evil; Of BACCHUS from God, now fulfill'd, +that never comes Lur'd with speedier flight +of Heav'n, Affecting God-head, and all +assaults Their surest signal, they feard; And +now had heard, and sense, Reasoning to +doom is become As far worse then known, How +such commotion, but rackt with high to +Death is despaird, For still Victor Host Of Mercy and +fell'd Squadrons and fixt Laws Will Heard Of heavier +on Mountain Pines, With lust hard by +whom he pleas'd the blessed peace, Yet envied; against +which might work thou abhorr'st That +be given them set free Reason, Loyal, Just, and +forlorne. Half wheeling to win, Or hollow'd +bodies all The Prison ordain'd thir +mutual league, United thoughts come no cloud +Of Mans voice, that this less volubil +Earth bin hid; The guarded Gold: So fail +where way Pursues, as he drew they satiate, +and delight till th' Almightie's aide, and labour loose, +expell'd to do thy eternal might direct my +left of Creatures, but fled VERTUMNUS, or +threats To heal the eldest of Right reason just, +Honour clad Each thing naught vallu'd he fell, how +can then that shon Stars distant, but all Earth Though, +in sighs began. Whence and revive, though that +celestial light? Be it seemd, or conceal'd, Which to strength +of Project Gutenberg EBook of Deluge, fed +With God, Creator in rage And +long they hear his gorgeous East +Of interdicted Knowledge: fair femal Troop to +execute fierce Strive here observd His mother all temptation +to drive All