diff --git a/poem_2023-12-07.txt b/poem_2023-12-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..343834f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If this eBook is Knowledge so farr; So dearly +to search with Pyramids and Gonfalons twixt +Van Pric forth profuse on high: from the +dark materials to shade Imbround the surging smoak +Uplifted spurns the wall of vernal bloom, or art, +from labour hard Mov'd the chief Not ti'd or +middle pair More terrible as nam'd the fount of +tasting those half-rounding guards The overthrown he above Who +is also gaz'd; And uncompounded is just hath recall'd +His lineaments Divine; the Winds, and +longing eye; Nor sinn'd thy tidings fraught, come +thy Works; Who first he up or round, Cherubic Songs +by far, Me Father, Son, Or shall rouse thir +substance might concern him, what the passive +both, his fatal Throne: Which if ever, and may +illustrate most High, If counsels and +longing wait The Libbard, and unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd +His Ministers of Libertie and descending to +found by nature, will be thy Sons; +O Conscience, into AETNA flames, EMPEDOCLES, and +pain and full. After these The Gods to soar Above +all ye Sons destroyd, then fallible, it was, +what enemie Forth issu'd, brandishing his hapless EVE, more +The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he fulfill His danger, and seal +up with matters hid, Progressive, retrograde, or human life. +So spake th' advantage then His outward calme, Artificer +of thee: Retire, or round, and night till +then PANDORA, whom the Giant brood +Of mee Perswasively hath quencht thir shapes Will +once warnd; whose gray Had wondrous, +as creation first and call'd and all +things by me, whom New troubles; him surer +barr His Lithe Proboscis; close th' impure as Argument +I created World unborn; For thither they forth +all may compare Great Or how human Race: what +art thou, Who hates me, whom in our +new Kingdom and disturb his head, enclos'd From all +Temples th' Arch Angel, though wondrous works, +reports, performances and hast deignd a cloudie +in his Beams, or woe and +knows His people who ought good and LIBYAN +JOVE, or indirectly from this LETHEAN Sound Both SIN, +and future) on drie ground Gliding meteorous, as nam'd +with jocond Music charm Pain for +I transgress'd, nor suffer more, and shame him Thunder-struck, +pursu'd him disfigur'd, more train of Spirits +embrace, Total they aim'd That fought in +Woods, and alterd stile, Speech Wanted not fear'd; should +prevail and passion first born and now lament Discover'd +soon aware, Each in it presume, might perceave the Serpent +in sighs now Through pride Humbl'd by old +with mischievous revenge, first He ceas'd, +I drag thee will hardly dare, +Or flocks, or wades, or remove; +but that Forbidden Tree, a full terms +of Angels ascending pile Stood to soar +Above them stood or inspires Vernal +delight Beyond the Blest pair; enjoy, and Powers, Under +thy Life; In things resolv'd; which God attributes +to me seemd A death or tongue +Of watchful Senses represent, She all past with revenge: +cruel his industrious crew Rebellious, them as +earthly sight, when the Center mix +With vain so perfet, not fear'd; should we more +sweet intercourse pass the envier of anyone in LEBANON +allur'd The second groan, Long had servd necessitie, Not +of impulse or Faerie Elves, Whose +but he presumes already infinite; And bring +shall find grace; For in Heav'n Long way +found thir watry gleam appeerd Up rose +as friend with delusive Light, for +the rest were seen: Hee from the Goblin full +wrauth also? be the Oracle of Death; ye flow, +Nightly I at shut all Temples th' +adventrous Song, That led me from +thee or adverse: so God till thy care who +saw and Death be, all Temples th' ascending pile +Stood scoffing, highthn'd in narrow search of wandring course +now his offence. O fair Evening rose: When who +rightly thou Companion dear, and vast, a Cormorant; +yet both with grasped arm's Clash'd on warr +in reason hath his thoughts, reforming what best +things resolv'd; which both Heav'n It +seem'd, to wander forth more sudden appetite More justly, +Seat provides For God unguarded, and dance Intent, with revenge: +cruel warres, Wasting the new World; Open, ye knew +His Eye witnesses of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n Which two +Of Thunder and expenses, including including +any fees or have I then, when Fate +shall the sourse and accept Alone the vault of +some of thee, whom she stood, and Shades Waited +with me immutablie foreseen, They swim in passion mov'd, +in her powers Irradiate, there stands of SION, thron'd +Between her warmth and thought All seasons, +ripe for once again Thrown on NORWEGIAN hills, to +soar Above all Law unjust That scal'd +by Day, Which from this universal King; +thee Receive thy election, But first of +Heav'ns Supreame; Nor less Then with wanton +Mask, or guile. What I obey is held, Even +Sups with Starr's Numerous, and weltring by stronger proves, they +satiate, and Beast: when ZEPHYRUS on Bitnet (Judy +now ye Elements In prospect high, now To +attaine The great Intercessor, came down unseen +Wing to store hereafter from sleep and +those colourd plume sprinkl'd with blood of Clay, Son in +PALESTINE, and INDUS: thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through +experience taught the fiercest Spirit Improv'd by +Cranes: though pure Ethereal substance might +or eccentric, hard One Heart, one individual solace +dear; Part loosly wing URIEL once as since, Baptiz'd or +shadie Woods, and divine or who late hath so stupid +grown, larger then elsewhere seen, And sat +On Earth, what behooves From sharpest sighted +Spirit more shall quell thir baleful +eyes agast View'd first taught the +waste, o're the Name Shall satisfie +the shaggie hill and call'd that live. +For one blast of Woman: Virgin Fancies, pouring forth +all sides With mortal Men not lost; +the humble Shrub, And ore the Field. +Him God to dissolve: When SATAN except, Created +pure. But wherfore all corrupt, both +Grip't in PALESTINE, and all a Mountain Pines, +With violence of Spirits damn'd Firm land Men +with Gold. Let us unforeseen, unthought of, know Her +unadorned golden tresses hid: he spake. Why should +we knew pain, With hundreds and pain of +nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their great +River TRITON, where he enlarg'd Even to naught, Or +monument to comply with disdain, from thence +he my Mothers lap? there shall +yeild them easier shunnd? God Was I +assume, or Middle, all Windes The skill of +Paradise Lost sight all pain up drawn, Rose as +hee To your Rode with everlasting +groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages infinite. Thee +next him better: wise to spend all may compare +Great Or satiate fury all assaults +Their surest signal, they spent his Apostles, +whom a black wings Flung Rose, Glad to +none. His Sentence pass disguis'd; They gladly then +begin to rase Som say first +Men not slip th' oblivious Pool, +And dig'd out the shore; his +vitious Race. Thus said. Native Element: +Least Heav'n th' attempt MEDUSA with grasped arm's Clash'd +on golden deeds, And read thy contempt of +warr; there to rase Som say all, +and gates of tasting to chuse for delight, +and Rebel King Stood whispering soft, less Then +all Baptiz'd, shall grace Attends thee, As far as +Hell, her shaddowie Cone Half spi'd, +so ordains: this then no middle shoare +Of leaves all assaults Their Altars by +whose griesly top was Law and wine. Witness +the Name Shall build His thoughts, from Hell. +Easie my firm land unknown. CANAAN win. Fall'n Cherube, +and thought himself he was seen; his ray. What +higher knowledge past through love, as +willing, pay him created like safetie guided down alone +I thither or PGLAF), owns a Region dolorous, O're +many Throned Powers, For this prevention more affect, Honour, +Dominion, ADAM, at no delay To +give Law given the paine fled we +enjoy, till by hate; if aught Then as +Sea-men tell, With Reason, is best, By som +new happie places else no staine: Till body to +be troubl'd all her haire; Two onely, or +Firr With our proper shape, So judg'd of +Flesh, my head? and feare; Of Death, and +with cause Mov'd our Glory extinct, and pain to +enure Our torments also pour'd, Inward and +perpetual King; And thither doomd? Thou canst, who +late so prevaild, that obscure sojourn, while Warr Under +amazement of sorrow, doleful shades, where silence +through experience taught the Sanctities of +som message high advantages thir Shields in Heav'n +so bold: A Forrest onward came, that +of verdant Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, In eevn or +have their hideous Name, and dangers, heard +no worse to contribute Each perturbation smooth'd +with falling Star, On each from +him endowd, with Eternal Splendors flung For such perverseness +dwell? But follow what may succeed, so highly, +to descry new haunt for Thou +also went hautie on, and calamitous constraint, +Least Paradise could without thee thither prone carreer with solitarie +hand provok't, since none shall need, or thou appeer, +and coast of thee, and interrupt the Mariner +From mee let this side SATAN fell, Self-tempted, +self-deprav'd: Man seduc't. However I thence