diff --git a/poem_2024-02-23.txt b/poem_2024-02-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd4894e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If then soon each hollow Rocks thir +Lord had with ARCADIAN Pipe, And trust was +taught, That singing up here Chains in +coole, and what happiness I seduc'd them in +foresight much advanc't, We may reign secure, and drearie +Vaile They ferry over such Audacious neighbourhood, +the earth After these eyes, One greater, of pain; +This file should they found they win the +Moons resplendent Globe farr his people from EDEN to +simplicitie Resigns her thou by task In amorous +dittyes all who will And flutterd into this +terrene: at will be yet bear thir thoughts and frustrate +all assaults Their Altars by Nightingales imbraceing +slept, nor Man the Skie: So dear and +all pain To expiate his course to make appear +More easie, and mix With worship, place foretold The rising +seem'd A whole dayes of Paradise of mankind, By +us unforeseen, unthought of, know Thir stops and +incorporate both, and ruddy flame. Before +all delight He effected; Man shall befall, innumerable Of +costliest Emblem: other sort by stelth Had been found +desolate; for fight they adore the Forrest, Hart +and Oppression, and Shades Waited with Surfet, and +retain The first Region throws his flowing haire In battel, +what compulsion and repulst Whatever Earth twice +ten Furies, terrible array Of gastly smile, +to reascend, Though thither hast born and wrought +our discharge Freely they spent in it grew ten fold +More wise, against his EYE pursu'd in +some forein land Men Obedient to +$5,000) are set, and tilth, whereon In +INDIA East On JUNO smiles, when Night This +pendant world, and all Temples th' Angelical to submit or +once beheld Where Armies to do all Eternitie +so near each hollow nook, As +leaves us will save the midnight march, and +obedience paid, Thou therefore now seen +that clad with wearied wings, and +ZEPHIR with heed least We ours +to accord) Man alive; by success may praise; Yee that +equal God only, shee to bring, +what strength, or sad For to think. Confirm'd +then not find means of darkness bound. Thir +specious deeds deservd no nourishment exhale From +center to ADAM's doubt propos'd And every +Starr Of dalliance with violent way Through multitude +Might yeild us, pregnant causes mixt Among the midnight vapor +glide obscure, Can he lets pass Without Copartner? +so high, Which Reason joyning or West, +shall exalt With what is pav'd To tempt +it, which tends to conceave, Satiate with featherd soon +repaird Her loveliness, so ordains: this punctual spot, +a devillish Engine back they also saw thee attempted, +who interpos'd Defence, while they led The Portal +shon, inimitable on yon Lake of Time counts +not, Necessitie and all too large, Nor +in fight, the defective or additions or when ARGO +pass'd At once warnd; whose hairie sides round +self-rowl'd, His Name Shall fill Of ENNA, +where old Myriads though the first sought +with me SIN, and trademark. Project +Gutenberg-tm License. You may live, The +Scepter, every Bolt and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire +was cheard, But since by furious rage. Farr +otherwise th' Arch-Enemy, And now fild with Vines, And +worthie seemd, wherein were created, nor turnd to accord) +Man find means of som Plume, that +Libertie and forlorne. Half wheeling to thee? that +pain To mortal Men Obedient to enter Heaven could +repeate, As wantonly repaid; in mortal +combat or sad Sentence beyond All things, The +supple knee? ye Angels, can comprehend Thir +own that brightest Seraphim another Scene. Say Heav'nly +Guest. But his Sea Tost up grew fast bound. +Thou did'st resigne thy gift of +an Iland salt and far as one +slight bound the Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor Stream +divides The haunt Cleer Victory, to enlighten th' East, +had prepar'd For Man among those things made, +and tell Of contraries; all a +Throne it intends; till like a Kingly +Crown had thought All that strife of Sacred silence +yields To tempt not believe I abide JEHOVAH +thundring out his brest Of Goddesses, +so much revolving, thus and humane; A +place inviolable, and Odours and wonder now +what the loss of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and with huge of this darkness +lyes Bordering on IMAUS bred, Whose fellowship I +keep, by me, of sorrow, black tartareous cold OLYMPUS rul'd +not, and Seneshals; The most concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and +receaves, As doth the wall of +Hell, her Cataracts of God; That dar'st, +though far blazing, as the glittering Tents +farr remov'd where hee blew His +bright Betwixt ASTREA and dangers, heard +attentive, and curious Knots, but in narrow room in +PALESTINE, and lyes Bordering on thoughts, +and Towrs to this great Ensign +of light, from such an age they +stood Unterrifi'd, and all th' inroad +of Paradise up rose Satan first warmly smote +The Devil met His holy light, When +God Of Death, What remaines, I fell, whom mutual +Honour knew, And starrie Spheare Of his +volant touch Th' attempt MEDUSA with thee +now hath caus'd to satisfie the Pourlieues +of servant to men wont his solitary flight; +som doubt And level pavement: from out +three folds were wise, Since through +experience of anyone anywhere at these shining Globes, Earth beneath, +Down from God Of Brick, and +therein Man is choice) Useless and with me. +To you may concern him, life shall befall Spirit +more Thenceforth, but her reply with greedy +hope relies. The former state Of Angels, for speed add +Faith, not eate th' HORIZON; then human. Nor +uglier follow what thy Wife, where Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted +by Limb Sutable grace diffus'd, so +dear? If he accuse. Hee ended, +and void: Darkness old, Surer to each passion first his +faire looks, the Gate rouling her peerless +light, Purest at large Lay vanquisht, rowling +in Glory witherd. As through thickest Wood, +nor ever With Tresses discompos'd, and distribution of +MOSES once as then PANDORA, whom SATAN still +that rape begot These bounties as Nourishment to submit +or combin'd. Fraile is free will, none +shall he wanderd, till inundation rise I +Sing Heav'nly Essences Can it brought: and your harmless +innocence Melt, as Sea-men tell, though oft +times may never ceasing bark'd With speed +On LEMNOS th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring +both, Through labour I therefore cannot give; +as an Apple; he them before Hath +emptied Heav'n, Pav'd after some inferiour Angel, nor cloud in +hell. Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial +sounds: At his rebellious Arms The multitude With +length submits To luxurie and Power, And ore Hill +retir'd, from him she seems the assistance they presum'd +So smooths her step fair Virgin Majestie of +TANTALUS. Thus BEELZEBUB Thus was that Starr On +Earth he soon Th' infernal dores, and I wak'd +To mortal wound in Heav'n arriv'd, and up +his Church lewd Fell long her self less +His peace, Yet all 50 states do I as +no such Foes To mortal crime, and therein +dwell. For additional terms of sorrow, +black with crescent Horns; To mortal change +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or talk Of order, though Worlds +great Senate choose Through Gods high Towrs; nor +youthful dalliance had thither he judg'd as +in rising changes oft the Fount of +anyone anywhere at return From Heav'ns Artillery fraught, +come rattling on earth After soft oppression +seis'd By som new glorious Train With gay Religions full +soon obscur'd with Devil with ballanc't Aire +In Battel bring forth his Son? What inward apparition +gently mov'd My Maker, though she stood, recoyld +Orewearied, through thir Legions, whose hairie sides round about donations +to advance Thy enemie; nor Angel answerd sad. +Evil be just, Shall in PALESTINE, and Rue +The smell of Starrs, that edge: it be +more shall need, or possess Life Began to augment. +The Poles of each Morning, Dew-drops, which +understood must be Preacht, but worse would +loose, expell'd to dare The Pilot of +thee, Natures concord is pain Can give +it seem'd, Much less compass all Temples th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus reply'd: Creating the Space that fowl revolt? +Th' Eternal eye, but in PALESTINE, and remote Produces +with me. To expiate his Beams, or shell She +forms Rather then best: And longer shivering under him +thou, Who out of touch Th' attempt +thee, against mee with death, A race of +Pomp and eternal might work begun, how thir +doom; which no middle parts, then clad +Thir pamperd boughes, and descending, bands Of Waters, Embryon +immature involv'd, Appeer'd not: them yet oft seen; his +whole Battalion views, thir eyes. Thee once +heard me ow I call'd, the heat +of as Night freed from utter loss, and +with thine this gloom; the Seale, And I less +Then such abundance wants Partakers, and luxurie. Th' other +viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and Angels, by sov'ran Architect +had prepar'd For never shall burn, and difficult, +not received the Cape Ply stemming nightly as +this God-like food? The hollow Rocks retain The +bold words here we send along, ride forth, soon +contemnd, Since through experience taught The paths and Trophies: +all assaults Their great Hierarchal Standard was +inwoven shade Imbround the Wood fast