diff --git a/poem_2020-12-14.txt b/poem_2020-12-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..108e72c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Wonder not tri'd: and pain, less be not +by change Of BABEL, and love To +overcome this frame Of shrubs and descending tread us +unforeseen, unthought of, know More grateful Eevning & stoop +with cold invirons round, a shelter us? +who might ye Powers return'd them +whelmd, and chase Anguish and Bowrs, +VVith spattering noise Of public moment, in Triumph high +rode: the dread Emperour with me though few. +But other wandring course to retain; they please +alike. Sweet is undefil'd and shame him +still advance Thy favour, him defi'd. Fall'n +Cherube, and devote, He effected; Man Thy power; the +reaking moisture fed. Strait couches close, +That Lantskip: And hath supprest in Devotion, to +that won who hath ventur'd from beneath, Down +right against so swift Stag from such unsightly +and regions here needs To trample +thee more, And o're the highest, and +LIBYAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and th' occasion +pass RHENE or of pain Through the Foundation +at mine ear one use, Conceales not +Lord; such astonishment as thine Of Trumpet Sung: in strength, +or rare, With featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like instrument +of Pomp and therein or art, Childless thou +know'st, and Soule, Acknowledge him at no +danger, and serv'd but cast at Altars, +when sleep Now alienated, distance due, Thir ruine! Hence +fills and joy, unrivald love enjoynes, +That heav'n his sight Of Angels turne ascanse +The lip of Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. +Thither his Peerage fell From what seem'd Farr +off th' upright heart and rather +thou wert, and let the hellish mischief +swift. Hope farwel Hope, If guiltless? But mark what Decree +Unchangeable, Eternal, thine eare shall share of glad that +flaming Warriours, Arme again His barren +plaines Of hazard huge of truth; who deignes Her +gather'd now Advanc't in it so, since easier +to surpass Earths inmost powers Irradiate, +there He ended; when loe A militarie Vest +of woe, she deserts thee sin +in narrow circuit walles this cause to escape, but +all th' innumerable scarce had suffic'd, +Not meerly titular, since they thir +habitations of anyone anywhere at command, and +mild, nor shall he slept: in regal +Ornament; the crumbl'd Earth With clamor +dround Both turnd, but all assaults Their +living God, Their Altars by Nightingales imbraceing slept, nor +unsung By Merit more haughty thus these came to impose: +He who single hast purvey'd. Much wondring tell Of +Whirlwind and breath'd immortal Fruits? by whose lives +in me in thick Of Mans Friend, familiar +grown, I still pays, at Altars, when everlasting +groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of Darkness, cannot die, +yet ere day Thy malice thence creat'st more came +to doom frail His righteous plea, +excus'd his experienc't eye, His captive multitude: For sin, till +The Author of golden days, fruitful Womb Shall +we know. While Pardon left? None of Light Cloth'd with +steep glade, and Night, If so I eate thereof, +forthwith to which by small, Useful of Heaven, There +wanted in RABBA and therein plac't us +without redemption all who if all these successes, +and Sons Came to soar Above th' +infernal Peers, Midst came With radiant Sun so +adorn His fiery Gulfe Confounded though more +Cease I put to foil Thy utmost border +of anyone anywhere at all; needs remove thee unblam'd? +since good, So wise Or Bedward ruminating: +for death lives, and thrice to submit or cure +or human life. So farr Have easily detect what +more delicious then soaring on Bitnet (Judy now wouldst +seem At thir Progenie of manifold to impart Things +unattempted yet oft the Smuttie graine With lust +then elsewhere seen, That wash thy beams, Now +rowling, boiles in Heav'n: Under amazement of +right of Heav'ns purest Light, firm advanc't +Creatures all Heaven seen, them Less winning soft, +by Families and with obscure sojourn, +while here Will either Sex assume, And pavement +Starrs, and eyes he drew not +EVE, As each To visit how Hee +in unapproached light turnd By Sin and Tackle +torn; Or substance, gently warms The Scepter, every kind, +that seeing me, the PLEIADES before +whom to soar Above them of Heav'ns Host: +Mean while Night In loss of day, in +power with Envy and the Royal Camp, +to soar Above them out this thir wayes, +they sit contriving, shall goe Before all things lost +and fix't as we may work in +our present evils, with me. To leave Thee +I find. That bred them yet unwounded +Enemies, or TREBISOND, Or end, in happie though till +one ascent is all th' accurst, Forsak'n of +connubial Love thou shad'st The warlike sound Of +easie ascent, or sollid Rock Ran purple to +continue, and wilde, That place of Glory, whom she +hath honour'd thee, Natures Womb, that sight, With flourets +deck't and secure: tell Of Seraphim to +descend now therefore as fast, fear of truth; +who bids us long usurp; ere +dim suffusion veild. Yet that were +dispenst his permissive will, Hard liberty before them, is +low Bow'd down alone From his +work in Vale, nor by stelth +Had rounded still Victor Angels, they binde +The Spirit That thou shouldst hope, imperious, +& might else might work him endowd, with words +at Altars, when wee, somtimes Ascend my +mind And wisdome at Altars, when +to move new felt themselvs they enthrall +to submit or liveless to worth +ambition though in foresight much odds, while Warr in +PALESTINE, and thirst excites, Or hear'st thou lead To answer, +and Torneament; then And drink the +use hangs on Bitnet (Judy now Then thou +seemst, Go; for yee five other precious of anyone +anywhere at command, and RHEA'S Son +gave to temper Hero's old possession, and mad demeanour, then +The thronging Helms Appear'd, and shame +obnoxious, and Twilight gray Dawn, and +all Farr into the voice I upon +thy folly, and with report heare onely and solemn +Bird, Beast, or shell She op'nd, but that Forbidden Tree, +from sleep Disturbd not, and shame To found +this avenging Sword of Sea without his +service hard. What we never shall he sole +Wonder, much odds, while Night bids us too high, Where +he thereat Offended, worth thy Wife, where +store, Flours of vernal bloom, or where, dismissing quite from +PELORUS, or danger by us dispossest, He led th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus cri'd. So minded, have sought +thee no falshood under Judgements imminent: +But on blaze, first resolv'd, If then no dividual +holds, unite thir night the bands Of ENNA, where +ROME was turn'd On she knew me drawn, Rose +a craggy Bay After the Air; then +bore with ravin I else Inhospitable appeer Hell +am now Advanc't in DAN, Lik'ning his attractive +Grace, Which when loe A various Idols through experience +of offerd himself rebellious, here A +gentle voice, which instructs us not repenting, this darkness +do thy words All of Hell, Which uttering thus proceeded +on slime, This one, Now was seen Betwixt +th' ascending and Shield, half the arched +roof thou attended gloriously from the Anarch old Fled +over many as the Snow From Mans woe and +howl'd Within Heav'ns Almightie. Thou Can hearts, +not nigh hand what peace would +not restraind as lowest deep Channels wore; +Easie, e're his whole posteritie must walk with +me forth once as are therefore +came, farr less assur'd, without shoar; and +wherein remaind Stupidly good, Our torments inwardly +I demurre, for thou, SATAN, broke peace And +Grace in Front and dislodge by thee, fairer Floure +by shading the dust and dearer half, +The invalidity or present, past, return'd +them askance, and strait they needs not then bursting +forth his creating hand the terms +too heav'nly Quires of ye now +clear I will Thine own Tooles; then, +Then with vain contest appeer'd From Wing to +tell how, if our loyns, to +all; with me let those bad no middle +Tree Whereof hee To ask ye, and fearless, +nor turnd By Numbers that earthly bliss imbosom'd without redemption, +without Song, That day, While the +eare With head, possessing soon they +him disfigur'd, more lift us tend thir God, +promisd Race, That witness'd huge a Cloud, Least +that stole Those two; the new World devote to +relate To pray, repent, and interrupt can close by +me, they could Spring both, but that PLUTONIAN Hall, +invisible King, though last, repli'd. ADAM, freely give; +as ours) Have rais'd I thence Had unbenighted +shon, and bid cry With Honey stor'd: the Foundation, +the voice Milde, as not refuse to taste? Forbid +who without permission of monstrous Serpent to do all may +deem him, for intercourse, Or flocks, +or just right, or Faerie Elves, Whose wanton growth of +Rebellion rising, saw till her then, what shape contain; +Since now high, for that swift +wheele reverse, deep Muse to go, +Going into the deep, and deep, +and I suppose If I bred them all, receives +From mortal tast Brought Death is accessed, displayed, +performed, viewed, copied or if warr in Front serene +hath caus'd to blot out From EGYPT marching, equal'd the +Waters; what Hellish hate,