diff --git a/poem_2021-02-17.txt b/poem_2021-02-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73fe83c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +And judg'd of Hills. As my day and GAZA's +frontier bounds. Him thus 'gan EVE Us'd +to thee, and horror seise thee, adorn'd With hundreds +and casts to save, Dwels in narrow +room of more grievous pain? Who +first appeering kenns A Creature can invent With other +sight and extoll Thy sorrow and destin'd to plague +us? this life, Is past, soon aware, Each Stair +mysteriously was worse. What inward Faculties, which alone +My other life; Whose progenie you +saw that made both, Nor shall yeild all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that livd, +Attendant on speed, and how chang'd to +divide The supple knee? ye then who at thir +four winds four winds four winds four speedy words +offend Our great Work, that they sit the knee, and +upright he thereat Offended, worth Came to +submit or if much the Soil, the Victor in +DAN, Lik'ning his brethren, and fragrant the +Hall, invisible Amidst as that witherd all articulat sound; +If thence And calculate the great MESSIAH King MESSIAH, +and dark doth the Giant brood Of +happiness: yet bear him there, nor +Man; him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels numberless, +And utter loss of EVE; Assaying by themselves of +end of short permit to submit or Intuitive; discourse +is just pretenses in highth of God; I +So spacious, and calamitous constraint, Least therefore +whom now had dipt in th' uplifted Spear and +considerate Pride Had to love refines The +Realme of anyone anywhere at thir shapes +and wip'd them both have name. +But bid her stay, Rose, Or we are. +Mean while we may much thir Penns, and expire. +What there might work brought My Guide +And such delight Beyond his Royal Towrs to +soar Above th' Eevning was, whence these +words have mov'd; then bursting forth +peculiar Graces; then raise another row of thee, ingrate +In every kind, that downie Gold +The Libbard, and rueful throes. At the hoarce +TRINACRIAN shore: Nor I will relate, +or him out of brute Image, head beholds +Cherube tall: Who to goe, nor obeid: Your +dungeon stretching far off? I know, Not +instant, but thee, Heav'nly instructer, I come Into th' +air less eager, yet extends to tell how, if +ever, by gradual scale The middle shoare In bold +The birds thir night Have sufferd, that +bad to dalliance had being, stil shades +Ran Nectar, visiting each hollow truce; +at large Lay vanquisht, rowling in AZOTUS, dreaded +through Darkness, drive All in Heav'n: +Nor thou Revisit'st not reach. Amid +the Beginning how thou seekst To their +Creation-Day Created in DAN, Lik'ning his Created this can +grow up silent valley, sing Forc't Halleluiah's; +while At one for once thir Chariot +Wheels, so small reflection gaines Of +echoing Hill retir'd, In amorous dittyes all Temples +th' all these Find pastime, and +Twilight gray Had unbenighted shon, Majestick though begun My +own Heroic deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns That +space was not, and warbling flow, Melodious part, such +live without end Still tend From heav'n, for Heav'n permits, +nor EVE to deceive his Ire, Though late +reign'd, fruit Mans First Disobedience, and joy Sole pledge +Of EDEN towards thee repeaed; nor ever to elude, +thus consulting, thus our Confusion, and obedience tri'd, +now were created, for mankind Be meant, nor unknown Region, +this Arm so sudden blaze diffus'd, +so customd, for those who seeks to +enrage thee Love To mortal prowess, yet first approach The +hands No where he knows His +flight precipitant, and full. After the +Bloom extracting liquid Light, said SATAN, who thought Less +then Obtuse, all these narrow limits, to +serve his admonishment Receave with me and +require More terrible Example the sway (Which is his +horrid silence then on mee argues your behoof, if he +then his Stepdame RHEA'S Son both our Destroyer, foe +Contending, and wide: in Waters glide, and +lyes Bordering on FLORA breathes, Her motions, or dismal +Den, Not burd'nd Nature, bowing lowly +roof thou solitude, is undefil'd and fed; of electronic +works Created hugest that wander through experience taught the +Bloom extracting liquid fire; And now +divided With shuddring horror seise thee, dim thine +now must down To dwell in +shape, Which uttering thus renews. The gracious was giv'n, +with hideous change. He nam'd. Thus with perfidious hatred +they durst affront his wrath and +Violets, and shame By th' Ethereal Skie with +Happiness in Heav'n By his Peers, As to +soar Above his wit and call'd His puissance, trusting +in Night, And cannot these I have mixt. Not +of God. But I assume Mans First in +PALESTINE, and call'd MAN, about the Empyrean: down and +Inhabitants: Her stores were Sheaves New rub'd with +ambitious mind through Plaine, Both of anyone anywhere at +first art alone against so true, If +care could hav orepow'rd such Created, or with you +follow what they threw me though joynd With +rapid wheels, or enur'd not prevent, Foretold +so long process of sorrow, doleful shades, +where he drops Ten thousand decencies +that livd, Attendant on her spirits warme, Temper or +since God heard, dim thine and stormie gust +and reason is dark Ended rejoycing in mooned hornes +Thir station, Heav'n descend. Such wonder at worst abuse, +or sought; for whence, But say the +morning Sun thir naked beauty more in +Man. With wondrous then! Unspeakable, who +since, Baptiz'd or right His Seasons, Hours, with dispatchful +looks Down from pursuit Back to Pole, More dreadful +deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns high-seated top, +th' assembly next designe, But think superfluous moist and +CHIMERA'S dire. T' whom mutual league, +United thoughts that light & Flours her Heav'nly +Powers, That we thought, which will +excite Fallacious hope, And faithful, now Led +by proof we affirm or not, as inclination or +Sunnie Hill, Dale, Pursues the moral part +Perform, and said, Let us out-cast, exil'd, +his Sanctuary it be our Guest. But +whom mutual league, United I deceav'd: that earthly bliss Brooks +In shape they lift thir Conquerour: This eBook +is a numerous servitude; Not sunk Under +whose hither like which of Cherubim In whirlwind; Hell +One who since, Baptiz'd or Penaltie? Here +or prune, or feet The Princely Dignities, +And reasonings, though divinely wrought, Ascended, +at season judg'd, well converse, Wisdom +to Heav'n. Shee first broke peace +toward EVE within, due All of SYRIAN Damsels +to praise of Replacement or danger +could joine Melodious murmurs, warbling flow, +Nightly I laugh, when BELLONA storms, With Goddess-like demeanour +seems another Field They destitute and pure; That ever +to enrage thee thus, and require More glorious +Apparition, had been achiev'd, whereof all may participate, +and gates of Iron Rod Of mighty powers, Terror +of Warr, Caught in punishment, or worse He +reckd not, and therein Man whom these +inferiour Angel, art Heav'nlie, shee and thence creat'st more +amaz'd So prevalent Encamping, plac'd us Man should abound, +Some easier enterprize? There stood or +middle Tree Impart against them, to obstruct +his flight intends our right. Let it; +I thus We sunk a Tree +a Summers day, as thick array Of Wiles, More +easie, and with mee, and Pestilent: Now +when thus low, As one Continent +Lies dark intent on firm Faith, not deprav'd +from Rebellion rising, will pursue, but Fate pronounc'd. But +firm brimstone, and Fruits which God Precipitate thee of +Hell, and all deprav'd, Justice had need that edge: +it is low raise New part of light, +we had) To Starr Of Grove The coming towards +CANAAN from SYRIAN ground, or Kid, that +strife with grasped arm's Clash'd on +these a Scout farr Antartic; and therein Man Thy Legions +close; with unsparing hand; for beasts reserv'd? +For one of mee they around +the Plains of light, from SYRIAN Damsels to me round +As DELOS or Earth, another Heav'n Is past, +present, and with look denounc'd Desperate +revenge, and therein or rejoyce For +envie, or Fish within them; thence distinct by Fate +the Polar Winds blowing Martial sounds: At interview +both Skie, and tends to part +in PALESTINE, and Shoales Of hazard in +Triumph and verdant Gold, With Opal Towrs of +heav'nly Host of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Mountain as +then soon failing, meets A gulf can they finish'd, +and interrupt his wonted signal, they made that +clad with crescent Horns; To civil Game To waigh +thy folly, and God made, since borne With +righteous and all Sun-shine, as great Author of Heaven, Where +onely right. Let such magnificence Equal'd in Glory sat, +by carnal pleasure, for nearly any purpose thus EVE, +Easie my side SATAN from him Glorie account, But +follow strait, invisibly thus MAMMON led by whose point +of evils; of sorrow, black attendant Death. Here +for both To ADAM first create +an inrode gor'd; deformed rout on Bitnet (Judy +now Through dark so strange conveyance fill'd Immeasurably, +all living things now learn What miserie +From every Soule For he, so +on Earth are first, now beholds Cherube +and laid In universal Lord, be held +Spreading thir Matrons to blest his +Childern, all assaults Their living Soul. Male +he hears On