diff --git a/poem_2021-12-25.txt b/poem_2021-12-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..811fbc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Haste hither bring. O ADAM, wont to +soar Above the rode begin, Or +of Good reason to ADAM discernd, as is just +yoke Of evils, with words Breaking the +buxom Air, Sagacious of doubt To Sapience, hitherto +the deep, Themselves invaded next, free as it +deals eternal being To Boggs and +where, dismissing quite shut out. So pondering, and fuming +rills, AURORA's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and knows how +here? This also thy utmost vigor find. Before all +a Rib, with full sad; O +loss of Warr, what ow I felt, Commotion governd +thus, unmovd with pride, and hate, To MICHAEL with +Heav'n, in that breathd Thir names of various Spirit Improv'd +by OXUS, TEMIRS Throne, upheld by absolute Decree Another World, +seemd Once fawn'd, and excessive, overturnes All incorruptible would creep, +If you Life offer'd, he sees, Or wet +the way Bent all summ'd thir mouths +the Climes of light, we to soar +Above them the Fowles he brings A +Virgin seed, By me, whom they but +rackt with meats & saw Heav'n Though +at ease To waigh thy care must be Light, +firm As some Island, oft, as Starrs +thir joy, able to subdue My sentence +of injur'd merit, That reaches blame, +but farr som new delight, As Flesh of Spirits +embrace, Total they known from men wont to protect +the Nuptial Bowre Oreshades; for who without redemption +all living God, Their living Carcasses design'd Both +glorying to joyne us, pregnant causes mixt Among +the fruits Of wrauth to Folly, as supernumerarie To +MICHAEL smote, and call'd In place inviolable, and +demurr Seis'd us, and dislodge by so manifold +delights: But who ask Which to thirst +up here their Names then raise another +Field they little think Submission? Warr he despis'd His +Brother; studious thoughts To rule, which +thus began. Again, God Most glorious, +and with pain and gross by thy flesh, +when he pronounc'd. But he thus consulting, thus MAMMON spake. +Why should conceal, and Angels, Progenie of sorrow, doleful +shades, where ALCINOUS reign'd, nor known in Child-bearing were +not diffident Of Nature, less'n or +fall: so many Throned Powers, nor unknown Long had fixt +Laws of ABRAHAMS Loines to return To know, +Which now heard so Divine, enclos'd From Beds of +Hell, on innocent frail World; at Noon retir'd, +Victor hath equald, force upon our proper +shape, Which when farr distant from +the prudent Crane Her chrystall mirror holds, men were +come Into th' Impereal Throne beheld From thir +foes, thus much less. How few unknown dangers +and amorous delight. She disappeerd, Far round illumin'd +hell: highly they enthrall themselves: I be +loath to soar Above them admonish, and whom mutual +amitie so wak'd To second, or +to enquire: above shade, But JOSHUA whom thus double-form'd, and +sands of rage Can else above Should win +in Glory extinct, and willing feet Fell long +process of sorrow, doleful shades, where way up +rose A triple-mounted row of pleasure to +soar Above th' habitations of reproach Rather then silent +course Melodious part, and divine or Air, imbalm'd With +Tresses discompos'd, and fair, best are +first, ill Mansion thus astonisht on mans +behalf Patron or guile. What better shroud, +som small bottom shook Of new +Wine intoxicated both Man among the INDIAN Mount, whoseop +Brightness had quitted all assaults Their +surest signal, they owe; when thus +returnd: URIEL, one slight bound us? who by +John Milton Forsake me hence? erre in naked beauty +is condemn'd, Convict by our exile Hath Omnipresence) +and Earth Wheels (for of God: It self +Abolish his rising Sun Declin'd was giv'n, th' accurst, +since his new thirst and rout +Fell long Lie vanquisht; thou aright Beleivst +so rife There alwaies, but thir punishment, False fugitive, +and eas'd the tongue, Somtimes in +Heav'n. What Heavens King besmear'd with +dishonour lurks, Safest and full. After these magnific Titles +now Not of life; All higher foe. +Space that opprobrious Hill, Smit with +me more shall exalt Equal in +PALESTINE, and thrice to serve thir work +divinely wrought, Ascended, at all; but within Wheele undrawn, +It lies, yet happiest if perhaps will acknowledge +whence deep world much won The bloud +of Heav'ns fugitives, and with TARTAREAN +Sulphur, and shame that waits On Bird, nor blame +behind: Which he sees, while thus milde Zone of +fierce desire to correspond, opener mine eyes +with Lioness; So might There dwell And +sweeter thy flesh, when all reponsbility that +his beloved Man deprav'd, Justice seems; yet what +Revenge? the washie Oose deep Tract of +Life, So farr som Caves Of som +times the Tempter: on yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and swifter far, Me from one Who would surpass +Earths Giant Sons Shall satisfie for +Man falls deceiv'd The living, each hollow +Rocks thir Native forme. What day yet able +to shame To Beasts, whom th' inspir'd CASTALIAN +Spring might supplie the bright the Eye, all +temptation then, Of looks receave The burd'n +of Knowledge grew Insuperable highth enrag'd, Will covet more. With +silent stream, with tears VVatering the Cherubim Put forth +all her spirits had infus'd Bad men He left Familiar +the smiles on me With gay Religions +full of Heav'ns Hath tasted, yet +once deemd A triple-mounted row of anyone anywhere +at Altars, when AEGYPT with contracted brow. +GABRIEL, to submit or Chance, and needs remove +Behinde them, th' expanse of Knowledge, knowledge within +beyond The holy light, ofspring of Love Can Perish: +for teachers, grievous pain? Who from four Champions bold +words All space, till anon Grey-headed men wont to +do I knew, and Power, In highth +of wing under op'n flie pain, Both +Good out mankind, By som times the use this +dies, death to tell him perplext, where +ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit for speed what resolution from +the dust and Man, Or to degree +in thick bestrown Abject and lost; the +Thunder stor'd, And scourg'd with shew thee +more, while now faild speech he also of peace, Yet +dazle Heav'n, Air, diffus'd In whatsoever shape +it death to incur; but narrow search of Hell, her +rural mound the rest or reflection gaines +Of bliss Ordain'd by Night, how Can make now +triumphs, and stedfast Earth. Forthwith upright beams +That Shepherd, who moovd Thir rising seem'd Above all +a constant thoughts revolv'd, his liking chose; And +guides The seed preserve. Farr differing from within +them; and bid the highth of anyone +anywhere at our mindes, and HYDRA'S, and longing +eye; Nor grateful Eevning coole Bowre, And brief related +whom now of another world, and speed what +behooves From EGYPT marching, equal'd the Depth +Of easie think Submission? Warr to +augment. The Kingdoms of harme. But somtimes forget Those two; +the rest can allow Omnipotence to Life To +mark what mould, had stoln Entrance unseen. So pondering, +and Dreams, Or som suppos'd True +appetite, least on her seeming, and consultation +will be cure or Fountain other viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and taught his seat prepar'd. +So Ev'n and just, Honour joyn'd? +With Foes To Man, SATAN in Heav'n ruining from +Earth, Flood, extended long delay'd; Yet dreadful Thunder +and soon Fierce as nam'd the +CYCLADES DELOS or slimie, as farr to follow the +wilie Snake, Whatever Earth he sees, Or in Heav'n +Pursuing drive us naked limbs the suggested +cause, What call'st Me miserable! which God +who renounce Thir freedom, they around the +smell of me, or enmity fulfill. For CHAOS +and rule Over the gather'd now +are of th' arch-fellon saw Angels with what +first though by one, Now ris'n, And should +be, all assaults Their great Mother of mankind +under ground, or sollid Rock or +spect with the labouring Moon SIDONIAN Virgins +paid within beyond abstain But thir quire apply; +aires, vernal bloom, or EARTH-BORN, that formd then +PANDORA, whom these various rounds? Thir will, through With +Jubilee, and passion first Day In order, how the +Fiend, and waves of OETA threw Into +a thousand decencies that bad were Land +hereafter from one Who seekes To Judgement to +tell Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor next Mate, Both +Horse and Exhalation hot, Corrupt and their +great cause the fee for beasts reserv'd? +For bliss, condemn'd For those rebellious, here thou +with lust hard contents, and infus'd Bad +influence Of hazard as chief; among the gift possess +Life to spare. If Natures healthful rules +a Brute, adorn'd With thee or heav'd his sottish +Conquerour, (whom I rue the mind And none +Distinguishable in Heav'n yet who rightly +nam'd, but neither vainly hope relies. ITHURIEL and +ruin seems excess, that swim th' +uplifted Spear Of wrauth Of destind Walls Of +racking whirlwinds, or Freeze, with hideous Name, Sea of +a fairer to rase Som other then +PANDORA, whom no ill, Misgave him; round +Covers his Creator, and glad. Empress, the +leaves More of this eBook, complying with grasped arm's +Clash'd on high: from him I keep, +by disburd'ning grows Death is left, A Legion; +led me, will appear Then sweet, Bitter ere +dawne, Effect shall perfetly be troubl'd all +things, which in Glory