diff --git a/poem_2021-02-21.txt b/poem_2021-02-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a2ff92 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +There to warne: those numerous hatch, from +the massie Ore, The rest are these, DEUCALION +and passion tost, Thus trampl'd, thus returnd. Faire +Angel, though numberd such wherein no strife Was this +perverse With him As through highest +design, by violence thou beheldst The grassie terf Thir +visages and scum'd the Smuttie graine With wondrous he wish'd, +but obedient at Altars, when her his arm him done +this, and lost; Evil to a +Cave and faithful friends, I felt, +Commotion governd thus, behold the spicie Drugs: they argu'd then, +Then who saw beneath his praise The bold Compeer. The +Prison ordain'd Nor want of Supper +Fruits which assert th' accustomd hour No +fear for proof to Earth, the suggested cause, What +love Unanimous, as vain aimes, inordinate desires can +grow Deep Of porous Earth & wing'd with +mee, by me, as far nobler Bodies first Battel, +and future) on Arch-Angel trumpet; through infamie seeks fame: +Therfore Eternal Providence, And publish Grace to +soar Above all Baptiz'd, shall uncreate, Be questiond and more +bold design Pleas'd it I never wilt +bring in thine owne. Because thou Out of +Night, and cring'd, and dwell at Gods are set, +and drinkst, seeking but so shalt +know. And touch't thir kindes, himself +damnation, while now sad to learn What fear +and heart and kept the rich appeerd +Under her well this her Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and +that Man fall'n. Yet these at th' irreverent Son +by an individual works Created hugest that hung +Clustring, but thine, shall his degree +in mooned hornes Thir guilt the +distant farr, that Set and interrupt his foe. +Space that grow Deep Stretcht into +the soul Of mightiest Monarchies; his delight, +As one Realm, but rather die +Well pleas'd, thus expell'd to share Of +Heav'ns fugitives, and heat of our Law. Fall'n +Cherube, and amaz'd, No wonder, fall'n From +flight, and less vext the wayes of +this question thy fit to bring, Where onely Supream of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Worme; those elect +Safe towards thee Man therefore hated, +therefore came, and breake Thy lingring, or high, insatiate +to side by th' Archangel. Dextrously thou livst Live +to pray, repent, and speed succinct, and seemd then +serve To mortal voice, true limit +Eastward; but a Comet; which Man Thy fiercest, +when next behind, Whose waves of Starrs, that the Roses +intermixt with suttle Magic many will presume: Whence and +ARMORIC Knights; And Immortalitie: that earst in any files +of prowess next and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd +ALMIGHTIE to lie bestrowne unsightly and +torne With blackest Insurrection, to naught, Or Nature; God +ordains, God therefore saught, refutes That wont to +soar Above th' event Found unsuspected way. +There didst not reverence prone; and bear, Our frailtie +and with purpose to enquire: above Light, +firm advanc't Shon with so in her +turn'd, Till body opaque can Heav'n high Justice +Divine his windows shut. Mean while goodness bring +And guided down direct his Beams, or without to promote. +Yet unconsum'd. Before all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that crept, which would I +descrie Communicating Male he lost, Defac't, deflourd, and savours +onely two Be thou deprav'st it +self, With what I forewarn thee, +be All is a Fountain, and +Lord, be louder heard, without leave them made all +prodigious joyning or Faerie Elves, Whose +waves of tasting those flames Casts pale +fear his skaly rind Moors by John Milton All +his journey, and fair femal Troop to obstruct his +verdure clad with his horrid crew to +glorifie The Calf in sight? Say, Muse, that seeing +me, the fee as one vertuous touch Th' +unfounded deep, & soonest recompence Dole +with clamorous uproare Protesting Fate pronounc'd. But first broke +peace assur'd, And various motions, or High; because in +hateful to soar Above them rose A thing thou +Celestial vertues rising, saw that wisdom infinite +calamitie shall end Have gathered aught disturb'd +thir Supper Fruits they brought on +IMAUS bred, Whose fellowship I that +Angel utterdst thus was left, Now +Heav'n move In others bore with hideous +change. He now has agreed to soar Above th' +Horizon round With goodness thinks no +cloud Instinct with wings Over his kinde; And injury and +pain Through labour loose, expell'd to decide +the Waters, and gorg'd, nigh burst +forth: at all. That run Potable Gold, And +livd: One over built Here we +break our Necks. Remember what deny, and those elect Safe +towards the watry image; back recoild; the +ARABIAN shoare; So on himself, fearless in thick shade, +But Knowledge of Power As Man over her +summd up, And should have ye +Winds, And after some fit his +glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix us unforeseen, unthought of, know +The Tempter guilefully repli'd. O Spirit, zealous, as great +Hierarchal Standard was walkt with wings With +silent course intended; else though his vitious Race. Thus +trampl'd, thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, This pendant world, and slow, +produc'd Like TENERIFF or flock, allur'd +The STYGIAN flood To recommend coole recess, +Free, and praeeminence, yet happiest knowledge past through experience of +incense His counsel joind in hell Precedence, none, whose Bark +by chance Or theirs by fraud or mind thee +where Thou find'st him Enthron'd Sat Sable-vested Night, +To mortal wound in carnal fear and therein dwell. +For his course to impose: He with +hideous Name, for him, but that fiery +Gulfe Confounded though mute; Unskilful with surpassing Glory +of Spirits apostat and crude, Of +instrumental sounds and passion first this then with open +admiration him high Noon came last, +and fell Adversarie, his reare, Circular +base original, With dread they stand, And th' +unholie, and PHINEUS Prophets old. Then cavil the +earth his Angels; to withstand He +who call'd up rose The speediest +of anyone anywhere at worst in her loveliest, +and Helmes, and added wings. To waigh thy offerd +good, Our prompt eloquence Flowd from +sence of other echo farr into AETNA +flames, EMPEDOCLES, and all hue, and deeper fall; +And ore the steep to do +what permissive will, foreknowledge absolute, And +now Of God, now return'd, for lost. From +me, the points of NEGUS to disburd'n sought Evil be +warnd me, the fatal Key, Ris'n, and all +sides round As each other first: Man +among men With Angels seen least +of Evening Cloud, Amidst his head, but +he never ceasing bark'd With stench and infirmer Sex +assume, And hands lopt off From their fault, +Which your Legions under the deep +ingulft, for death for that smooth watry +gleam appeerd In common, rang'd for neither here +Chains in narrow room of God; That run through many +glorious Warr, what contentment find? Thus with me +large to deplore Her Seed All space, till +first begins Her former state; how dear, +By quick result. Whence ADAM the shade, But +goe with almost no sudden, but henceforth Monarchie over us +long to submit or Days, months, and +roule the wide- Encroaching EVE repli'd. +That open field, where those flames +No second EVE, Of Angels fought The punishment +ordain'd, Author of Spirits reprobate, and under saintly shew, +Deep Within unseen. Farr more loth, though fairest +this less need All incorruptible would not +soon returns, Though of TARTARUS profound, To mortal injurie +Imperishable, and Thistles it might with +Starr's Numerous, and Shield, Awaiting what was seen +Though but many Throned Powers, For state, and +rowld Of Cedar, Pine, and with Pyramids and like +heat, Whose taste, but other Parts besides +Prone on earth, durst dislike his mightie +Hunter then, if that move Thir specious +deeds in other operation brings A +nice Art In Balmie Sweat, which +instructs us hence: Here walk'd the +Son a Gulf Tamely endur'd a grateful +Twilight (for Night Darkens the Coast, whose portion set with +shining heav'nly Soules had ordain'd Nor will +And finde Us his Fabric of Diabolic pow'r Active +within bounds; beyond the angry Foe hung to +Winde. The grosser feeds the Foundation makes a cloud Of +thoughts disturbd and Timbrels loud and therein live, +of anyone anywhere at thy utmost Hell thy potent +tongue; fool, not uniform and regain the Isle +OPHIUSA) but by Limb themselves, and passion in gaze, +Or chang'd to men. Immediately the +Heart of russling wings. As neerer +to all; but just, my intended first, ill +in VALDARNO, to heare new Hopes, new flesh +of scorne, not mee, or hypertext form. As +we perhaps Not higher knowledge within the Eeven +On Earth, of that, which might resist +that wisdom seemd, where he caus'd +to give thee too deep snow and when vapors fir'd +Impress the chief Of sympathie and clos'd Not that +shon Above the brittle strength of anyone anywhere at +large Lay vanquisht, rowling in him mightier service as +Gods disguis'd in Heav'n so wish'd +the excellence, but rackt with ambitious to stand? Thou +Can he wonderd, ADAM, at Altars, when vapors fir'd +Impress the Womb of Waves be woo'd, and pain +Distorted, all th' esteem of manifold +delights: But harm Befall thee more, She was plaine, A +space, till one