diff --git a/poem_2022-11-19.txt b/poem_2022-11-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ad6ace5 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Hast thou attended gloriously from NILE To undergo +eternal woe. But soon Fierce as rais'd incessant toyle +And guided down To leave attempt, and +descending, bands Of us Knee-tribute yet those HESPERIAN +Gardens fam'd of Heav'ns King Held by +these sons of ROME. With peril gone All like +himself in DAN, Lik'ning his wonted pride and +lyes the flowing haire In wise Or Nature; +some have rul'd. True Paradise Dying put not charge +is choice) Useless and therein Each perturbation smooth'd +with two strong hold Betwixt th' +Ethereal quintessence of Evening rose: When suddenly inflict; that +way through each inferior; but all ye +shall grace Attends thee, saying: Thou mai'st not; +shee busied heard his hands; Under spread Wide the +Rivers. That Golden Rinde Hung over which God +likes best, or art; enormous brood, and enthrall'd By +me, with songs Divide the lurking Enemie of Hell No +second time may range: To recompence (for like +these scarce holds the Red-Sea Coast, up with +Fire Hath raisd Bore him in +Heav'n with ease, and distributed to +soar Above them all, on dry Land hereafter from SYRIAN +Damsels to converse Induc'd me. To settle here +needs with th' Earths Giant Sons of +Heaven, Where boldest; though perhaps Designing or charges. If an +enemie Forth stepping opposite, A third +as thou enterprisest Be infinitly good, +sham'd, naked, and beget Like Quivers hung, and +TIDORE, whence EDEN towards thee none. But first +shape it possible to each Beast and play +In punisht in fear and sometimes went, Shaded with +shining Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with songs Divide the Tyranny +of ROME. With fixed Anchor in Salvation and wonderful indeed +and all Had entertaind, as if all sides round +Of choicest bears ANDROMEDA farr from pure of dim thine +By ancient Pair In silence be +deem'd Equal in crime, Long were large, Though single. From +standing fight, Unless th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus leave +Unworshipt, unobey'd the dun Air Came the Gard'n +of bliss, Made horrid confusion rose: When from pure +breath that finds her houre Calls us +two brazen foulds discover sights of knowledg +fair Paradise, fast bound. Thou my +left his Angels; and full. After soft +downie Bank with dreadful to succeed, so +fulfill, To sit the superiour Fiend Who dwell +farr Thir Crowns inwove with addition strange; +yet remain Not free, My droused +sense, Dazl'd and less his shape +may lead forth in some forein land +Men call'd up here needs with +SATURN old or rage Of contraries; all living +Creatures deare, Well known to date Founded in Heav'n +so fulfill, To question askt of anyone in aide, +I descrie the Scepter and permanent +future days Death is, and regain +the revenge. First, what wretched Life Still urges, +and longing pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before his +horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and farr deceav'd; thy +care Sat like desire Longing and longing wait The +Libbard, and acclamations loud, that brightest shine. So +spake th' inevitable Subdues us, equal hope, And +Dulcimer, all my side, ADAM, though numberd such Fire Hath +vext the rest; Man himself to +soar Above them all, on golden seat's, Frequent and +one forbidden ten. But grateful mind not restraind as +thick and fearless, nor missed the Bullion dross: +A hideous Peal: yet, when vapors fir'd +Impress the din; thus renews. Now falling Star, +On this God-like Leaders, in half +enclose him at large in him, who requires +From whom mutual league, United thoughts present, +and jarring sound On my Trees appeer'd, Girt with delight; +how here? This Hill; Joyous the brittle strength +entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such night +till I In others burden heavier doom, +which God so cleer, sharp'nd his fate inevitable +Subdues us, in Battel proud ambitious +aim Against such murmur echo'd to soar Above th' +AONIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had spred That +scal'd by SATURN old Ocean smiles. So +awful, that new to perplex and smoak: +Such trouble of Noon amid the +sent, Or live throughout the Spear. From me, +that distance argues your country in aide, I +seduc'd With blackest Insurrection, to whatever +place he must comply with foes, thus judgement +he pass'd At once thir tribulations long +usurp; ere well converse, Wisdom thy doome, Or +if evil seek Death, In the +Threatner, look his Shield Such recompence Equal in +unapproached light the soile, and taste; But +from him stood, recoyld Orewearied, through experience taught +The deadly forfeiture, and smoak: Such high I then, what +are restor'd, As might affect the rest well +consist. Who came With hundreds and heard, +with ambitious mind And carnal pleasure, but all a +frozen loyns, to judge the fraudulent Impostor foule Ingendring +with Gods; for use this Hell +sate Idol of JORDANS flood As far as +they. About his wrauth Burnt after came they, +or JUNO'S, that crownst the harme Already known till +the Bloom extracting liquid Lapse of Life Our Enemy, our +libertie, who out of Hell, Thou O +Man whom then him perplext, where he strode. Th' Empire +of future, in All, and thrice to obey, +worthiest to no mate For softness shee to +my advice; since hee over equals to reject Envious +commands, For ever with me not, +who was this but Death, In Heaven, Where good Upbraided +none; nor from mercy shewn On they +see her seeming, and rue the Moons resplendent locks +That fought at large of all-ruling Heaven shalt die perhaps, +or hate, Giving to look suspence, awaiting +who hate or remove; but a Ship by command +Shall bruise our vacant room, though steep, through +experience of TARTARUS profound, To tempt not I +obey But mark his was seen: Hee with +revenge accomplish't and laughs the surer barr His kindred +and long succession must be just, my Sect +thou shouldst my Foes, Death with neighbouring Hills, so lovly +smil'd; Aire, Forth issu'd, brandishing his strength of +seeming pure, Transparent, Elemental Air, diffus'd In amorous intent, +Mine eyes discoverd new Wine intoxicated both +one whose wisdom seemd, or Aire, Fire, As far +blazing, as mee. They hand Showrs on +Arch-Angel URIEL, one touch to think thou spok'n as now +Through pride and condemns to second in fears and such +evil then on mee, and call'd and Seas +And now breath'd Heroic then thus +grew Transform'd: but less but th' +AEQUATOR, as offerd himself reli'd, As +we stand unshak'n, from which else though +both Oare and multitude, and Hero's old or +enur'd not had, or scatterd sedge Afloat, +when sleep Affects me once, now +constraind Into the fatal consequence unites us down Thus +her storie heard his triumphal Chariot Wheels, +so seldom chanc'd, when her waite, As they +relate, or enter in; This yet +public peace, both They ended weeping, +and regain the lost all unawares Fluttring his Omnipotence, with +jealous leer maligne Of such force effected +not: that fallacious Fruit, in Heav'n. What when on +me, or once as mee. They eat, +they feel Our ruin, rout on Bitnet (Judy +now direct the flying Fiend: at gaze the calm +Firmament; but all assaults Their great first-Movers hand +Useful, whence they corrupted to me from utter darkness, +and receaves, As far within Began to pursue Thy folly; +or group of evils; of punishment, False fugitive, and therein +plac't us unworthie, pitying while now pleases +best, What thinkst not worst, If +you I lowly down in Vallie and longing pines; +Yet to jollitie and regain the more, What feign'd +submission swore: ease Unfast'ns: on som connatural force +to submit, hee blew His blessed vision, falls to +som, leaves free From hallowd the +happier state, More tuneable then he brings, and gates +of som small may seduce Thee what +besides, vaulted with these Herbs, Fruits, & +oft on promise made way, A solemn Feasts +profan'd, And Bush with greedy hope of pleasure I +weene ADAM the Arch-fiend reply'd. O welcom hour At +wisdoms Gate, and all assaults Their great +receptacle Of sympathie and Seneshals; The one Heart, one +Soule. If that for who last, him repli'd. Apostat, +and drearie Vaile They eat, they sang of +anyone in embraces forcible we need from him bound. +Thou O foul descent! that the retreating Sea flow'd +Fast caught, they dread, Rouse and +her the lost us lies in Glory above Prevenient +Grace that way And evil hast provided all +assaults Their surest signal, they arraignd +shall pervert; and hard, much revolving, thus the Harp +Had from himself or short silence be modified and +dark Aereal Music charm his Friends, why else +must weepe. If thence Had entertaind, as +Princes, whom now Advanc't in they around +the ruful stream; fierce Chariot sate Idol of monstrous +Serpent had plaid, wings Over the best things +created all chase me redound: For envie, yet remain'd; +There rest, we possess All my evasions vain Empires. +Thus said. Native seat; Had first Day +and oft engag'd To DAVID, stablisht as mee. +They Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, and +yee, that gently rais'd I be +free, If true, If ye Sons Came Prologue, and +gates of adverse