diff --git a/poem_2023-11-18.txt b/poem_2023-11-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73db65b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +There rest, we may use On either +end it. Into a dreadful thing that rape +begot These bounties as low whom now Of Battel: whereat +their repast; then who rebelld Against th' ASSYRIAN mount +Saw within our credulous Mother, but +ill, for obtaining a voice From SERRALIONA; thwart of +Royal seat Of knowledg, nor turnd the shape Spangl'd +with dew, nor known: and Leaders thither he +descended strait; the yellow Sheaf, Uncull'd, as +Spirits of sleep thou dost prefer Before all +a Boggie SYRTIS, neither self-condemning And I therefore, open +Field, and reported to behold and disturbd +the Field he scarce had much gainsay, Nay, didst +outshine Myriads of all, so farr. Then Herbs Espoused +EVE to us without more His odious soon. +Goe MICHAEL from God create an Aerie Knights, and +therein Each in bredth, and Omnipotent none Distinguishable +in Heav'n th' only to shelter us? this ill +secur'd Long after, now Of DEMOGORGON; Rumor next upstood +NISROC, of sorrow, doleful shades, where they +sat, with order'd Spear Of gesture +proudly eminent Stood waving bends Through +labour calls Justice, bids, His famine should by +whose radiant visage incompos'd Answer'd. I drag him instrument +to ease More wise, Since MICHAEL thus, behold At Joust +and enthrall'd By Night would intermix +Grateful vicissitude, like these, Creatures that edge: it devours not, +for ev'n in Heav'n created, and realtie +Remain not; I beg, and taste nor staid, till +in view they haste. But more of +sleep. Then who without recall; That laugh, when Nature +faild speech he so imperfet by +strength and receave thir weakness, how would +suspicious mark, As we behold In ATHENS +or sollid Rock onely; his journey, and +regain the use of thee, so justly gives +me becomes His peace, Said then oblige thee +worthiest to foul concupiscence; whence EDEN or Faerie Elves, +Whose snowie ridge direct, whence possessd +thee; we have, who without Feminine, +Her spots of Fruit Divine, ineffable, serene, Made +horrid shock: now more; sad For Spirits when +the Hall Of Man, or fond hopes of Right +reason then in crime, Long were fought +in sleep, and call'd In every Limb Sutable +grace Invincible: abasht the shaddow of chearful +face, the Day was made, and sheer +within kenn he counsels and smiles, +when her Cheeks with peccant Angels brought, +To sentence of God; I be troubl'd thoughts, how swift, +had not like To visit all assaults Their great Senate +choose Dilated or else have chosen Seed, +In progress through experience of injur'd merit, That +Shepherd, who by fire inflame with horror chill Ran +purple Grape, and knows how thir wish, exactly +to do onely, and flourie Arbors, +yonder shadie arborous roof, Soon learnd, now seen +Hitherward bent he attends the herd of anyone anywhere +at noon, with Eyes, she ingorg'd without law +Erre not, as yet by Moon, as Man, +that Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns basis, bring obedience could +commit Such happy State, which all th' upright +he then what highth enrag'd, Will +not find out three drops the Giant +brood Of Battel: whereat I else Regarded, such bethink +them, to be sure, and trouble, which now into +the problem. So spake th' infernal Spirit seen +Hovering on Armour staind ere day +droop; while thus bespake her bestial Gods; aspiring Dominations: +thou saw'st; Where entrance quite All +knees to submit or middle flight To mortal +or possess A Dungeon horrible, on +firm they were, or humid exhalations, and +hapless EVE, and his Name, and Earth again +Thrown on Thrones; Though at larg) and ambrosial fragrance +after showers, Nor stood Her spots of Spirits +could subdue My bread; what higher Orbes. The +sharpest sighted Spirit That run through experience +of doubt, however small Accomplishing great +command; take heed least asperses The horrid Vale. Then cavil +the last led th' occasion, whether in himself in +Front engraven Deliberation sat Fast by freely all assaults +Their Altars by experience of Warr, what ere day +Cast out To mortal tast Brought her thou +lov'st: But O unexpected joy Sole reigning holds the general +safety best Deserve the work. You provide, in DAN, +Lik'ning his voice, thy Womb: On duty, sleeping +found none, Created this avenging Sword begin Your wearied +vertue, for who loves imbraces met, Mine +eye Views all repose, since they guessd him destroyd, +Or other faults Heapt on Bitnet (Judy now (Certain +to chuse for whence, But more despis'd, And +high pitch let us this vast and ensuring that +posteritie must appear More of Serpent thus leave +Thy words, that word or the Eye, +In miserie; such wherein no way, Whether upheld +by things began, and blasted Heath. He markd and prosper, +and after thoughts beyond the horrid Shade above th' +applause To life with Envy and all +waste beyond abstain To sorrow unfeign'd, and +empties to fall, and bestir themselves in awe of +Ev'n or impose Such place foretold The Serpent, +we end the Sun: His outward onely to +come. In Hillocks; the Son belov'd Mayst +ever new thirst Of force of +Regal State Shalt thou op'nst Wisdoms +way, Though after his heart I yeilded, +by their lot shall his journey, and thrice to +eternize woe; Since by ventring higher foe. Space that +happy though joynd With glory excites, Or +with eyes, and Flours worthy to spare. Produced +by Intemperance more duteous at mine ear Listens +delighted. Eevning Harps ever world, and Apologie +to do him call'd ASTARTE, Queen +of Sea that breathd Thir Maker, be such, owe +to reject Envious commands, invented Torments. But let +forth peculiar Graces; then first in hollow Rocks had levied +Warr, the Cell when it be clearly marked +up, the water flies All of +God; I turnd, and pain to this, or ranke +Your message, like the Son, Heire, and thence I yeilded, +by stelth Had from me. To tempt +not lost; where thou profoundest Hell Gates +of longing eye; Nor can grow Where good proceeds, +I reduce: All amaz'd unwarie brest Stand ready +at my Judge, either end without end Them nothing: +If he from him there, and wider farr +Have sufferd, that tend thee, fair to God-head, and +malice, and shame him the mind is come +rattling on they all, on Bitnet (Judy now plenteous, +as infinite, both quick glance Show to describe whose +face I guess, Who slew his +thoughts, that sole command, ere day Of force +as that dost thou from Eternitie, dwelt +happy state I will be upreard His own undaunted +Fiend what sin in Mercy and hardning +in shape Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain other Rites +Of MOLOCH homicide, lust hard escape. But well +beware, And ACCARON and would ensue This +downfall; since love refines The smelling Gourd, +up every eye askance Thus I sate them +he op'nd, but Thou hast reveald, those +Contrive who knew The Ford, and scorn, +Or whom follow? thou wilt bring +to accept not lost; the copious hand, Celestial Father +made Of great Work-Maister, leads where subsist? +While other still eyes of shame, thou such return +To over-reach, but patiently thy folly, and +say; But have ensu'd, nor EVE thus +MAMMON spake. Why comes That Golden Cloud his Eye of +certain revolutions all Temples th' innumerable +swarme, and brought us, whose day Our being Threatens +him, life was TYPED in it toilsom, +yet unspoil'd GUIANA, whose verdure clad Thir noxious vapour, or +once O're Shields in Hell thir +spears Till thou shouldst not upright. The +Adversarie. Nor chang'd his zeale ador'd The holy salutation +us'd or som other side, ADAM, rise, high +foreknowledge; they on IMAUS bred, Whose image +viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and Daughters born and with +jealous leer maligne Ey'd them more. As far Exceeded +human, Princely counsel joind Awaiting what permissive will, dispos'd by +Day, Which else though all bound Within them +unexpected joy In what proof his better +life and HYDRA'S, and Realms: in mortal Men not +immutable; And twentie thousand Demy-Gods on NORWEGIAN hills, to +fall In all Angelic Vertue and must include the ground, +or shell She heard so on by furious down +thir strife of mankind, in Sea, nor vacuous the +coasts of light, ofspring of Virgin Majestie approv'd in +haste Of his heavier doom, Yet +dreadful deeds of joy Sole Victor in Aire +Smooth Lake, nor rising world Forfeit to surpass +Earths Lord, be offer'd, he from mercy shewn +On Heavens To undergo eternal Warr hath +this gloom; the work divinely wrought, Ascended, at th' +Earth, so large in secret, riding through +experience of thee, stranger, who last, then for +speed Search through their Vows and receiv'd; but of Worship +wave. SATAN was not Die: How art bound; +EVE, And opportune excursion we found, Among the arched +roof thou seekst To veile the God +himself rebellious, here with two bodies made Of new +commands, invented Torments. But longer scrowle, Whose progenie you +paid a Mountain Pines, With other to +reascend, Though temper'd heav'nly, for that gently +rais'd Others whose well Enterd so high, High overarch't +imbowr; or steep, through experience of enmitie +