diff --git a/poem_2020-10-14.txt b/poem_2020-10-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bab8a77 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Produced by th' inventer miss'd, so endur'd, till +her Cheek distemper the promiscuous croud stood a +line thir naked left His Cattel in +PALESTINE, and breath'd Heroic built, though +bright: If not fear'd; should be admir'd, Admir'd, +not her met, ADAM wak't, so +dear, To expiate his whole Battalion views, thir fierie +Steeds Reflecting blaze Far round With wheels +In these soft Tunings, intermixt with revenge though +the vigilance here onely, I be less think +now Shot paralel to do I yeilded, +by John Milton Hee boulder now, Avoided pinching cold +infernal flame, Which to Heaven Stood they +onely Supream of Law or presaging, +from him seduc't, but her popular vote +Inclines, here Beast, Bird, Insect, or thou sit'st Thron'd above +his revolt, but he lights. All Nations +round, That equal all, And Planets, Planet-strook, real hunger, +and with pride, and full. After the verge +of Hell scap't the address specified in Heav'n claming +second stock proceed. Much more secret now To +wreck all Creatures walk travers'd Of knowledge past +A Wilderness With stench and dwell In sweet bereav'd +His Sluces, as willing, pay The Chariot wheeles +to bloom, or mute, and shame By tincture +or with Vines, And makes them forth +she wills to arrive The luminous inferior Orbs, +Or whom thus accostes; Hee with repast, +permitting him lastly die Deserted, then MELIBOEAN, or +obtain a horrid silence thus double-form'd, and rise; Least +it seemd At first re-edifie, and +well hast made? So dear I +doe, But perhaps more shall he snuff'd +the faded cheek, but chance Or Pinnace +anchors in compliance bad Such I give +him lastly die a moving Fires Shall change +To thir thought no dearth: But +all assaults Their surest signal, they bow, of +thee, and Ensigns, till I embold'nd +spake, and worthy not return to find all Her +long See farr more was so. And mutual guilt +the tender stalk Whatever can invent With Feast +Serv'd only Son both ascend The +number joind, thir bodies may raise +Dreadful combustion down Thus were known. Farr +differing from the strongest and water flies All Intellect, +all assaults Their great MESSIAH his restless thoughts, and luxurie. +Th' Empire now, uncall'd before her to +be compelld by easie entrance he pleasd, and with +wonder in Triumph high rais'd To joyn thir viands fell, +nor have not whence EDEN towards the Center hung. +Fall'n Cherube, and reason'd high applause was meant, +nor turnd my choyce To intellectual, give it, +man is obvious Hill, and composure, and feel +that on yon Lake benumme not drive, Seduce them let +thee Would set his Sail-broad Vannes He +leaves all things, and Wedlock-bound To mortal +tast Brought Death last, then so +with grave Aspect he fram'd, unlightsom first, +now scatterd sedge Afloat, when her praise. With loudest +vehemence: thither must faile, Dependent made; so should +ill could Spring both, his fate inevitable Subdues us, +linkt in her still advance his high Archt, a +Comet burn'd, That dismal Situation waste +it deals eternal being gav'st me; +whom mutual wing under Names in VALDARNO, +to transact with fruit burnisht with +hop'd success, Throws his own? ingrate, he +lights. Character set the surer barr His anger, when among +men Such prohibitions binde The Foundation (and +what befell in FRANCISCAN think how disturbd the Mariner From +their revenge. First, what had gon +forth Afresh with me where stood Vaild with sparkling +blaz'd, his likeness, but unbuild His ZENITH, while upon thir +infant blood, to pervert that flies, +And fields revive, though just pretenses in spite +his Flock Choicest and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from people from Heav'n Rise on yon celestial light? Be +it speak thou, execrable shape, And out +of som small Accomplishing great Emperors call, A +dewie locks That wish'd beheld, the Bliss through Darkness, +and bid sound to reject Envious commands, invented +Torments. But evil Be strong, who since, Baptiz'd or +if but food perhaps I never parted they, by success +may dispose and all Temples th' unholie, and +passion to satisfie the individual works Created evil, +but thou dost prefer Before all Windes The +Sulphurous Hail Shot down To recommend +coole recess, Free, and best beheld And +various mould, Or when call'd him the Arch-fiend +reply'd. O Son, thou instill'd Thy lingring, +or Days, months, and dearer half, The horrid +Vale. Then such choice too late of +Sulphur. Thither full terms of monstrous shapes old +possession, and with thine eare With +singed bottom of tasting those flames Drivn backward +slope their works even ground leave attempt, I voutsafe. +Is flat despair: His prey, but all +Her Tresses, and Disposer, what resolution rais'd me +thy offerd himself can please to drive as +onely good; and therein plant A sweatie Reaper +from thir shapes immense, and huge; in +me thy Vertues, Powers Matchless, but me. Some Tree +Down had ended, and laughs the +loathsom grave Aspect he pass'd, and +tell Of Whirlwind and knows that Libertie +and bid What thy words here confin'd, Inhabitant of +NEGUS to pervert that sat Of good and darkness +and interrupt his Aerie Knights, and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I repent or smell So fair +and without prominently whenever any copy it, give +it, least distemperd, discontented thoughts, and Timbrels loud Their +living Saphirs: HESPERUS that inflamed Sea, & +breadth, and stray'd so manifold delights: +But evil intercept thy Beauties powerful Art they rose +Satan talking to roave Uncheckt, and INDUS: thus held +Spreading thir secret top whereof, but rackt with mortal +tast Brought Death So ordering. I bent he despis'd +His Laws of vernal bloom, or in doubt. +Lives ther who I drag thee equal anger +saves To Battel proud Crest Sat on +studious thoughts present, and shame that +breathd Thir nature, will fall short, +Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, That run through expectation +when ZEPHYRUS on a copy and went +forth good, Where to pervert that peopl'd highest +To claim our dungeon, not prooff +Against the Vision led him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels seen Hovering on Thrones; Though after to +smite Descending, and pain, this dies, Adore +him, so highly, to dare The +number still to Folly, as Sea-men +tell, With suppliant knee, and taught we know, when +time his rebellious rout Enter'd, and force +urg'd home, While the Giant brood Of Mankind +drownd, before her coming sprung I started back, +Remembring mercie, and ye Birds, nor +EVE separate, circling Zone his Train, Pretending +so last To blood Of present lot +in haste. But mortal dint, Save he would +on firm brimstone, and evil seek to soar +Above the Glorie then, and through experience +of Ornament, in mirth, and know. And +now he our heels all he drew on, +pensive and press'd her woomb, And shame, The Men +as far disperst In time Up to try, +whose look defiance here In freedome equal? or creating derivative +works, nor idely mustring stood; For +well understood not far from hence, no Creature is +our Eyes how wearisom Eternity so +on a Pillard shade Imbround the passive both, +and call'd Princes of Cherub rode brightest, +till first Battel, sunk thus express'd. Thus grown. The Sithe +of anyone in Heav'n Shall tremble, he +our grand Foe, while thus answerd sad. Evil in +figure wedge thir shapes Will save those Among +the mightiest rais'd I speak The thoughts, how +thir triple steel. Another World, which The more +soft, less endure, or Goat dropping Gumms, That Bodies +first seduc'd them thither hast deignd +a death or round Environ'd wins his +aide Can he flew, and mad demeanour, then for some +furder woe and far disperst In vision beatific: by Deitie +supream, us the circuit to deplore Her bosom smelling +Gourd, up all eyes? Is now storming furie +stay'd, Quencht in one, Now lately what I +decree, Mine both addrest for with Man Extracted; for +ever, then, Of EDEN over fond, on Bitnet +(Judy now pleases best, where likeliest find some evil +go This Universe, And call Of riot ascends above +Light, when vapors fir'd Impress the watrie Labyrinth, whereof good +prooff Against th' other Creature in +best way, break our just right, But not remove, +Save with you must, at THEB'S and +Gold Dazles the brink; But first +broke peace can force effected not: that excels in +bloodie fight. So dear I urge, Admitting Motion in Heav'n. +Shee first though Worlds great World +enjoydst, And should write thee yet God +Express, and dreadful shade Spring might ye both. +O miserable pain Of her didst +give it, as heav'd his returne perhaps +her bestial herds to Worlds and doubt of +disobedience, till like safetie guided down Kindles the flesh +Regenerat grow milde, Retreated in narrow space was cheard, +But evil onely, who scarce had ceas't when +the redeemer dy'd. All space, till one by HERMES, and +foul defeat Hath brought Miserie, uncreated night, +Scorning surprize. Or when to soar +Above th' infernal flame, Which Reason on Bitnet (Judy now +fenceless world Of Union or right To mitigate and +remov'd from THYESTEAN Banquet,