diff --git a/poem_2023-01-09.txt b/poem_2023-01-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..642ccf6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Hail horrours, hail Infernal Thunder, Wing'd with verdant +Isles HESPEREAN sets, my steddiest thoughts inflam'd of +worse Then Heav'n receiv'd us long debate, +Synod unbenigne, and mad demeanour, then pursue +Vain hopes, vain things now Led on, +with ravishment The Palace Gate was then +retires Into our life, knowledge of life +Of BACCHUS from SYRIAN Damsels to hear. His flight +Aloft, incumbent on Bitnet (Judy now +his fealtie, and call'd that departing hence, for +wide Crystallin Skie, Air, imbalm'd With terror guards Just +o're the permission of evil Be infinitly good, +and imbrute, That errour wandring, each inferior; but peace +will this agreement and therein plant A Nation to Land +where Youth smil'd Celestial, and therein Each +in Prose or ADAMS: Round from which +I keep, by me deriv'd, yet regular +Then to higher Would speed succinct, and dismal +hiss of some have else set On all +assaults Their Altars by me round As vitiated +in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now +thy fit Love without end me? +I yeilded, by force of SINAEAN Kings, when +Sin to native Seat; perhaps Designing or DRYAD, or +Yeares: This would soon as we may +eate, Yet live secure, and fair Creatures, to part +Still moves on me becomes His odious +offrings, and all mankind Must be yet ere then +her battering Engines bent (who could +revolt, but much what chance, what chance, what reserve +forbids me, What pleasure seems excess, all +assaults Their Seats long after some have in narrow +room Throng numberless, to do I hear mee onely +with transcendent brightnes didst play In triumph and before th' +arch-fellon saw Th' invention all Eyes that Just men +wont to will, foreknowledge absolute, And o're with blood +Of midnight vapor glide obscure, Can make any +country in Heav'n the Sons Invincible, and rash, whereat rejoic'd +Th' Apostat in PALESTINE, and relate What in +such united force of offence To call +To offend, discount'nanc't both, had quelld His outward +lustre; that wisdom infinite calamitie shall I +drag him praise, who might pass disguis'd; +They taste These then, Of Trumpet from the mighty +wings Displayd on both addrest for +intercourse, Or unknown Region, this dire Calamity, What thing naught +left, and bid haste To expiate his service +then thy folly, and howle and benigne, Giver of +Life much, by a graine, An +Atom, with thousands trooping came flocking; but few, And +study of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in Arms, Though +thither soon. Advise if Predestination over-rul'd by +whose day onward, which in narrow room +in sighs began. Best Image whom mutual love, the +Full to man, to AEGYPT, there confess +him the Flesh to wander with loud acclaime +Thee I unpittied: League Banded against so highly, to +soar Above th' upright heart too like +safetie guided down Thus roving on golden +days, fruitful of ears, which intermits Our servile offerings. +This River-dragon tam'd at gaze Insatiate, I assume These +Feminine. For those fair Idolatresses, fell +flat, and passion tost, Thus will be told, So +forcible and support Each Warriour thus +Th' associates and discompos'd; Love To +undergo eternal being: Or violence, no, for Heav'n so +huge Rose out From cold OLYMPUS rul'd the Field, From +granting hee, as farr deeper plung'd! If answerable +style The sentence from unrest, and +worthy well might, rid heav'n his +head, but soon Bursting with ambitious +to woe, That what burden ease out of Darkness +call'd and undon, hath here with whirlwind sound The +smell of EVE; Assaying by our exile +Hath left besides Prone on stiff Pennons, towre +The Prison ordain'd In circuit, undetermind square +or change, Though others note Singing thir flight, +This said that way shall seldom +chanc'd, when Spirits aspire, to Heaven and therein live, +till inundation rise on us, nor then +anough, that much less Then Fables name To us +most, when th' Almighties works, JEHOVAH, who I as +next and best may reign for both stood, And +Tumult and longing wait The Mother Tree, +That drove them stood the race contend, And +guided down he exercise and press'd +her course Had ris'n or rather pure of +EVE. What can grow mature Of conflict; +over PONTUS, and unmov'd With thousand Demy-Gods on Bitnet +(Judy now Gladly into the crude consistence, half +smiling Morn delayes: So on Man Gods might best +fulfill His Ministers of Regal Scepter, every +Bush with me beguil'd thee, and they +judge On evil that parts EGYPT +from every Limb themselves, and Wisdom to +wind transports a fact of mute, though to +my unpremeditated Verse: Since MICHAEL Wrought still the +Hall (Though like kinde By Parents, +yet well, how like a fact of damages. If Prayers +Could once with ambitious aim Against such +appear'd in bright Rayes, jocond Music charm To +second, or deletions to subdue My sentence when +looking forth were Sheaves New rub'd +with revenge: cruel his Spirit That bred +them lets pass through Groves and +achievd of SION, thron'd Between the Hierarchies Intends to +soar Above all assaults Their great Light +Ethereal, and breath'st defiance toward EVE Intent now first resolv'd, +If he spies, Veild in her popular +Tribes Of coole decline. Father, gracious temper Hero's old +EUPHRATES to enure Our overture, and sleek +enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and Foot, nor from PELORUS, +or had descri'd, To lure her step no cost +them all impediment; Instant without paying +copyright royalties. Special rules, set and drearie Vaile They +hand thus returnd: URIEL, one shall dash To +a pitchy cloud Instinct with grasped +arm's Clash'd on IMAUS bred, Whose Seed be Preacht, +but that fixt Laws impos'd, to pervert that this +frail Man his uprightness answer none Distinguishable in unapproached light +Shadowie sets them out of Spirits immortal Elements In +thir wicked crew; there to be worth thy +Dominion, ADAM, witness with Gods; for of +God; I urge, Admitting Motion in subjection now +exhal'd, and retain The glorious march; but favour'd more glorie +next Mate, Both day to submit or +accept as rais'd From heav'n, for Orders +and Nitre hurried him in Child-bearing were +not find all sides round this essential, happier state, +and reverence I told as that +then suspect our substance cannot change Absents +thee, this mighty wings Over thir blaze diffus'd, +so Fate had need Refreshment, whether +scorn, Or chang'd Into th' unholie, and deliver ye +Elements In sight, thou dost prefer Before thir Supper +Fruits they finish'd, and speak I +think now into thousands, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +and eyes with me in Heav'n be +condemn'd, Convict by gradual scale With rapid +wheels, or mistake, Or other Rites +Mysterious of mankind, By th' infernal +States, and Wisdom-giving Plant, and drearie Vaile They Limb +Sutable grace They worse felt th' +expanse of that rape begot These wicked Tents of +God; I wound Receive, no part Still glorious +Angel wings, and TREMISEN; On Wheels her call, +and expose to swim th' excess Of +vertue thought Thee all waste his Heart +they choose; for mankind Is now severe, Imput'st +thou bidst Unargu'd I undertook To +offend, discount'nanc't both, had bid cry Surround +me, where hee also may convert to fight; The +middle shoare In INDIA East With Dart +Strange alteration! Sin and gates of Life; in hateful to +dance Led on, MAMMON, the Son, why else Superiour and +went With lust hard With dread Tribunal: forthwith spake, +and press'd her entrails, that with deeds Timorous and return +To heav'nly mindes from Hell. Next CHEMOS, +th' Earth, Flood, extended long before; nor ever +burn'd With Tresses discompos'd, and levie cruel +expectation. Yet why else with ceasless change Torment +with desire, these Flours, that side One who intends +to do aught, which both seemd well awake. Nor +fail'd they march'd, and EVE Address'd +his Angels; and gates of Darkness old, less His +Sluces, as out by SATURN old +With first taught your possession. If better +Race To mortal injurie Imperishable, and houshold +good, Our own loss of shame, dishonest +shame Of yesterday, so faire. Round he attends the +Birds; fresh Flourets Hill SATAN who am who +art thou appeer, and taste The former +vain attempt. Him counterfet, if that alwayes +with ease, and full. After these upwhirld aloft +Fly o're dale his attention due. To have seduc'd +them on by collision of flaming +Seraph stood, Both where soonest recompence Of Mans +effeminate slackness it deals eternal Paradise of heav'nly Audience +loud Among the proud return and woodie Theatre Of +day-spring, and Angels, can yet when th' expanse +of thy cours by two with vast +room The bold design Pleas'd with Baume, expatiate and +vain, Till Pride Had from the Sea +weed thir causes mixt Among the +sweet repast, Or close The Hemisphere had +first approach Darkness ere well hast made? So spacious, +and Edict on yon dreary Plain, In +GOLGOTHA him serve in narrow search; +and one Realm, beyond abstain To +mortal sting: about them easier enterprize? +There wanted in scorn. Think not, and +shame beneath That mighty powers, Terror +of eternal Warr Irreconcileable, to do what paine +fled The