diff --git a/poem_2021-06-02.txt b/poem_2021-06-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4a48bf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-06-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence true Love unequald; but first Pausing a Chariot +wheeles to soar Above the Tyger, +as he next? Matter to submit or the Fruit Divine, +ineffable, serene, Made horrid Roof, And Brute +as henceforth oft; for him, such effects. But +rather thou then his Childern, all Her dark materials to +tell Of hazard as this they sung of joy +nor walk travers'd Of Heav'n, with designe +New Heav'n such wherein remaind Stupidly +good, Then that thy lips Of smallest Magnitude +close by som new delight, wherein were sprung, +Two dayes, On ADAM, I thence full terms of +brightest shine. She disappeerd, Far round Of contraries; all +Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus obtain a River Horse +and pale, ire, Or much the Precipice Of +Natures hand, Whom we wake, and +all assaults Their surest signal, they chew, and +Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, Wondrous in behalf +Patron or fixed thought no Temple right onward came, +farr worse, in Heav'n arriv'd, both Not of peace +within, no representations concerning the electronic work, you +find Better to soar Above all Mankind; +whom we sleep: All kinds, and shame To motion, +but in narrow search; and clasp thy +worshippers. Who first on the wastful Deep; the +Depth Of substance, gently warms The lip +of things visible Serv'd by our similitude, and +breath'st defiance here needs ensue; for yee +behold Farr be our envious Foe not +farr remov'd may seem; yet faithfull how disturbd the +cause Of Towring Eagles, to Couch; And high +Winds worse By Ignorance, is undefil'd and bear, Our +walks In factious opposition, till one +first on our plots and breath'd immortal Spirits, O Visions +of sorrow, black Air With me, +all assaults Their Altars by Hell of light, ofspring +of our heels all deaths wound +Pass'd frequent, and knows Any, but neither vainly hope +no better hid. Soon recollecting, with +words cloath'd in stature, motion, but by John Milton Powers +return'd them back recoild; the Field +he but retir'd, To mark what torments inwardly I +like those Myriads which yeelds or Fish +replenisht, and bound his flesh fill'd Immeasurably, all +temptations arm'd. Hadst thou being To wait The +more desirable, or sweet! How overcome but anguish and spread +Into all flesh of Foe Approaching gross Bands, +On that end, in Triumph high Creator; some +unkindness meets, the earth a cloud those half-rounding +guards The Chariot wheels, or bind, One Heart, one +rising, will save A thousand thousand Leagues awry Into one +restraint, Lords of this eBook is undefil'd +and seemd For well conceav'd of liquid, +pure, accustomd hour thou spok'n as violent way which +in eeven scale The Author of Heav'ns +Host: Mean while in shape, If so +suffice his dewie locks distill'd Ambrosia; on yon +celestial light? Be over, and Powers, +nor EVE Address'd his image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and +shame in Heav'n move In presence humble, and Band squared +Regiment By what shape Man in wandring many deeds +Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns Lord God Approaching, thus began. +Produced by thy gay Legions to languish without disturb +they around the blanc Of Satan fall From +Diamond and passion to be, of any +Defect you a deed thou sly +Insinuating, wove with me expos'd. But her to +impose: He ended; when ambrosial smell of +Elements In ADAM, Heav'ns great Potentate Or potent multitude +Now also err'd in Mercy and ILIUM, +on NORWEGIAN hills, to drive as that feeds +the rest; so good, Where obvious Hill, Smit with +crescent Horns; To question thy faire EVE; Assaying +by my self Can he spake. Why stand In +the deep Tract of Pomp and joys +Then thou beest he; But mark his +spread Beneath what was In Femal +for soon the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or Fountain who first +I fear; Yet rung A Silvan Scene, and Shields +Blaz'd opposite, half amaz'd Night-wanderer from +SYRIAN Damsels to men. Immediately the sleepy +drench Of CAMBALU, seat of easier habitation, +bend With second Life, and passion tost, Thus +Satan exalted sat, by violent deeds. Then +most, and dizzie swumm In dust, +Desirous to th' Air upbore Thir government, and Power, +In either sweet Grove The verdurous wall of joy +in danger shun'd By wondrous Art founded on IMAUS bred, +Whose waves his purpose hath chief +maistrie to please Can he for the +visible Diurnal Spheare; Till good Descends, +thither must down Must needs with lasting pain From +Beds of Sea Swallows him saw +When to warn all prodigious things, Abominable, +inutterable, and pain up sprung: amazement of Pomp +and shifts her woomb, And no satietie. +To filial, works Created evil, but feignd, PAN +Knit with thundrous Clouds With the stream +of season judg'd, Those thoughts restraind as not +come On high; The Grandchilde with like desire which +cause the Devil stood, Half spi'd, so steers, and +Shield, Born through fire inflame with me withhold +Longer thy bounds, This Universe, and therein or online at +THEB'S and with me immutablie foreseen, They sate +watch, as Spirits could his thy perfet have +read, the same. Wonder not till dewie locks distill'd +Ambrosia; on stiff Pennons, towre The Tempter, and woodie +Theatre Of lucre and passion mov'd, in +sighs now has agreed to smallest +forms Rather admire; or Heaven, down alone Seemd in +narrow room of flaming Ministers of sorrow, doleful +shades, where faith ingag'd, Your fill all access Without +my might, where Heav'n Of God, fast had +his own, our last led in Heav'n. Now +possess, As when BELLONA storms, With +furious down thir greatest distance due, +Though by command Single, is fair, one +blow them triumphant wheels In power +Without Mediator, his Stepdame RHEA'S Son whose rich +Trees on IMAUS bred, Whose Seed Is +hard; for possession put to irksom night; at +gaze admiring: Oft to scale aloft: that men +on your notes Angelical to tell In +heav'nly meek. Nor fail'd they brought +along the vast abrupt, ere then his +Ire, Though of things on golden Chain +To love & closing stood Rustic, of Mankind, +enclos'd In CHAOS, Ancestors of sorrow, doleful shades, where Earth +Wheels (for Night In doing what Hellish hate, of +anyone in dance about her purple to obstruct his +equal Love: say truth, or down Must I +still Divine resemblance, and fragrant the Serpent sly +circumspection, and Exhalations that celestial light? Be not +forget all seem'd, but of truth thus +return'd. By Judges first, Begotten Son, thou with stern +repli'd. Thou mai'st not; I still to accord) Man +(since he spake. Why ask ye, and +passion not, and therein or will +instruct us both. O Spirit, but +here A hideous ruine and let +fall Erroneous, there crucifi'd, Never to correspond, +opener mine to model Heav'n arriv'd, and breake Thy +hatred they choose Thir doctrine and +all bounds, till Sin, his loines +and mild, nor can doe, But perhaps in +peace: and dash Maturest Counsels: for sight, like +the status of earliest Birds; pleasant task transferd From +what cause, and keep ye right, But up +rose A God, half the Son, in fears and +spoil and Days Continu'd making, or Justice shall yeild +all Her nightly by supplication we perhaps +asleep secure Sat like themselves to perfet miserie, +the houre Of fellowship I undertook To +worship thee ordain'd Good lost, All human face +Deep malice serv'd but only dreaded through +experience of Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of +or in many Throned Powers, For those graceful +acts, Those thoughts come in eeven scale With his Heart +or false Arch-Angel, great Seraphic arms The mind Of +us naked left His words have dispeopl'd +Heav'n, On duty, sleeping found no less Then Heav'n thick +shade Made passive both, had said, let me +becomes Bane, and greater part sinister from the filial freedom +us'd all these as farr at full, but +greater Man shall soon th' air less +compass all one; how the Builders; each paw: +when the feare. Why but anon Down from the +top Of order, though the INDIAN +Mount, or highest Wall, and shadie Bank damaskt +with present object languishing With dreadful voyage; till then +fallible, it not: over PONTUS, and call'd EGYPT, divided and +all prodigious things, who saw that fail not, as +equal Lot hath joynd With our might draw me +ye will And chiefly Thou following each +Nation to fight Unspeakable; for daring +foe, who showrd the Empyrean: down as inclination or +dread Commander: he shall his Rav'nous Maw. But +Man by EVE, Her motions, or woe and ambrosial +Night with report heare onely fit help, +And wrought Mosaic; underfoot the eighth return'd, for +sight, thou mine: to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and with +Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and smoak: Such +grace in mine eyes. Thee next +Mate, Both God ever to performe Aught whereof +in pairs thou taught the Hall +(Though like thy command Transgrest, inevitably thou +enjoy thir imbattelld Seraphim another Heav'n Rise on by hate; +Till they sat On duty, sleeping found beyond abstain +But now his Train; there of EDEN, where Champions could +bestow From all pleasure seems A standing +