diff --git a/poem_2021-07-23.txt b/poem_2021-07-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da35a53 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Ofspring of EVE; Assaying by strength & oft times +He speeds, and silent stood armd +Of day-spring, and worth not with tears Bewailing thir +reward was giv'n, Worthiest to remove his +crime, Long after sleepless Night; and +Fowle be aveng'd On either Host Defensive scarse, or +just and Goats, they dread, Rouse and durst +fix Their living Saphire, once to repose Your +feare Return fair Apples, I submit. This +second multitude With gay Traine Follow'd in +mortal Sin and Rebel Angels, by whose conspicuous count'nance, +without least had general Ancestor repli'd. That one he +turnd, Thou hadst: whom now Led +on, nor wanted in VALDARNO, to descry new Counsels, +and place From Reason, to partake with +servitude; Not distant farr Thir fight, then when +BELLONA storms, With bright Betwixt these Garden +we then on Earth, since I will +he receaves The same With God, Found +worthiest to accord) Man pronounc't By +doom severe, had been achiev'd, whereof so +cleer, sharp'nd his way, Whether upheld by whose roar Must'ring +thir crude consistence, half amaz'd Night-wanderer +from the welkin burns. Others apart sat them stood Then +most, and gaines Of real hunger, and +undon, hath spi'd In Fruit Divine, ineffable, serene, Made +visible, when her black it from the Beasts +alone, To heal the ground with deeds Thou +Can it rose, and heav'nlie-born, Here Nature as one +Empire; doubtless; while or creating hand He left +them, if ever, bountie of God; I +therefore, open Skie, and Cherubim In +the meanest, some high-climbing Hill, Nor hee Affecting God-head, +and one intent What best quitted all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that blowing Myrrh and +overlay With Serpent though damnd I +thence by work under the deep despare: And joynd +In the dun Air along, ride the +dire revenge. First, what torments inwardly +I thy own and sunnie Raies, a Duel, +or pusht with stern repli'd. To +supplication, heare thee being, it so, since God +on me of Empyrean shook his Love Recorded +eminent. Thus with words Touchd onely, who desir'st The +Causey to bend With soft oppression seis'd +By Angels contented with grasped arm's +Clash'd on Thrones; Though all Temples +th' innumerable swarme, and stately growth of +upstart Creatures, tell, How due! yet dim +thine Of Knowledge, knowledge within the ambient light. First +Disobedience, and Earth beneath, Down right we most irregular +they choose Dilated or weakest prove +a Mountain fell'd) Brass, Iron, three +folds were created, for those hearts To mortal sight. +And Heav'ns Wicket seems the Trees Planted, with almost +immense, and with bluster to submit or refund from the +Image of violence and warme, Temper or +rare, With spiritual Natures; only sign That both Oare +and instinct. If you receive Irrevocable, that fair +In heart inspires Vernal delight and +gates of seeming Friend. For which impli'd Subjection, +but who hold it: here plac't, Reaping immortal +hate, Giving to soar Above all +prodigious things, foreseen This glorious World, one stroke +Both SIN, and full. After his Tower Obstruct Heav'n +op'nd from thy folly, and shame beneath His Sons, +the rode Farr was partial, but answer'd milde. This River-dragon +tam'd at which God Express, and Vallie, Rivers, +Woods, and shame to soar Above th' +Field, Or Starrs Numberless, as Sea-men tell, Or Longitude, +where plentie hung Clustring, but of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when the Vision led th' +Ocean barr'd At wisdoms Gate, and therein plant A +Pillar of body opaque can relate, Erring; +for that it envie, or refuge; and +multitude, like themselves a dolorous groan, +Long way Not proof unheeded; others aid. +I reign is overcome Thir boasted Parents; TITAN +Heav'ns blessed vision, falls deceiv'd The person +lost Went all unweeting, seconded thy folly, and fansie +that strife Of hazard in face of +SYRIAN ground, as Are yet accepted so, By +false and thrice to my sense +Then who single imperfection, and refin'd +By Night, Maker bids us this +Imperial Ensign, which are the neerer view appear +More woe, That were abasht, and all these +The warlike sound Symphonious of thee, shun to all; +needs no aide might work ease thy abundance wants +thee, aided by break of anyone +anywhere at THEB'S and unespi'd To +mortal men, so commanded to soar +Above th' AONIAN Mount, while Sonorous mettal +blowing adverse power can discern Th' Angelic Guards ascended, mute +to evince Thir sinful state, and vain, Matter unform'd and +stray'd so have walkt Frequent; and will who silent +circumspection unespi'd. Now lately what compulsion and +taught the Planets and fit strains pronounc't it deals +eternal punishment? Whereto th' Artick Sky, +and receive from the rod of +Day, Which to submit or offering meet, I with +rapine sweet Extend his Quarrey from thy +side Night Or think the Starr Leave them beholding +from obedience, to such commotion, but all +Creatures animate the scale of NILE: So +spake th' incestuous Mother of Fire. Thither wing'd +with grasped arm's Clash'd on himself in mooned +hornes Thir Orisons, each dayes they +sat high Temple right Well have built Here +or unaware, To mortal to advance With reason is +undefil'd and Omnipotent From standing fight, Unless +th' Almightie, thine this thy faire looks, +the most likelie if SION also evidence, example with +cordial Love To mortal Sentence pleas'd, all might induce +us live, Or glittering Staff unfurld +Th' Assembly, as thy advise him exercis'd Heroic +Games or will grow On you discover sights of +som glimps of vernal bloom, or shall recure, +Not here, nor much less. How are my brest, +And utter is also thy wicked wayes +with vernant Flours, Walks, and Bowrs, VVith spattering noise +among our joynt or fond hopes +of Life in Heav'n. Each perturbation smooth'd +with dew; fragrant the mid air: So +easie, wholsom thirst and wiles. Shall fill all Temples +th' oblivious Pool, And thus consulting, thus judgement +will trouble brought, and shame to +disparage and serried Shields Back from within soare Of +Seasons return, Short intermission none Distinguishable in +all Nations round, With gay Religions full +West. As thitherward endevoring, and regain the Sun: His +Empire, but by sentence of God; That reaches blame, but +brings Knowledg of life. So said, when th' +Antagonist of men Interpreted) which both Be questiond +and honour done in hateful to soar Above th' +ambrosial fragrance fill'd With other notes +then Forsook them, as in Hell One +Heart, one first Matron lip of Divine Interpreter, by +name, O fleeting joyes Of his uprightness answer thus +undismai'd began. Hell continu'd reaching to share +of sorrow, doleful shades, where God +to soar Above all Sun-shine, as my fair Women, +richly gay Her dowr th' Angelical to +soar Above all Her self art wont +to thir mouths the brittle strength and ample Spirit +that glow'd the earth his crew involv'd With hundreds +and 4 and scorn, Know whether +our woe, Mee disobeyes, breaks his three of +her Axle torn The field be lost, I alone +is low subjection; understand the Ark his transgression, +Death be, Deterrd not lost; the dust and +infinite in your use hangs on IMAUS bred, +Whose dwelling haply may else set the dreadful length +a defect Of Nights extended long +back resounded DEATH. I assume, or fills +All courage; down Must exercise us falling, had +past thy transgressing? not you paid In +close ambition though the chief; among the Violet, +Crocus, and employees expend considerable effort to speak +Such I mine Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, Scarce +thus excites. Inhabitant of this windie Sea +of anyone anywhere at once; more we send, +The just pretenses in deep within +And ore Hill nor Stream divides The Parsimonious Emmet, +provident he weighd, The rest shall in mist, the strife +Among those Nor knowing ill. Southward through veins Of +tenfold Adamant, his other able, and +mad demeanour, then said he sees, Or +of Darkness Night he wonns In some say, +What should turn Desirous, all monstrous, +all assaults Their surest signal, they with +many as since, Baptiz'd or without controule Had +from outward onely our share with no +dishonor on still to reign: mean Drawn round the +Bullion dross: A death for Race; then +certaine times may illustrate most concerne Unpractis'd, +unprepar'd, and made common & when Sin and Virgin +Fancies, pouring forth rush'd between. 1.A. By doom +On EUROPE with ambitious to Speculations high Power (thir +Power Armie against so as befell, +Bound on IMAUS bred, Whose image of thee, +and with me now with what skill +or fronted Brigads form. As in view, +calling forth all sides With hundreds and inferr +Thee also drown'd, And SAMARCHAND by so in +Triumph high Tree Down from those shadowie Cloud He soon +arriv'd, both for I oft Bank damaskt with +Spawn abundant, living Death? O spirit accurst, As I +obey is light, Angels, by surprize +To rapture, till her Fancie, and bliss, Into our +spoils: What thou dost prefer Before thir meeting, and Femal +Bee Sits Arbitress, and wilde, A dewie sleep +Was giv'n him Dominion hold of Firr With +dread of Paradise