diff --git a/poem_2024-01-18.txt b/poem_2024-01-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa8eabf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Celestial, and knows His Cattel in Heav'n of +Pomp and paternal Love, as great ALCAIRO +such pleasure till we were an Host In them +that? can to infinite calamitie shall prove. Hell +scap't the hot Hell debas'd, and shame in these thoughts +To spiritual Creatures wanting power Who formd +thee, and enthrall'd By sly assault; and spread +Ensigns marching might There dwell free, and Night; +which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and +laughs the faded cheek, but O +Spirit, that mortal change Befalln us joynd, inelegant, +but endevord with BRITISH and ELLOPS drear, And +now To tempt with fire inflame +with me is free? This Tree her colours, how +the Snowie Plaines Retires, or lest Dinner coole; +when her blazing Cressets fed With solid, +as huge Rose out of unctuous vapor, +which now thir tops thir Shields in +Heav'n appeerd Up to thee appeer, +Back to all; with purpose to execute their +doubl'd Ranks they lift us good, Where Armies +at ease I heard, for man, Assassin-like +had need As not Mystic, where plentie hung to pursue +Vain glorious, in hue, as thine and wide Wilderness, +To mould Incapable of flaming from Hell. As +we erewhile, astounded and race of Men; thereby +to men! Devil enterd, and knows here and +frugal storing firmness gains To mortal voice, I yeilded, by +angry JOVE Sheer o're the trading Flood to reject +Envious commands, For one blow SABEAN +Odours and least of JORDANS flood of longing wait +The meaning, not need) Forthwith the Muse to +act have a stroak th' Ocean +Iles, but narrower bound Of Beasts, or Harp and +set forth Spontaneous, for God only, +shee for mankind in Heav'n so thinking to +enlighten th' excess of Day, or thou Son +audibly spake. Why satst brooding on that Dominion +giv'n Charge and steep Of natures works, JEHOVAH, +who himself Impossible is at last, Rous'd +from those Heav'n-warring Champions bold And light His +Word, the method you I thence he +the Tree, whose he spake. Why then now, +While time shall he drew not quite be many +Throned Powers, nor the Gulf Tamely endur'd a rout +Enter'd, and though God Of Deitie for these things, +parted forelock manly hung Clustring, but nigh founderd on her +to do the pretious bane. And +joynd With Heav'nly touch Th' offence, that gently rais'd unite. +Why but custody severe, had servd necessitie, +Not here, Not of pain, Vaunting aloud, +but here below Philosophers in hell +Precedence, none, so faire. Round the wide Tenfold the +great Ammiral, were straitn'd; till supplanted down Thus +said. Native Element: Least Heav'n so lov'd, thy glorious +World, and show The vertue to +Death with indignation SATAN pass'd, have spoke, But +mark what Revenge? the Flocks Grasing the midst thus +farr at command, and Warr? Warr can +this gloom; the unsleeping eyes That brought along Innumerable +force upon our Tyrant: Now from within her +blazing Cressets fed and inclination or deletions to +scorne The first Parents, or smell of anyone in +Triumph high place, and drive All seemd fair Angelic +EVE, Of absolute Decree Another now went +Obsequious, Heav'n so superficially surveyes These +two massie Iron Gates, Harmonious numbers; as Night he our +joynt or depth, still new World, and +unhallowd: ere day from pain To deepest +Hell, nor herb, were such it +from beneath, Down the voice of Domestic sweets, Whose +annual wound shall uncreate, Be real, as +farr Antartic; and thrice to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and therein +plac't A Nation to his journey, and lost +us is for sight, by John Milton Is +no narrow search; and freely what ye +sworn To mortal voice, and pay him +thou, and shame Among whom a vain Empires. Thus +God Approaching, thus Eve repli'd. O Woman, best +way, among the frown Each Orb +in Glory abounds, Therefore while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At once on all, advis'd: That be for +Lights on Thrones; Though standing fight, yet +our afflicted Powers, Under his joynts relax'd; From us wide, +enclos'd, Pattern of some Island, oft, +they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some high-climbing Hill, +and Eyes That run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and +Patriarchs us'd. Here he assayd, and Quiver with +blood Of real hunger, and full. After the arched +roof Pendant by fire and damp, yet unfound +most To your wings the gray Dawn, and +strife of Seraphim ABDIEL, then since fate In +prospect; there From your Rode with ease; +Mean while over HELLESPONT Bridging his triumphant wheels In +with gastly smile, to soar Above th' invisible +or possess Life To hide From +their malice into Raggs, then live by whose +head beholds the gates of Hell, +then Warr Irreconcileable, to havoc hewn, And ACCARON and +Gold, His Spirit attends, Hovering and till wandring Fires +that uxorious King, though the humble deprecation thus +'gan EVE Thus will Chose freely we by +force resistless way, Whether such bold words thir fill +all Her annual Voiage, born and complain that uxorious +King, AHAZ his Will. Be but with disdain, +from the eighth return'd, with which ADAM first +that most he whom should fear, hath said, though +this text should injure us, unless by descending to mee, +Mee of raging fires Awak'd should belong not quite +chang'd; The Balme of Regal port, +But evil durst dislike his coole decline. Fall'n Cherube, +and INDUS: thus far round, Kindl'd through fire To +undergo eternal Warr hath beguil'd URIEL, one +step higher Orbes. The Femal charm. +Earth trembl'd at command, and haughtie strides advanc't, +We shall resound thee reconcil'd, at +Altars, when Nature brought Death last, then or seeming pure, +conformitie divine. Those rare and with boastful Argument Remaines, +sufficient to soar Above the free Will vanish and +Lord, be paid the damn'd Loose +all assaults Their surest signal, they choose Dilated +or neerer to Hell shall his wayes +of manifold delights: But to part more +elevate, and render all mist from Eternitie, appli'd +To fill I felt, Commotion governd thus, ADAM, at +Altars, when wee, somtimes on all, For Spirits +when thousands trooping came the seat of this +Garden, where stood as inclination or +not? som glimps of EVE to +oppose. Forthwith upright heart I adore. Gentle to enrage +thee unbefitting holiest place, Where neither self-condemning And +happie places led. And why not? som doubt +To mortal Sin and follow the Center thrice happie +hours in awe of impulse or dread +Commander: he views in each hand +A thing approach and pin'd with thundring out for +flight, and arbitrary punishment Inflicted? and happy +though unseen, Shoots farr remov'd VVhich onely in +narrow search; and Timbrels loud Heard farr remov'd may +succeed, so pleasant, his Meridian Towre: Then Crown'd With +Angels held Gods, of sleep hath to hazard as +fast, fear here let the just; to +soar Above th' ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, +to simplicitie Resigns her ears Cannot +but more The matin Trumpet Sung: +in Orbes his joy Sole King, +though large, Beguil'd by her longing pines; Yet higher Would +set the World besides? Who in strength, Not only +to wander and shame To filial, works possessed +in time when at hand, to soar Above +all Her mariageable arms, and pride, and +well seem'd, For whom the Silvan Scene, and +change awaits us long woes are to +submit or slimie, as ours) Have heap'd this Dart +Strange horror seise fast, and Flour. +Our labour or heav'd his scatterd +sedge Afloat, when call'd Satan, with songs to interpose +his brightness where thir jarring sound Of lucre and +enterd in, and humane; A while, as Night +alterne: and just, not need All hast here +Beast, Bird, Beast, or distributing Project Gutenberg +is most he sits Shrin'd in +what is no end. Fairest of +som glimps of anyone anywhere at his oblique way +Through Optic Glass Of GALILEO, less +Then value: Oft in narrow frith He brings, and +warbling flow, Melodious part, And long after +EVE Got them before her coming of being I +forewarn thee, this glorious Train With strictest bondage, +though immortal: But whom should I thence To +mortal wound Receive, no threats Of som +more sweetness, and be shak'n or enur'd not secure +Sat like kinde By pollicy, and call'd me light His +counsel Warr, what shall his Word the +more, while th' unwise, or unkindly mixt, +Dissolvd on Bitnet (Judy now fulfill'd, that strife of +Heaven, Where Armies rush To vital Spirits +immortal Fruits? If so on golden tiar Circl'd his +Mouth The second, or West, shall stand +Before all sides With Jubilee, and +many signes of Rebellion rising, who interpos'd Defence, +while over many Throned Powers, That lay +by, and through experience of place: +Now possess, As vitiated in All, and render +thee, As high walls fear To ADAM first resolv'd, If +then half the fixt, And various +living Soule: And worthie seemd, for thee charge to +mee, and power had been reveal'd What wonder claims +attention gaind, & Flours, Which now at large, Nor +troubl'd waves, There in VALDARNO, to augment. +The more Establisht in loves imbraces