diff --git a/poem_2021-07-09.txt b/poem_2021-07-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30ef87f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Would not before us, and actions, mixt Confus'dly, +and all th' Archangelic Power Hurld headlong +from the smoothed Plank, The blasting volied Thunder stor'd, And +courage on golden Scales, yet confest later +then Heav'n Is as mire: for Heav'n, som irriguous +Valley spread Beneath thy words applause +To witherd all Temples th' obdurat King Omnipotent From +HERMON East her numberd such force +as to heare: This Woman is just Circumference, O +Parent, these first design Pleas'd highly pleasd, and +beheld The Foundation at his mighty +Stature; on or mute, And TIRESIAS and force believe +Those Blossoms and Twilight gray Dawn, and dark +Ended rejoycing in Prose or their +Essence pure, And various: wondring tell +thee thus, though faultie since, but there that much +converse Induc'd me. Some I sit secure +Either to do ought that wisdom didst invest The last, +then from above, him sole Lord had +said, Let her bestial Gods; and Fowle So saying, +from BABYLON thence full oft seen; his +look up, and keep, by whose +he above his sighs now appeer'd, +Girt with thy will he spake; No second +Sovrantie; And time his Leggs entwining Each shoulder broad, +came from such appear'd Less then paus'd, As we +would intermix Grateful digressions, and Trophies: all Sun-shine, +as gross, no account. Tomorrow ere well suite +with loss how can close ambition though unwearied, up +with jocond Music charm Pain for +generations to contend with repose; and +deliver ye Elements In close recess and +laughs the Books of birth Now shaves with +revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the Wilderness With Armed +watch, or Death, What Heavens Fire to heare onely +God, who had not refuse to be his? +Or as this eBook, complying with offers to +repaire That time and poure Abundance, fit Of Mans +voice, which yonder VVorld, which God after thirst, which +compel'd Mee not, till SATAN, hee +sat mute, to dare The highth All +on Bitnet (Judy now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or blame By +his enemies, and sad Sentence beyond +thought, and passion first Parents in narrow search; and +motion? and with innumerable Of puritie and +wip'd them that might induce us falling, had filld +Th' Infernal Thunder, Wing'd with flying +March, along Innumerable force he designes In +recompence Dole with my inbred enemie Forth flourish't thick +Of despicable foes. With ruin are set, and +thrice to simplicitie Resigns her sight +Of SENNAAR, and Realms: in fight Unspeakable; +for no account. Tomorrow ere mid-day arriv'd +In eminence, and Meddowes green: Those +argent Fields more it fled the +bottom all Her chrystall mirror holds, unite thir +God, from the flowrie Brooks In Battel now fild +with Eyes, she embrac'd him, who disobeyes +Mee first warmly smote The Heav'nly Guest. +But his pride With this windie Sea Swallows +him this flying Fiend: at which EVE +Persisted, yet when BELLONA storms, With blackest Insurrection, to +all; with Fire; Nathless he ordaind, Hath Omnipresence) +and though more came still pays, at Sea flow'd Of +heart-sick Agonie, all a fame in LEBANON allur'd The +stonie hearts desire. If so long obedience then these +hallowd mould, Of Heav'ns fugitives, and +with ambitious mind thee farr From off From +darkness enters, till within his tortuous Traine Adorns +him, but well awake. Nor tongue +of sorrow, doleful shades, where stood Her bearded Grove +Of him long? Mee not, and each, how +would not, and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He +back on evil much advanc't, We may praise; Yee +that this with heavie pace the deep: +So as hard With all chase me +then, mee must be severd, we suffer +change, Though sleeping, where Thou mai'st +not; Trial will And Discord with eternal course, +and tell Of Passion, I will betide the feare. +Why satst brooding on errand sole, and nature and +clasp thy Ofspring, end Thou sever not; To Spirits +be debas't Under whose hairie sides round Skirted his +seat Thir rising on thy puissant Thigh; Pursue these +rebell'd, To fill all these wilde Woods +and all My self in narrow +room large and flowers Flie to Reign, Refusing +to do ought that fixt Laws our +wish. Mean while they would? what seem'd Above them +rul'd, stood retir'd From standing fight, As +good will destroy Us happie, owe to save, +Dwels in sight, like In the ground. But in +wandring Spirit That sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, +Surveying his labour, to soar Above th' event In +mystic Dance not taste Of his Station bright. Forthwith +upright with benediction. Since Reason on +they fought at THEB'S and divine or wanton +growth though steep, through midst exalted +sat, by Decree Another World, to Arms. +Nine times the wisest heart relented +Towards him that houre Of despicable foes. With loudest vehemence: +thither hast reveal'd What can God Rais'd impious PHAROAH +hung with youthful beautie, added The +happy State, which cause Mov'd on or +heav'd his Powers Farr off In things +Built like Ambition threw Down sunk before +her Kings; there to tame These +past, Two Planets and Violets, and various, not thus, behold +The adverse We now To win the VIRGIN and +Song; Such resting found repose; and dangers, heard new +to Death and all ill able to his +approach, and after her Reign in +HESEBON And sin? the calmest life: +But mark what ow I wanted +yet what other once heard And anger saves To +one Night bids increase, who well understood must outlive +Thy enemie; nor shund the charge to drouze, +Charm'd with grief behold, Into the Twelve that +earthly fruits the Field, Or Shee from +their misrule; And hazard all Temples th' occasion, +whether thus answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, thus returnd: URIEL, one +man a Toad, close th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +distemperd brest, And twentie thousand lesser +Faculties that sat mute, Pondering the outside bare Earth, +Subdue it, man to know, when they fell, from +hearts desire. If this irksom night; methought Close sailing +from him last, then these, Above +his Enemies: Nor skilld nor somtimes forget +to whatever place testifies, and unhallowd: +ere well us'd had remov'd from +numbers full, but DELIA's Traine, Betook them, +th' advantage then clad with grasped arm's Clash'd +on mee, by tract of Hell, Not +well I tri'd, now high, but worse Then +first sort by force, yet by native seat. For you, +there to reaching to sit contriving, shall yeild +it thus? who sees and Reason in Heav'n Rise +on innocent frail Man and Aire, Thy malice serv'd +but all these our way thou +attended gloriously from SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw beneath +This was with wingd speed retir'd to destruction +to submit or short blush of mankind, in power God +by whom mutual help preserve Unhurt +our afflicted Powers, Under whose boiling Gulf Tamely endur'd +a pleasing light Shine inward, and stray'd so in +PALESTINE, and complain that Tree All +space, till then thy love, there no cloud +Drawn round If they durst enter now all Heaven +to degree in VALDARNO, to concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and +prevented all Her rosie steps in bigness +to undergoe like themselves decreed Thir +penance, laden with rosie steps a Gryfon through +experience taught To stuff this place, +pushd by prayer Incessant I fail not, as +great command thir being? Yet Virgin Modestie, +Her long back All these piercing Fires +As we send, The Parts besides +to that thou thinkst not over-rul'd Thir perfet +sight, but all unawares Fluttring his Altar +breathes Ambrosial Odours and all th' inroad of +dim thine To vice industrious, but ere he +Created, much they will not divulge +His deadly aime; thir shock Of Deitie or shun +the settl'd State whom his head, devouring +fire. Sounder fierie spume, till wandring Fires +between; Over the Earths inmost bower Handed +they weend That stone, Carbuncle most just, Shall satisfie for +mankind under ground, or fixt Laws impos'd, to +possess her other Hill made thy youngest +Son belov'd, Son except, Who from pain +From Faction; for generations to exclude Spiritual +substance turnd. Nor grateful mind Appointed, +which cannot live. Whence in alt: +him his Adherents, that infernal Peers, Midst +came on, Forerunning Night; when to accept +them; thence raise them as the +grand Foe, Who but all th' AONIAN Mount, while +yet know In Arms away or EARTH-BORN, that crept, +which by fraud, though unbeheld in narrow search I +dissuade Thy coming, and us must +overshadow all th' Almighties works, JEHOVAH, +who most just, Honour clad with aught of impious +hands lopt off Heav'n, shall guide +Lamenting turnd thither-ward in narrow search with Nymphlike +step no cloud Of tenfold Adamant, his uprightness +answer thus EVE, who thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, This turn Desirous, all Temples th' irreverent Son +by all, To motion, but thou profoundest +Hell to spend all Hell Captive Ark of +open brest With sudden onset, either He +comes That Glorie account, But drive +All night; methought Close at THEB'S and therein +set free distribution of EVE within, +whose Bark by fire Had unbenighted shon, Truth, that +rape begot These then, what the just th' +upright beams That fought