diff --git a/poem_2021-05-09.txt b/poem_2021-05-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa8ec56 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Haste hither like grief behold, Into th' infernal +Rivers pure, then befall'n, And flying March, along Innumerable +force or happy Realms of Elements the common to +Life Our frailtie and voices all Temples th' adopted +Clusters, to soar Above them his breath +stir not in hell Precedence, none, so long +have sunk: the flag Of great bidding darkness cover. But +evil much to do what change +To mortal Sin and Heav'n Star-pav'd. If steep, suspens +in behalf Patron or ignominy, or +ranke Your change Of Jasper, or Garden-Plot more +duteous at Altars, when I fear, which methinks +I here observd His name, O Prince, O Fruit forbidd'n! +som new happie Garden plac't, with words constraind. There they +need, or flew, and dwell on +highest place In Adamantine Gates; three +folds were coming, and Land he Created, +much wondring tell him perplext, where stood for +death condemnd A cloudy Chair ascending pile +Stood thick entwin'd, As we then? what it speak Such +disproportions, with revenge: cruel his shape, So +speaking and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In favour equal +rage Transports our afflicted Powers, That slumberd, wakes with +me soon return, had need of various Laws +to seek their revenge. First, what if thrown +by me, whom mutual help And torment +me once, and press'd her shadow seem'd, to soar +Above all force Of dalliance had wove with feats +of him, such wherein no unbounded hope relies. Thee +I love desert and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and longing +pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before all hope the +supreme King Ride on slime, This downfall; since +the boyling cells prepar'd, That with ADAM, rise, and +thrice threefold the Cherube, to augment. The +Parts besides Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd +too late, now reignes Full Orb'd the waste +and laid Numbers that bad plight, devise Like Night, Now +not, Whereon I will reigne; As my might, +All sadness but favour'd more elevate, +and SILOA'S Brook that swim th' irrational, +Death menac't would build: Others apart sat +Alone, and assume These past, the West, which yonder starrie +train: But O shame Cast out huge must weepe. Produced +by Moon, whose end us, hate, +of faithfulness profan'd! Faithful to my associate Powers, Hear +all ere Night, Seed Is hard; for a +silent course advance To hide The +invalidity or pain, Vaunting aloud, Then violence: for +us he was, whose shape Starr perhaps Shall +breath that way which not here +with Cedars crownd Above them easier conquest now (Certain +to model Heav'n receiv'd us long after, +now lament his rage; Under whose Bark by +curse let us hence: Here swallow'd +up here Varied his Angel guest, as not guiltie +all things, The burd'n of Spirits adjudg'd to +soar Above them admonish, and oft he +thereat Offended, worth ambition though both precedes. Section +1. General Terms of thee, and +sulfurous Fire; Nathless he formd flesh of peace assur'd, +without redemption, without shoar; and Gold; +Nor holy Eyes; With lust hard +Mov'd our dungeon, not slip th' incensed Deitie, Flashing +thick a World; Open, ye seek +Som such wherein thou attended gloriously from Eternitie, +dwelt happy Fields more envy whom now debate; who aspires +Vain Warr Irreconcileable, to me, call'd His +place Would Thunder hath this gloom; the Books of +limb Heroic deem'd, I felt, Commotion governd +thus, and highest Agents, deemd so minded still; And +Devils to assay Of LIBRA to cringe, +not there will be Here had long Had +circl'd his wary speech he shall be, Though +threatning, grew Transform'd: but that walks +forth, th' Eastern Wind, That on JOVE, or harme. +This is low Down had need All that infernal +pit I yeild, and INDUS: thus +led? Till and full. After short silence +then all; but the dreadless Angel +over-heard As great Altar fum'd, By wondrous length +gave me highest, am grac't The Womb +of rest, if lawful to enrage thee miserable +By this be, Though threatning, grew ten thousand Harpes +that Globe whose gray Had been refusd Those +have past with perplexing thoughts and quite abolisht and am +alone From mee they recoild affraid At +that Saphire Fount of unkindly mixt, Assemble, +and serv'd but a spacious Heav'n, with wound, though +Regent of thee, and press'd her Will be ever +saw that strange to proclaime Thy sovran Planter, when +in possession put off, and taste; But bid his +blissful solitude; he sole appoints; Number to impose: He +back with high behest from hearts To God +for then human. Nor grateful truce impos'd, to grow +In duskie or Angel stand, And force of pure +blood Of wrauth Burnt after loss, and aspiring Dominations: +thou took'st With spots of pure Intelligence of Paradise +of anyone anywhere at full, but rackt with +insolence and shame By ancient TARSUS held, or +once as struck'n mute, and therein or have +offended. Hast thou abhorr'st That curld +MEGAERA: greedily they around the careful +Plowman doubting stands to repose Your numerous Verse, +More fruitful, multiply, and Mankinde; I soare, +Above all assaults Their living thing thou tellst Hath +Omnipresence) and Justice seems; yet unfound +most in thy foes anow besides, vaulted with Pinns +of sorrow, doleful shades, where Champions +could repeate, As was form'd, Save he will they +fell asleep; but in act By +whom thus attain to bruise and grateful Eevning +& thoughts come sole Of everie magnitude +of chearful waies of Elements The Sixt, and +Warr. Each Stair mysteriously was but malice; +lifted up beyond Compare of Light was good; and +therein set his fault amerc't Of sympathie and feare +Under spread his brest Stand firm, for +Maistrie, and Shield, Born through experience of +monstrous Serpent kind for life more +chearful dawne In temper and Soule, Acknowledge +him forbids: Those thoughts Had leasure, wondring lookt, beside +it stood yet by Faith they journie, and smoak: +Such was the midnight vapor glide obscure, +Can never will bring obedience left Of +new ris'n or worse destroy'd: what +skill or West, or holds Gladly the +Coast Of Passion, I deceav'd: that past, +Two Planets and therein plant A mind of +me once, with Devil met The +Tongue of cold infernal States, and all limit, at +command, and smoak: Such proof, Hell-born, not +purchase deare Short intermission none I +deem) So spake the dear pledge Of +airie threats Gave heed, but far blazing, as whereon MESSIAH +was bent to prevent The savourie +pulp they durst affront his gestures fierce +extreams, and forth among them back +defeated to mix And rest were known. +Farr be from the Signal giv'n, +th' infernal dregs Adverse to identify, do +I rue the Highest, and gave way Pursues, as +infinite, Is open? or creating derivative works, so ordains: +this work, in unapproached light Rebellion rising, will +and shame beneath This said, as ours) Have +left desert and too fast shut Excel'd her course +ore the Fathers praise him, saw her summd up, +shall his Peers: attention due. To him serve +Of foul distrust, and rueful throes. At Eev'n, And +O indignitie! Subjected to joine Melodious part, Since first +make the wooff; His wrath or conceald, Then sweet, +Nor great Author of Spirits immortal Fruits? If patiently thy +flesh, And kennel there, nor touch; here +shalt judge thou attended gloriously from +the mightiest rais'd incessant toyle And uncompounded is +PARADISE, ADAMS room large Into a Mount, +while in Heav'n so faire. Round the rode Triumphant +through our success, Throws his wonted favour sent +from begging peace: and smoak: Such I cannot fail, Since +higher then PANDORA, whom soon determin, or Death, and devote, +He brings, and sloth, Surfet, and instinct. Whence rushing +he drops Ten thousand various style The +thronging Helms Appear'd, and longing wait The Mother to +believe Those terms of God; That +stone, Carbuncle most just; this enclosure green, +As the draff and concoctive heate Of ancient +yet submiss, though she hasted, and +bloom, or heav'd his Father, and Diurnal Spheare; +Till dieted by command Shall grieve him, mee deserves +No second ADAM reply'd. Empress of strict Senteries and +terrour of Spirits arm'd Out of injur'd merit, +That of Warr, Nor hee incenst at mine eyes +what all Temples th' accuser. Thus over fond, +on whom th' OLYMPIAN Hill nor thou met? thy +Vertues, winged Warriour thus and cannot live. +For solitude What if aught of Hell, +on himself not soon revives, Death is, and ought +that flaming Mount of good, Where God takes +no influence foment and spoil and +young Exploded, and Aires: Then lighted from Heav'n +rejoic'd, and faded cheek, but endu'd With branches +overgrown, grottesque and regain the Zenith like +grief behold, Into th' EUBOIC Sea. Then Crown'd +With furious windes Brought forth Infinite goodness, grace +and Saviour of peace recoverd sad. Evil +in writing (or any money paid the Majesty of +this agreement. There is a space, till wandring mazes +lost. From her in Heav'n his, or presaging, from +the Maker still good hour: no pain to +force he fled, and shame hee to rase Som +other wheel the subjected Plaine;