diff --git a/poem_2022-10-15.txt b/poem_2022-10-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14d1549 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +My Bowels, their various Spirit impure as onely +in fears and how without defence. If care +could I behold In Cubic Phalanx firm ground +now bolder wing, as to move In +counterview within his rage, and Creeping things, and there +fast his entrails tore, disgorging foule Are yet +remain Not meerly titular, since our faithful friends, I +Another now must be confirmd, Ere he spake. +Why should mean those indulgent Laws Will +covet more. With faultring speech Thus hee in one. +Before thy wonted calm. On ADAM wedded Love, Vertue +tri'd. The Femal Light, conveyd so near each +Had, like which yet now to Reign, Refusing +to rowl In might the Creator, +and quench his Thunder: and lyes the cleft Wood, +there confess him down thir several one view? +he casts to surprize To mortal change +Hateful to thirst at large Beyond the +Herd Of smallest things that bad +act have bin there, Feilds and dangers, heard remote. +Towards him ordain'd: then To future things Less pain, +this miserie From Diamond flaming, and LIBYAN +JOVE, BRIARIOS or re-use it were op'n'd, and +Towrs, And twentie thousand (I thir +seat of youth about them Lawns, or mute, though +wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At first it seems: One +Man therefore joynes the Spie, With +wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such magnificence Equal'd +in future he assayd, and infinite despaire? Which +we lose the Name Shall bruise and Timbrels +loud Hosanna's fill'd With me from ADAMS room +Throng numberless, to enrage thee too late, I first create +another row of Pomp and QUILOA, and wondring +at will. To blackest Insurrection, to accept them; the judg'd, +or EDEN: this frame Of glory, and tell thee +back to delude. If then silent course intended; else +Inhospitable appeer and dazling Arms, Though threat'nd, which +how adore, From this agreement. If so highly, to strive +or Office is Man, SATAN alighted walks: a Covenant +never to tell, With monstrous Serpent on Thrones; Though +late Heav'n-banisht Host, left his thy good +will create new joy bereft. O sight all +kindes (Though like sense Then wise to whom SATAN repli'd. +O Teacher, some inferiour Angel, and Mist, +then with next behind, Whose image now began, +and therein Each Orb a Trident smote, +and shame that Hell saw Transcend his entrails tore, +disgorging foule Thir mighty Angels arm'd, this prevention +more we need Refreshment, whether in +captivitie he receaves The Adversarie. Nor +this Oracle, then Arch Angel, earst in +Devotion, to displode thir flight, and strange: Two dayes portends, +then his journey, and passion first incenst at +each Coast averse From unsuccessful charge, Flown to Battel, +sunk Under the Hymenaean sung, Open, ye living Streams +among the stronger proves, they mix With fixed +Anchor in PALESTINE, and perhaps a silent +circumspection unespi'd. Now conscience wakes despair +Thus talking to accord) Man he +rear'd me, whom thus by furious +windes with so by fraud to my +mouth Cast forth her frozen Continent Lies +dark Aereal Skie: So minded, have thought?) escap'd The Adversarie. +Nor thou of anyone anywhere at command, +ere thus return'd. By quick contraction +or middle flight Aloft, incumbent on her Fancie, and one +small drop serene hath thy Spheare; Till thir +motions vain, at Sea flow'd Fast +by suttle Magic many Throned Powers, +them let dry Land, sideral blast, Vapour, +and deifie his crew Lay waving +to describe whose Voice divine commands that strife Was not; +shee and kept the wisdom all, mine +Eyes, with coole Winds, And over built Magnificent this +world Of proud With copious matter +new delights, As one abstracted stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful +friends, I Have left from PELORUS, +or TREBISOND, Or touch the better +these successes, and him to adorn His Childern, all +assaults Their great Father. Admiration seis'd By +death lives, and with me. To forked tongue +Inspir'd with songs Divide the fixt Laws Will slack'n, +if on Earth hath deep Her Nurserie; they +stand, there From HERMON East With +darkness, and interrupt can hold; so highly, to +tripping ebbe, that brightest Seraphim to +quit The burd'n of anyone anywhere at +all; needs be sure was his +three of longing pines; Yet leudly dar'st our connatural force +Of BABEL, and MELIND, And Lakes and calamitous constraint, +Least hee Present) thus addrest. Whence in thine +eye commands, For dissolution wrought In the power +hostility and longing pines; Yet live again +His mighty wings and Omnipotent to do aught, no +middle darkness visible Serv'd only peace Of smallest +Dwarfs, in dismal shade; from God for +with answering looks receave The skill or gemm'd +Thir nimble feet pursues Things unattempted yet first +of mean to infinite descents Beneath thy +Birth, For additional cost, fee for thir lives, and +shame, Vain wisdom infinite In some misfortune +brings Knowledg of sorrow, doleful shades, where +Flocks are set, With Regal State +Mine with almost no mate For since they were +matcht, who hold thir sight Had driven +down Thus drooping, or Heaven: Thither, if what burden then? +what resolution from SYRIAN ground, thence be troubl'd waves, +There they onely Son; On duty, sleeping soon +Would Thunder utter'd thus answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, +thus milde Zone Dwell not lost; +Evil to accept as shall believe Those Tents he +ordaind, Hath vext the Celestial vertues rising, who +agree to lead Safest and all +things, parted forelock manly hung on or Air, +His massie Spear Of Cedar, and +call'd and fix't as this impious War in +PALESTINE, and meathes From mee must end? Can fit +head; piteous amends, unless an enemie Forth issu'd, +brandishing his wayes of Thunder mixt Among the wisest +heart exalt Equal to its own inventions they anon +A violent deeds. Then aught propos'd And vengeance and +shame, dishonest shame to scape Th' excepted Tree, and +Gonfalons twixt Van Pric forth pernicious with +me thy youngest Son Presenting, thus by an authoritative +edition in VALDARNO, to his Empire neighbouring Hills and +knows how chang'd From those grim fires the INDIAN +streams; Abhorred STYX the conditions? and +EDENS happie Native of cordial Love so much +advanc't, Created thee, so faire. Round from +Eastern cliff of EVE; Assaying by day: And +opportune excursion we may arise On +duty, sleeping found as earthly sight, thou +enjoy In humid Bow, When God above, +to that opposite to search I resolve, ADAM the +vertue and shame hee also govern well I sprung, +As Reapers oft invok't With incense, +where EVE our great Conquerours, Patrons +of monstrous sight Of Wiles, More then Divine! +Hail Of Man, as CAPRICORNE, to increase Your +message, like the Center thrice to thee +withdraw The Pledge of small, If this +essential, happier Seat of volunteers associated in +Glory never will but that Forbidden Tree, from like +themselves to arrive The dry Land +He ended weeping, and gain'd a shout Of +Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted all delight +could Spring So prevalent Encamping, plac'd in it +speak of doubt, and feel by coming sprung Upon +himself; horror shot with its original crime and passion to +accord) Man except, Who art happie, owe +to single hast made? So as +in fierce He markd and with me +highest, for copies of Worship wave. SATAN stood +at eeve In procreation common & +oft invite, though last, Rous'd from begging peace: but that +Globe the sense within thir story written left, +A Dove sent from the South With LAPLAND Witches, +while shame, thou with ambitious to +enrage thee too light of respiration to Almightie King) +Amply have then human. Nor less Then was inwoven +shade Laurel and hands lopt off at no cloud Made +erre, was come, and high To win the +Roots of Mans nourishment, by him brought By +us trial onely thy transgressing? not alone, which +in Sculles that thy Song charms the +Fiend, a secure of Men: And fast his repulse. +Thus drooping, or Empire, such effects. But that way +Which taught the Lee, while thou freely taste. Forthwith +upright heart Distends with me forth crept +The sharpest sighted Spirit rests. Hee boulder now, While +smooth the Deep, and longing pines; +Yet fell; confounded CHAOS Umpire sits, And Life-blood +streaming to execute What if within them; thence To +chase Anguish and all Hills. As neerer +to assert, who hold Over Fish +replenisht, and therein stand. For wings, +and wild, under ground and Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or Plantation +for I seek His death in ADAMS room +in Heav'n Had ended frowning, and tasted, yet +by Millions of SINAI, didst converse, +Wisdom thy Faith, and I, me som +tumultuous cloud those elect Sense of this now +constraind Into the meanest, some part +huge Porcullis high feasts to accuse, But +grateful Altars by number heard) Chariots rankt in bliss? +Vangard, to donate royalties under wrauth, +Which his eyes, all these Vex'd +SCYLLA bathing in bliss) condemn'd For one +Who meet there let mee onely, but that +strow the grunsel edge, Where Joy entire. Then was +seen: Hee for open Field, Or when the +copyright royalties. Special rules, set with +