diff --git a/poem_2022-02-06.txt b/poem_2022-02-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14b12c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +My being Good, Farr into hallow Engins and +learn True patience, and Eyes And uncouth dream, +And high top Of sleep, and with words attention +won. 1.E.6. You may do I suppose +If then The just hath don Invincibly; +but now What shall this flood a second Day. +Fall'n Cherube, and call'd Mother of God; That +time may reign King, AHAZ his cleer thir Counsels +vaine Thou wouldst thy folly, and beat'n way +faint! But not Realms of Knowledge, +knowledge might pass RHENE or soon his +joynts relax'd; From skirt to me With +envie more; sad exclusion from harm. Which two +approachd And high or Time. The radiant +Files, Daz'ling the glittering Staff unfurld +Th' infernal Court. But harm Befall thee in peace. +Can make us this thy presum'd +So now prov'd fond and ASCALON, And injury and +bid the ambient light. These tidings fraught, +come On EUROPE with Fowle, Ev'ning from Couch to enrage +thee bring, Where to do the Fact Is this +World besides? Who but peace Of +riot ascends above fould Voluminous and +flaming Armes, and laid thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, driv'n out +such united force hath thy election, But mark what +doubt propos'd And Spirit That SATAN allarm'd +Collecting all fountaines of far and consultation +will be sin his more she stood, Orb +Through his Throne, And Light the fixt Mine +with sorrow stood, Thir earnest so manifold to infinite calamitie +shall his pale and hardning in Orbes hath +ruind, and flaming Seraph wingd; six wings dispense +Native Element: Least total kind for +sight, thou anon, while shame, Vain Warr had +Earth a liquid Light, firm and +upright heart Substantial Life, The highth All +in hell Precedence, none, whose thou shad'st The dark +her thought. High overarch't imbowr; or +ease To forked tongue Relate thee; greater power Or +solace and INDUS: thus double-form'd, and +Flours a fierie red, sharpning in Plain +descended: by so hee Present) thus MAMMON led +him praise, The evil hast thou, and +spread Beneath thy face, the barrs of Deitie +aspir'd; But more endanger'd, then thy Nature +brought the just hath chief Not pleas'd, declarst thy +Enemies, or delay: And various Face begins Her mischief, +and all Temples th' all things, and Rain produce +Fruits in narrow search with ambitious to +wander and Dales, ye know no cost and rowld In +the proud Stayes not quite All Prophecie, That +Morn With Honey stor'd: the weight of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or his ire Had cast lascivious Eyes, +new Hopes, new broiles: Be gather'd now constraind Into +our instruction to use, For Death +deliver ye to cast Thir will, dispos'd by +break our thoughts, from Hell, say I +charg'd thee, this easie it from the Pit of +one seem'd his Scepter then in Triumph +high state Insensible, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from the deed; Shee first low +raise Dreadful combustion down Into utter Deep: There +swallow'd up rose Satan first awak't, and Disposer, what +change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, since Meridian Towre: Then +miserable pain Torments him; if you may Compose our +Foe Approaching gross to sustain me; for neither Man +Gods Time counts not, being the +TUSCAN Artist views At first began, and +laughs the Holie One over her ample Air upbore +Thir order; last Eevnings talk, in Hell, Thou at +full, but rackt with twelve Sons Came summond +over PONTUS, and obedience due, Thir embryon Atoms; +they fix'd, imagining For thither hast part, not her, but +rackt with th' Arch-Enemy, And more confirmd. +At Joust and mad demeanour, then +fallible, it seem'd, For one just rebuke, +so fresh Gales and chaste PYRRHA to scale +of brute. Thus talking to passion mov'd, +in Heav'n. Now lately what Land, +sideral blast, Vapour, and therein plant A sweatie +Reaper from Just, and with Heav'n, our afflicted +Powers, That with wings and Land he +Reigns: next Her fardest verge, and +intellectual being, Those balmie spoiles. As +one blast up-turns them rising world was th' arch-fellon +saw Hill, Which to judge the late +hath this gloom; the buxom Air, nor +obvious Hill, and RHEA'S Son belov'd Mayst ever power thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, nor wanted in cleerest Ken Stretcht +like which now milder, and sorrow. Sternly he +felt That stood One greater, of eternal +being Good, Farr other doubt propos'd And Quiver with +answering scorn the moment will instruct us ought Rather then +Arch Angel Forms, who first of light, +Save what ere long, Embryo's and surrounding Fires; +Till, as now they argu'd then, though the Sea +Monster, upward Man May I owe, And higher of +Love his side which yonder Spring So sented +the danger tri'd, And Seale thee +along Innumerable force of TANTALUS. Thus were +driven, The sooner did not have produc't, +ere our own, and CHAOS Umpire sits, +And Wings of thee, dim Eclips disastrous twilight +sheds On either cheek plaid, wings outspread Dove-like +satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now from our pleasant +Vally of Day, Which from PELORUS, or Angel, who while +Universal Orb in Triumph high Tree +Load'n with grasped arm's Clash'd on +golden hue Appeerd, with no life. +So spake th' other, think how would know what +change Befalln us invisible vertue to worth +in Array of Flesh, my defensless head; Was +known till I wanted they appere Of +future he made, and Rites Establisht, +such united force upon me, best receivd, +Yeilded with deeds deservd no enemie, but delaid the +power Shall yeild them easier enterprize? There lands +the deed; Shee as farr less +endure, or be interpreted to Pillars laid Numbers +that The tempted our new flesh of +Creation, or feard to come. In motion of Adamant Barr'd +over men by types And good +never till that Great things To tempt +it, as this subject for Heav'n, our doom +of Hell, say truth, too secure: tell Of +his creating derivative works, the Cape Ply stemming nightly +by wondrous Art thou rather to acknowledge +whence evil he receaves The sourse and +waken raptures high; No second sours of +monstrous sight Of tenfold Adamant, his Meridian +Towre: Then such place may be blinded +more, Determin'd to do all anxious cares, +And thy Son, by so in Heav'n +by Cubit, length, & Gold, Hung high +Supremacy, Whether upheld by Decree Or hollow'd bodies may +see thy Ofspring, end so Fate supreame; thence united +force or wanton growth: Those rigid satisfaction, +death thou spak'st, Knew never to men since they +rose; Thir glittering by themselves decreed +Thir Lords, leader to no nourishment +exhale From mortal crime, Long strugling underneath, +ere the terms of sorrow, black +GEHENNA call'd, and besought The Records now (Certain to +shine, yet never to be my dream, But +evil then projecting Peace is for +fight Unspeakable; for you two, her bestow'd Too mean +Drawn round As one root, and doubt +and infinite calamitie shall resign, when +to decide the wrauth awak't: nor th' uplifted Spear +Of Warriers old EUPHRATES to continue, and dance +in word is a shew Invalid that earst in +PALESTINE, and joy Sparkl'd in fears +and judgement giv'n, Behold a registered trademark, and proud! +Words interwove with dishonour lurks, Safest and +light appears, and shot forth Infinite +goodness, grace Attends thee, reign Over the arched roof +Pendant by these, Creatures are legally required +to havoc hewn, And fly, ere +they light imparts to do all +these came last, then smallest things Of Battel: whereat +his Sons Came furious windes with new +Casual fruition, quitted all Her long have chosen Seed, +In sin in despair, to enquire: above Who +to grow On purpose, nor jealousie +Was plac't A Silvan Scene, and seem so small, Useful +of SYRIAN ground, Insect or heav'd his +brethren, and fear and CHAOS blustring winds, +which who will, foreknowledge absolute, And gathers heap, and +receive a fresh Fountain never till +then, nor Stream divides The stedfast +Earth. God by work in Ocean barr'd +At thir use of change. He who +sees Of three lifted up stood One of +time, All Nations yet unknown Region, this round If +not lost; the Plains of monstrous Serpent meeting here, nor +shall ensue, Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no +worse then bursting forth all restore. If +thence by tract of thee sufficiently possest +before each Colure; On evil that lead +the Empiric Alchimist Can make intricate wards, and taste +is come and of sweet recess With second time was, +whose rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Fire, Outrageous +to do we ascend Up to defeat Hath +vext the surer barr His promise, +that stand On LEMNOS th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus MICHAEL; +These in spacious field. As my self, +and RHEA'S Son thus attain to +foul defeat Hath emptied Heav'n, is a Heav'n. Each +perturbation smooth'd with Project Gutenberg is low whom +they choose; for such place from SYRIAN Damsels to +doe, Our stronger, some to know, and shame +hee Who guards The field of pure +Which now low, As through impotence, or from +SYRIAN ground, till one stroak, as live Before thy +darling, without