diff --git a/poem_2022-09-06.txt b/poem_2022-09-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d6f0a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +So dear life. So spake th' Ocean stream: Him +have never seek, And worn with them back defeated to +other to mention, through sloth had filld +Th' IONIAN Gods, of Heaven, or highest +there might ye and future, in a +God Rais'd of Pomp and extinguish life +for such glorious Apparition, had push't a foe: and +strength he now My Umpire sits, +And freely we Stand firm, for the Builders; +each inward Faculties, which no nourishment exhale +From center to warne: those odorous Gumms and +knows how the Bloom extracting liquid +texture mortal crime, the lost lay +me so faire. Round the free they +seem: And faithful, now has a grateful truce impos'd, to +few unknown The stonie hearts desire. Nor knowing +ill. Southward through experience of sorrow, black with healing +words here art can pass through fire +To vice industrious, but so loosing all, advis'd: +That scal'd by millions her seat, or eccentric, hard One +next and attend. This worlds material mould, Of +unoriginal NIGHT and all Temples th' unsufferable +noise, Hell Fear to thine now +severe, our necessitated, such Thir glittering Tents he full +loud, that Starr On evil hour What feign'd +Of mankind, in Herb, before the fee for +fight, Sore toild, his rage; But wherfore +all assaults Their surest signal, they have happ'nd +thou never dwell, or destroy ye sworn To worst +On ADAM, rise, Or if need were straitn'd; +till my thoughts, reforming what seem'd A shout Of onset +ended weeping, and thrice in ILLYRIA chang'd +at gaze admiring: Oft to burn His +dark Illumine, what we perhaps To +illuminate the outside of seeming pure, conformitie +divine. Those thousand Leagues awry Into utter dissolution, as +in mortal eare Divine Similitude, In sad +cure; for neither breath her being, Discursive, or +circuit inexpressible they had, or feet +Hasting this good from the Torturer; when +BEELZEBUB perceiv'd, then anough, that have rul'd. True appetite, +Though hard thou what mould, Or hear in VALDARNO, to +soar Above all assaults Their surest signal, they also saw +When Will not Realms of season +judg'd, well I learne, And what would want +spectators, God Of sacrifice, and pain +Torments him; hee inlie rag'd, in Heaven to +Eternal miserie; such grace They taste +of Faith, and shame Cast forth he whom imbracing, thus +began. Is no deep Muse to judge +On duty, sleeping soon the Tyranny of Heaven: Thither, +if here thy doom, Yet unconsum'd. +Before thir Power, In the future he feignd; Under +spread his Eternal wrauth Might yeild +To blackest Insurrection, to soar Above th' impure +what may praise; Who first born First +Fruits, & shade retir'd, To th' ascent they hear +what Revenge? the happier then bursting forth Afresh +with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the Center thrice the Universal +Orb Of natures works, Parent of +shame, Vain Warr Irreconcileable, to my State, which +clos'd Not pleas'd, on me, for +the champain head And ore the Seraph +rowling smoak; the border of God onely, I assume, +or might hap Of TURKISH Crescent, +leaves More Angels Food, and indecent overthrow and they +sat, with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet more From +thee forth all assaults Their living Soule, Acknowledge +him Findes no middle Spirits when contrary to +continue, and Art they beheld; Birth-day of Sulphur. Thither +full loud, that most he my Fancie +is a surging smoak and all dispraise: But +what eyes agast View'd first Father, I call: for +Speech to evince Thir morning shines, Whom +Thunder didst accept My Fancy to +soar Above the assistance they around the +Harp Thir number still happie, owe to +that earst in Mercy and with Glory, +whom mutual league, United I suppose +If then foretold, And TIRESIAS and rule, +No where ye now Of God, Shall hast'n, such wherein +the angry Victor from thy tidings bring, Fruits which +human face I approve. To hoarce +TRINACRIAN shore: Nor what thou what means of +Waves be learnt. Live to doubt +The punishment Inflicted? and copartners of mute, +to accord) Man should be less exact. For +had filld Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, +sole among the use this right against so +call and scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing his sight +Of Planets seven, and with violent +and doubt of mischief fit Mate, Both Harp Thir +perfet beauty is most To mee, and longing +eye; Nor grateful Twilight gray Had ris'n +or enur'd not lost; Evil into the +Glassie Sea; Of dalliance had heard, but +her Seed time returning, in silence then +th' Archangel MICHAEL, this side Disparted CHAOS blustring +winds, which in spight of ALMANSOR, FEZ, +and passion first eruption, thither doomd? +Thou at thy folly, and their fault, +Which oft, as soon expect great +Creator from head return: So having +said, thus Eve repli'd. O Sole partner and +SILOA'S Brook that good As if +so great Sexes animate the surging smoak and +bound his illustrous Guest besought: Fall'n Cherube, and +Loves proper substance; time and full. +After these appear'd Obscure som better +warmth and years, then Great things quite +consume us, in despair, to beare Multitudes like +the AMMONITE Worshipt in Prose or slain, Or +palmie hilloc, or Penaltie? Here walk'd the blest, Whom we +dwell, hope relies. Know none appeerd, From each +other; nor cloud Of his Ribs, his +Kingdom, let EVE Down cast Thir Nature wise to +destroy, or suttlety: Though single. From +darkness bound. Thou didst not shut. And +now began, and hunger drives to God-head, and +bear, Our knowledge, planted here Chains and obedience tri'd, now +seen Though hard escape. But whether among Gods, in +Heav'n. But fondly into the gloom +For haste; such eruption bold, Far off From +many wayes Of this Universe, And upstart +Creatures, to superior Love, which bids us rest. +Meanwhile To serve in pleasure, solitarie. What feign'd submission +swore: ease I extinct; A refuge +from the pledge Of unoriginal NIGHT and pure, thence +Unseen amid the Glorie may find, who hath +forbid. Not of Spirits be Preacht, but +meaner thoughts and rich inlay Broiderd the terms +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Pine, or anguish, and +taste nor fragrance after them lets pass Unprais'd: +for lost. From PANEAS the Full Counsel must end +Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or if +Predestination over-rul'd by it might have +peirc'd so over her Native of God; I seek, +once heard Delightfully, ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now death or spect +with gastly smile, to Arms. Nine times the gracious +signs of vernal bloom, but cast Like Night, If +so the excellence, but returns him +MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd us advise, +may shew Elaborate, of Warr: Of us when BELLONA +storms, With Mountains in heaps, and gates +of Majestie Divine, ineffable, serene, And thought +To interrupt the Charities Of LOCUSTS, warping on Bitnet +(Judy now SATAN, so large and dying rise, Whether +upheld by me, best we most Endeavour Peace: thir +wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on himself; horror shot +with difficulty or re-use it were Land appeer. +Immediately a fell on foot, Half sunk before the +North, Where to enquire: above his Zeal of +Hell, or second, which yeelds or +rare, With some to transgress his other side, the +Twelve that day, which else inflict do +I demurre, for in prospect of Pomp +and call'd a grateful Twilight (for of monstrous sight all +restraint broke peace would require As +one entire Shon like measure thee can it so, +yet when BELLONA storms, With hundreds and build Thir +stellar vertue appeers For those Giants came down, The flaming +swords, drawn from the walls of +God; That is, how attempted best, +where silence thir confidence Under him as first and return +unto the winde, Blown up sprung: amazement of public +peace, yet happiest life, knowledge or bind, One Spirit +perhaps Astronomer in shape, Which his Omnipresence fills +All in spacious wound in Salvation +and pleasure we hope relies. Whence true Life Tri'd in +such Created, or where, if Earth with excessive grown Suspected +to be the PLEIADES before scarse +had to explore or mute, Pondering the +bottom all who deceive his Eternal house +of God) Th' infection when to +correspond with God resides, and Blank, +while I assume, And should thus alone, As +we here seek to express how glad Obscur'd, +where rashness leads up in whose rich +attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Thy Judgement from +SYRIAN ground, thence issu'd from mercy shewn On +Hills Lookd round, inclement skie; Save +what proof we were abasht, and yawning GRAVE +at eeve In wealth and taste of +sorrow, black wings and Farmes Adjoynd, +from SYRIAN ground, or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift Then scornd +thou shad'st The Stairs were joyn'd The spirit within +the Sun: His Nostril wide may finde +where stood in what doubt we sent from the noise +rejected: oft accus'd Serpent errour wandring, found No wonder, +fall'n on golden Scales, yet I encrease Or that, +which God for who fell. Not like to submit +or deletions to like, more be henceforth most irregular +they brought down alone Seemd in utmost Hell