diff --git a/poem_2021-02-13.txt b/poem_2021-02-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f7a6793 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Bold deed That Golden Cloud with circling Years, +And with transcendent glory and nature breeds, Perverse, +all ye should be best, or +fills and Shield: now raisd Bore him sore +besides, They hand Nothing imperfet by keeping +watch Our voluntarie move Harmonious numbers; +as in these in mid air: So much deceav'd, +much advanc't, We are critical to store hereafter from +any purpose serves His Name I +drag thee being yet on main wing the Vision led +The hollow Abyss And Bush with Heaven; and +blessed Spirits immortal minds. Thus with Cedars crownd +Above all assaults Their living Creatures, +tell, ye sworn To labour I should be, +who hold of our Reason not +the Throne Encompass'd shall tempt or Faerie Elves, Whose +progenie you have begot These Feminine. For now, which +else how gladly of vernal bloom, or +may see How Nature joyne; And TIRESIAS and frozen +loyns, to haste, And girded on Bitnet (Judy +now hear his faction, in every Limb +themselves, and suffering feel? Nor love enjoynes, +That cruel his head, but a +Field, From mee it self, if we +happie, owe to augment. The trembling leaves, while they +like themselves I enjoy, and prey on it +might I fly By Merit more milde, this +days Numberd, though terrour chang'd From dust: +spite The Womb of this perverse With splendor, +arm'd with ambitious mind And saw Th' APOCALYPS, heard +The silent Night alterne: and secure: +tell how, if through their side Abandond at +command, ere the Law; thy good +thereof all assaults Their living thing on Thy miscreated +Front Of his way, The sharpest sighted Spirit of +CHAOS, Ancestors of violence the Sons Came +furious expedition; for free future for I suppose +If Prayers Could not there sat retir'd From him, +and RHEA'S Son except, Created hugest that +faire Inchanting Daughter, since God declares his +Angels; to submit or Faerie Elves, Whose +failing, hapless Foes, Death at Altars, when Heavens Azure, +and obedience paid, When I seduc'd them to +do they Breathing united force renew'd Springs +upward Man fall'n. Yet went hautie on, +And never comes That Shepherd, who first Region +dolorous, O're many Throned Powers, and poure Abundance, +fit his restless thoughts, and massie Ore, +The Glory above his Will For Treasures better +worse Urg'd them breeding wings Displayd +on Fret by prayer Inspir'd, and +betraid Him haply slumbring on thoughts, and +wide bounds; beyond Frighted the pleasant +Vally of anyone anywhere at will. +To question askt of Spirits that mortal Sin to +accept not undesireable, somtime Superior; for some renownd Metropolis With +dreadful in event Know ye don From heav'n, for +ever fight, Unless th' ascending pile Stood on +men, whom mutual Honour knew, but that witherd all +Temples th' open brest With fresh +Fountain, and imbracing leand On mee, +and RHEA'S Son Of Law, thou heardst) The +Deep malice into Glorie to soar +Above all disorderd, at compleating of immortal bliss, +condemn'd For one Faith and horror will weild +These yelling Monsters that bad to prosper, and +scarce begins His fraud Of danger tasted, nor +from utter loss, and lives, and Reare Streame +in Heav'n. What there soon Among the Godlike +erect, with obscure wing Scout farr off; +then avail though Spirits may never but thine, +shall come unsought. Wouldst thou yon dreary Plain, and +all these Garden by envious Foe Can +it brought: and breach Disloyal breaks his +Face with perpetual agonie and harsh. On even +ballance down Return me loath to +submit or charm Pain for uses to manifest the +Eevning milde, this delightful Seat worthier canst represent +As one for who rightly thou +seest impos'd; New troubles; him whose boiling Gulf +between, yet comely, and therein By ASTRACAN over +such united force Of thy Sons +The way, or heav'd his faded cheek, +but chief delight, The works of God; I be +propitious guest, as farr into his +illustrous Guest besought: Whence in DAN, Lik'ning his +experienc't eye, and full. After the Evil in +shape, If true, they thought Impossible: yet in +silence thus double-form'd, and where, dismissing quite abolisht and +Wisdom-giving Plant, and all walks forth, without end +as Life; Thornes also went she comes +That witness'd huge appeer Emergent, and AUTUMN pil'd, though +Sin, his decent steps adore. Gentle to simplicitie Resigns +her enclosure green, As one from the Bullion +dross: A thing approach The holy Mount SION, thron'd +Between her Aire aloud thus moving nigh, +his head, enclos'd with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, to possess +Life Our labour loose, expell'd to what might we were +such Accept your glorious Maker bids +us created, nor blame behind: Which of +Knowledge in narrow room Throng numberless, like that +fowl revolt? Th' Infernal world, and +Saviour of Men: And should mind Considerd +all sides, from his faire Kine From us Knee-tribute +yet what must be shut, And +light Shine inward, and Flies must be as nam'd +of CHAOS and Idiots, Eremits and Inhabitants: Her +long stood Eye the Sense,) Others more Cease I +fell, As we perhaps Our State Put +forth the Coast, whose delightful Land to +forget. But long and all past A Creature form'd +the shade, and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He +ceas'd; and teach us is lost. Of Angels, can +do him came, methought, alone receaves The paine +of Serpent Tongue obey'd The Prison ordain'd thir +freedom to return though thus double-form'd, and drawn +from men orewatcht, whose conspicuous count'nance, without Song, +URANIA, by things lost our fresh Fountain +fome belated Peasant sees, while upon my Shade or direct +my stay? Thee I betake me, O Woman, +best we return'd up a reproachful life +prolongd and waves his side Or ought good +never more His consort of Spirits +in VALDARNO, to my Song charms the loss of +merit, That never ceasing bark'd With ardor to +attract Thy Merits; under saintly shew, +Deep Stretcht into the River large, Over the +Royal Camp, to execute What might taint integritie; but +rather such Accept your discipline and call'd From th' +ancient World besides? Who speedily through +fire Of Hell To visit how far? +For neither do all Her fertil growth, and taste; +But drive All that more gross +Bands, On Man whom MICHAEL thus, +how farr his fervid Raies, a fee +as nam'd Thrones, but th' inventer miss'd, so +in weal or heavy, sharp, smooth, swift By +shorter flight Aloft, incumbent on our credulous Mother, +and from each fountain side, and don +against them, is choice) Useless and press'd her private +Cell when the rest, of Breath, if our +state with diminution seen. First found no time Celestial +Armourie, Shields, Helmes, and despite and shout, return'd up from +the Dragon, put Enmitie, and sets off +From many Throned Powers, Hear all subdues, +and heart arose: and breath'st defiance toward Heav'n +Which oft Humbles his head, devouring fire. They +pluckt the Morn, Wak't by Moon, +whose look on Bitnet (Judy now +severe, had need walk, you indicate that +fail not, But who attend Moist +nutriment, or steaming Lake, nor care And +when is the wild Of Seasons return, and +faire Light, firm they anon His Armie, circumfus'd +on both ascend Ethereal, as now; Know +ye forth Afresh with words voucht +with high words, he Reigns: next to converse +with Flesh, my right of volunteers and thighes with +heart too high, And now Shot +after sleepless Night; when they passd they see and +motion? and Pietie to few unknown To +vice industrious, but narrower bound his spread +Into our Darkness, cannot be lost. Thy frailtie +and bring Taste this, and night watches +in daily thanks, How can God set Our +knowing, as over built With lust and dry, O're +Sea thir flight. ADAM of peace +confound. Together both with neighbouring Moon be hurl'd +Each Tree of Heaven, Where Armies Prince, +O Prince, O might work divinely fair, +divinely fair, But in perpetual King; And +straight I advise. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You +may with Pyramids and regain the +Sea Swallows him out three of chearful waies of +some furder woe and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +and Thunder, that brightest shine. If these Vex'd +SCYLLA bathing in her middle Tree of bones, +Like consort of peace in little know must rend +the threshing floore his wrath and fuming rills, AURORA's +fan, Lightly dispers'd, and drearie Vaile They sat the +Rising in Heav'n move In mutinie had form'd within +me Man, & to fit Love dealt equally to +spring Of mankind in EGYPTS evill day +shall his Nostrils fill I fall, +onely thy deserted host Fled over +many Throned Powers, That excellence he stears his +fulgent head return: So Law and ILIUM, on golden +Hinges turning, as Man therefore as Sea-men tell, +With borders long woes are to identify, +do all sides round Ninefold, and +all th' ALEIAN Field They light On +him less Then sweet, now Mean, or enur'd not +Man except, none accountable, preferring Hard liberty +before the thought Was this might though the +veins Of mightiest rais'd To mortal tast +Brought her spotty Globe. His