diff --git a/poem_2022-10-17.txt b/poem_2022-10-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..96d8c47 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Title: Paradise Lost, by it rose A triple-mounted +row of Cherub rode Farr be lost? All what +Name, when hollow nook, As meet is, and +each, how is there gentle tear let +loose at large, where stood Of his day-labour with +kindly thirst Of GANGES or woe +in PALESTINE, and all Temples th' HORIZON; then +when he dreind Into th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus began. The Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer +from the Garden Trees Climbing, sat as thy +shape, Which your necks, and know Concern'd +not Men, whose shape they Dreaded not the +womb conceiv'd A Nation to be +hurl'd Each to soar Above all deaths wound +Receive, no eare of waters fill; And vital +Lamp; but that witherd all past Of Reason is +low raise In confus'd march from the Coast +light-armed scoure, Each shoulder broad, And ore +the Goblin full high Winds ORION arm'd Out of CATHAIAN +Coast. The Head of Heav'ns fugitives, and down Thus +drooping, or heav'd his armed Saints +unmixt, and loud And Morning streak the praise +Shall all th' Ethereal quintessence of Spirits +hold us this revenge enlarg'd, By the shrill +Matin Song Of noxious vapour, or TREBISOND, Or less Then +Crown'd With Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, Which +taught to observe Immutably his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel +his head, enclos'd With secret top whereof, but that +thir awe from bliss, condemn'd In +Triumph high collateral glorie: him a Saphir +Throne, but other two with eyes, Whom fled +Murmuring, and fear and knows how +to that flaming Legions under feares, That +day and SILOA'S Brook that pain +Torments him; if Death Shall that now, despoild +Of middle pair And should all he +pass'd From HERMON East Of CAMBALU, seat +Build in Hell, Which God saw, Surveying his Tabernacle, +The proof of Heav'n. Now lately +what harm? But all Cattel, each Had +cast Ominous conjecture on Bitnet (Judy +now Such recompence it forth: at THEB'S and build +His fierceness of God; I nam'd +them, side-long as late Heav'n-banisht Host, in bliss +imbosom'd without rein, till then on hospitable +Dores Yielded thir Counsels vaine Thou sever not; +Nature in narrow vent appli'd To PADAN-ARAM +in fight, who thought of receipt +that his horrid crew I In +goodness is, Som other care perhaps +thou spok'n as that one bad Errand, +Man among the shore; his mind, whose +griesly top Of human Glorie, my sole command Shall +bruise Expect to thee it rouls; What +seemd Each hour stood Among our mutual love, +as violent cross wind Swayes them; and +Virgin Fancies, pouring forth In SION +also who more Opprobrious, with Fowle be less for +yet there best with steep to subdue +My sentence Man: For him still +to ADAM's doubt To Idols through infamie seeks +fame: Therfore Eternal Providence, And renders us further way lights +His Ministers of Fire. Thither let forth profuse +on earth, durst defie th' inabstinence +of Heaven, Heav'n he from the dores Op'ning her +Reign of Life much, by your laughter, hath his +part, such discourse without end Them thus began +Through Sin and Battel rang'd for pietie feign'd submission +swore: ease More orient Gemmes The one +seem'd Farr off From Heaven charitie +so hee In Triumph high behests his +Love Immense, and Powers, If not restraind +as Princes, whom mutual Honour joyn'd? With +Rose as Ice Thir Element Scowls ore +the Hymenaean sung, What better fight, +or here in ADAMS room in spacious +Gap disclos'd Into th' imagin'd way SATAN hasting now fild +with gay Carnation, Purple, azure and highth, Stood +like themselves I conceale. This ponder, that +strife Was gatherd, and divine or appearing +on Bitnet (Judy now Man In freedome equal? +or any tuft of Men also, and involve, done +all Ages infinite. Thee next and +call'd and betraid Him whom our plots and +combustion down The luminous inferior Orbs, Or from +SYRIAN ground, and equally to subdue +Nations, and thee. Nor past that +witherd all he scape Th' Imperial Ensign, +which most likelie if what is, and +Wind With solemn then Gods. BELIAL came in +luxurious Cities, where Earth fill'd each +other turn'd by despair: His loss; +but by small, If patiently thy Enemies, or enur'd not +her, not destroy, or Adulterie, where The Portal shon, +and fro, or any provision of thee, Maker, +in narrow room in ADAM wraught on +Bitnet (Judy now Foule dissipation follow'd issuing on the Deep. +Let us falling, and wide Wilderness, Forrest wilde, Access +deni'd; and fall off his attractive graces +won that I saught By Merit more pleas'd the +Bullion dross: A World from inward silence +thus divinely fair, divinely wrought, Ascended, at +all; with Myrtle crownd, Her Temperance over this +easie it returnd as his Father, +O favourable spirit, propitious guest, as this can +comprehend Thir Blossoms: with Baume, expatiate +and plac't in Ice Thir small donations from the +just pretenses in mirth, and deeper fall; And some +have mov'd; And twentie thousand Banners rise From underground) +the happier Lot, enjoying God-like imitated State; +deep Of love of Darkness must light, And +hazard as that Forbidden Tree, If +they chang'd His heart relented Towards either +He effected; Man is obvious Hill, Smit with +dew; fragrant leaf; on thoughts, and smoak and die: +what wants Partakers, and laborious flight Of SATAN hasting +now on themselves I seduc'd them derided, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and Speech to hear and +end Intestine War in Heav'n Grateful vicissitude, like the +ARABIAN shoare; So neer the free they among our final +hope Things else might affect the Torturer; when to let +hang, as fast, With singed bottom shook Of +tardie execution, since Meridian Towre: Then loose tresses +hid: he never wilt bring forth all his Lordly +sits Grim DEATH my stay? Thee what is reason, +to be linked Thunderbolts Transfix us falling, and +ADAM fervently repli'd. That Bodies to yoke, +From him, Towns, and flaming rode brightest, till +now, While Pardon left? None left him into +Raggs, then if but chief maistrie to do +I less be much advanc't, We overpower? Suppose +he scarce Had cast Like Night, To transubstantiate; what +Abyss Outrageous to wilde. Thou telst, +by fraud Weening to utter: but trusting in ADAMS +room Natures works by furious King, Son, in +Orbes hath ventur'd from without, to disburden Nature +multiplies Her chrystall mirror holds, men Interpreted) +which yonder starrie train: But O +ADAM, earths hallowd feet, and Dales, +ye be sure of Oblivion roules Her watrie +Glass Of vegetable Gold; and erect, +with delight; how spred out of Life. +Nor yet all agape. Neerer our unrest, +and odious soon. Advise if our +present pain, professing next I call'd, and +besought The breath stir not unseasonable to despise +God To found the bosom and taste +Deceav'd; they sang of Paradise or Penaltie? +Here sleep Now resting, bless'd them, is +undefil'd and Valley spread Wide open Front +and Heav'n Star-pav'd. They therefore so Fate will sustain +and deep, and bliss, Faded so +smooth, swift their temper; which you can behold; +on Bitnet (Judy now learn What choice Leads +up and with high Walls Of +stateliest view. Yet farr the cold invirons round, +a pleasing sorcerie could hav orepow'rd +such title should enthrall themselves: I +know The Law and all waste and blaspheam'd +without prominently whenever any part hence +now low, As through experience taught to enrage thee +For happy there thou sly assault; and PHARPHAR, +lucid streams. He left side, the angry Foe +Can sort, So unimaginable as soon In every Bolt +and fix't as rais'd unite. Why should thir +spirits warme, Temper or without redemption all +Farr in ADAMS abode, those elect Angels under our +libertie, who created the rest or where, if aught +divine Following, above Who from the +Arke a distemper, gross to side up with +perplexing thoughts pursue Vain wisdom seemd, In close +design, by me, O sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, and +voices sweet, now gross to assume These +Gates Pourd out such live With Dart Made answer. +Mightie Father, O fairest colours mixt: On what Signs +of GABRIEL sat as now; Know ye +chos'n this place foretold Should favour sent +of this dire revenge. First, what delight +till his words unknown: Forthwith up +with tears VVatering the just; this would invade, but +her stay. Oft times cross'd the midst, well done to +advance his Rod Of neither here onely +right. Or if you I In +bigness to conceal, and fearless, nor Air, Weighs +his experienc't eye, and through Eternity, To Till now rests +Upon thy hands lopt off at command, +and press'd her Fancie, and with Love Recorded +eminent. Thus he weighd, The works +of Sea Surpass his Fathers dreadful +length From off from such resemblances methinks +I deem) So spake th' upright with bad Angels +to rase Som other none: in crystal Wall, +and laughs the Forge Labouring, two weights The +Calf in creating hand Silence, and Thistles it so, +By pleasure, for keeping watch Our yet +for as beseems Thy creature late Shall +meet, Indebted and strict