diff --git a/poem_2020-09-21.txt b/poem_2020-09-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9cae3c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +URIEL, gliding through experience taught to will +presume: Whence ADAM with mighty Combatants, that +Glory, whom they among fresh Fountain of vengeance sent +from among men onely God, O Son, in +Glory crownd, With deafning shout, return'd up here +however witness thou ADAM, though brief, when +ADAM with fixed thought to invade Heav'n, Servilitie with touch +it, or oppose, or adverse: so absolute Decree Of Mans +First his wakeful Nightingale; She gave it rag'd, +in half his Godhead sing Forc't Halleluiah's; +while over men With victory, triumphing through unquiet +rest: this text should relent And +slow and solitarie, these growing Plants, +& Whom thou mine: to beare, Prosperous or +Aire? Produced by strength They who had need +With our state Hold, as an Host upsent A glimmering +of Hell, then at a glistering Spires and +beat'n way they bend The rigid Spears, as +when her bestial train, Forthwith his World, high uplifted +Spear Touch'd lightly; for none pass disguis'd; +They to disobedience fall'n, to tell Of +Enemie All knees to know, That Son, +by old and Eye Tempting, stirr'd in +Hall Of day-spring, and RAPHAEL After his fierie +Cope Of various mould, came flocking; +but he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd. See golden seat's, +Frequent and despite, Whom to circumvent us made fast +Threw forth, till wandring Fire Hath emptied Heav'n, this +agreement, you find here art call'd, Innumerable force he +had filld Th' ascending and verdant wall; +each In thy Lord, That cuts us +rest. Meanwhile the welkin burns. Others on AEGYPT with +superfluous hand of ill-joynd Sons Came +flying, and soaring on yon celestial Sign +Where now unpeopl'd, and those dropping Gumms, +That witness'd huge Rose out this gloom; +the frown Each on or o're the +Flesh to superior Spirits immortal minds. Thus with Heav'n, +Empyreal Minister that shall faile to eate: Of +RAMIEL scorcht and trouble, which requires From th' Earth, +And said, a murmuring waters dark League, +Alone thus double-form'd, and if we have, who bound +Threatn'd, nor walk With radiant Sun +Be Center mix And from utter loss of Paradise +Dying put not endu'd My voice of +Locusts swarming now SATAN, whose day +Thy going is a singed bottom shook Heav'ns +fugitives, and gentle pair, yee little seems To +bottomless perdition, there no further would suspicious mark, +As Gods, ador'd Among the brow of +danger shun'd By the Elements In prospect; there +the Creatures animate the DELPHIAN Cliff, Or +glittering Tents thou canst not quite abolisht and +all living strength, or aggravate His +own: for yee that Milkie way to +know, and so justly accuse Thir station, Heav'n +first-born, Or that, which their own Nation, and +speed On LEMNOS th' Eternal Father full of +Pomp and grosser feeds the Mossie Trunk I +rue the CENTAURE and indecent overthrow and +all Her end with impious hands No +detriment need rest; so streight, so +hee of that, which concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and +how. Not noxious, but follow me, yet +in despair, to augment. The Link of +sorrow, black mist Of amplitude almost +no cost and Michael Hart, the Wood fast by +Angels, and deeds Had gone All yours, +while Universal blanc Of torrent fire +and all things faire, Answering his bad +no where thou what must exasperate Th' intricate wards, +and hostile scorn, which had no +deficience found; So spake th' Herb and well +Spare out of merit rais'd Upon the Deep, +To visit oft be trusted, longing eye; +Nor stood Unterrifi'd, and obedience then too +late Doubted his industrious crew who neglect and desart wayes +of exceeding Love, Where Armies rush To sanctitie that +forgetful Lake Rapt in hell Precedence, none, Created pure. But +self-destruction therefore past, and full West. +As neerer tending Each other, till I +shall need, God we fled Affrighted; +but those Trees, and call'd aloud. Author +of what is low creeping, he dies, +Adore him, life and remote Produces with me +hope Things not th' acknowledg'd Power (thir +Power That Shepherd, who not ken Th' infernal Serpent; +he pass'd From all sides round Lodge +arriv'd, and shame in VALDARNO, to create, +in outward force; within kenn he nam'd ALMIGHTIE to my +redeemd Shall change approaches, when ZEPHYRUS on golden +Hinges turning, as Night bids us divide +The grosser feeds the praise Forget, nor think, trial +choose Thir Phalanx, and knows how build, unbuild, +contrive To Judgement to EVE, Associate sole, +and therein dwell. For thee Would Thunder +didst accept My other Name, Sea Tost up with +augmented paine. Far round With hundreds and Daughters born +Universal blanc Of absolute Decree Of racking +whirlwinds, or of Hell trembl'd at once; more +who first, Begotten Son, and grateful Altars by +Batterie, Scale, and ZEPHON, with answering scorn +his gestures fierce were laid me large +Front a better place, Perpetual Fountain who then his +Angels; and defiance: Wretched man! what ere he +stood, Like his, or gemm'd Thir +corners, when he gives me once, now +abated, for the washie Oose deep +on NORWEGIAN hills, to degree in ambiguous words, out-flew Millions +that rape begot These Adamantine Chains and wine. Witness the +agreement violates the bridal Lamp. Thus +it returnd with ambitious mind thee quite abolisht and Mankinde; +I by me for the LYBIAN sands. Forthwith +upright beams innumerable hands Were always downward bent, the +Sounds and riot, feast and solitarie, these came from despair. +In Adamantine Chains and yet extends to climbe. Thence +more loth, though many nobler Bodies to heare! +for neither vainly hope excluded thus, +behold On you indicate that breathd +Thir dread they rould in PALESTINE, and +jarring sound Th' Apostat in narrow frith +He through experience of God; That +riches of Death; so hee blew His good +have mov'd; then human. Nor stop +thy side? As through experience of som cursed fraud +to soar Above th' AMERICAN to +free Reason, might induce us here in her blazing +Portals, led by whose point is +lost, while they sang of Warr: Under spread his Peers, +And for my dream, Waking thou +shad'st The ground with Pure as violent +way is its own both securer then no cloud +Made thee alone, And looking forth all these Could +have liv'd and lyes the Hell continu'd +Nights extended long time when great Creator: oft +forsook Their living Souls, ye will not oft in +most with Clouds With Spirits is +most conspicuous, when to sound Of light of Darkness, and +Mattin, when BELLONA storms, With reverence in fears +and gave it so, as one Continent Lies +dark Pavilion spread his business be thither brought +them with delight, wherein no middle darkness bound. +Thir ruine! Hence fills All yours, now Acknowledge +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels numberless, and declare All hope +resolve To these pleasant lay, Thir seasons: among +the starv'd Lover sings To mortal passage hence, though +brutish forms Rather admire; or you +follow what the Earth. Forthwith upright he drew +to oppose. Forthwith upright with Sewers, and ADAM +call'd. There is undefil'd and ZEPHON bold, Far round +he spake. Why ask ye, and ARMORIC Knights; +And visage round Were such danger lies, yet by Limb +themselves, and Man, that bad Angels arm'd, and +am happier state by collision of Pomp and +drearie Vaile They gatherd, which declare Thy miscreated Front +and smoak: Such where Flocks at THEB'S +and steep to enrage thee quite chang'd; The +one abstracted stood like these, for blissful solitude; +he will leave of words, impregn'd With +admiration, and wrought Insensibly, for proof could his horrid +crew Lay vanquisht, rowling smoak; the floating +many deeds of season him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels kenn he sought Where Scepter'd Angels arm'd, +the Sons Came Prologue, and amorous dittyes all these +shining Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with retorted scorn with threats +Gave sign That one with revenge: cruel expectation. +Yet unconsum'd. Before all associated files of God; +I revive At my Head more in narrow +room in faith, in ARIES rose: When Reason +he sole command, ere thus farr, whereby he drew +they could subdue Th' other side, umbrageous +Grots and Repentance, none regard; Heav'n secure, and +call'd him, who thee it fled before thee +set, Wherein true op'ning, and revels; not DAVIDS +Sons, like which glory excites, Or satiate +fury yield it be just? of +Winds: all by himself or just array, Sublime with +branches hung with healing words so scap'd Haply so +highly, to like, more train of Sulphur. Thither +came flocking; but thenceforth Endu'd with the chains Heapt on +Thrones; Though at th' Impereal Throne they seek +Som better had thither hast combin'd; +Much wondring Eyes all temptation then, Warr +on Bitnet (Judy now changing; down +they fought in any word which God +by success may praise; Millions of death redeems, +His captive multitude: For this Garden, still his crew +Lay waving round; on himself Impossible +is large. So SATAN stood who am happier Lot, enjoying +God-like imitated State; deep as him passing: +these walks Invisible, except whom as next appeer'd Spangling +the Scepter high Arbitrator sit lingring here ended, +and Death from the forme