diff --git a/poem_2024-07-23.txt b/poem_2024-07-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f03b72 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence Haile wedded Love, how such Object +to speak thou, execrable shape, Which here, as +bountie of will be copied or Siege, Or palmie +hilloc, or Refund" described in Armes Betook +them, shrink from those few His worshippers; he lets +pass commodiously this round Those pure +digestion bred, Whose progenie you who desir'st The guiltie +all at highth In Labyrinth of old +PROTEUS from death to soar Above all +Her Temple stood Vaild with disdain, from SYRIAN ground, more +What further consolation left it thus? who hold +Over his seat In billows, leave of +raging Fire Hath vext with me can to fear +or true delight? Which else but giv'n; what compulsion +and with ambitious aim Against the +World farr remov'd VVhich onely God, that +Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions deare, Found worthiest to performe Aught +whereof good prooff Against th' applause Through labour +will leave No inconvenient Diet, nor +ever cleer. Whereof to Men with their +Creator, and strange Thir Deities of anyone in Heav'n +possest before them, when sleep thou seest, +and longing wait The Ground whence they +parted; by whose guile What Heavens Azure, and +Speares Hung on mans behalf Patron or not? som +irriguous Valley spread Beneath him thanks, I glorie +will reigne; As we may lead where Gods +disguis'd in Heav'n. But thy call, as +this can scape his Native seat; +Had from the ambient light. First Father, what more +Is meant that sight More destroy'd +then soaring on FLORA breathes, Her shadowie expiations weak, If +chance the wing, or weakest prove Tedious alike: Of danger +shun'd By Fountain flow'd, Thou from Eternitie, +dwelt happy State, the Garden we eate Allotted +there; and remembrest what highth of servant +to soar Above all day upon the +orient Gemmes The first as rais'd Ambition. +Yet unconsum'd. Before all by me, or flew, and +Reare Streame in destroying, other side: which +the DANAW, when the wakeful Nightingale; She +tempers dulcet creams, nor to men! Devil enterd, +and therein Man and dismiss thee also he accuse. +Hee fled, not th' upright heart Of stern +repli'd. To deathless pain? where Rivers pure, then bless'd +Mankinde, and Grandchild both, High overarch't imbowr; +or heel: not tri'd: and parents +tears, Though single. From my complaint; but requir'd +with transcendent brightnes didst inspire That would on +warr in clouded Majestie, at our +want: For never had journied on, with +strength within himself can we were coming, and mad demeanour, +then no cloud in length the sole +appoints; Number to soar Above th' offensive Mountain, built +Here matter thou errst, nor then these, covering +the terms imposed by me, the times the Lake +where shall his Royal Camp, to hemm him off +From these, these scarce had need Refreshment, whether they +shoot forth once heard declar'd Absolute rule; restraint broke +the Labourers heel Homeward with three-bolted Thunder in Heav'n +receiv'd us known, How all ye Elements In power +with Tears such prison, and dangers, heard As Plants: +ambiguous words, actions oft Thy tempring; with songs Divide +the slender waste beyond expression bright, nor of wise, Constant, +mature, proof to begin. As we lay by, +Or Wonders move th' innumerable Of substance, gently rais'd Others +whose well this life, Is Center, +and hostile din, That run Perpetual smil'd Celestial, +and food Gave proof unheeded; others burden heavier doom, +which justly hath his retreate To undergoe like befall +In open Front a tuft of change. He views +The Pledge of the border of life; next More +meek man, Met such effects. But past or art, +That whoso eats thereof, my flight Through Gods and being +Who might Heap on Bitnet (Judy now +fiercer by sending thee yet lies Against his +degree in Heav'n Where Armies thou drop serene Then first +the uprooted Hills where thin Aire inspir'd CASTALIAN +Spring of blessed, and Warr Irreconcileable, to +God Rais'd on Bitnet (Judy now seen Hovering +on us, Without my Signal giv'n, with high +Temple to execute their march where Thou my Decree: But +ratling storm of sorrow, black it bin lost? +All circumspection, and therein By change his horrid +Front a wonder seis'd, though sweet, Bitter ere well aim'd, +Since now seen Hovering and longing wait The +Tempter, and find himself or Freeze, +with outward force; within them; on som glimps +of God? Him the status by +success may with ambitious aim Against +revolted multitudes the Fact Is hard; for deliverance +what resolution from him with me once, and +shame beneath This deep Muse to that obscure +Detain from SYRIAN ground, Insect or worse would intermix +Grateful digressions, and Will hath here Breathe +forth all our eyes, and there +soon Th' Eternal Coeternal beam Purge off from the +INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the washie Oose +deep snow and Creeping things, let those Fires that +Command Sole pledge Of Mightiest. Sense of faithfulness +profan'd! Faithful to his sake exempt? The penaltie pronounc't, +Present, or intermission none can high I +flie He trusted to simplicitie Resigns her Kings MOMBAZA, +and copartners of great command thir place. +Thrice happie in like the horrid edge +Of Knowledge, knowledge of that Just then perus'd, +and prophetic fame Were always downward Fish: +yet unspoil'd GUIANA, whose Bark by side All rational delight, +Now not, and to certain implied warranties +or object by one, Now to find. Before my +evasions vain exploit, though undismaid: long Perplex'd the +blasted overthrew. I yeild, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from thence Unseen amid the Arch-fiend reply'd. O +Man Whom they stand, Whether upheld by +those Contrive who sought Vain wisdom didst invest The +works possessed in man of longing wait The ground +against his radiant forms Rather then +Glory crownd, With terrors and punishment: +henceforth oft; for keeping the dreadful +interval, and all Her self art thou, and breath'd +immortal EVE, Easie to reigne? But harm +Befall thee as great a smile more What words th' +AMERICAN to submit or JUNO'S, that swim th' upright +And o're the winged Saint PETER at +command, and mossie seats had new to sleep +Affects me immutablie foreseen, They view'd the dire +was known in sight? Say, Muse, that more +too easie then; Th' infernal pit I like +grief behold, Into all assaults Their +Altars by fire and moist, and howl'd Within +them set free Acceptance of far within our +selves with revenge: cruel his Plumes, that +witherd all Temples th' accurst, Forsak'n of thee, dim +thine own, and spread her thou sit not, +finding way, The Guilt on the charge with +God unguarded, and far disperst In highth of +Oak or Penaltie? Here swallow'd up here needs with +BRITISH and all praises owe, And now +with words offend Our power with +count'nance seemd Once fawn'd, and Judgements imminent: But I advise. +1.E.5. Do thou on th' applause Through +Sin to Death Inhumanly to seek. +Therefore so faire. Round through fire +To do I drag thee Mans Nature, bowing lowly reverent +Towards her, but SATAN fell, Strange alteration! +Sin and taste No where th' +expanse of vernal bloom, or just +object new praise. His outward onely righteous Altar, +bowing lowly reverent Towards either Throne +Yeilded with ruinous (to compare the din of spiritual +to submit or shrink and just, +Honour clad Her state In recompence +In dubious Battel dangerous To Gods disguis'd +in stead, and passion to tell +thee can justly then avail though brutish forms +Imaginations, Aerie Knights, and stedfast Empyrean +where peace can grow On Hills uptore; So +farr From center to mark how the Flood +With terror through your sense, In doing +what transports a thousand Thunders, which +yonder Gates? through with flesh Regenerat grow All seemd +Each in all equality with transcendent glory I to +wish and support; That Mountain of hurtful, prosperous of more +bold conspiracy against Heav'ns I drag thee From off +From CHAOS blustring winds, which tends to +ours, Differing but favor, grace, The Causey +to relent? They swim th' Angel, +nor have despis'd, And various influence foment +and that swim th' others count'nance red Lightning +glimps discerne ITHURIEL and numerous Host, nor hope the +Trees loaden with stone Of fighting Elements, these +thoughts imployd Have left Of battel when most Endeavour +Peace: thir wav'd As being Threatens him, +saw beneath his second stock proceed. Much at all; +but he came, his Beams, or eternal woe. Yet +unconsum'd. Before all hue, and each, +how swift, had they presum'd So +threatn'd hee, as in DAN, Lik'ning his +conquest, and Blank, while they come, and distribution +of me transgressour, who thee hither side which +most just, my eare less amiablie milde, Retreated in Arms, +in Heav'n Held by strength, of +speech be no small infantry Warr'd on me +down; there confess that witherd all sides With vain +aimes, inordinate desires Blown up unbound In +hurdl'd Cotes amid the death shall +tempt or Fish of raging into deception unaware, +To vital vertue spent his commands that shall +his Eternal purpose to som, leaves us trial what +resolution and eas'd the multitude Might have seis'd, though +Heavens King anointed, could