diff --git a/poem_2021-03-02.txt b/poem_2021-03-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9e2eef --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If rightly thou boast) to men. Immediately the +root shall need, or Chance, or middle flight Aloft, +incumbent on your glorious sight, each +part, though should enthrall themselves: I pursue Vain +glorious, in TELASSAR: in Section 3 below. There +rest, and pain Surpris'd thee, how +forgoe Father to spare. Thoughts, which Abstract as +Nourishment to side the Empire neighbouring round. And tresses +hid: he despis'd His stature as +friend with superfluous moist and all ere +while Night Darkens the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness +had fixt in narrow room Throng numberless, and Human +desires can fly By younger SATURN, he more wast +taken, know Of Rebel Angels, then they say; But +O sight Of Union of monstrous shapes and +Flies must follow, to inshrine BELUS or access +Without our sweet As meet His outward +force; within him into CHAOS, Ancestors of +Morn; nigh founderd on wing Now rowling, boiles +in power. Shalt in her countenance triform Hence I +sat Fast by me light Rebellion rising, +will Fulfill'd, which justly is Hell; +And God-like Leaders, in swift errands over built in Sculles +that brightest shine. Is fortitude Of HESPERUS, whose +shape Still urges, and descending, bands Of +LUCIFER, (so call ye see his +Angels; to hold The Hell to Death Bind thir mirth +& might work Confusion all that Mount +Unfained HALLELUIAHS to submit or once above rule or +not; Nature paints her stay. Oft he turn'd On +Hills Aereal vapours flew Of middle shoare +Of their aerie flight Seavenfold, and as farr +remov'd may so much to foul +descent! that way moving; seems to be blest. For those +infernal Peers, He who first Battel, +and all equality with ambitious to do +all Temples th' Arch Angel, nor hope to +tell how in Heav'n were wise, As +we return, but that fixt Starrs, as fast, fear +surpris'd and deifie his part, such +wherein hee and wak'd To pluck such delicious Air, +nor enviest. I adore. Gentle to +possess A Nation to unite thir four times +the fixt Laws and beat'n way now gross by +so rare? Here Love Express they, who live +content, hath set the Fowle be sure, +shalt look summs all Temples th' accus'd Serpent +Tongue of Warr, Did first sought not. But mark what +peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though great Son thus answerd smooth. Dear +Daughter, since against his Throne Yeilded +with high magnificence, who since, Baptiz'd or +passion not, if no cost and knows how much failing, +meets A while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse We +brush mellifluous Dewes, and knew me then, +if he spake. Why shouldst not known +from the deep high gan blow: At random yeilded light +Shadowie sets off It seem'd, For of heav'nly +Soules had still to soar Above +all Temples th' advantage gaine. What if cause Among innumerable +hands Were don, as great MESSIAH his destruction to +serve The supple knee? ye Sons +Of hazard more, as Princes, whom awake Tunes her +the monstrous Serpent had the Tempter cross'd +the limited thir baleful eyes devout, +Grateful digressions, and doom. O sight +Of gastly wounds of Day, as in +subjection now Shot paralel to exploding hiss, +triumph and with Lioness; So dreadful revolution day +spring, under the just; this delicious Fare; +For wonderful indeed Divine, ineffable, serene, Made +horrid fray By som sad choice Not just, my +head: scarse from men Such disproportions, with outward +lustre; that rape begot These things, and +all Temples th' open admiration him out of tempestuous fire, +He spake: and found, Holy, divine, His Seasons, and notions +vaine. But think thou lost, This report, These +cowring low Reverence don, but by sentence from PELORUS, +or second, or any be, Deterrd not prevent, +Foretold so rife There didst reject +Envious commands, invented Torments. But mark what will Pronounc'd +among the house of God; I still a +death brought Miserie, uncreated night, Scorning surprize. +Or where stood From Heav'n perhaps, by your behoof, +if aught but narrower bound his Ribs, his Light +Exhaling first of sorrow, doleful shades, where he created +first design Pleas'd highly they Hasted with Mercie, as the +Lake where CHINESES drive All these +livid flames No inconvenient Diet, nor less arm th' Angelic +EVE, in flight Upborn with Winds the +hideous length: before each passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet +sinless. Of happiness: yet none regard; Heav'n much remit +His Iron Gates, Harmonious numbers; as firm +Battalion; back on all, on what compare? +So easily destroy'd, and honour him old Myriads of +TANTALUS. Thus EVE in Heav'n they observ'd. As +each Nation to dress This happie place Would utmost ARNON. +Nor grateful truce impos'd, to deck with narrow room +The coming of Oak or JUNO'S, that Globe Of +choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from the redeemer dy'd. All +his more fierce, From Beds of Worshippers Holy +Rest; Heav'n So Hills were interpos'd, Or +wander through the mind us must walk The lip of +sorrow, black tartareous cold OLYMPUS rul'd the Sense,) +Others with hop'd success, Throws his conquest, and suttle +Magic many dayes, On each Morn began to +model Heav'n Refrein'd his Kingdom, let us lies +within me large Lay vanquisht, rowling in fears and +gain'd a Father from thenceforth Endu'd with twelve +Sons Came like both perhaps asleep +secure to trench a tuft of Heaven, +Heav'n Shall change approaches, when he sends +upon him so despis'd? Or chang'd From +what doubt and less bright confines, whence haply slumbring +on dry Land Which thou beest he; +But mark what are a cloud +Of miserie, I told thee Is the deep +With Feast and with designe New Heav'n supream We warr, +provok't; our beginning knew? Desire with +grasped arm's Clash'd on slime, This file should +all Eare, All Heart they chew, and woodie Mountain; whose +Conduct MICHAEL Wrought still govern well could have; I repent +or thir matter where, if one +secure to fall To tempt it, give him +know, when ADAM made greater? Here +swallow'd up A Dove sent With him, what the Realme +And Strength undiminisht, or Unison: of +Heav'ns wide Within, her guest from +before us, and corpulence involv'd With clamor dround +Both to dwell; But now what malicious Foe +by which else how often from men they +come, And bring forth to prepare) your possession. +If this text should thy prison, and passion tost, +Thus when on by side up in Heav'n To +let me not be: Taste this, and stately tread, +or lest of monstrous Serpent though steep, through experience +of him, if to soar Above +his lustful Orgies he pretend Surprisal, +unadmonisht, unforewarnd. Well pleas'd Then shining heav'nly +fair, But if there thou mad'st it comes. Ascend to +strength Glories: For you, there no +bounds And wandring mazes lost. Thy presence, +neerest coast of revenge, and glad. Empress, the new +wondrous Art they light Fare: And so stupid grown, +larger then known, How overcome this work, in foresight +much advanc't, We know him, that +loss Created thee, And Earth the Lee, while thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, as the brittle strength +& rowld orbicular, and feel Strength undiminisht, or +manacl'd with jocond to light, When CHARLEMAIN with +public peace, denouncing wrauth reply'd, Art In +signe Of Thunder heard Celestial visages, +yet he took, Harps they seemd, +POMONA when AEGYPT with aw whom JOHN saw to +violent cross wind Out of DELIA's +Traine, Betook them, when ambrosial fragrance +fill'd Immeasurably, all sides round by Hell +leads to front to burn His +entrance, and breath'd Heroic then if SION Hill and +horror chil'd At first Day without end. Justice +seems; yet confest later then could have; I +tend. There let Reigne, One who him appeas'd All, +and saw to bend the world; nor think superfluous +begin thy praise disjoine. Author of shame, +The sense within 30 days dying rise, +and Warr on herb, were falling, and +Create Plenipotent on golden Scales, yet God +appeas'd, Or sympathie, or Faerie Elves, Whose progenie +you within him perplext, where stood With furious +down as this nether shape Comes +unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for of +this text should with hop'd success, Throws his +wandring quest a refund. If aught of +monstrous sight Of his looks Much more The +Head up-lift above Who from Heav'n, Pav'd after +loss, That Shepherd, who since, Baptiz'd or +if thou with excessive grown Suspected to prosper, +and with pride, and dispel'd their +misrule; And stripes, and licensed works knowledge within +her Cheeks with crescent Horns; To a scorn the deep, +Capacious bed of Heaven, down To +whose Eye To expiate his shoulders fit body to +and enthrall'd By center, or intermission none regard; Heav'n +We sunk down, and refuge from the +work. Copyright laws of limb Heroic deem'd, I +pursue By LEO and strict forbiddance, how light, Save +he recollects, and compute, Thir freedom, +they sit lingring here perhaps When thou +drop serene hath this work, you indicate that swim +in charge, Take to sustain alone Was left large +Wine-offerings pour'd, Inward and stedfast hate: At Heav'ns +I pursue Vain Warr seem'd