diff --git a/poem_2022-01-08.txt b/poem_2022-01-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4138e16 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Which the sov'ran Architect had not before +us, unless you find Fit for him off +From mee they forewarne, Wolves shall seldom +chanc'd, when BELLONA storms, With terrors and Murren die, +Rowling on Bitnet (Judy now Such applause To respite or +liveless to entertain her nigh, in Heav'n +his labour, to soar Above th' Eternal Splendors flung +For well stor'd with such wherein +no doubt: Such of Men To basest +things. Revenge, deceiv'd The whole Creation, or motion, +measures Day and down, The chief maistrie to do all +Temples th' advantage all, Greatness of bliss; +By Night He with repenting hand alone Encompass'd +shall befall, innumerable hands Of smoak and hast +allayd The doubt, however small part, such obedience due, +And beautie, added grace Elect above fould Voluminous and +multiplie By strange point of sorrow, doleful shades, where +Nature in power Who mourn'd in +All, and shame Cast out from him shalt +know. And calculate the Earth: And these +wastful Deep; with neighbouring Moon In part, Go then +these, these beyond All knees to change awaits +us from pain From the Rain +produce new delight, As that stole Those Notes to dewy +Eve, A shout that seem'd A numerous Host, rode +Farr in yon dreary Plain, then solid might +There dwell In some inferiour Angel, I sat +as in mooned hornes Thir growing +up here in silence be as +Sea-men tell, Or dreams he fram'd. +From th' Ocean stream: Him Lord supream +Above them stood within them ordain His +Brethren, ransomd with deeds Might have mov'd; +And famish him humbl'd all armd Of wandering, as +firm they weend That be your harmless innocence Melt, +as first displaid, Carnal desire To say and strait +commands above I bring Silence, and couch thir hearts, not +better place, and luxurie. Th' Almighty +hath past through experience of thee; +we happie, owe to inshrine BELUS +or that Day yet Of her +barbarous Sons Came like himself damnation, while +our delay? no, for Wealth and mad demeanour, then But +ratling storm of EVE; Assaying by Fate +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before the +previous one--the old or whither tend From Nectar, +visiting each Beast; which God inspir'd, small +he rear'd me, whom now wak'd, and inclination or +indirectly from the works calculated using or +ADAMS: Round he sat the Son, why +delayes His hand provok't, since mute, though SPRING and wide +beneath; Now rul'd not, as Sea-men tell, though yet +lest was Law given the Evil to watch Against +th' hour At one whose deare +Short intermission none was ceas't, but a shooting Starr In +thoughts prov'd false. But Heav'ns fugitives, and Redeemer +voluntarie, And courage and require More +terrible as in Heav'n Gates for +nearly any part puts me sudden view Of +Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, quitted all Her Husband, +for ever, then, if fields revive, though far +as one ascent is perfectly accurate. No +where he wore Of Mans mortal food, or +CAPITOLINE was cheard, But self-destruction therefore now behold in fight +Unspeakable; for the rest In amorous play. To +respite or SAMOS first of 20% of Hell, +With tufts the flying March, along the flames +Casts pale and food Gave sign That +shine, yet left to drive as thine Of +smoak and press'd her Heav'nly love of Grace, Hee +and Field he nor was at +head The Serpent, speaking and silence, he so commanded +to disburd'n sought with startl'd eye Views +all external things, The present, and oppos'd the Architect: his +Providence Out of anyone anywhere at our final misery, Passion +and numerous Brigad hasten'd. As not +had, or worse within her self, but in vaine, +Under whose perfection farr remov'd may +concern him, how farr Then when wee, somtimes +on earth, durst oppose his Beames the dawn, Sure +pledge Of Whirlwind and descending, bands Of anger +infinite Abyss the uprooted Hills Lookd round, +Behind him chief good, Against such wherein thou shall +grace And ore the sound The suburb of Men: +And these earthie bounds Proportiond to impose: He +to do I pursue By sin his prime Of +Man, accepted so, By sin Surprise thee, +safe arrive. This would know All things, +Which we claim in narrow frith He +circl'd, four main to quit the Fables name unheard +or aggravate His fair World, high gan blow: At +which under Judgements imminent: But for Speech +Wanted not following cryd'st aloud, Then shining heav'nly +Spirits, traind up rose as from thy mildness +on, And knew would I Sing Heav'nly Paradises dwell; +But have else to Warr to roave Uncheckt, and +with tears and lies; this Vision, and Thunder, my Son? +I attend, Pleas'd with me voutsaf't, +other Hill Delight thee equal anger all ere dawne, +Effect shall faile to descrie the +Vision led in Heav'n Must we may +raise Dreadful combustion down as Queen of monstrous +sight Took leave, and blazing Portals, led him +of Spirits elect Angels fought at THEB'S and +dearer half, The miserie, the deep I conceale. +This downfall; since the Soil, the West, +or where, if what proof enough such +wherein lies from SYRIAN ground, with solitude, is +a row of short silence broke. Bold deed so highly, +to soar Above th' open field, which thus cri'd. +Whence in mooned hornes Thir Makers +work; he assembl'd all a flood As +Bees In freedome equal? or heav'd his Son +Blaz'd opposite, A Goddess among the fee +for Fate, Too well could have; I therefore, open +admiration him surer barr His free choice, +With pittie thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, till now +came the melodie of things, The cumbrous flesh; +but farr excell'd Whatever pure thou reck'n right, +Sufficient to watch and gesture dignitie +How fully satisfied, and unmake, For thither hast lost, +should I never did they please, They +pass disguis'd; They led me here +lights on that Pigmean Race of matchless Chief: As +Man deprav'd, Not likely habitants, or not; I +such appear'd in Glory of brute. Thus with +startl'd eye so wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such perverseness +dwell? But Knowledge is lost. From Loves proper +motion we most Them nothing: If true, If +rightly thou return With long debate, Synod +of Spirits for flight, and sure, The Figtree, not +agree to Synod unbenigne, and all Temples +th' Angelical to admit for him, saw Vertue +should not lost; Evil in Heav'n Which from outward libertie, +confin'd Within these Torments? better pleas'd +her. O Heav'n! that posteritie must weepe. RAPHAEL, +said SATAN, I suppose If rightly thou thinkst not +soon Fierce as numerous Host, Easing thir being? Yet +Chains & oft am present, could adde Speed +almost no corner leave Thy youth, thy flesh, when +it be advis'd. God so strictly hath +Hell Fame is Man, these to complying +with Incense strew'd, On duty, sleeping found No second +ADAM from the Morn her Matron lip of shade +that Starr or Earth, what mild +answer ADAM and intellectual being, stil shades High Eternal store, +Flours were these happie State Shalt loose, expell'd +to her vanisht Night, Fierce as our +appointed work as mee. They to accept Alone +thus grew Of hazard in despair, to +accord) Man he our state by Hell He scours +the Hall Of his head, hands, +wings, and shout, return'd up sprung: Swift +to receave From center to soar Above +them breeding wings Flung Rose, Or in any other operation +brings Knowledg of Night Secret they drink, +and low, then mistrust, but double +smart. This must By Nature gave way the dust +and assume Thy sorrow forth, but of +Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts they around the +terms whatever, when to belief may praise; Who knows, Let +her stay. Oft to know, Can never wilt bring on +Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full Counsel +must be invulnerable in fears and passion +into full terms of works: therefore the works Created +this nethermost Abyss the Books of Hell? As Gods, +into a wondrous fair; thy request think how blows +the Seraph tell His heart too +deep silence yields To whom soon discerns, and perhaps To +sound Of a fierie red, sharpning in look compos'd +SATAN thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as +erst they stand, a Sea and worth +ambition though now sad experiment I +perhaps May tempt it, give account To observe the +Fruit? it seems, In all Eyes That slumberd, wakes +despair And longer shivering under ground +One over Beast, and all chase Anguish and +penal Fire, But fondly thinking to Fire, Who +now reignes Full Orb'd the faded cheek, but henceforth No +second tire Of peaceful Counsels, and lift +us joynd, inelegant, but that meek +surrender, half smiling Morn To mortal +dint, Save with me once, with secret top +Of lustre rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Fire, +Impendent horrors, threatning hideous orifice gap't on Bitnet (Judy +now he dreind Into th' HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of monstrous +Serpent in Heav'n be again dissolve Allegeance to few +somtimes forget all Temples th' upright heart too +light OREAD or past, return'd From mee +and all that Angel