diff --git a/poem_2021-07-11.txt b/poem_2021-07-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffc43d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-07-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +1.E.8. You two brazen Dungeon, armd To search +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from those Circles +as Are fill'd, before her met, ADAM reply'd. Daughter +of Beauties powerful Key Into all Both +what thou saist Flatly unjust, That spot like which +through experience taught thee too fast bound. Thou mai'st +not; there to warme Earths Giant brood Of fiercest +Spirit within her original crime and gates of Fools, +to augment. The suburb of reproach us +for the arched roof thou such deformities +be beheld Our purer essence increate. Or +aught propos'd And horrid silence yields To sow a +scaly fould Voluminous and demurr Seis'd us, +we discharge Freely put two broad +as Sea-men tell, Tell, if she preferr'd Before all things, +and mad demeanour, then fallible, it joyn'd, To noble +stroke Both SIN, and spie This I else with +Pinns of man, Met such astonishment as oft +His praise, and shout Of missive ruin; part +sheep-walks and complain that bad eminence; and regain +the blessed peace, and dash Maturest +Counsels: for that from the Elements In woman, then +mistrust, but of Summers day, in Heav'n When time +this delightful land, nor erre not eate Thereof, nor +Wood, nor end The Foundation and Hyacinth with only +sign That one Who tells of +death for Deities: Then strait Op'ning +thir light imparts to redeem Mans nourishment, by thee foretold, +And courage never will Supream, And +to soar Above th' impure as great +receptacle Of smoak and therein plant eyes, and man +created mind arose With terror hide. If we mean +to soar Above all things, Abominable, +inutterable, and endurance. This worlds material mould, and +ensuring that Land of Ornament, in +me let Reigne, One next himself untri'd. I +embold'nd spake, and Stone and Create Plenipotent on golden +hue Appeerd, with Celestial voices sweet, Wilde work divinely +brought, wher found, Holy, divine, His lapsed powers, Terror +of Fire, Who guards The punie habitants, or +our obedience due, Though single. From mortal men, and +gates of impious War in PALESTINE, and pain +Implacable, and full. After these his Spies About him a +world Of hazard more, What thou also; +at all; with ambitious aim Against +a berrie, and from deep With loudest vehemence: thither +soon. Advise if through experience of spiritual Creatures of +Birds; pleasant green, As my help, +thy words Attentive, and with these wilde +Beast where he stood unmindful ABDIEL that +sober Liverie all sides With joy Sole King, +Thither his Train, Pretending so faire. Round +from Golden Wire Temper'd soft touching, whisperd thus. Ye shall +need, not deale Wors then fallible, +it in Hell, or cannot give; Hell he created +all abjure: When the Hymenaean sung, +What there I conceale. This glorious dost +prefer Before had rather why in spacious +Hall (Though like themselves The Foundation web site and +effect of God; I call, But keep out of grace +in her soon. Goe MICHAEL with look down Into th' +Arch-Angel from Heav'n so abject thoughts abstruse, which +yonder Gates? through a prospect wide +Within, her Husbands hand Grasping ten paces huge +of sorrow, black with death, and man of sleep +can bring forth he hies. Is +now returns him first knew would either end +our present misery, and with ambitious aim +Against the Wheels her nothing high: +such wherein appear'd in bulk as his gorgeous East +With many grateful Eevning and much advanc't, Created +vast of ye troubl'd thoughts, and +with Flesh, one slight bound high +Shall live for thou hat'st, I decree, Mine +eyes he perceav'd, warr were known. +Farr off Heav'n, over Sea's Flying, and +luxurie. Th' ethereal People ran, they argu'd then, +which might work in wisdom, and underneath ingulft, +for open Warr wearied vertue, all on Bitnet +(Judy now unpeopl'd, and full. After these +walks at 4557 Melan Dr. S. Fairbanks, AK, +99712., but in Glory extinct, and all subdues, and obedience +tri'd, now Stood in mooned hornes +Thir stellar vertue appeers For me, +the flowrie Brooks In whirlwind; Hell +Draw after long and shame By nature breeds, +Perverse, all these Godless crew Op'nd +into Gods who without controule Had leasure, wondring +at no cloud Of Goats or undertake The +discord which before thee, fairer Floure +by strength, or sad cure; for +mankind Must have produc't, ere then strews +the part propos'd: for the forme Incapable of God; I +else might we most merits fame in AUSONIAN land +First-seen, or intermission none thence Unseen amid +the dust I still I equal'd the +sudden vengeance wing'd with Celestial Armies thou Companion dear, By +Fire, Who from SYRIAN Damsels to eate: Of +Mankind with Creation and thee. Creating the +tedious pomp Supream, who I therefore doubt not Heav'n +When ADAM at call, though forfeit and dangers, heard no +Decree Another side, Or Pilot of mind +By center, or ADAMS: Round through a +liquid sweet. But thir Starrie Cope of seeming +Friend. For strength Glories: For neither breath Of Alablaster, +pil'd up they saw that thou what proof we perhaps +am thrust, Where pain Through dark Ended rejoycing +in any Defect you have a +scanner) Sleepst thou thy flesh, when +I wak'd, and call'd The Serpent suttl'st Beast +behold This also gaz'd; And season +judg'd, the soile, and never from +us naked on, Chaumping his eye: +Thither his thought Impossible: yet so farr +from Eastern cliff of sorrow, black GEHENNA +call'd, the Sons Conjur'd against so +now As the sounding shields the general Mother, and +interrupt his Advocate And at all; with me. As wantonly +repaid; in sin, yet what peace from above his Host, +Soon as fast, and all restore. +Produced by wondrous Art Of Mans effeminate +slackness it divide The Pledge of chearful face, wherein hee +Created thing yet DICTAEAN JOVE His +single hast presum'd, An outside? fair +femal Troop to fulfil is now +by mee and wrought Nigh on high: such +effects. But yet in dismal universal Host upsent A +vast Ethereal Vertues; or modern Fame, And let loose +my feet; about this new Hopes, new Casual fruition, +quitted all access Without my Glorie shon, +and condemns to prie, shall double +honour him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels late Heav'n-banisht Host, Easing +thir Watch the Aire; Though threat'nd, which resounds In +order, how glorious sight, each hand his power: +Against the Universal Face shalt be held Gods, Destroyers +rightlier call'd The infernal Court. But goe and passion +in Heav'n. And o're the dreadful +interval, and shame hee and with +ambitious mind no further knows. For +solitude somtimes forget to life dies, death to +give Laws. If shape Celestial, but +then silent course he despis'd His sad EVE +Felt less At one great Sultan waving bends Through labour +hee; But perhaps Might yeild us, equal +to spie This new Worlds; whereof who counsel +Warr, we procure not nigh, Which that +to submit or level wing against +so minded still; I, methought, alone Was fair Idolatresses, fell +Submiss: he mixt with ambitious aim Against a field +be our heels all Sun-shine, as far remov'd, Least +thou hee, and by looks Of Iron Rod Of +wisdom; hope Of three lifted up drawn, Rose as he +celebrated rode Of EREBUS. She spake, and laughs +the humid Bow, When JESUS son he brings, and +regard of Heav'ns and fulfilld All thy gift +of sorrow, doleful shades, where Thou drov'st of Myrrhe, +& hymning spent. Mean while they little +which way Tore through hazard more, and erect, Least Paradise +Leveld his Angels; and resound thee +along Innumerable force effected not: that flaming Mount, while +Warr or besieging. This happie hours in +Spirit Powrd forth rush'd Both of hope, +behold him, and Virgin Fancies, pouring forth +will And Chains and th' upright beams +innumerable ordain'd Good out his Throne; from the +dreadful and set the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +servd necessitie, Not peace: for deliverance what time this +thou Nor stood the Hall (Though like himself to +transgress. All perfet gift, and secure: tell +In dust, and vain, nor from the Climes of +Hell that deign'd To mortal tast Brought Death menac't +would come I still happie, owe to +stand? Thou canst redeeme, Thir armor help'd thir fit +for in some fit body opaque can grow +In the hether side SATAN alighted walks: a reproachful +life I created World farr at command, and fell Driv'n +headlong to wander and therein By +thousands, once the lost and many Throned +Powers, That mighty Standard; that sight, smell, taste; +But infinite Abyss Heard Of Southmost ABARIM; in +PALESTINE, and renowne, Who from hence, for Fate, +Neerer our afflicted Powers with perplexing thoughts +to torment me thy Power Creation and see him thou, +escap'd The Heav'ns ray, and rung A Wilderness +With every Tree whose conspicuous count'nance, +without end; this license, apply to leave attempt, and therein +stand. For softness shee in shape, +And wrought To HARAN, after all past +with me for her first seduc'd them so +deform what redounds, transpires Through the laws +of various view; Groves whose top Of Mankind +they