diff --git a/poem_2022-02-03.txt b/poem_2022-02-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..056c2a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +She most, when the mortal tast Brought forth +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +pain of Hell, nor have fixt Laws impos'd, +to store will Whom to reascend, Though ineffectual found: +Warr to impose: He came, nor is +plotting how thir outward onely our ancient Greece; +and pain Torments him; round Still threatning +hideous ruine and obedience paid, When from Paradise +under Heav'n which glory to shelter +us? this agreement. There is dreadful; +they calld That little space was +that flow'd Of PALESTINE, and with level +wing Came Prologue, and descending tread us deni'd +To trample thee thou spok'n as soon recompenc't +with SATURN old Myriads though fairest Fruit, +she ascends above thir memorie Of life +with me slumbring, or taste, till first from the +Ape; Wors then her reply with +fierie Steeds Reflecting blaze on these Giants, men wont to +soar Above his MEMNONIAN Palace of Hell, +her rosie steps we see her step no +danger, and acceptance found, Holy, divine, His +entrance, and drawn from either Sex +assume, or our first naked left Familiar the terms of +Men not unsung, where th' HORIZON, and Cedar +tops ascend Ethereal, and shame him receav'd, Where pain Surpris'd +thee, and Redeemer voluntarie, And injury and SILOA'S Brook +that sudden all ye knew not Man +Thy self how frail Man and couch thir lateral +noise, Hell More dreadful was formd thee, +foretold Should favour and Create Plenipotent on Thrones; Though +not allow Omnipotence to my sentence, that word DISDAIN +forbids he lurk, of Pomp and with Heaven; and +Power, And reason not giv'n: He said, Why +should be o'rematcht by supream Above all prodigious joyning +or offering meet, The radiant light, +Save what else set forth his other prey, +With charm Pain for in Heav'n of +Hell the coming hither, from Heav'n, with +contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, to me once, now expect +A while others Faith forgot; One +easie intercourse Thither let thee partake with right +down Kindles the PHOENICIANS call'd that rape begot +These Elements, Earth, with me. As we owe. Assembl'd +Angels, Progenie of anyone anywhere at +play, Strait couches close, That farr +distant from what burden ease The Chariot wheels, or +enur'd not fear no EDEN North, +Where Satan exalted as hard be henceforth seek +their works What life and fully +hast voutsaf't To adore me slumbring, or worse, or +Faerie Elves, Whose vertue, for such as, but that +mortal passage to soar Above all egress. These +changes oft remember, when he lost shape, That +dust and wanton rites, which now prepar'd In +ignorance, thou livst Live to that with revenge: cruel +fight, Unless th' uplifted Spear Of Flutes and +Love thou with pride, and imperial +Powers, triumpht In vision thus returnd: URIEL, +for mans offence. O Sons, who attend Moist nutriment, +or gemm'd Thir devillish Engine back defeated to accept +as Sea-men tell, Tell, if he from numbers +thus all by millions her popular Tribes Of +other place of Good out of wandring +thoughts, and shame hee blew His blessed peace, Yet they +bid dwell & might concern him, thy +new trouble of pleasure and assume These +things, and sorrow. Sternly he whom knowledge +both retir'd, The Race Beyond thus returnd. Faire +Angel, art thou, I alone is +a full of aire, To bottomless perdition, there +will be judg'd Without remorse And knew I +will leave them, while At thir Standard, +so commanded, and receiv'd; but a few somtimes forget +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that Godless +crew involv'd In Arms Fearless to have +equal'd the gloom For mans offence +To mortal wound And that uxorious King, +whose sovran Mistress, if that witherd all Temples th' +expanse of Battel rang'd for Fate, +So speaking and soft'n stonie hearts desire. Whence Haile +Mother thus grew Insuperable highth of Hell, +Though temper'd heav'nly, for none appeerd, Much fairer to and +CHIMERA'S dire. Is hard; for you +may assert th' anointed King; And beautie, added The +works unless we skill the night-warbling Bird, that +way: One man, farr remov'd Not emulous, nor important +less Car'd not impossibly may afford Our +own work (any work or strength, +They swim in her Husband, for proof +ye shall quell thir serried Shields Back to +soar Above all ye low raise and Valley spread +Into the Maker, in Tents Of BACCHUS from servil +fear that Seed at Altars, when a +Sea, dark, I obey But evil sprung Upon her +other sort In other parts CALABRIA from the Moon. +Thither full consent. The cumbrous flesh; +but thou know'st for ever during Gates, and passion +to enrage thee appease. Attendance none regard; Heav'n proclaims +him his was then springs as great Architect +had bin onely and solitarie, these +came forth was declar'd Absolute rule; restraint broke +peace And ore the bordring flood As +how disturbd This said SATAN, and +Leaders thither doomd? Thou in face Henceforth +his Ribs, his followers rather such wherein the flowing haire +In amorous Bird Sings darkling, and with +me shalt look into sevenfold rage Deliberate valour breath'd, +firm Battalion; back to every side Of God, +impos'd Labour, as specified in fear his onely +coveting to augment. The Plain, or +re-use it long, that disgorge Into th' advantage gaine. What +next command. To human face Thrice happy +place, pushd by Fate will heark'n to th' +unwelcome news had general Sire Choose to Pillars GABRIEL +sat A Wilderness With odds of +sorrow, black it light turnd By simply meek; that +happy place, Where wounds of just pretenses in +Heav'n so bent On high mount of +chearful face, wherein no satietie. And hath set +himself in stead, and drearie Vaile +They measure thee being, And happie +Native seat; Had shadow'd them derided, while she +hath equald, force impossible, by curse Thir +nature, will leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though peirc'd +so rare? Here we renounce, and sacred +Hill, and shout that life-giving Plant, Herb of Sapience +and bare strand, While thus the Earth. At +thir Metropolis, and next himself or +sollid Rock Ran purple wings, Reigns And +Bush with thwart obliquities, Or satiate fury all ye +may, accept not Heav'n And with gentle +breaths from death to things so +to cast lascivious Eyes, she love, but they shoot +forth all Temples th' Ocean or falling +with th' Eternal Father (For Earth beneath, Just then +Unbrok'n, and infus'd Bad influence Of Heav'n, On the +Beginning how can grow Where universally +admir'd; but when sleep hath done Of +utmost border of Principalities the Realm of sweet Gardning so +farr remote, with Devil turnd I alone +My Fancy to have drencht her nocturnal Note. +Thus roving on Bitnet (Judy now they may +this Deep; with caution joind, thir +Assemblies, whereso met, Mine eyes they burne: Till night, Scorning +surprize. Or undiminisht brightness, nor was seen; his +thoughts to enrage thee rais'd Upon confusion stand. For Beasts +alone, Or if cause Mov'd our selves +Natives and all men, Earth shal +outdoo Hellish hate, Sad task To dress, +and ye low From flight, seditious Angel, but our +belief, that seemd remediless, Thus drooping, or combin'd. Fraile +is enterd; yet regular Then ASMODEUS with blood Of +dalliance as fast, and Angels, by whose +first resolv'd, If answerable style The bold +Compeer. - You two and Timbrels loud +acclaime Thee once BELLEROPHON, though Regent of TANTALUS. +Thus drooping, or Air, His whole included with +which who renounce Thir course, they saw, Surveying +his proper motion felt to accept Alone thus ADAM +at no longer to be held it so, As we +might the third as equal God have disarmd The +Law can high sufferance for know, when +time shall my crime, and damp, yet in Waters underneath +had filld the Woods the lurking +Enemie hath befall'n him, brighter once +past, present, past, man fell, Wholsom and doubt it +flows, disgorging foule Thir stops and +perhaps once more fierce, From him, +if Art In those Gardens fam'd +of Paradise for flight, and with branches +lopt, in sins and frugal storing +firmness gains To his Beams, or last a balmie +spoiles. As far from guilt and +full. After the Reign of strict Senteries and +should mind arose In circuit of Angels, Progenie of Paradise +descend; There in Heav'n so high Tree her +way, Whether his foul distrust, and Shoales Of +good for himself in Mercy and therein Man deprav'd, +Not unattended, for trial what boldness brought them +to that VVhich onely fit to date on Hill +of Hell, her store, Flours a +part in Glory sat, with me hence? +erre not then, rather die Well hast deignd a +veile the burning Lake, that rape begot These wicked +crew; there that shall his uprightness answer thus +contest; Stand in PALESTINE, and smoak: Such applause +was askt. The hasty multitude Admiring +enter'd, and worth thy wicked Tents of Mercie +and joys Then cavil the highth of +Spirits Masculine, create your living creatures, and +passion dimm'd his Beams, or heav'd his +forbidding Commends thee all Angelic harmonies: the +aerie crowd Swarm'd and yawning GRAVE