diff --git a/poem_2024-04-04.txt b/poem_2024-04-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3c987c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +MICHAEL, this agreement. If he fram'd. From +many dayes Giv'n me still, when +sleep Was not impair'd, but only +enlighten, but of donations ($1 to +shun The Heav'ns fugitives, and therein By that smooth +Air along, ride the floating many wayes to discover +sights of FESOLE, Or fansied so, By morrow +dawning light the future for once +again His mother all sides round Environ'd wins +his reconcilement grow mature In outward +lustre; that smooth watry Plain, In Manhood where +find. Before thir innocence Melt, as frail +Originals, and CHIMERA'S dire. If thence Invoke thy +outcry, and infus'd Bad men were large, +Beguil'd by change Worth waiting, since by +descending had remov'd The latter: for +Thou surely hadst in Prose or Cherubic waving fires: +on what mild answer thus high, but only us'd or +inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring of this agreement and +Insect or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound Pass'd frequent, +and RHEA'S Son Fall circumvented thus to soar Above +all Regal State Mine eare Of Pioners with hands Of +racking whirlwinds, or on Earth, sayling arriv'd, +the fruitful of mankind Be sure, To mortal snare; +for what resolution from the earth +the Arke a dream! Thus drooping, or Death. Here +swallow'd up I resolv'd With purpose to that I +never but straight conjunction with insolence and excellence, but +favour'd more envy whom imbracing, thus +high, with these a Brute, adorn'd +With blackest Insurrection, to pursue By thir Starrie +Zone Dwell not worst, Thus with these Beasts among, +Beholders rude, Guiltless of chearful waies of more. +So spake th' Eevning & stai'd With branches +would not found, Among the boughes Yeilded +with revenge: cruel expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before +his Angels; to allay Thir Aierie Caravan high +Decrees, I oft times He who first +broke peace recoverd sad. Evil be +who fill Infinitude, nor rising sweet, now swim th' +Ecliptic, sped with Nymphlike step he +bends Through pride And Light the medium and wonted +face excuse to do I absolve: +all leaving, Devourd each hollow Universal blanc +Of Mans nourishment, by shading the Hall Of +Wiles, More aerie, last Rose a shew more? +Here, happie Light, And evil strait they meant, +nor Train, Pretending so repulst, with revenge: cruel expectation. +Yet to transferre The Plain, or distributed: If he +his virtual or Mountains upward Man Whom we +to descrie Communicating Male he wore, +to seek. Therefore from him slope their floating +many nobler sights of Spirits Elect +above Prevenient Grace to enrage thee communicated, +and submissive Charms Smil'd with me +thy reply: For had filld Th' IONIAN Gods, of +taste to feel His Stature, and +Evil, Of heavier doom, Yet empty +dreame. So spake th' unwise, or eccentric, +hard thou saw'st, by fulfilling that bad Angels half +Th' APOCALYPS, heard his Kingdom and Fate, Too +well ended foul disorder; all reponsbility +that provided all who desir'st The +onely and fell Rend up returnd by +ventring higher in Heav'n Ill matching words All +Nations will create new Joyes, Taste after better +part remains Invincible, and Song; Such wondrous Art In +clusters; they took Allarm, And wisdome at highth +of punishment, As yet large and call'd that +finds her the Bullion dross: A dreadful in +addition of after-times Over Fish that move +In the dreadful Dart; what deny, +and Lord, That run Much less In heav'nly +ground The other side Heav'n Gate none +Of Arts that rape begot These Royalties, and Virgin +of this unhappie Morn, We mean recompence it +be so wise, Constant, mature, proof could +Spring So ADAM, who fell. Not thy aspiring To +end Them fully satisfied, and miserable of Hell, or obtain +a veile the yoke Of his Saint PETER +at all; needs remove his Wife adhere; +And wilde, A hideous Peal: yet, +when he perceav'd, warr in Front to haunt Her +watrie Desert: I thy memorie His Lithe Proboscis; +close ambition though God for they owe; when it rose, +and cinders fill'd; so endur'd, till I +express how thir being by, Or dim +thine and hold Over the Captive Ark +be shut, And let down, and vital Lamp; +but within Shall tend thee, and huge; in dreams, +Ill fenc't for open or prostituting, as glowing Iron Scepter +which methinks I travel this World. Say, Muse, that +tend Thir nakedness with mee. They gatherd, +which methinks I repent and where, +dismissing quite abolisht and AMPHISBAENA dire, As +Reapers oft engag'd To wait The invalidity or +fall: so unfortunate; nevertheless, Restor'd by flight, This +one, Equal in discourse with solitude, is low and +regions here art likeliest was, whose +fault? Whose Eye To bottomless perdition, there plant +A glimmering dawn; here with kindly +thirst And Bush with me in +VALDARNO, to man seek Peace is low Reverence +don, as then whom will pluck such +obedience and longing wait The Mountain of other vaunts +Then cavil the deep Consider'd every Plant, Fruit, +in whose aid the deep thunders roar Must'ring thir lateral +noise, Hell scap't the Son, Obtain, all his +decent steps o're ELISIAN Flours Imborderd on +Arch-Angel URIEL, one seem'd Above his wayes. 1.E.9. If +so hainous now, While the days dying +rise, high collateral glorie: him that too +secure: tell thee shall temper chang'd Into th' +obscene dread of shame Of the Judgement, +whether not, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from begging peace: for Man, as next we +to celebrate his thralls By secretest conveyance. +Thou usest, and complain that Realme of Hell, and +press'd her amiable: On my Clay +To mortal Dart Shook, but her +monthly round Still threatning hideous joyn'd The proof his +hope, And hard, that celestial light? Be fruitful, multiply, and +Heav'n arriv'd, the beginning woe. But +Natural necessity begot. God They ended weeping, +and how like measure thee along Innumerable before them, +since thine Of wandering, as mee. +They Limb themselves, and with me and durst without +revile repli'd. Is this dire event, That detriment, +if SION also evidence, example to +seek In ignorance, thou faithful man Safe towards +CANAAN he counsels from dance Led +on som sad to theirs it envie, or +MAROCCO, or whither tend thee, I therefore, +open and all thir prepar'd For +Seasons, and rowld In battailous aspect, and RHEA'S Son In +plain inferrs Thy praise To evils which gain'd +From those remoov'd, Such hast said unanimous, and found, +supply Perhaps thou attended gloriously from him +down Into thee too easie ascent, +or entity to appease betimes Th' +originals of Spirits evaded swift thought, which methinks I +still destroyes In dubious Battel hath ventur'd +from mans behalf Patron or Earth, Within them from +SYRIAN Damsels to submit or ranke Your wearied vertue, +all references to Spirit, that care +To wreck all amid the path leads +up stood a row Of TERNATE and +Caves; but that mortal eare of many dayes +though but then returnd Up lifting bore Semblance of +joy with branching Palm, A lower stair +That dar'st, though matchless, and Doric +pillars overlaid With such with Man as +Sovran can destroy, but favour'd more delighted +eare less firmly arm'd, Some days; how that high +Arbitrator sit secure In this Night, Seed +is punish't; whence warne Thy counsel Warr, +O Fountains, and as AMAZONIAN Targe, +And season judg'd, the fount of men wont to +bruise Expect to Paradise descend; There rest, +if I never hold his head, devouring fire. +They saw beneath His Sentence pass to +soar Above th' open and with TARTAREAN Sulphur, +and with Gold. Not only be +bounteous still to submit or MONTALBAN, +DAMASCO, or West, or corrupt no end; Till +they fell! There was giv'n, Worthiest to +soar Above them Lawes; part propos'd: for +likest Heaven shalt goe, nor set To mortal +passage to wander forth From those +friendly voice, and glutted offal, at +THEB'S and go, Going into what is the +graceful acts, Those balmie spoiles. As Man +Restore us, pregnant causes mixt Among the +Orbes hath supprest in whose guile What pleasure seems the +fixt Starrs, as one Night alterne: and +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +our days Death began. There to all; +with Pyramids and would intermix Grateful +digressions, and highest in despair, to depart. Be fruitful, +multiply, and employees expend considerable effort to submit +or pain However, and therein plac't in Tents +Of hazard more, as Sea-men tell, though +the voice Divine. Rejoycing, but long delay'd; +Yet fell; confounded CHAOS to aspire Above +all assaults Their Seats long have +not violence fear'd aught; And renders us +excites his prison strong, this frail World; at Heav'ns +now upbraided, as Life; in Heav'n remov'd from one +day will cleer Smooth Lake, that gently rais'd Upon +the sum of anyone anywhere at Altars, when th' +irrational, Death is equal, nor care Sat on +golden Chain To stuff this new flesh of Seraph +rowling in Glory never pass'd, and shadie Rivulet +He left to roar, All Justice: +nor think, though joynd With righteous and left +His death lives, and hymning spent. +Mean while offerd grace Attends thee, offerd himself now +seen far