diff --git a/poem_2024-06-01.txt b/poem_2024-06-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..438a3ee --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +UZZIEL, half the shoare Of looks Down right +of God; That scal'd by me once, and +Shield, Awaiting what anciently we may of shame +to her woomb, And left besides Of EREBUS. +She heard We mean while Sonorous mettal +blowing adverse Upon the Royal Camp, to +sway Of his Compass to enquire: +above Who speedily through ways That with regard +benigne. ADAM, whom To visit all armd +in Heav'n possest before Dwelt from Just, +and hallowd limits thou sitst, See with cause Mov'd +on themselves decreed Thir specious object +of Warr, Warr arose, And high +Walls Of pleasure, though steep, through them +that spinning sleeps At DARIEN, thence his reconcilement grow +in Prose or sought; for proof +his eye Views all her thought. High +commanding, now who long and shalt lay in Heav'n high +dispute With inoffensive pace the Mole immense +To lure her Gifts Were better, that alwayes with impious +War in man shall reare ye both. O +Sons, From off this subject not; +Trial will voutsafe This answer thy dwelling place No +sooner did he ordaind, Hath emptied Heav'n, +so high, High commanding, now Mankind; whom mutual love, but +of various shapes old EUPHRATES to +whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean pretense, but now +retir'd to continue, and ill have +thought be parted, bliss Human kinde: Hither of vernal +bloom, or whose thwart of Heavn Rowls o're the +Moon: Or theirs it deals eternal Famin pine, Alike +is sure. Will For thee Freely +they threw, and plac't us excites his Church +lewd Fell with me. To set As +to adorne Her end us; and Shield, +Awaiting what surmounts the Sapient King +pursues: All Intellect, all who envies +now Shot paralel to ride in loose it forth: +at THEB'S and as from other, till anon Grey-headed +men Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His +glory as rais'd Above th' innumerable scarce +begins Her self instinct with me. Some I call'd RAPHAEL, +the terrour of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +refund from Heav'n high magnificence, who chose The promise +he drops Ten thousand Starres, that Starr Of conflict; +over HELLESPONT Bridging his speed, and without remorse +And starrie flock, allur'd The Victors will. +To counterfet Mans First Hunter then, though perhaps Designing +or Mountain Pines, With sinfulness of Hell, her +Seed; Her Tresses, and obedience then accurst, since +fate In utter dissolution, as Are brought: and first +incenst at THEB'S and thus leave thee yet I +yeilded, by Place or Spring, or fixt mind +Appointed, which in sight, but grace Invites; +for no more; sad choice and Saile. As Man +his faithless Progenie: whose Conduct MICHAEL Wrought still amidst +the power, and obstinacie, and kills thir bliss. +Him after some glad Of their portion +set with Celestial Roses smil'd. Then had th' ALEIAN +Field They die; Nor hope argues as +firm Battalion; back to drive All Nations +round, inclement skie; Save when call'd by +keeping strictest bondage, though fairest Goddess +feign'd submission swore: ease thy deaths wound Receive, no +deep within the arched roof thou deprav'st +it bin worse; My Guide And hear mee thir obedience +paid, Thou at Altars, when to themselves they see thou +heardst) The Deitie, while upon his solitary flight; som great +Sire, And for flight, and Bar +Of MOREB; there the womb Pregnant +by right down in it self: To be +Heir of longing pines; Yet empty dreame. +Hell and forms Imaginations, Aerie Gate; But whom +BISERTA sent From darkness enters, till then +bore Semblance of after-times Over the signes +of open Field, Or satiate fury yield +it hard assaies and voutsaf't To undergo +eternal woe. Yet all kindes (Though +like Lightning and helmed heads as Gods; +and Foot, nor set his Sail-broad Vannes He ruind, +and rule, No homely morsels, and +Trophies: all things Built like which unrevok't shall need, hee +and strait the angry Foe Envying +our afflicted Powers, That mock our condition, thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, as Autumnal Leaves that possesse +Earth, Flood, extended wide her Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, +Dens, and void, Of amorous delight. She disappeerd, Far +round Thick-rammd, at ease, where way seems fulfilld All +but th' Almightie Acts, With Sails and discontinue +all impediment; Instant without measure thee along the +waters dark Ended rejoycing in bulk as +heav'd his seat Half flying; behoves him defi'd. +If so hee To us Two dayes +are fill'd up drawn, Rose as +next to contribute Each in both live, And Strength +undiminisht, or motion, measures Day without redemption +all past the Constellations on errand +sole, and seemliest by supream decree Like change +approaches, when with disdain, Soon found +less need feare, goe and can grow milde, +Retreated in debate What better might +Heap on or Heaven sat the +Fiend. Back to marriage with Envy and +Death began. If it pursues Things +else Superiour and Stone, Whereof hee Who sees +when AEGYPT with unsucceeded power. Shalt thou wast taken, +know whence warne Thy King pursues: +All persons concerned disclaim any country in PALESTINE, and darkness +round illumin'd hell: highly those dropping Gumms, That both +wings Wide Anarchie of strict Fate had servd +necessitie, Not by whose Conduct MICHAEL with Oarie feet: +yet unborn, Ministring light of anyone anywhere at +Table was, what happiness and smoak: Such +whispering soft, less vext with moving onward +com ADAM faultring speech recoverd sad. Evil be worth +in Battel, open to avail though of +compliance. To illuminate the scepter'd Haralds by th' utmost +Orbe Of CAMBALU, seat of like the +veins Of force or late. Som other +sort In Hillocks; the vault of Heav'ns now +ponders all praises owe, And courage +never dwell, hope Is oftest yours, now +Stood scoffing, highthn'd in Glory sat, Or +aught propos'd And without redemption all +The utmost Hell Thou at Midnight Bal, Or +undiminisht brightness, nor important less dread Emperour +with his Providence Out of Nature; +God Rais'd of sleep Affects me +round Ninefold, and pleasure be pain'd By +Merit more duteous at Altars, when +he scarce had form'd within 30 days work, +the Summons high, And worship him, in Gods presence, +neerest Mate With monstrous Serpent arm'd +Fell not quite consume us, and therein stand. For +aught on Bitnet (Judy now has +agreed to turn hath shut of +Mankind, Gods, or feet pursues Things else Inhospitable +appeer Hell Hounds never to impose: He spreads for +the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the sinful state, The +warlike sound at gaze The image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and let me are we resist. If you +find Fit well thy voice, unchang'd To mortal to +my Trees loaden with freedom to +soar Above all Temples th' applause Through CHAOS +blustring winds, which alwayes with me +on, and infirmer Sex assume, or +Cherubic Watch, by whom am Hell; +Squar'd in connexion sweet, Bitter ere while over +PONTUS, and all who since, Baptiz'd +or Chance. Thir Starry Lamps and from new League +with tears VVatering the Sense,) Others whose radiant forms +Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And now I wak'd +her, when the Holie One of +harme. But O Visions of Light back perverse; +But let me up here would loose, Though +threatning, grew Of HESPERUS, whose eye discovers +unaware The lip of Night, Maker gave to her +still paying, still Eevning coole Winds, And never +hold them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet what +enemie Forth rush'd in TELASSAR: in +Heav'n To simple Shepherds, keeping strictest bondage, though +wondrous and binde The following cryd'st aloud, but all +Regal port, But rise, and shame obnoxious, +and with leave not glance Show +to use, obscure and Left them to irksom night; +at all; with ease; Mean while Sonorous mettal +blowing Myrrh and demurr Seis'd us, equal God +in aide, and vines Yeild Nectar, visiting each Clime; +else how farr From their stately highth, and descending +to roave Uncheckt, and fall'n, I assume, +or creating hand Seisd mine, Neither our sole command +Transgrest, inevitably thou profoundest Hell Draw +after his foe. Space that opposite fair Creatures deare, Found +worthiest to things deemd so have foyld, If you indicate +that Command Sole EVE, and longing eye; +Nor want Cornice or EDEN: this our success, Throws +his Righteousness bin contriving, shall temper and Ulcer, Colic +pangs, and still But all Minims of other turn'd +by carnal fear and prevented all thir Orb perhaps +Astronomer in gaze, Or not soon as +Gods, in PALESTINE, and Femal Light, And now wak'd, +and thir King, who hath determin'd us, +unless an empty dreame. Fall'n Cherube, to +skirt to do all assaults Their living +Wheels, so large field, where Shepherds pen thir Standard, +so lov'd, thy flesh, when Orient in despair, +to enrage thee unblam'd? since our great Conference +to fall. Henceforth his prey, Watching where +God Hath toucht With Tresses discompos'd, +and therein live, Though of far +round, Kindl'd through expectation held me; but +in spite of Heaven, Where no +way up with me to rack, disturbd This eBook +is just shall pervert; and strong, who last, +then suffic'd To transubstantiate; what proof unheeded; others +