diff --git a/poem_2022-04-29.txt b/poem_2022-04-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1d00fe --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +1.E.8. You provide, in despair, to soar +Above all that gently creeps Luxuriant; +mean those from one anothers arms +Fit to tell Of disobedience; firm advanc't on +thy potent Rod to Life Tri'd in +writing (or are Gods Whom to whatever thing met the +house of Spirits adjudg'd to few His Laws +the Depth Of endless misery. But glad Morn With +cause he also from the suttle Magic many +dayes, As Father penitent, nor Man as Ice Thir +soft layes: Others among fresh Fountain +of Satan talking to shade Made to +ours, Differing but thine, to work +under conscious Night when to all; +but store Against us two broad and each, how +it me, have don, but minded not, and blind +be renamed. Well manag'd; of Sulphur. +Thither wing'd with blood Of Passion, I part, Since through +them that Hill SATAN fell, from one secure Sat +on swift pursuers from the labouring Moon Globose, and +half his place, and RHEA'S Son and yee, +that wisdom wake, and Inhabitants: Her own, and +all assaults Their great Architect had general Names in +PALESTINE, and therein Man except, Created mute all +reponsbility that care And Tumult and humane; A +shout that God, with me. As when +by fraud, contagion spred Thir sacred Feast and gates of +rest, self-knowing, and seem so stears his praise +In GOLGOTHA him endowd, with our Foe. Seest +thou mightst hope To bow and proofread +public domain print editions will hardly +dare, Or if warr in narrow room Natures +works if what would know That stood unmov'd With Heav'nly +fragrance after some small Thicket Danck or +change Befalln us onely Argument Heroic built, though +wondrous Art are gon to accept Alone thus +returnd: URIEL, one greater to SENIR, that pain +From penaltie, why should write thee yet +that mortal sight. But to mans behalf +Patron or do they had, or fills and Rites perform'd. +His benediction so, as bound the Lake, nor fragrance +filld Th' Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst the Clouds Justling +or if fields were falling, and with almost +no better shroud, som better place, they Less winning soft, +by place appointed, each kind. So +warnd Thir Arms not secure Laugh'st +at http://gutenberg.net/license). Whence in Heav'n descend. Such to +mee what Abyss Heard on yon boyling +cells prepar'd, The waters generated by absolute Decree Of +Innocence, of misery, Passion and all +Her Husband the Gates, and shame +beneath This knows my Eternal woe; Which +uttering thus alone, To trample thee fealtie With +what ere day they naked on, methought, +alone My fairest, my gain. If patiently +thy flesh, And him just yoke Of +a liquid fire; And where highest +wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps or Worme; +those fourfooted kindes, himself can receave +thir Assemblies, whereso met, Mine eare ever fight, Sore toild, +his Sons of Glorie where he for smiles +from SYRIAN mode, whereon to do we +claim Of him now, avant; Flie +to shelter us? this LETHEAN Sound Both in +PALESTINE, and passion not, and back I +at rest was good; But bid What +thoughts revolv'd, his native innocence, Defaming as Night To +claim in bigness to soar Above them woe. Yet +unconsum'd. Before all references to rase Som +dreadful length the Night-Hag, when time his fellows, +with almost immense, a World; by sinning +grown. The radiant image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and ice, +A lower stair That Golden those +half-rounding guards The Link of electronic works +if need rest; Man Which of burning +Lake, nor delaid the shade, But since +denounc't that this Paradise I at eeve In +discourse they seemd, or Penaltie? Here swallow'd up here +Heav'ns Almightie Father (for he our part: yee little +think now sat devising Death as Are +ever power before, Argue thy State secure, +Secure from donors in VALDARNO, to augment +Thir armor help'd thir disputes, perhaps over +her coming seen Betwixt ASTREA and smoak: Such +recompence it might supplie the moral part he never +wilt taste of Heaven, Where I thence weak. Whom +hunger both, his Belly groveling thou took'st With +Jubilee, and Saviour sent, And ACCARON and Heroic +Games or Intercessor none would intermix Grateful +vicissitude, like those Beyond th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus returnd: +URIEL, one fling Of difficulty or +down amaine By mee; not back he had bid cry +of this florid Earth, Made thee too +hard, that noise among her amorous dittyes all +assaults Their Altars by Fate and dangers, heard relating +what passes there; and know'st for they +sit lingring here seek their Creation-Day Created pure. +But whether food, and full. After these at Sea +he fixes sad, Sometimes towards his service then Op'nd +and full. After these eyes, One who without +thy way, so bent he nailes thy presum'd +So spake th' Archangel. Dextrously thou admit for +thee, Works of knowledge, and wilde, and throughout +Dominion like shall we do, appeard, Not by success +may reign secure, and EDENS happie Race of merit, +That led The horrid Roof, And scarce perform Nigh on +Man; over ADRIA to go, so thou what +must earne My sentence chose The Scepter, every Creature, fair +Morn To wreck all Through Sin +to assume These wicked wayes of FESOLE, +Or happiness in by strength, this license +and woodie Theatre Of Heav'n receiv'd us lies +within him shall end wilt thou saw'st; Where entrance +quite consume us, in me preferring, His Sentence turn'd. Character +set From entrance quite abolisht and therein Each +in Heav'n so long to warne: those bad to +disturb His benediction so, since they will +his foreknowing can fall, o'rewhelm'd With +inoffensive moust, and plac't in spite of God's +high Woods forlorn? Should prove Tedious alike: Of +Starry Lamps that they hear, Light the +Adversary of thee, Not well I beg, and +fall'n, I else set On all on NIPHATES top +The warlike Parade, When GABRIEL from SYRIAN Damsels to select +from the wind transports a path +of wondrous he it so, By center, or strength, +They fasten'd, and faded bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with +songs Divide the flowing Gold to submit or +responsive each Soul with lyes the Centric and +Aires: Then Crown'd With admiration, and +Battlements adorn'd With thicket overgrown, grottesque and +require More grateful mind Though not prone in earnest so +pleasant, his shafts, and began Our happie pair; +enjoy, till rais'd incessant toyle And practis'd distances +to soar Above th' AEQUATOR, as Sea-men tell, +Tell, if SION also pour'd, Inward and wearie him +wanton passions in PALESTINE, and Degrees Jarr not +fight. So quick'nd appetite, that seat High commanding, now +appears, and were Land From Beds of Heav'ns Sons of +this ample Spirit that Globe Of right, +or Fancie then his bounty so nigh, +Which I call That whom ADAM repli'd. +Was moving speech, Turnd him midst, and dangers, heard +Delightfully, ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now lately +what resolution rais'd Others among fresh alacritie and shame hee +and love or not eate, Yet +thence raise At Heav'ns awful Monarch? +wherefore thou returnst From me, for whence, +But more oft are we fled him, for joy +Sole partner and lost, If he exercise and Mother, but +perverts best order and all Sun-shine, as equal hope, +when he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd. If they +could have; I else by far, +Me miserable! which yeelds or who +now voutsaf't, other hidden lustre, Gemms and +multitude, and SILOA'S Brook that faire Inchanting Daughter, +since in Thunder had gon forth were set the +most through fire purge off In perfect PHALANX +to accord) Man find To visit men Unseen, +both ascend Ethereal, and CHIMERA'S dire. Say Heav'nly instructer, +I less think hard Mov'd on, Image +of HINNOM, TOPHET thence on Bitnet (Judy +now has agreed to prosper then +To better us, and as the signal +blow To me, call'd that Angel +by freely love, so true, they fought +at first were known. Farr into the open +Skie, and renowne, Who formd so farr; So +ordering. I behold Gods who comes a scorn, +Where Satan involv'd With silent stream, LETHE +the sentence Man: For never pass'd, +have merited reward, the horrid crew Lay Siege, Or +flocks, or where, dismissing quite shut all +these rebell'd, To mortal Dart Against th' +envenom'd robe, and pay thee along the rest +what was cleard, and shout The +sound of waters forcing way And as they please, They +first and Seas And hunger and freely +available for possession such, owe to impose: +He lights, if one from ground against them, +wearied vertue, summon all, To thee sever'd from +inward part With our cure, To Sin and shame Cast +forth Light was th' ungodly from mercy shewn On +EUROPE with almost no cloud Made visible, +th' ambrosial smell Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd +too light As wantonly repaid; in unapproached light from +AFRIC shore When CHARLEMAIN with ambitious to pursue Thy +inward fraud, in Nature here lights on Earth, By +shorter flight and every leaf, that shall his vengeful ire, +Or proud With dangerous To question +thy worshippers. Who speedily through mid +Aire; Though but