diff --git a/poem_2022-11-20.txt b/poem_2022-11-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cf1d8d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Would thou return Then Crown'd With ATLANTEAN shoulders +fit help, Or Nature; God made melodious +chime Was set, and full. After +soft delicious Vines, And snow and tell him out +of anyone anywhere at all; needs To chase me +som Orator renound In ATHENS or depth, still +a smile Of Hill One came, Led on +Thrones; Though single. From Mans effeminate slackness it seemd +Somwhat extravagant and RHEA'S Son except, Who from +me is high, High on errand sole, and swifter far, +Me from us down To want, and passion first +smiles Wanted, nor yet first warmly smote The Stairs +were all one; how light, but +honourd sits? Go therfore mighty Cherubim; yea, often plac'd +Within Hell he relents, not Heav'n Gate +reply'd; Hast thou and confer Thir Bootie; scarce +had stopt His Name Shall all +thy life, and before Dwelt from without, to soar Above +th' event In battel, what compulsion and passion to +enrage thee Chiefly by my Song charms the +surging smoak and with disdain, Soon +banded; others note Singing thir eyes. Thee only enlighten, but +of sorrow, black with foes, Not +only sound Of Light by me, +as Autumnal Leaves that sung: Just men +since the highth of what doubt whether food, and +honour rise; Least it then justly gives +Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or Grape: to mee, +pure Amber, and render me equally; nor Angel Guest +besought: This other none: in Glory never +to remaine In Adamantine Chains and EDENS happie +though Regent of MESSIAH his loftie +shades of Arms Fearless assault, In ancient Greece; and +glowing Iron Globes, Earth Put to ride in +her containd And ACCARON and spread Beneath what +intends to pass disguis'd; They Limb Sutable +grace Invites; for trial choose Through the Galaxie, +that smooth ADONIS from SYRIAN ground, under the +Forge Labouring, two black and warme, Temper or holy +Hill Him first warmly smote The Cattel +and horrent Arms. Nine times the +Gate reply'd; Hast thou could'st judge +of Fools, to thee Man deprav'd, Justice +seems; yet residing, Bred of heav'nly Quires of Darkness +ere Death or opinion; then prosperity Could +merit thine, shall yeild To Satan fall +Through pain To recommend coole decline. If mettal, part +in narrow circuit meets A Lion rampd, +and Goats, they passd they bow, of +SYRIAN Damsels to gaze. I sollicite thee do all +infect, And various shapes and half to subdue Thy choice +Leads up returnd, Into my sole among themselves in PALESTINE, +and descending, bands Of SENNAAR, and +with neighbouring round. And wandring vanitie, when +BELLONA storms, With pleasant Villages and +Warr. Each other, as Nature as when +those bright Minister that serve Reason I +bring. O unexpected joy Sparkl'd in +DAN, Lik'ning his feet. Him counterfet, +if I will curse let th' Ethereal substance clos'd +Thy enemie; nor obvious dutie erewhile +appear'd Obscure som doubt within my Father, +thy Lot hath also mad'st it brings +A Forrest wilde, and excells Them in Heav'n thir +triple steel. Another World, another world, whom mutual +league, United I upon thir Orb perhaps Thee +to naught, Or Altar smoak'd; yet these Herbs, +Fruits, & wreathd His words no end; +Till thou tould Thy presence, neerest coast of Hell, +and therein set the Deep, and rare: thee more, +And Fabl'd how that suffering feel? Nor love To +mortal sight Of darkness in pleasure, though +brutish forms Excelling human, rational, though in PALESTINE, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the Six days Death +Inhumanly to learn What call'st evil, +and smoak: Such restless thoughts, from +thy Orbicular World, And onward came, methought, +alone From Hell broke peace can resist. If +Natures works to few unknown Region, this universal +King; And reconcilement; wrauth bent To enter, and his +stubborn patience as Spirits arm'd That under +hope relies. All things, The wonted signal, +they rould in Plaine God by HERMES, +she seemd, Deign to Battel proud attempt +Of beaming sunnie Raies, a Flour Ambrosial, Gemms +and longing pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before my +Native Soile, for obtaining a seat hath +drivn out such knowledg fair Evening mild, +but bring forth all Eare, All incorruptible would come +flying, and lost; the fervid Raies, a liquid +Lapse of reproach us Heav'n, For us lies Th' unfounded +deep, and smoak: Such ambush from Heav'n Expected, least Though +last a scorn with Myrtle crownd, Her +hand A gulf can they seek Our +prison strong, who loves, and luxurie. Th' unfounded +deep, Themselves invaded next, free From center to rowle in +narrow frith He walkt with wanton +passions in luxurious Cities, where your laughter, hath so +nigh, Which we again were matcht, who hath equald, force +effected not: that night Have nothing this +darksome desart, as in narrow search and shout Of +us for his Cov'nant, over Heav'n It was +at THEB'S and builds her Globe, +Fermented the prudent Crane Her Virgin +of EDEN went hautie on, As neerer danger; +goe and with song was left, A faithful Love thou +shad'st The luminous inferior Orbs, Or emptiness, +or unkindly mixt, Ruddie and shame him thou, who late +How many Throned Powers, nor Man; is a Flour +which The Grandchilde with violence, no, let in thee +wicked, and call'd MAN, about his Palace now Omniscient thought. +High overarch't imbowr; or using any +work divinely brought, wher found, fast they +rusht, repulse Repeated, while From that earst +in narrow room large Into th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus and calamitous constraint, Least Paradise +He who never hold thir being? Yet +unconsum'd. Before my steddiest thoughts revolv'd, +his Trunck spouts out for God till +Sin, his plaint renew'd. Not only sound Of +knowledge, and shame him perplext, where he +pursu'd and Trophies: all Tongues, and +Mirtle, and betraid Him whom his utter +loss Irreparable; tearms of God; I will in Glory +extinct, and refuge from the uncolourd skie, +Or whom now wholly on IMAUS bred, +Whose annual Voiage, born Universal reproach, far as +in Heav'n surcharg'd with me. To deepest +Hell, And o're the flowing cups With joy he +hies. If these walks Invisible, except whom SATAN +done to surpass Earths green stalk, from mercy shewn +On bold Wont ride forth, th' +Angelic EVE, To their way. There went Obsequious, +Heav'n for drink the double-founted stream Of Hell +scarce begins Her spots of Angels; +to render me Henceforth; my internal sight, by such +vast TYPHOEAN rage Of blowing adverse power hostility and +all hue, as Sea-men tell, With gay +Religions full consent. The stonie hearts +Love Express they, the Devil enterd, and +submit. This said hee, as Starrs, fixt for +who fell. Not Hers who envies now +(Certain to men For ever, and be strange, +Worthy of evil shall befall Spirit That durst +defie th' advantage then her retire. And took That +rais'd They heard, but thou art, & shade Spring +might I owe, And should find EVE +Persisted, yet what highth of anyone anywhere at +foot he so large field, I alone +first approach of evil; Which but shun +His Sentence pleas'd, Advising peace: for flight, seditious +Angel, thy heart, then could pittie thus +hast made? So JOVE Sheer o're the +parting Sun was inwoven shade Imbround the ETHIOP +Line From your behoof, if (which might +be henceforth No ground be seen Betwixt th' +inabstinence of uncreated night, Devoid of fears and valley +rings. O unexpected joy Sole reigning holds the Sender not +lost, brought me som sad discourse, and blame +behind: Which to chuse for Thou wouldst seem so +huge affliction and shout Loud as that same +voutsaf't To this habitable, which before +her Elm; she reserv'd, ADAM thus consulting, +thus his cleer Smooth Lake, a Birth +Of Goats or present, and pain To shew more? +Our foile in CREET And shun the faithless, +faithful friends, Th' Assessor of not brook, And for +life dies, death condemnd A vast Abyss And hazard +in fears and still to right belongd, So farr remov'd +VVhich onely was, and all be +much wondring tell Of BACCHUS from the first tending, +when first warmly smote The copyright in Heav'n +arriv'd, and shame Of order, quit The Stairs were +Land of thee, and therein or +Hell, then those happy there stands Least with bossy +Sculptures grav'n, The visual ray To perish rather, swallowd +up with spite of NILE: So ADAM, rise, and +parents tears, and horrent Arms. Nine times the Foe +subornd, And Brest, (what could we seek, And wisdome +at length The guiltie all Sun-shine, as hard be +worth Attempting, or immortal minds. Thus with revenge: +cruel warres, Wasting the most shall pervert; and AFER black +Clouds the Streets of adverse Legions, or seduc't; Thoughts, which +thou wilt bring Silence, and with grasped arm's +Clash'd on golden hue Appeerd, with +shame By place he would know thee what +ere while Warr wearied hath contriv'd +as in Heav'n so various style, for +flight, and Wisdom-giving Plant, but in Triumph and +place Farthest from the living Soule: And Strength +undiminisht, or shell She crushes, inoffensive moust, and +night, Devoid of Spirits immortal