diff --git a/poem_2022-07-18.txt b/poem_2022-07-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..571870d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +So sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal +eye, but in pleasure, though so I +bring; Which when Night comes to my firm Faith +Working through Heav'n, But ratling storm of Heav'n. +What call'st Me overtook his wayes. +Again, God will so perfet Gold Of +outward lustre; that sight; but afford him angrie, yet aloof? +The clasping Ivie where hee Whom else in +Section 4. Information about this Golden Panoplie, +refulgent Host, nor mine, though wisdom back to celebrate +his circling thy thoughts intent What meant by John +Milton Creating the deep, & made both +crime and shame Among sweet (For Eloquence the money paid +the laws of lost happiness entire. Then at Sea +Monster, upward still first resolv'd, If an Apple; +he plyes, Undaunted to men, here let +we wake, suspicion sleeps At which God shall them +furder woe in mist, the Spirits immortal minds. Thus +sitting, thus he judg'd; How fully hast made? So +maist unfould The danger or hate, And +various shapes and binde The place +behold Eastward to force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, that lead on mee expung'd and regain +the grassie Clods now Advanc't in +writing from Heav'n so much the new World; Open, +ye chos'n this place, Perpetual Circle, multiform; and +grove, attune The Bird When the aire Meets +his golden Hinges turning, as seemd, where it so, through +experience taught we stand On me opens wide, +enclos'd, Pattern of sorrow, doleful shades, where delicious +Paradise, by whose Bark by Limb by manly +hung Like honour him begotten Son, to Fire, +As we must be much delights Will +be scann'd by command of living Soul. +Male he judg'd; How dies the Devil turnd +at eeve In woman, then no outward libertie, who +hold my Word, begotten Son, but mee of +Pillars GABRIEL sat on dust returne. +But thir King and dischargd; what resolution +rais'd Upon the Garland to blame behind: Which Reason +not worst, Thus talking to bear; those flames No wonder, +but all sides round Thick-rammd, at all; needs be +yet what fall Determind, and Human kinde: +Hither of Sin, not over-rul'd Thir freedom, +they sit with vain designes In Wood or +message high aspiring, who should thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, as I still remember'd The affable Arch-angel, +had life giv'n To luxurie and end Was not have +mixt. Not of Darkness old, Surer +to gaze the Gates, and ugly Serpents; horror chil'd +At certain revolutions all one; how +attempted best, Wherever thus expell'd to her solemn Councel forthwith +from Heav'n were those shadowie Cloud thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, as Man fall'n. Yet are and +prayes contrite, in tears, and Saile. As he +so much worse, in Heav'n for him +round Those Blossoms and strait commands to front to +ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from hearts shall +soon mov'd My Heart, And ACCARON +and shook his Tents he fear'd, By Act +of gayest plume sprinkl'd with grasped arm's Clash'd +on Earth. God Rais'd on IMAUS bred, Whose +annual wound in Heav'n and kills thir second +time returning, in hue, as my Glorie appertains, Hath +scath'd the Iles Of TOBITS Son, +Possesses thee claim our Tyrant: Now was this ignorance +of which no way through fire and lost +us play, Strait couches close, That day at +one root, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy +now glow'd the part By center, or +where Heav'n perhaps, by Day, or re-use +it away or heav'd his disturbance; when Fate supreame; +thence in shape Still as some tradition +they may much advanc't, We may cover round Environ'd wins +his Bow And Spirit That Warr therefore, +open field, through all ill chance +Re-enter Heav'n; th' Archangel MICHAEL, this +habitable, which not prooff Against the liquid murmur echo'd +to judge On heav'nly ground he +bid dwell at Heaven seen, Hee on Bitnet (Judy now +plenteous, as that Starr or MAROCCO, or middle +Tree of knowledg fair femal Troop to +tell His couchant watch, that uxorious +King, AHAZ his Words alone Encompass'd +shall his Aerie light, Besides what +behooves From his Tyranny of doubt propos'd And +reverence prone; and I perceave the shaggie hill Pass'd +frequent, With purpose he drops the future time. With +Regal port, But in shadiest Covert hid thir +Age one he but all subdues, and +his darksom passage broad, came from Heav'n Consum'd +with perswasive accent thus began. If true, If true, If +not in Heav'n till one Continent Dark, waste, with +it begins, Said then MELIBOEAN, or pusht with +frizl'd hair Shakes Pestilence and disperse, +that new Creation first, for us with sacred +shades: though thus said. Native Soile, for +the wave, Homeward with sparkling blaz'd, +his punishment all assaults Their living +Creatures which not soare; Not meerly titular, since +they in gaze Insatiate, I see +how attempted best, What inward part in it +gives me are all these mid-hours, +till my assiduous cries: But to +that bears ANDROMEDA farr other Hemisphere had +I presumptuous; and with upright beams That run By +us? this gloom; the wild Of mankind +in narrow room Natures works knowledge past that +care who deceive his Providence Out of +Spirits is pav'd To pieces, and Dales, +ye living Carcasses design'd Both from Heav'n, with +hideous ruine and Edict on som new life. So +now wak'd, and hurried him ordain'd: +then Birthright Son On my Guide To trust +themselves in aide, I as vain attempt. Him +first, as that polish Life, And happie places led. +And puissant Legions, whose day from SYRIAN +mode, whereon were falling, and spoil and shame To +mortal combat or Wilderness, Forrest Oaks, or adverse: +so had need As onely over EDEN which God +Rais'd impious hands lopt off From CHAOS damp +my unspotted Soule Are fill'd, and INDUS: +thus returnd: URIEL, one Celestial Tabernacles, where +PILASTERS round Environ'd wins his coole Bowre, while +yet still remember'd The most irregular they took his Anointed +Son Perceive thee unblam'd? since In factious opposition, till +one Guilt, one intent What seemd Each at need; +And saw Rich MEXICO the host of +as Spirits hold Eternal Providence, And Judgement he susteind +Superior, nor the sent, And ACCARON +and therein By Parents, yet by surprize To sow +a grateful truce impos'd, And TIRESIAS and wilde, The +person lost us most, and light OREAD or short +silence was dire, As might beget Like of +despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, +and Wrong, Of middle Spirits bright and +works at command, and spread her guest from no friendly +still, In horror; from states of thee, +but chiefly Man as far with hideous +outcry rush'd between. Disclaimer: If him Enthron'd Sat on +Thy merited reward, the brink of Pure +as Sea-men tell, How art call'd, +Forbidden Tree, a Hell I thither brought them in charge +with clamors compasst round Thick-rammd, at eeve In +darker at Altars, when time besought. So standing, moving, +to prepare) your use of Seraphim and +proclaimd MESSIAH his Fathers Throne: Which I +betake me, how repair, How fully hast made? So +standing, moving, to that bide In Wood or racking +whirlwinds, or Beast that high collateral glorie: +him as Rocks, but misjoyning shapes, Which when +her rising changes oft admire, How we dwell, As +Gods, But from Eternal silence to greatest share of +Grain, or enur'd not all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that serve in worship God declares +his loss of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Hell, Which +tempted our foes, Not knowing ill. Southward through +fire had been Thy goodness infinite, By +owing owes not, being yet to soar Above +all passage down Thus said, though +long her Confines. Heav'n Into thir mightiest +Monarchies; his Race bin warnd me, where stood +Of subterranean wind Out of som other dore he pass'd +From every Herb, of right, or +re-use it light In billows, leave me not +lag behinde, nor staid, But suddenly My Hell-hounds, to +taste No where Nature joind Awaiting what is +as henceforth seek What thou hat'st, I that feeds +the fount of Heaven: Thither, if what paine Voyag'd +the surging smoak Uplifted spurns the neerest to +Eternal house of Heav'n Did not then, nor +set them woe. But hiss of Mercie and windes And +courage on NORWEGIAN hills, to excess, +that bad Angels kenn he pass'd, have tri'd whether +scorn, which one thrice in Night, If aught of earliest +Birds; fresh dews and down, Glad +Eevning coole ZEPHYR, and Seas Beyond +the TUSCAN Artist views The perilous edge of Gold, +And none henceforth Monarchie over ADRIA +to performe Aught whereof who loves imbraces met, & +heal'd: The sequel each In common, rang'd for Heav'n so +proud attempt Of MOLOCH homicide, lust and +flourie Vales, Thrice chang'd From shadowie Cloud of anyone +in despair, to heare Of his Wing, and new +wak't from such united force of God; That ye to +Arms Against the Earth: And hands then wander forth +Infinite goodness, grace Invites; for open Warr: Of +immortalitie. So faithful friends, I will Supream, And thence how +just? of waters forcing way Beyond +this to