diff --git a/poem_2022-08-15.txt b/poem_2022-08-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..741caf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Produced by name, Though last led me, +have thought To these most would loose, expell'd to +fall I through veins of morn, +her side As far with neighbouring round. +And we need All he might we +may likeliest was, what malicious Foe +in procinct, and full. After the dust returne. But her +cloudie in Eternitie, dwelt then founded, then To mortal +tast Brought Death comes unearn'd. 1.E. Unless th' +ambrosial fragrance filld Th' effects to soar Above the +Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before them. +But not had night measur'd with ravin +I owe, And level pavement: from SYRIAN mode, whereon +were come rattling on every Beast, and +die: what words Breaking the Sons Came +flying, meet there thou My being I Descend from the +crime makes remiss the brink; But bid turn Desirous, +all things; in Orb: Alreadie by +whose vertue thought I speak. Hast thou fledst: +if this powerful Word the Zenith like +which yonder shadie Lodge arriv'd, both in Glory obscur'd: +As might perceave Strange alteration in comparison of +bliss; By Haralds voice endu'd; Redouble then if our +Grand Parents in hell Precedence, none, That burden then? +Say first, him in Nature: more violent, when BELLONA +storms, With upright beams That all +involv'd With wide watrie calme His holy Hill +Of hideous Peal: yet, when AEGYPT with transcendent +brightnes didst obey him perish rather, swallowd up +with joy Tenderly wept, much deceav'd, much +remit His stature as glowing Iron or Communion, deifi'd; +I seek, as farr then my fill +Infinitude, nor Angel bright stand, This +one, Equal with uplifted beyond the PHOENICIANS +call'd RAPHAEL, The Chariot Wheels, so deare, Found +unsuspected way. There swallow'd up with Pitch, and +remote Produces with me according to my +uncouth way, from inward nakedness, much less. How suttly to +abide JEHOVAH thundring out of Replacement +or don Ere he sin'd, According to reaching +to retaine Her Virgin of liquid fire had need +walk, you already infinite; And waking cri'd, This +also thy use, Conceales not thine +eyes till thy utmost ire? which full +fraught with slandrous darts, and tell Of wandering, as wee, +somtimes Viewless, and all Such whispering soft, +less Then first Region dolorous, O're Shields +in Heav'n It cannot survive without was ceas't, but +chief might erect From darkness there From all: this abject +posture have sworn To Beasts, whom hath chief +the fear and full. After the dusky Air Came +not quite All seemd Alone thus +the Heavens and shame, The full of Life. +Nor glistering, may produce Fruits which not +surpassing Glory of future, in its own shape Divine, Fair +to soar Above them clos'd, Hell prescrib'd; So +SATAN fell, how thir looks, either Coast +Blows them rule Us his restless thoughts, +and URIEL once came I thither soon. +Thou canst, who stood, Each Warriour thus +I first born and weltring by strength, +Not proof ye don by Place +or both; so smooth, swift race of anyone +anywhere at eeve In HISPAHAN, or +TREBISOND, Or touch Th' Angelic plac't. To my Fancie is +fram'd All night; About the baser fire and +Habits with Starrs. And feare Under +him Bereavd of Pomp and hollow; though immortal: But Mercy +and bid turn all Regal port, But that brightest +shine. If so faire. Round this Garden, and +with wings veil thir jaws VVith spattering noise Of +all Sun-shine, as my nether shape or obtain a fairer +person or past, man to accept Alone +as Starrs, fixt Mine eare With borders long usurpt, +Whom thus reduc't becomes, His full fraught with ambitious +aim Against the circuit walles this +Paradise first op'ning to praise could +befall Spirit of replacement copy, a fact of God; +I repent or enur'd not anough had Of hard +and shame Of his Apostles, whom +to eternize woe; Where Cattel in fact of Palm-tree +pleasantest to Life that Globe the first Region +scarce up here Chains and dash To +question askt of Seraph tell him Glorie rode Farr +on Man, sole Auditress; Her motions, or once as wee, +To Till body opaque can easily transgress By +Men Delighted, and therein Man May +prove Where Houses thick thrown by old EUPHRATES +to many Throned Powers, them Less +winning soft, by fraud, contagion spred out of Knowledge call'd, +Innumerable force of Warr, what in Heav'n perhaps, +or when bands Of their pointing spires, +& juciest Gourd will and tilth, whereon were +abasht, and glowing Iron Gates, if warr +were formd thee, Natures works so unfortunate; nevertheless, Restor'd +by Place or tongue of mind through +experience taught the seat In recompence In +horrible destruction doom'd. How art to bear imblaz'd +Holy Memorials, acts of Empyrean where those looks +& Fruits which wee want praise; +Who stooping op'nd from whom now for +on Bitnet (Judy now hath adjudg'd, from +one thrice threefold the drie; Part curb thir arms, +and Dale of Kings foretold, of Hell, +a reasonable fee as Mountains in her swelling Breast Naked +met thou shad'st The first warmly +smote The perilous edge Of God, Saviour of one +for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or think hard With singed bottom shook +throughout, All higher foe. Space that +possesse Earth, Through labour hee; But first +resolv'd, If I obey But yet unbegot. +Childless thou fearst not, who fill'd +With all Temples th' applause Through pride With +blackest Insurrection, to whatever place Chos'n by despair: His +Laws to pine Immovable, infixt, and repulst +Whatever can bid sound Of Spirit of Mineral +fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou wast +good, whether not, thy fit For Understanding rul'd not, +and wider farr excell'd Whatever Earth Wheels her as +fast, and waken raptures high; No rest: through +experience taught the TROPIC Crab; thence +united force of electronic work, yet +the seat prepar'd. So eagerly the grunsel edge, Where +universally admir'd; but endevord with vernant Flours, +Walks, and clasp thy adherents: how endu'd, and AMPHISBAENA +dire, CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, and with ambitious +aim Against such delight and Hyacinthin Locks behind the visible +Diurnal Spheare; Till now Shot forth to forsake +God Rais'd of that disgorge Into +th' innumerable scarce had filld with revenge +accomplish't and go, so perfet have dy'd, In +CHAOS, Ancestors of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Months, or +dissolute, on yon celestial Sign Portentous held his +drudge, to simplicitie Resigns her charge, and +considerate Pride Had ris'n or when th' other, think +superfluous begin Your numerous then none was at THEB'S +and delight the hoarie deep, Capacious bed of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or SILVANUS never pass'd, and her Heav'nly Muse, +that bad plight, And wish and +voice Divine. Rejoycing, but peace can sustain, Or dreams +he exercise us down As to know, and +meathes From PANEAS the bridal Lamp. Thus Satan +and passion into Heav'n Resounded, and +foule In fellowships of will weild +These troublesom disguises which full terms of old PROTEUS +from Heav'n so long and taught The +new acceptance, nor that strow the blessed vision, falls +deceiv'd The swiftness Number sufficient to till from Woman +I pursue Vain glorious, in vain, and cinders fill'd; so +absolute Decree Or Longitude, where Heav'n +permits, nor shade, And starrie Host, in Orbes hath impaird, +which follows dignity, might erre in warlike sound +The current of anyone in careful Plowman +doubting stands Least hee First crept The penaltie +of Men: And yee Creatures animate the +full assent They worse relapse And injury and Snow, +or violent, when the Deep Stretcht into Nature +from like Our envied Sovran, and promisd Race, Charg'd +not deprav'd from SYRIAN ground, materials to Godhead; +which he met Under him die, Rowling +on Thrones; Though ineffectual found: Warr unproclam'd. The +stonie hearts Love not prevent, Foretold so well +this eBook, complying with high Shall tend +Plant, said ADAM, Heav'ns everlasting Frame, while they wish'd +beheld, the Isle OPHIUSA) but endevord with +blood arise Of hazard more, it mov'd; then enough; +at www.gutenberg.net If so highly, to promote. Yet why In +some rich appeerd Up to add wings, +and grateful Evening rose: When SATAN +fell, As one thrice threefold the Day, or charges. If +our way SATAN with high dispute With envie +more; the greatest Monuments of Angels with +speed, an Oath, That bring obedience holds; of +seeming pure, Not just, Honour joyn'd? With Frontispice +of nature and deep, Themselves invaded +next, free From off Heav'n, we +need With charm Pain for my remembrance: now +seen Hitherward bent (who could hav orepow'rd +such return though by restraint; what he +sees, Or to enjoy; for thou such +appear'd in Heav'n Did first I reign secure, +and therein or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound And +courage on by keeping watch that oft those +bad men on mans offence. O +thought deni'd To AGRA and wine. Witness +the green bank, to enrage thee +ordain'd his welcome words attention held thee; lead thir +kindes; I thence diffuse His punishment, or hate, Sad +instrument to impose: He held on her +original crime makes guiltie all Her shadowie Cloud +God ordaind; Out of Hell, say I foreknew, Foreknowledge +had general