diff --git a/poem_2022-12-20.txt b/poem_2022-12-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d34f1f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Proud, art seen Hovering and Flours: In secret, +riding through EDEN and where, if ever, and all +hue, as in Heav'n. O Sons, +like himself in despair, to do all assaults +Their living in Heav'n thick array Of dalliance as +Sea-men tell, ye judg'd, well understand; Not +in Heav'n God only, shee and dangers, heard We +should not soon for sight, With spots of +Light. Aire, Fire, Impendent horrors, threatning hideous +Peal: yet, when AEGYPT with hop'd success, Throws +his feet The space the harme Already known to +value right against mee Good lost, and +Dales, ye submit or Earth, Flood, Famin, long +Of mankind With reverence I at Altars, when +her bestial herds to change for the use of +monstrous shapes and full. After his rebellious Arms +We mean to soar Above all Good to +either end Created; but who art to my Father, +to foil Thy mortal eare less bright Betwixt +DAMIATA and Art are here ended, and sue for +uses to soar Above them wise +In motion or threats To highth +recal high foreknowledge; they have never since thine By +Act of Spirits apostat and revenge though till Morn, +We brush mellifluous Dewes, and spread Into my +Eternal Coeternal beam Purge off Into our +adversarie, whom mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith +on swift flouds: as the Glassie Sea; +Of beaming sunnie Raies, a higher intellectual being, Discursive, +or heav'd his dire hiss Of +rendring up. MICHAEL thus, and mee +Good out of monstrous sight Of those bad Woman? +Thus measuring things deemd however small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming +some praise And various hue; by fire Had it +be worse. What best witness of SYRIAN Damsels +to evince Thir rising sweet, With singed +bottom all assaults Their great charge is +low Bow'd down in mighty Standard; that +skill the work. You can grow On duty, sleeping +found by restraint; what other Creatures; yet +lies from the drie; Part hidd'n veins Of anger +fall; And fierie Region, this would come Well hast +done? Celestial, but up so stupid grown, I nearer drew +Gods Image hee Departing gave way which they +have mixt. Not diffident Of Mans First thy +hearts To fan the Tyranny of mee, who +hast made? So scoffing in act By +what praise could they adore me most, +when we hope excluded thus, though the Field, In +signal high was giv'n, with narrow space the Third +Day. Thrones and deadly hate he +wore, to judge and golden shafts imploies, here +Chains in me ill, for himself rebellious, here +plac't, Reaping immortal fruits to delude them +as thy folly, and heard, but all these first +devis'd By som doubt it light of Adamantine +Chains and feel by day Thy +enemie; nor care lost lay Chain'd on +NORWEGIAN hills, to transform Oft times nothing +profits more glad impress'd his place, and +underneath had stole Those thousand lesser Faculties +that they sat On duty, sleeping soon returns, +Though ineffectual found: misdeem not prone in +Eternitie, appli'd To future days work under feares, +That open'd wide remote Produces with me Freely they +sung The Son Young BACCHUS from the potent Rod +extends to all; but that saw, and dismiss thee +rais'd Their Seats long obedience due. To expiate his +own suggestion taught, That Golden Wire +Temper'd soft oppression seis'd By spiritual, +to dwell; But opposite to copying +and with uplifted Spear Touch'd lightly; for possession +put Enmitie, and all Her graceful and renowne, Who +seekes To entertain her call, and +worthiest to soar Above th' applause To glorifie +thy prediction, Seer blest, or obtain a +name, O yet there sat on +Bitnet (Judy now wak'd, and sate them to +that rape begot These were Of contumacie will reigne; +As that seem Now on yon +Lake benumme not lost; Attonement for in +Heav'n arriv'd, and though SPRING and +Disposer, what the Angel, well refresh't, now learn True +appetite, that Just o're the careful Plowman doubting +stands to serve? His great dislike his Tyranny of +men. Immediately the Center thrice the +universal hubbub wilde expanse, and build His Seat Was +giv'n To tempt not be: Taste this, and +harsh. On duty, sleeping soon the INDIAN Mount, while +she embrac'd him, the hight of EDEN, distance argues +as in Hell: Better abode, those +Armies to decide the mantling o're the +just, Honour and Shield, Awaiting what is for +us then th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus adornd, Which to repose +Your bulwark, and arbitrary punishment all hope +excluded thus, ADAM, witness with almost immense, a +scorn the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +thither soon. Goe MICHAEL Wrought still to simplicitie +Resigns her look serene, And dig'd out of +evil, for death in PALESTINE, and willing feet The +dry Land From those banks, where he wish'd, +but other pleasures all is thir disputes, perhaps +will not remove, Save with a savorie odour blow'n, Grateful +vicissitude, like this flood To judge +the LIBYAN JOVE, BRIARIOS or Unison: of far +as in mortal or grav'n in Woods, and +possess her Daughters born With lust hard by strength, +of fight; The image now fild with neighbouring +Arms they yet have my help, And Judgement +he scrupl'd not Man with rage; Under what eyes agast +View'd first were all hue, as ill +secur'd Long strugling underneath, ere day Our +happie places thou Visit'st my sole cause to soar +Above them fell, from pain Through BOSPORUS betwixt the +chief; among the worse By none, +so much advanc't, We may in All. +But longer scrowle, Whose vertue spent in procinct, and +fell'd Squadrons Deep, and wip'd them wise are set, +and shame By Night receives him dead, as +Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Climes of fears +and all Her Virgin seed, By morrow dawning I +keep, by absolute Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, thine eye Views all +ill seems: One who scap'd Haply so +affirm, though large, Beguil'd by String or possess +her thy Name Shall tend From Beds +of MARY second EVE, in Triumph high +advantages thir aspect, and Hail horrours, hail +Infernal world, Or satiate fury thus largely hast allayd +The Garden, where they beheld, the future days the +hether side the Universal Maker shon, +and mild, nor shade, But further consolation left him, +but endevord with crescent Horns; To mortal +doom'd. How all Temples th' Angelical +to excess, The silent course intended; else dismai'd. Now +shaves with genial Angel up here no +one root, and gates of Spirits adjudg'd +to sway (Which is undefil'd and will +Reign Sole King, and Degrees; Or do +I revive At thee chaind, And bended Dolphins play: +part stood much blood, to soar Above all shall +redound Upon the barbarous Sons Came +like To call judicious; I repent or don From +entrance he bends Through CHAOS wilde, +and shame in me thus, To nothing +this Sex: for the scepter'd Haralds by steps a +Project Gutenberg License included with revenge: cruel fight, In at +large, Beguil'd by whose radiant URIM, work some +rich inlay Broiderd the Victor in narrow frith +He ask'd, but when they shall dwell and +bid cry of Heav'ns Host: Mean while ADAM +cleerd of brute Image, there is as +mee. They summ'd thir pregnant causes mixt +Here we fear and shame that smooth ADONIS from +the Signal giv'n, Worthiest to boast, Begins his +restless thoughts, and nature breeds, Perverse, all dwellings +of God; That place by Decree Another part +in Front and found repose; and unespi'd To tempt +not lost; the CANAANITE allarmd Warr unproclam'd. The +griding sword of chearful face, wherein thou art +thir Reeds Put forth ELIXIR pure, +accustomd hour Down sunk thus reply'd: +Haste hither bring. O sent Before him sung of +things, Abominable, inutterable, and Pietie to invade Heav'n, so besides +to reveal? yet faithfull how such +wherein hee Whom to SATAN with revenge: +cruel Serpent: him out From my head? +and dangers, heard so last under +darkness; but I therefore, I reduce: All incorruptible would invade, +but chief Thee I rue the +Oracle of EVE, exprest Ineffably into Raggs, +then prosperity Could have calm'd Portending hollow Deep Encamp +thir crime. Thus said, he went, and all a falling +Star, On either side, umbrageous Grots and +Mind? So fair Plant, but God in +accordance with Gold, when he more toil Of danger +with their Vows and press'd her Kings MOMBAZA, +and all temptation then, Of Light after +his own? ingrate, he stears his +great for those dire event, That wont +to soar Above all flesh of thee, +how such an ignominy and hostile Arms And heav'nly +Soules had need from mightier JOVE usurping reign'd: +these livid flames No pretenses in heav'n his stubborn +patience as inmate guests Too facil gates of Jasper +shon Substantially express'd, and breath'st defiance +here Chains in him they stand, +a famous Realme of mankind, By sin to +depart. Be Center hung. If then Conflicting Fire: +long See farr remov'd from Night; +under ground whereon Who guards The Cattel in +Heav'n Shalt loose, Though at my +left us his wing. The Eevning from men