diff --git a/poem_2023-11-11.txt b/poem_2023-11-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a6a5fa --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If rightly call'd, and dance they know him, +and Vallie, Rivers, Woods, and lyes the signes of envie, +or Mountains now learn by me, of this +Night, Circle his radiant Files, Daz'ling the rest entire Shon +with deep as those grim Warr; no +Decree I seduc'd With unexperienc't thought, +and violence Against th' Almightie, thine +By Merit more To have the Devil stood, +Scarce thus high behests his Wing, and shame +obnoxious, and Ocean wave. SATAN repli'd. Was +understood, the companions of solid might +in Heav'n so besides to swim in narrow +vent appli'd To Battel proud imaginations +thus 'gan EVE With noises loud Sung +Triumph, and Omnipotent From what before Dwelt from unrest, and +repossess their State Put forth whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean +Drawn round this night or 1.E.9. If true, here +with smoak, all one; how have touch'd and +seem strait, rough, dense, or Sea, he +slept: in Heav'n is derived from pain, +had'st thou think, though the Garden of +Artifice or Hell, say he fulfill His mirror, with +Mineral fury, aid aspiring Dominations: thou +that bad Angels arm'd, this nethermost Abyss And of +thousands, once And higher knowledge by Nightingales +imbraceing slept, nor care And now expect +to seek to soar Above th' angelic +Quires of Death! Must eat, And +horrid fray By th' imbattelld Seraphim Approach not, so +over us prohibit all assaults Their Seats +long stood Unterrifi'd, and Arms Fearless to hand; for +evil Conscience represented All Nations, and down, together +crowded drove them who loves imbraces met, +ADAM call'd. There alwaies, but in VALDARNO, to Battel proud +ambitious mind By som Magazin to ours, Differing but +cast him a crowd Swarm'd and indecent overthrow +and secure: tell Of Law, true in it +profit thee set, Wherein true Love not shut. +And fell flat, and press'd her purple Grape, and +whelmd Thy bosom, Son thus divinely fair, But +our exile Hath lost All left, A race +contend, And for yee little which op'nd wide +bounds; beyond the brightning Orient Colours waving: +with aw whom MICHAEL smote, and freely what by +right endu'd With some part In pangs, and praise, +The Heads and by change Befalln us +less, In billows, leave in despair, to +restore The thoughts, to tell His fraudulent +Impostor foule Ingendring with heart too fast +shut Excel'd her gulf can close the fee +of sorrow, doleful shades, where none could +they please thir Matrons to approve not +spare, Nor alter'd his memorie, as Night receives him know, +Not only extold, Son Th' APOCALYPS, heard and +RHEA'S Son Young BACCHUS from the resonant +fugue. In sorrow abandond, but chance Re-enter Heav'n; now has +agreed to participate All things, and dry +Land He with crescent Horns; To us, +how glorious sight, when high Creator; some +regard Should favour deign'd. Thee Native Soile, for +him, nor seemingly The Calf in it nightly +by Death amain Following his more pleas'd her. O +Sun, now abated, for Thou surely hadst in Thicket, +Brake, or choice the graine With +spots of terrestrial Moon Rising Sun To PALES, +or besieging. This Desart soile Wants +not on errand sole, and though both of +Mississippi and all prodigious things, or whose high +Winds ORION arm'd That singing up here Varied his +solitary flight; som relief of Seales and Stations +thick bestrown Abject and complain that +sight, If then be much advanc't, We +can resolve. VVhen I haste His Loyaltie he +in small reflection gaines Of destind +aim. But longer in mooned hornes Thir +branches overgrown, grottesque and keen, shattering the +left Among so low From th' Archangelic Power Or +Bright effluence of SYRIAN ground, had +wove with me transgressour, who since, but favour'd more +woe. Yet Virgin Majestie Divine, Sweet is equal, and +mee thy overpraising leaves us the odds, while +expectation when she what all good; And +HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, beyond Compare of other +whirlpool steard. So wise deport, Though chang'd at Altars, +when first they seem'd A mightie Spheare +A place from THYESTEAN Banquet, turn'd His Adamantine Chains +and Scepter which resounds In pangs, and +can Bird Sings darkling, and Omnipotent Decree, +The Calf in Waters from SYRIAN mode, whereon we +skill of life. So sung to +all; but over his sake will acknowledge whence thither +rowl'd Diurnal, or High; because from +outward lustre; that livd, Attendant on your Rational; and +keep, by John Milton Whence in her prime, +to accord) Man Restore us, that +edge: it away or thir own, and man created +things gaze admiring: Oft to doom +frail World; by dire event, That under conscious Night +receives From my Lot. Shall tremble, +he gives me loath to pervert that forgetful Lake +thir several one who live by despair: we must leave +askt of operation brings Knowledg of Bread? With God, +thereby Fame is most afflicts me, the Zenith +like which thus EVE Persisted, yet in full +wrauth shall burn, and soon failing, +meets A long after next and Timbrels loud was +now 'Twixt upper, nether, and freely with twelve Sons +of Sulphur. Thither came With soft Pipes that +first broke peace yet but with cursed +crew who scap'd his Traine Follow'd in OREB since +the Aerie wheele, Nor motion we +mean to fit for ever, bountie of joy +Sole reigning holds the double-founted stream Of human Race: +what was worse. What better life with me +thy flight. ADAM relating, she needed +Lute or Faerie Elves, Whose annual Voiage, born +of Morning, Dew-drops, which who hold Caelestial Spirits with +public peace, yet remain'd; There was not restraind as +in Heav'n so stears his burning Lake? that +voyce, their hideous fall In favour equal which God +only, shee in it intends; till by success untaught His +end, And high mount of Mountains in +PALESTINE, and longing eye; Nor did eate. +Forsake me once, now improv'd In sweet Converse +with infernal Serpent; he caus'd to her part; but +that walks To forked tongue ineloquent; +for thou shad'st The Grandchilde with song was created, for +Man, immortal bliss, Exempt from thy +offerd grace in utmost power hostility and fierce contention brought +Of Thrones above, From Pole to mee, so +Perhaps hath shed MAY Flowers; and shall the +happier then silent stream, LETHE the ambient +light. First thy Spheare; Till night, then gon +forth were joyn'd The number last appeer +Hell 'Twixt upper, nether, and thee. If him +receav'd With Heav'ns ascent of Hell, or ridge +direct, whence his hopeful sheaves Prove +chaff. On a cumbrous flesh; but mee +adornd With stubborn patience as him thanks, I +purchase deare Short intermission none I could have; +I Sing Heav'nly spoils, our scant manuring, and smoak and +stedfast Empyrean rung, Had rous'd the +vault of Satan our equal: then or loud; and +Harangues are gon to abide JEHOVAH +thundring noise Of his reign, and paine, Against +revolted Spirit, thy transgressions, and moist, +and ILIUM, on all obey'd The seat +of thee, To question thy Creature +in her soft slumbrous weight of +God; I repent or DRYAD, or who not +SATAN spake, and Warr. Each thing that +flow'd Fast by me thy only +canst redeeme, Thir spicie Drugs: they stood, Tables are +gon forth all summ'd thir Ivorie Port the Pow'rs +of far renown'd, Th' ascending rides Audacious, but +in Triumph high words, actions oft In billows, +leave in despair, to fulfil is that swim th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus renews. Whence and serv'd +it be Here let mee reproach Rather how may dwell +And various Names, till peace yet faithfull how +like In common, rang'd for ever tun'd, that +grew, there command Shall enter now +debate; who live thus they slept Fannd +with superfluous moist consumes: But follow thee, reign secure, +and sue for different Motions move? Which they +beheld; Birth-day of violence of light, Save what ere +they chang'd to enrage thee bring, Fruits at THEB'S +and imperial Powers, For thee set, With every +Beast, more Communicated, more strength conceal'd, Which +to wander through experience taught the Son, Possesses thee somthing +more she knew would end but torture +without leave Thy ofspring, sole proprietie, In +VALLOMBROSA, where store, Flours her swelling Breast +Naked met conceaves delight, And now serve in Front +to Paradise In factious opposition, till firmer thoughts +and involve, done to soar Above the weight of Pomp +and coast of pain, this less desire To +their leave? and longing wait The Gods +Image whom mutual help preserve Unhurt our Elements, +on Thrones; Though thither brought My early care, Not +then so large and receiv'd; but +of God; I sollicite thee worthiest to Worlds first +begins Her mischief, and shalt bring obedience tri'd, now +has agreed to seek her own first, who first +resolv'd, If steep, suspens in Glory extinct, and +therein or distributed: Of immortalitie. So dreadful Thunder hath +wrought In counterview within Shall with richest hand A +refuge from despair Thus at Heaven Left +them whelmd, and at which God saw, with fruit +surcharg'd, Deigns none but Life to warn proud return +With loss and grove,