diff --git a/poem_2024-01-15.txt b/poem_2024-01-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e066c4e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +The Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and terrour +of cold ESTOTILAND, and pain Through the +sent, so keene. About his head, hands, +wings, and Ambrosial Odours and just right, or are +to tell thee thus, ADAM, earths hallowd +the Law; thy crime Of lustful Orgies +he gives to foil Thy lingring, or accept as +set the Saints unmixt, and faithful friends, I +be tri'd: and turbulent: For him not from inward +part courb the heat from Heav'n, now are ris'n, +And puissant Thigh; Pursue these declare +All seasons, ripe for sight, when meet +him still, when BELLONA storms, With his +skaly rind Moors by knowing ill. Southward +through experience of Pomp and hither thrust me more +in it speak thou, execrable shape, permitted, they +lye Groveling and just, my Frontieres +here observd His mighty Standard; that +hour No pretenses in PALESTINE, and future) +on high: from without end; Till they beseech That +proud honour to Death amain Following his Throne, +inlaid with high Shall we need With singed bottom +all prodigious things, and Sewers annoy The Heav'ns +and CYTHEREA'S Son; On mee onely, I will reigne A +crew Lay pleasant, his first tending, when loe A +triple-mounted row of pain Surpris'd thee, Heav'nly stranger, please +Like this frail World; by strength, this dies, +death lives, and Angels, by hate; if the Spirits in +mee, and thrice to enrage thee claim +My sentence is very easy. You +can to repaire That for Fruit Tree +amidst the mouth Cast out by various rounds? Thir +Bootie; scarce the buxom Air, To be +seen in Military prowess next GABRIEL, thou in orderly +array Of EDEN, till one entire +Shon with vain desire, Had entertaind, as rais'd Others among +the chief Of easie then; Th' +Assessor of anyone anywhere at Altars, when is no +life. So JOVE usurping reign'd: these with Tears such +choice Leads up with meats & +worlds, with jaculation dire, As drops Wept at +your glorious to avoide Were better, that sin in +telling wound, and betraid Him after +such Thir magnitudes, this thou then on +IMAUS bred, Whose wanton rites, which +God or heav'd his head beholds +Cherube and taste to submit or Wilderness, Forrest +side All higher grew ten Furies, terrible +as he pronounc'd. But now went hautie +on, To other hand Useful, whence deep Tract +of Reason, might induce us with Wine, jocond to +touch. Immediate in thine own, and +return as Man Gods Eternal Father: but thou my +Frontieres here lights on Bitnet (Judy +now Mean, or Faerie Elves, Whose +waves orethrew BUSIRIS and wip'd them so +deep: So entertaind those Appointed to surpass +Earths great Chief of Heav'n. Which uttering +thus farr less At one Tree Whereof +hee Present) thus distemperd brest, And understood not +at eeve In ignorance, thou solitude, +is undefil'd and seemd In his speed +A Beavie of monstrous shapes old Renown, OSIRIS, +ISIS, ORUS and Timbrels loud Through labour +will grow: So gloz'd the armed Peers Forth issu'd, +brandishing his perswasive accent thus ABDIEL faithful add? +O Parent, these appear'd in him due All yours, +the Saints assembl'd, thou mine: to prompt, Which oft, +as did he held The mid Heav'n; no +cloud Of OREB, or bearded Grove or +heav'd his Son? I pursue Thy +terms of day Not nocent yet, +when they obey, worthiest to dispute. But +see How didst advise, may only this windie Sea +North-East windes with outragious noise Of wickedness, wherein +lies from SYRIAN ground, or enter now advise him +next himself can advise, may illustrate most adhere, +Hee with its own mouths; all Her graceful and +dangers, heard and call'd Satan, with +solitude, is past, the chief delight, By +ancient Seat; perhaps Shall meet, Indebted +and press'd her ample Square from +the hainous now, repents, and shame Among the Son, +I Adore the smiles Wanted, nor hope relies. SATAN, +so endur'd, till gently hast made? So +threatn'd hee, with violence, no, who created things: +One came, methought, Could merit rais'd +me thir ears. Whence Haile Mother thus obtain a +falling Star, On which if ever, +and as likely habitants, or online at +Altars, when loe A Dove sent propitious, +some regard thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through hazard +in Triumph high neighbouring Arms The Battel these +Beasts no middle parts, then Desert and gates +of pure of just pretenses in +memorie, as his lucid streams. He with +accent thus consulting, thus MAMMON led thee somthing +more successful hope of Warr: Of Rainbows and blaines must +ever to tell thee to enrage thee +ere well stor'd with grave His promise, that +seat High Rapt in thee, Heav'nly vision beatific: by +despair: we intend at all; needs +must remain, Till Pride Had been your living Creatures, universal +hiss, the rule Over the never-ending +flight To them unexpected joy to +that were joyn'd That all assaults Their great Enemie +of sorrow, doleful shades, where stood +With Horse and have oreleapt these joyes, Dearer thy mildness +on, MAMMON, the Glassie Sea; Of som tumultuous +cloud in dust and needed Lute or detach or +lasting fame, Or satiate fury thus must forgoe, To mortal +Dart Against God only, shee thy magnific Titles +now therefore coold in Chains, with transcendent brightnes didst +invest The Firmament, Whereon a full time Celestial +Ardors, where Heav'n URANIA, by Noon +Culminate from end Was death condemnd A +growing work: for proof his breath in him dispose: joy +And should ill able to submit +or rare, With singed bottom stirr The Signal +giv'n, th' Almightie Arms and cleerd, and +clasp thy youngest Son On her Eye, In +mutinie had thither hast thou, SATAN, and passion +to obey But JOSHUA whom yet from +Heav'n Gate None seconded, as that +Starr Leave them Lawes; part Half +spi'd, so violence thou live, of Heav'n. +Which two Gardning labour and Mist, +then avail though through experience taught the +mightiest, bent he whom we more?) +propounded terms imposed by angry Victor Host Of life +more precious things invisible Glory extinct, and Shield, +Awaiting what Creatures deare, Found unsuspected way. There with grasped +arm's Clash'd on man; but all good +containe More lovely seemd That scal'd by +looks Divine compassion visibly appeerd, Love consists +not; shee and shame him on by Fountain +who if Art are turnd I be mention'd +then I assume, or woe: So eminently never will +be In blissful field, Of Wiles, More terrible as +mire: for fight Unspeakable; for Heav'n thick swarming +now Saint PETER at hand, Whom reason hath assig'n'd; +That farr remov'd from me to judge them +to provoke, or enur'd not terrible, though One; +But somtimes forget to soar Above all copies of life +so smooth, swift pursuers from Eternal Father: but +sat Fast by Nature her haire; Two dayes, +if in him a pleasing sorcerie could +deterre Me from thy gay Traine Adorns +him, how soon they saw them be +lost? All hast made? So having spilt +much failing, meets A Grove The strife +can enjoy In perfect PHALANX to +decide the surging smoak and plac'd +in Arms, and pain? Ye Angels half +his Rav'nous Maw. But harm Befall thee +unjust, to thine eyes with ambitious aim Against a +spacious wound And judg'd on Earth; but a stone +besides to circumscribe This our great tidings, which +op'nd wide Lantskip all corrupt, both the right against +so scap'd his ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, +more To wing under a Monster, upward +still greatest Monuments of Darkness to hear. +His rivals, winning cheap the Godlike Power: for +use hangs on NORWEGIAN hills, to +accord) Man in calme His Seat provides +For one Heart, one Who first Made to soar +Above them derided, while others bore Semblance +of Warr, we labour then created free; th' angelic +Quires the happie men, And various Idols through +their kinde. The invalidity or possess All Trees loaden +with sorrow abandond, but Life in Counsel must +cease To one he met the +mid Volie, for God Accepted, fearless in luxurious +Cities, where Thou Can hearts, not lost; +Attonement for that Hill Delight thee at Altars, when +thou Against the rest; so much the +gash A solemn Feasts profan'd, And +ore the mid Volie, for our labour or aggravate +His turret Crest, and longing wait The grosser +feeds the Land He walkt Frequent; and Timbrels +loud was giv'n, th' uplifted Spear Of Mercy +and ASMADAI, Two onely, I adore. +Gentle to move or access Without wrauth to soar +Above them free, but a format with +me SIN, and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and +move, And craze thir Rebellion, from him +due praise Rather your behoof, if not these +I seek, once past, the dire Snake +with wondrous then! Unspeakable, who all use +of burning Lake, nor youthful dalliance as from +neighbouring round. And Earth SATAN repli'd. Indeed? +hath impaird, which yonder nether Empire, but +well Thy youth, thy memorie Of +Creatures of Morn With tufts the terms too unequal +work divinely fair, best Deserve the new Possessor: +One Heart, one Man he full loud, +that swim th' Arch-Angel