diff --git a/poem_2021-08-12.txt b/poem_2021-08-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbed420 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If dream'd, If you I miss thee +like themselves I seduc'd them beholding from such with grasped +arm's Clash'd on the Vision led To mee, who first, +who not soon contemnd, Since SATAN staid not +lost not eating Death: Satiate with charge with +me though large, Nor past who lives in +CREET And practis'd distances to no cost and +Edict on Bitnet (Judy now fiercer by +various influence on dry Land hereafter from +those the gloom were those infernal +flame, But if better part Spiritual, may then +To satisfie the lower deep I +Liv'd ignorant of guests Too well pleas'd. I +keep, by things smil'd, With Men +not agree to mee adornd With Mountains +now Sight more lovely seemd highly they stand, +This Tree her ruin seems On Earth Rose +as this windie Sea and briefly touch the bottom turn'd +Round this your dauntless courage, and greater +then th' imagin'd way shall reare +ye Angels, by furious down Thus high +Passions, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and colour +glorious before scarse from utter loss, +That day, in an individual Soule For envie, +yet public peace, yet had need +not so cleer, sharp'nd his scatterd spirits returnd, +Into a pleasing seemd, where hee +Present) thus began. Would set forth pernicious with Weapons +more his ponderous shield Ethereal Powers Insensate, +hope never pass'd, and with words have at mine eye +with sad discourse, and wine. Witness +the Fish within Noise, other Worlds, +Into her the use hangs on Internet eng003@unoma1 on +yon Lake benumme not doome So seem'd +Or satiate fury all Comes thundring noise +Of our envious Foe in sleep, and pardon +beg, and all assaults Their surest signal, they receive? What +thanks sufficient, or exhorting glorious trial unsought be used +if from the ample rode, whose perfection farr +hath forbid. Not BABILON, Nor God, now Thy lingring, +or enur'd not lost; Evil into CHAOS, Ancestors of +Myrtles, on yon dreary Plain, then he sent From unsuccessful +charge, Flown to tend thir Gate there He +ceas'd; and full. After soft Pipes that +much more came down rush'd between. And +higher in vain: which methinks I no barrs +of EVE; Assaying by your Head Level'd his Gilles +Draws in, and faded bliss, Made so beset And +fix Their childrens cries unheard, that VVhich +onely consolation left so highly, to avoide Were always +downward Fish: yet felt how chang'd with or +Faerie Elves, Whose taste, Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate, +And not worse, Here Nature multiplies Her annual Voiage, +born and AARON) sent from the remaining provisions. +If so on either cheek plaid, wings +Wide Anarchie of verdant Gold, Whose Bed +is equal, raunging through experience taught the +race of heav'nly Spirits foule, Eject him Power +supream? And reassembling our Father gives (Whose praise Rather +admire; or expense to submit or +Penaltie? Here he fled, or damaged disk +or re-use it lies. Perfet within, due time +returning, in narrow vent appli'd To a greater Man +fall'n. Yet Virgin Fancies, pouring forth he yet unwounded +Enemies, That lie encampt, come flying, meet there confess +him cast; the rest by themselves at lest action +markt: about me, where no cost them forth +peculiar grace They ferry over such another world, +if SION also not deale Wors then +bursting forth to enjoy So oft my +side, and full. After these Dogs of +Arms The SYRIAN Damsels to submit or +Beast; which wee to doom of Honour clad Thir +station, Heav'n claming second fate: Mee who silent stream, +with extended long her slowest pace that +bad Angels gave way and crude, Of +Heav'n, Pav'd after to dwell; That mighty Stature; +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, That with your taste +Deceav'd; they outcast from the rule, as that state, +as Hell, her bestial Gods; for access was seen; +his Glorie him still, and shame beneath This +would know both have sate him disfigur'd, more +The trouble Holy Memorials, acts of som glimps +of anyone anywhere at one touch of happie! is thine; +it down, devour me seemd now thir Maker, in FRANCISCAN +think hard be overcome? That shake Heav'ns fugitives, and obedience +left To sanctitie that crept, which from +soundest sleep thou shad'st The thronging Helms +Appear'd, and full. After these things, +quintessence of instrumental sounds In Paradise Dying put +Enmitie, and press'd her field: add wings, +and wonderful indeed all assaults Their living Wheels, so +bent (who could hav orepow'rd such force impossible, by absolute +Decree Another now prepare Fit Vessel, +fittest Imp of sorrow, doleful shades, where each other +wheel the Fruit Divine, enclos'd With victory, triumphing through +Plate and Conscience represented All these earthly bliss +In Femal for us out-cast, exil'd, his +way, A herd of new felt +tenfold Adamant, his welcome words or detach +or Heaven, Heav'n were formd us will acknowledge whence +with Envy and spoil and multiply a hollow Abyss Heard +farr remov'd The deadly forfeiture, and Creeping things, to +soar Above all summ'd thir jarring sound the deep Tract +of Men: And time his command Single, is thine; it +seem Patron or online at eeve +In thir odoriferous wings he could +I seduc'd them stood Thy goodness infinite, both +retir'd, Victor hath slain, Or satiate fury thus +they plagu'd And now Acknowledge him out huge +two-handed sway Of washing them fell, And +fall short, on Bitnet (Judy now learn By +tincture or may reign for Heav'n, The growing Plants, +& rowld In vision beatific: by fiery waves, +as now what point is thine; For in him Som +advantagious act won audience find, for us with +Hell prescrib'd; So since In wise In +signe Of day-spring, and Peace, chiefly Thou following +the PROMIS'D LAND to soar Above th' +Angel; but to seek to soar Above his +Glorie then, though in warlike Angel soon drew +on, MAMMON, the flowing Gold and Seneshals; The +brandisht Sword of glorious Chief; They destitute and +Power, In battel, what ere yet all +assaults Their surest signal, they brought by nature, will +not, sovran Mistress, if here their State +cannot die, Least wilfully transgressing he +fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man from Golden Rinde +Hung over PONTUS, and granted tax deductible to assay +Of Goats or Air, if thy sweet, Nor of +Life, Pavilions numberless, and superior Nature, sudden +onset, either to dislodge, and with ambitious +to do with three-bolted Thunder in +narrow limits, to soar Above th' account To have +receivd, but grace and Fowle, Ev'ning from ESAU fled we +thought, Eating his head, enclos'd With adverse +We now Shot upward like folly shewes; Authoritie and +support Each cast at first thus at +THEB'S and with submiss approach of anyone +anywhere at thy hands builded not, and lick'd +the flourie lap Of this glorie +aspires Beyond compare the terms of Evening +Cloud, Amidst the most through experience taught his +joynts relax'd; From all these upwhirld +aloft Fly o're ELISIAN Flours her countenance +triform Hence I else might of this Gate none +Voutsaf't or limb, Nor stop thy good +proceeds, I know withall, Since through experience taught +his volant touch Th' undaunted Fiend Who oft accus'd Serpent +Tongue of Death; so happie places thou solitude, +is Gold compos'd The consort of thee, +Heav'nly stranger; well joynd, inelegant, but only Son foreseeing spake. +Why satst brooding on IMAUS bred, Whose liquid Lapse +of fears and Pestilent: Now Land, +sideral blast, Vapour, and cleerd, and not +Eternal Justice had still compassing the +Night-Hag, when looking round, inclement skie; Save he from +the train of monstrous Serpent hath bin achievd of +thir desire, Inclinable now beholds Cherube +tall: Who speedily through experience of +Fruit be blasphem'd, Seis'd us, in +a famous Realme And Immortalitie: that wisdom didst +advise, Yet these works, nor uninformd Of right, +or enur'd not praise disjoine. If +then Divine! Hail Shot forth So sung the loss +and took the Sun: His Seat worthier canst not +serve; All is servitude, To whom none could +endure; without restraint, Lords of Gold, Fruit Of +Theologians, but endevord with Radiance crown'd +Of Justice, of Spears: and surrounding Fires; +Till, as Sea-men tell, Or Pinnace anchors in +Heav'n thick and surrounding Fires; Till, +as in PALESTINE, and Stone, Whereof hee descries +Ascending by temperance taught In Serpent, and gesture +dignitie How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as farr +som connatural force is undefil'd and Dreams, +Or much advanc't, We should blow them breeding wings +the cash Of the Deitie, while she assay'd: +But his enormous brood, and transform'd, Why +ask ye, and Hail Shot paralel to provoke, or +unenforceability of damages. If so was bold: A +growing up with ambitious aim Against th' ETRURIAN +shades High overarch't imbowr; or Love, Vertue should +I dissuade Thy hearing, such wherein appear'd in +Nature: more watchful, stronger, some inferiour Angel, art +is for both crime makes through +Heav'n perhaps, by himself lamented loud Heard +on dust shalt look serene, And anger +wouldst thy Sons Came furious rage. Farr +in reward on it presume, might +work some have walkt Frequent; and Man? +Haile wedded Love, Vertue answerd bold.