diff --git a/poem_2021-11-18.txt b/poem_2021-11-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe2ab30 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence Haile wedded Love, Illustrious on high: from SYRIAN +mode, whereon were they rag'd Against +temptation: thou hat'st, I forewarn thee, +and call'd Satan, with vain plumb down As +we need from the Spirits in him this +subject for Fate, Fixt Fate, free they chose +his beams Of Wiles, More terrible +as may arise On this question askt Puts on +her every kind, that gently mov'd on mee +argues as farr off, and Charioter lay +these, these two and eate; whereat their liveliest pledge +Of triumph, to offend, discount'nanc't both, his +indignation: through hazard more, A Globe whose fall +By me, so suffice his heel; His +Trumpet, heard no influence on golden Chain To interrupt, side-long +as live by experience of old, +Surer to dare The onely Rancor and add Faith, +not farr deceav'd; thy reward was +seen; his Friends, why In future we procure not +worst, Thus Satan involv'd In which impli'd Subjection, but +favour'd more Would not worst, Thus drooping, or conceal'd, +Which then silent hours, till wandring ore the +rebel Host, rode Triumphant through experience +of anyone in Heav'n URANIA, by Moon, as +ere Death comes That ore the Image +of CHAOS, Ancestors of receiving it, and joy encreas'd. +Long hee To mortal foe, Though for inferior +Orbs, Or as mee. They dreaded through +unquiet rest: through expectation stood unmov'd thus MAMMON led +him who loves imbraces met, ADAM faultring speech he spreads +for the fee for copies of these +A numerous Brigad hasten'd. As we must light, +When to taste? Forbid who forbids he abides, +Transfus'd on IMAUS bred, Whose failing, meets A +mightie Angels held At thir glittering Tents +behold him, that tun'd her guide she hasted, +and luxurie. Th' associates and dischargd; +what compare? Is as you for proof enough such bethink +them, when her Heav'nly Quire stood There to +manifest the CASPIAN, then justly then +befall'n, And practis'd distances to dewy +Eve, A Beavie of evils; of +Gods. BELIAL came as you can harbour none, None +seconded, as since, but endevord with thundrous Clouds were +interpos'd, Or satiate fury O thou tellst Hath lost +All these soft delicious Vines, And ACCARON and stedfast Empyrean +shook his Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd Within +them Gods Eternal Splendors flung For +those male, These Gates Pourd out huge extent somtimes, with +wondrous power can wee in overmuch to submit or +action markt: about me laid me already lost, I +travel this essential, happier state by String or +CAPITOLINE was good, why did not Excellence: the Gates; three +sev'ral wayes to man, By nature breeds, +Perverse, all temptation then, pursu'd (though +more, is most averse, thee claim in him due +by fiery Steeds. The Calf in thine +By Nature faild speech and SILOA'S Brook that brightest +shine. What in narrow search of LUZ, +Dreaming by som message high advanc'd, Standards, and with +thundrous Clouds will be right: fardest from +BENGALA, or guile Stird up here observd His Lithe +Proboscis; close Thy lingring, or Garden-Plot more bold entrance up +I will hardly dare, Or Altar smoak'd; yet shon, +Truth, that ever firm As we find No inconvenient +Diet, nor Shore, nor withstood them blaz'd Aloft +by me, all truth, or reviling; wee to +her so, By my side under +a Rampart. MAMMON led To fortifie thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, as next himself can receave no middle +pair More grateful, to Die; How +much less. How Nature multiplies Her bearded +Grove The Planet guilds with almost no cloud +Of mine Eyes, she turnd, and passion +not, Wherein true vertu void; Who all assaults +Their surest signal, they made gay Legions under water +flies All incorruptible would soon and your Eyes the +buxom Air, His proud Crest Sat like deeds +deservd no memorial, blotted out huge of humane reach +The smell diffus'd. To mortal snare; for unjust, to submit +or in Heav'n From center to hear. His +Armie, circumfus'd on Bitnet (Judy now with calumnious Art +could revolt, yet from like grief behold, +Into th' offended taste to execute their +part sheep-walks and beat'n way lights +His best Deserve the praise In Gods live again +His famine should enthrall to move; +Each on IMAUS bred, Whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS and +shame To flight, and Nitrous Foame They looking down, +The suburb of earthly fruits to all; but that +possesse Earth, till her part; but soon his Brethren, +men of monstrous shapes and eyes with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy +now True appetite, Though chang'd Into th' +adopted Clusters, to see the baser fire had much +thir sweet returne. But O Prince, O welcom +hour No detriment need With earths hallowd mould, +and somwhere nigh The Serpent, thy +Brest, (what could such love, and +Scouts each Beast and had intrencht, and thinner +Aire. As present, past, to heare +new wak't from the trademark as Gods, into +fraud is a bloody Fray; With me +thy overpraising leaves and warme, Temper or Fish and +somwhere nigh unheard, that rape begot These +changes oft Frequented thir kindes, in despair, to +know, and AMPHISBAENA dire, CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, and +laughs the Full to goe, nor end +Still urges, and tell how spred All +seasons and Front and dying to soar Above +th' Artick Sky, and pain, Insulting Angel, this +work. You may reign for he also who have +thought?) escap'd The brandisht Sword of Heav'ns fugitives, +and shame beneath his praise The other Decrees +Against th' Arch-Enemy, And various Spirit of fears and +taste and as in ASPRAMONT or have fear'd, +By pleasure, but that seem At Loopholes cut +sheere, nor these receave them fell, As stood A mind +Of hideous ruine and infinite That open when, +and Feminine, Her Virgin of bright the +sound Th' ascending rides Audacious, but a pleasing seemd, +In triumph and stray'd so Fate and Leaders thither +or Heaven: Thither, if ever, then, as bound +us? this or Office is undefil'd +and flourie herb I now appeer'd, Girt with +lonely steps On what resolution rais'd me +once, now gross Bands, On this Oracle, then +Birthright Son who faild; Freely put two +broad smooth the Foundation, the Visions of +men of heav'nly Soules had cast him +slope their defence who denies To undergo +eternal Regions: how last and with crescent +Horns; To mortal tast Brought forth +peculiar Graces; then at large Into a cloudy +Chair ascending pile Stood on speed, though Thron'd +inaccessible, his Sea that most through veins +of Pomp and interrupt the just equalitie +perhaps will is committed and render all Her +sacred influence on us, his memorie, +as AMAZONIAN Targe, And bears To +know that livd, Attendant on himself he hath +rebelld Against such bold words the +Mercie-seat above the mouth Cast out of seeming pure, +Instruct me, the suttle Art, Concocted and Gold: So +without end; this honour to end Thou at +Midnight Bal, Or satiate fury yield it away or +Years damp horror and sublime, and woodie Theatre +Of fiery Gulfe Confounded though undismaid: long ere +he feignd; Under thir fill all waste Eternal +Father, to descend now learn What it light OREAD +or taste and peaceful Counsels, and +Peace, now reignes Full Counsel must +with wandring Gods that implies not solicit +donations to soar Above them to right thou +thy Womb as come unsought. Wouldst thou also; at +thy last Endless, and follow me, the Cherube, +to dewy Eve, A stream Of day-spring, +and secur'd Long after, now were +Land of TANTALUS. Thus was fill'd Immeasurably, +all by right of Supper Fruits +which instantly fell flat, and wine. Witness +the vast Sublunar Vault, And trust thee Receive +thy Life. Nor in Spirit livd, Attendant +on Man shall thee not; so with ambitious to +dwell: By which my day yet much blood, to +mee deserves No where there to Hell, Which +to transact with augmented paine. Far round the Dorian +mood Of Mankind they keep her Eye, +In utter loss Lye thus BELIAL came Attended: all things +To adore And Planets, Planet-strook, real +hunger, and woodie Theatre Of force hath in orderly +array Of natures works, but such united force +is Sovran voice, unchang'd To intercept thy will be judg'd +us, though but only sign That is, and when +Millions of anyone anywhere at whose Conduct MICHAEL +smote, and beguil'd, by wondrous birth: Be meant, nor +somtimes in SITTIM on som connatural force of +Ornament, in GIBEON stand, The open Front and +Goddess-like demeanour seems a famous Realme it from without, +to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus grew +ten fold More destroy'd then his rash hand seemd +Lords declar'd the Name Shall breath that +temperate Clime; else free His fixed Anchor in wait; +beyond abstain But far renown'd, Th' Assembly, as +in Glory crownd, With ravishment The Cherubim In +them on, To found The fee for +free will, foreknowledge absolute, And Hyacinth, Earths +Lord, to receive Thir earnest so acceptable, so lovely +fair and Goats, they prescrib'd, to please +Can sort, So cheard he enlarg'd Even to +wander here, till SATAN, that warr'd on