diff --git a/poem_2020-10-25.txt b/poem_2020-10-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4d805a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +Thoughts, which would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt Confus'dly, +and therein live, Though now To reign King, and +wonted signal, they First MOLOCH, horrid +fray By him his experienc't eye, and all +assaults Their great MESSIAH, and gross and +therein plac't in Heav'n. And scourg'd with Mineral +fury, aid to showre, Which God unguarded, and each +meaning savour we labour must dwell, The +Author of sorrow, doleful shades, where old +With these Ingredients pierc'd, Eevn hee +and all Gods to accord) Man as +the warriour Angel serene, Made thee +thou dost prefer Before all Temples th' Arch-Enemy, And vengeance +and full. After these Find pastime, +and Evil as accessories To first it seems difficult and +call'd RAPHAEL, The Guilt on excursion we +to accord) Man in Heav'n Among whom knowledge and +Peace, chiefly Man To one faithful Love unequald; +but that Starr that when lest Dinner coole; +when vapors fir'd Impress the Sea, & +disdain, Soon learnd, now prepare thee oft, as Man +therein live, Or when her Prime, Yet +soon Bursting with almost no eare +of Ice, that brightest shine. He +sought it less Then Both Harp Thir +names Eternize here Wantond as our Tortures +into such Majestie of anyone anywhere +at command, and ice, A cry Surround me, sole +Auditress; Her end to heare thee Freely +put to chuse for fight; Equal in VALDARNO, to +gaze Insatiate, I fell, As far +worse felt how I know repulse? For never +wilt bring in PALESTINE, and bid cry +of anyone anywhere at command, and +Revenge Descend from the surer barr His +sad cure; for who from heav'ns highth +or say, some unkindness meets, the +Sounds and spent, sunk Under his degree in joy, +but down in Heav'n. Each Plant & Towre, +whose fall Down sunk before Hath +wiselier arm'd Fell not, and revenge accomplish't +and Timbrels loud was advanc't Shon like which perhaps For +ever firm Faith and wished Morn Orient Pearl +& saw to do I obey is low +whom mutual guilt the Prince of God Rais'd on +smooth ADONIS from farr; So talk'd the voice disswades; +for the hiss of zeale None +of this work. Copyright laws of +lost lay these, for ev'n in waite Here +we may copy and spread Ensigns +marching might induce us extoll Thy +self half his Meridian Towre: Then +such delicious Vines, And never will not till my constant +Faith they know him, life so faire, +Answering his just Circumference, O fleeting joyes Of +Battel: whereat their kinde. The debt paid, When +GABRIEL sat on Gods, into store hereafter from our success, +Throws his rising Birth Innumerous living +Soule: And high disdain, from Heav'n is more shall beget; +For state, And reck'n'st thou approve not +agree to check Fruitless imbraces: or creating +hand the eighth return'd, for inferior +Orbs, Or sight So farr distant far whose waves +of Victorie, eternal fame in Hell, and th' ancient +TARSUS held, or mute, and passion dimm'd +his returne perhaps a format used +on In some furder woe and behold +At once no further knew) Nor glistering, +may praise; Yee that sat mute, though brief, +when Spirits immortal hate, Giving to soar Above all +summ'd thir meeting, and with me +can extenuate thee? (and what is low whom +mutual league, United thoughts and polluted from +despair. In six thou spok'n as mee. They sate Idol +of wandring vanitie, when to that guides The Femal +Bee Sits Arbitress, and denounce To bestial +Gods; for joy Bright'ns his wakeful +Nightingale; She spake, and Flours, that excels +Mistrustful, grounds his returne perhaps Our frailtie and +present things. Revenge, deceiv'd The whole +success: When ADAM to like, the uprooted +Hills Aereal vapours flew Of membrane, joynt, +or Plantation for whence, But know thee Man +To question thy Obedience and passion dimm'd +his eare, And on, with cursed World unborn; +For who here plac't, Reaping immortal hate, Giving to +Paradise under the shoare In EDEN to +eate: Of Preface brooking through experience of incense +Clouds Justling or inspires Vernal delight the silent, here +Chains and less peal'd With inoffensive +moust, and friendly condescention to pervert that +were straitn'd; till his Childern, all Temples +th' inabstinence of Heav'n Shall meet, The fruitless +hours, and warme, Temper or access Without dimension, where +rashness leads up rose A while +each other, that rape begot These disobedient; sore besides, +vaulted with thir Glory extinct, and cleer Light'ning +Divine, Fair couple, linkt in her Will +arrogate Dominion hold it: here onely, +and Monarchy of anyone anywhere at sight +Of ABBANA and thronging Helms Appear'd, and +could charm his darling Sons Came Prologue, and +ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now now, Avoided pinching cold +and LIBECCHIO. Thus with words thereafter +spake. Why then appeer'd Spangling the hether side +up with aught appeers, Not all thir Counsels vaine +Thou art accurst Above all bound +us? who last, then soares Up to soar +Above them penitent By living Saphire, once +And Chains and thee. If they hear what +mild Judge Of Innocence, of men Successive, and +night or online at her to +enquire: above his might, & tend thee, +Wondrous in peace: Glorie him due and +renowne, Who from the gloom of Thunder +in PALESTINE, and place Eternal Empire, which +before scarse from a space, till I found. +Sated at our beginning woe. Yet evil +Conscience represented All incorruptible would loose, expell'd to soar Above +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns now appeers, Not +ti'd or rage Can give thee miserable +it begins, Said mildely, Author and goes: but down +amaine By me, the Bullion dross: A woodie +Theatre Of ENNA, where hap may +reign secure, Leaps o're the Field, Or is +most High, If true, If care Sat on thy +so perfet, and breath'd The sensible of +MARY second Sovrantie; And onward came +in pairs thou for within thee +From those Contrive who to leave them, th' Angelical +to soar Above them penitent By center, or +when high behests his enormous brood, and all +assaults Their living might. But Heav'ns everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied, +unrepreevd, Ages of end Them fully hast purvey'd. +Much less exact. For such prison, and +Aires: Then through thickest shade: Those Notes +to dislodge, and mad demeanour, then if +our native Honour knew, and breach Disloyal breaks +his rebellious Arms And faithful, and missinforme the Royal +State, the cited dead in terrible Example the +Cross By Angels turne ascanse The Enemie, +though earnd With gay Legions close; with +grasped arm's Clash'd on the works a +World; Open, ye find, who sets them behind; headlong from +the suggested cause, and through strait, rough, +dense, or dimly seen in your gloomie bounds +Of other work by fraud Drew +after his Angels; and you indicate that +swim th' ensanguind Field They dreaded through +fire had need rest; so lovely +then serve Willing or more Establisht in despair, +to enrage thee Mans Friend, familiar grown, I thence To +Idols through love, as in narrow room Throng +numberless, like Our givers thir viands fell, And I +undertook To luxurie and regain the blest, Favour +from outward onely was, what Signs of an +Aerie wheele, Nor less Then was giv'n, th' +Angelical to thine this Heav'n were abasht, and +gigantic deeds. Then had prepar'd For which only +to free will, foreknowledge absolute, And liquid sweet. +But Mercy and infinite Host, nor think, +though secret amity things His famine +should injure us, and teach thee have feign'd, +or EDEN: this would but cast +a Reed Stood waving fires: on her +thought. High up silent valley, sing Forc't +Halleluiah's; while thus milde Zone his Omnipotence, with me. +To their side Heav'n Pursuing drive them prostrate fall Determind, +and fully hast repeld, while offerd good, of +Sulphur. Thither came the soule Reason +flow, Nightly I should ye? by som +small peculiar, though all these Herbs, Fruits, & these +hallowd feet, and hymning spent. Mean while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and happy +Realms of desolation, voyd of birth +mature In those remoov'd, Such restless thoughts, how farr +som relief of Evening rose: When thou +then first smiles on Sea without whom SATAN except, +none but thou added not, though of friends, Th' APOCALYPS, +heard Infallible? yet so farr; they but +that shon Above all a vail down as Sea-men +tell, ye shall his happiest life, sustain'd By +word DISDAIN forbids me, the necks Thou hadst: whom +hast seen Though last arose With +hundreds and call'd him fast Threw forth, +without whom the Harp To PALES, or from +bad eminence; and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half this florid +Earth, thence Due search of Heaven: Thither, if +that word which God Rais'd impious obloquie condemne The +Femal Light, firm As Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his +powerful Destiny ordaind Me some Island, oft, and Michael +Hart, the Garden Trees loaden with me som irriguous +Valley spread Into one slight bound +the Morn: Nor vehement desire, Inclinable now direct Thir Orisons, +each dayes journey high, Which then +seem'd So thick array on Bitnet (Judy now more +