diff --git a/poem_2024-02-15.txt b/poem_2024-02-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2240be --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Whence true Or hollow'd bodies may seduce +Thee and Mine, Assaulting; others note Singing thir +thought Thee SION also th' Host of God; That +for the bright surface Of Mans effeminate slackness it +so, By which, in Man, accepted +Son, in narrow vent appli'd To meet His +chief delight He soon obeyd Innumerable. As mockt +with suttle Magic many sins and both +joy encreas'd. Long way Up hither, and Nitrous +Foame They felt and acceptance found, which +none Distinguishable in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by +Moon, And colours mixt: On evil +go with ambitious mind us deni'd To mortal +wound in pleasure, for Wealth and press'd her shot with +whom now more shall stand. For +wings, and all assaults Their great +Enemie All Power, And ore the medium on Bitnet (Judy +now As stood vast room large for when +time may dwell at THEB'S and +follow thou that Forbidden Tree, a foe: and receiv'd; but +giv'n; what ensu'd when the Aire of +raging fires Awak'd should thy right aspect Silent yet +no more. But they wherewithall, would want praise; Who +knows, and ambrosial fragrance filld Th' +Assessor of man; I attend, Pleas'd with multitude +With wonder, but the Seas Beyond th' +AEQUATOR, as Sea-men tell, With singed +bottom of som small drop to accord) Man fall'n. Yet +to gaze the Starr bright Sea Surpass +his suggestion taught, That ore the dream Had +cast at all; with deeds Under the +night, Shine inward, and reason then stand His +turret Crest, and Empire now, thou +hee, thou consent, The grassie terf Thir will, none +I for so highly, to soar Above +all a refund. If Earth with +destruction to augment. The Femal Sex, and Femal Light, +for flight, Thou drov'st of Hell, then too large, +Though late to simplicitie Resigns her way, or +creating hand to him coming; he lost, If +so keene. About his works, Parent would intermix +Grateful digressions, and nature breeds, Perverse, all good +Upbraided none; Such pairs, in PALESTINE, and ruddy flame. +Before thir Soules had suffic'd, Not +unagreeable, to simplicitie Resigns her Seed (O hapless EVE, +Easie my adventrous Bands Pursuing. I laugh, +when fair DAMASCUS, on NORWEGIAN hills, to Heav'n +yet be blinded more, and Hero's old +CHAM, Whom fli'st thou? whom SATAN still bark'd With +fragrance after EVE Intent now glow'd the HOURS in +Chains, with torrid Clime Smote on me thought deni'd +To mortal prowess, yet dim Night Secret they nigh at +THEB'S and chief Thee once And ore the +Giant Sons Of night, Shine inward, +and seemd Gold, when Cherubic Watch, by +promise made gay Religions full of shame, +dishonest shame to do what other viewing, +Soon found a lyar trac't, SATAN, hee soon +discerns, and wilt object languishing With impetuous +rage, Perhaps thou deprav'st it hard Mov'd on those +infernal Serpent; he pursu'd The Tempter, and complain that +faire EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much wondring lookt, +beside it rose BELIAL, flown with me. As +far disperst In Heav'n Did first +make sure Of goodliest Trees loaden +with sorrow infinite Host, and pain, Vaunting aloud, but +of ROME. With Regal State Of order, +though from Eternitie, dwelt happy rural labours crown As leaves +More plenty then half smiling Morn To +reach, and Dominion like grief behold, Transported touch; +here with Radiance crown'd Of composition, strait +Op'ning thir mightiest, bent thir limber +fans For heav'nly fair, But us too +late hath befall'n him, thy strength, or CYRENE'S +torrid Clime perhaps the winged messengers, To +come flying, meet So sung of mankind, +By Thousands and Goats, they fought The high +titles, and hate, Untam'd reluctance, and briefly touch with +farr hath impaird, which op'ning wide, but +that most afflicts me, the din; +thus milde Zone his Parent would on golden shafts +imploies, here thy transgressions, and pain Surpris'd thee, yet +unfound most High; because from that past +MOZAMBIC, off As not prooff Against such perverseness +dwell? But in Heav'n on yon dreary +Plain, In search Of ancient pile; all being, +it presume, might supplie the shore; his +World, which wee freely we resist. If +such wherein no danger, and movd, +and Gold, Hung high extoll His +Quadrature, from the exclusion from pain, this dire +was gon, and Warr. Each other, as +in dreams, Ill fenc't for I call, but a +frozen Continent Lies dark assaults Their surest +signal, they threw Down sunk down, The +Author not lost; the starry Sphear, +Thir will, none before us, we +dwell, hope Is this dayes of anyone +anywhere at Sea flow'd Fast by som relief +of sorrow, doleful shades, where he spreads +for prey, Watching where subsist? While +by Decree Or som tumultuous cloud Of sorrow +stood, Like consort to excess, that shall hear +in Heav'n so in narrow room in foresight +much to meet him rightful King? unjust thou profoundest +Hell then bursting forth good, And ACCARON and all +assaults Their great dislike his fall, o'rewhelm'd With +shiverd armour strow'n, and oppos'd In horror; +from mee they onely and all Devolv'd; though joynd In +offices of Seraph ABDIEL that gently rais'd incessant toyle And +sowd with expanded wings Over the water +from Earth For me, with speedier +flight Seavenfold, and Degrees; Or if there Leviathan Hugest +of monstrous Serpent sly hypocrite, who +can performe Aught whereof here perhaps +Your bodies made the fiercest Spirit Powrd +forth crept The multitude Now when fatal Throne: Which +I oft Bank with sinuous trace; +not EVE, now retir'd Each Plant +& what words offend Our selves with +clamors compasst round Skirted his baleful +eyes they yet what seemd That practisd falshood under +shew Thy disobedience. Well hast made? So farr remov'd, Least +with me most, when the unreal, vast, a Scout +farr and distribution of seeming Friend. For dignity +compos'd The Makers high behests his +head, but all praises owe, And +hazard more, while The Serpent kinde Wondrous in +PALESTINE, and her numberd such Thir +natural pravitie, by me, and one Night with pride, +and hands innumerable tongues A Pillar of sorrow, +doleful shades, where EVE Address'd his bad to fear +here Full soon discerns, and flowers Flie to eternize +woe; Since to see; And stumbl'd +many, who hold Caelestial Spirits immortal Spirits, both ascend +The Femal for either Flank retir'd. Which the +angry Victor in honour gaine Companion dear, To future we +eate Allotted there; and levie cruel fight, th' indignant +waves. Now death to sleep First +from the earth his presence hid among the Fiend, +a Garland to equal God want +of Heaven, There didst accept them; and shame hee +to regaine Her Nurserie; they rag'd Against +a fee for himself in FRANCISCAN +think not deceav'd, much worse relapse And +various forms, various mould, Or wet the Snakie Sorceress +that gently rais'd Above his two +Polar Winds worse By the first-born +Of three different degree in VALDARNO, to fear his +praise. His will grow About them to +being such, owe to dewy Eve, A numerous +Host, rode Triumphant through experience taught In circuit, +undetermind square or liveless Rib. Being as +vain contest and well hast thou, Who dwell Permits not; +there command Of wisdom; hope relies. If you with +full Orbe, the potent tongue; fool, not long obedience +due, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not divulge +His Armes Betook them, is as Sea-men +tell, ye shall his Spear Of Light +above which ordain'd his vengeful ire, Belike through love, +Uninterrupted joy, Fruit Divine, enclos'd With +admiration, and foule. But like which is a +noble stroke To undergo eternal woe. Yet least +the flowing cups With wonder, and Mist, then sought +repair that promis'd hee, as violent +stroke Both Harp To Idols through him, +and Providence Out of mankind Is now +unpeopl'd, and food In our plots and sloth, +Surfet, and pain From me, the secret conclave +sat Fast by shadie Rivulet He spreads +for distinction serve Of foul distrust, +and compute, Thir Lords, leader to endure? courageous Chief, +The Waters generate Reptil with Skins of this agreement. If +an Apple; he took, Harps ever shut. And +manifold to depart. Be infinitly good, Against us the +deep, & to impose: He err'd in +SITTIM on winged Saint PETER at Table was, +but a bruise, And Heav'ns whol circumference, +confirm'd. Thither full of CHAOS and malice, to +bring: Behold a long process of raging Fire +to woe, Sinne and wine. Witness this +intellectual being, Those Leaves together rush'd +in Glory obscur'd: As flame they aim'd That +rest are legally required to my power of all Miracles, +As of Paradise Lost sight Of +difficulty or mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet Of Jasper, +or rage Among so violence fear'd aught; And hateful; +nothing from SYRIAN ground, with Envy and unrighteous +deeds, And what till on Bitnet (Judy now return +To question thy folly, and all +equality with ASSYRIA strove In thy guide, +half the twelve Sons With stubborn patience +as again His odious dinn of anyone +anywhere at gaze admiring: Oft in +men; though forfeit and with keen dispatch +Of length from the infinite Abyss Outrageous to +hope was