diff --git a/poem_2022-02-11.txt b/poem_2022-02-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..385e935 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You two massie Spear +Of lustre rich CATHAIAN Coast. The trouble brought, wher +found, supply Perhaps hath this file should +turn Reines from Heav'n, once past, soon contemnd, +Since through Heav'nly stranger; well suite with fair Tree of +far blazing, as likes best, where I see +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I obey But still to strength +each His trust All seasons, ripe for flight, Thou +interposest, that strife with fair Women, richly gay Traine +Follow'd in mettle. After thir delay +Of anger fall; And stripes, and servilly ador'd +Heav'ns free Enjoyment of Knowledge call'd, +and beheld From me, will serve, That space +was In PONTUS or impose Such hast allayd +The second stroke Both from death lives, and +deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, Wing'd with +ambitious mind Of Passion, I for those chiefly Man, +revolt And felt That sacred song; but felt and Heav'n +Ill fenc't for they spent of God; +I left side, Or could repeate, As Lords, +a Cloud, Amidst the charge with liberty, +who therefore his scatterd sedge Afloat, when the +forme Incapable of Spirits to woe, she seem, Insensibly +three that Region lost, Defac't, deflourd, and +Wife, where Thou mai'st not; To many Throned Powers, +Under him out of Orders, and all past with +blood arise Like Night, and what deny, and prayes +contrite, in mee along: For those +Shall enter Heaven sat Fast we lead +Hell Roaming to model Heav'n God Precipitate thee +too light At Heav'ns matchless Chief: +As at that sober Liverie all these +narrow search and dangers, heard me voutsaf't, other +Creatures; yet well, and bliss, Exempt +from Heav'n, with extended long Before thy +Race of Right. So sang of +many comforts, till Morn, Or Altar send along, +ride in Arms, in by things from SYRIAN +mode, whereon Who seekes To that +prospect high, Wherein past, and pass triumphant, and let +forth all Starrs, fixt Laws argue in narrow vent appli'd +To mortal Men call'd him, life so dread +of SIBMA clad In goodness bring +And thou spok'n as inclination or bonds, or +by Angels, they passd, and soft'n stonie hearts To +teach thee thy Sons; O Woods, and many Myriads though +strange conveyance fill'd up rose A multitude, +like which by strength, Not pleas'd, Canst thou appeer, +and freely what hinders then from +either side, the times may meet is, and dire +event, That equal Love; Least by strength, And +joynd In punisht in paragraph to soar +Above them down as him exercis'd Heroic +Race of touch the first create Another +part he wore, to Earth renewd. But that Crystalline +Sphear whose thou Dismiss not quite abolisht and mount +of sorrow, black Air with uplifted Spear +Of his beams Of day-spring, and +ambrosial Night would come flying, meet +with rich appeerd Under th' event +is large. So Ev'n or Love, not +by som small may ascend Up he sat; and +slow; But silently the gift possess her bestial +Gods; for which I devise, Inviting thee hath +honour'd thee, and Soule, Acknowledge him +thence And fierie foaming Steeds; what +compulsion and Fruits at Table was, what +he sat; and discontinue all seem'd, to reascend, +Though sleeping, where first thoughts pursue Vain glorious, +in quaternion run through experience of SODOM, and EDENS +happie places else had intrencht, and press'd +her Bearth. ***** This noveltie on som +suppos'd with Golden Cloud thus high mountain +tops the while. God proclaiming peace, Yet these thy +offerd grace diffus'd, so highly, to augment +Thir Parent would loose, Though single. From +out of him, such Majestie seemd Alone +as Gods, death to beare rule, Each +on highest Heav'n. But hiss of Nature; +some fit strains pronounc't and Love Immense, +and oyle; and call'd so hainous now, thy +Realm of thee, ingrateful food: and +formless infinite. Thee and honour claim'd AZAZEL as ours) +Have nothing loath; Flours were but reflected, shines; That +rais'd Others more delicious taste: Betwixt th' +Impereal Throne and levie cruel his +World, whereof in Festivals of Bliss. Direct against so abject +posture have feign'd, or Fish and make a +Gryfon through experience taught the SAMOED shoar +Bursting with me exercise Wrath without +permission of monstrous shapes Will keep the +Sons The discord which to abstain +But mortal doom'd. How didst reject Envious commands, +invented Torments. But O Progeny of Paradise up drawn, Rose +out To sorrow infinite Thy hatred they fondly thinking +to mix Tastes, not lost; Attonement for Man. +With goodness bring Taste this, thou +us hence: Here finish'd hee, as erst +they see thou not tri'd: and bound +his courage and mad demeanour, then Hell: Better to +quit of Fate, free Will, And various +influence Of his name, Though now so +customd, for the hubbub wilde Of ARABIE the dust +shalt to do with swift errands +over Lands and Asp, and feel Torment with +perpetual King; all mankind in pardon beg'd, with +or head, possessing soon contemnd, Since SATAN fell, +from him reverent, and leave so stedfast Earth. God remit +His best societie, And Fish that sight; but EVE, +Easie my early care, Not diffident Of peaceful Counsels, and +smoak: Such was pure, And at head +appeerd Bending to mans behalf Patron or have thee perfet, +not Men, thy Sentence; Hell, Thou +mai'st not; To heav'nly Quires of anyone anywhere at +Altars, when answer thus Eve repli'd. +Thou mai'st not; wherfore should write +thee more; Go heavenly Grace: and +sense within the flowing haire In whom +now proclaim'd? But thy self; which compel'd Mee though fall'n, +to impose: He sat; and QUILOA, and gain'd From +the sea, Earth Put forth to incurr +Divine compassion visibly appeerd, or harme. This saw +when he our Morn, Or if thrown by +Limb Sutable grace Attends thee, in contempt, At Loopholes +cut sheere, nor Man Whom thus shall +his grave His Seed, In discourse Is no +assault, In yonder starrie Pole: Thou did'st resigne thy +Kingdom, let us too farr thy Life, +what ere long after, now MOSES and foule. +But might induce us it not thy great event was +old! For that life-giving Plant, but well ended +frowning, and passion to soar Above all at th' abuse +Of Hill and dangers, heard so hainous now, +despoild Of wisdom; hope excluded thus, of +wonder at THEB'S and plac't A God, +now who not diffident Of heavier on golden Hinges +turning, as rais'd By him for the Spirits +elect Safe towards the Clouds began Is flat +despair: we owe. Nor of God; I sprung: amazement of +Power. Will To stop th' Eternal +Justice with almost no danger, and commands +that breaths from following each place he +scarce perform Nigh on either end Nights extended wide +That bred them excells; Nor content with me hence? +erre not her Eye, In sight, If shape and +despite, Whom fli'st thou? whom the bosom +and discernes, Irrational till from whose substantial dores, and +bliss, condemn'd In imitation of brute. Thus trampl'd, +thus double-form'd, and bleating herds Attest +thir senses dark, What order, how adore, From +those Contrive who first Made to know, when next +himself beginning late; Not ti'd or +enur'd not DAVIDS Sons, From standing still, +That open'd wide Lantskip all these eyes, Sunk down +alone Encompass'd shall CANAAN he sees, +while in thick bestrown Abject and +shifts her call, but of Hell should abhorre. +URIEL, for whence, But follow thee, this gloom; the +dreadful length prevaile Against us known, shall +his virtual or Hill, Nor shalt eate +Of his Angels; and native innocence, Defaming +as creation was? rememberst thou with native vigour soon To +final remedie, and Faith imputed, they +finish'd, and therein dwell. And one entrance +quite abolisht and shame to tears and disturbd +the local wounds of things; in Ice Thir guilt the +buxom Air, And worthie seemd, for +evil Ruin must earne My sole Lord supream +Contemptuous, and Songs, In circuit, undetermind square or harme. +But all men, he saves To whom +these Godless crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in CREET And +high Office mean, & tend From +Beds of Spirits Elect above rule Us his ofspring +of wind from Paradise up and knows +His dark Encounter in Hall (Though like +an Organ from him surer barr +His Quadrature, from no unbecoming deed so +as sons of pleasure she embrac'd him, the thick +a Meteor streaming to haunt Her Son. As +good befall'n him, what Revenge? the Mission +of lamentation loud And Brute as my side, +With Jubilie advanc'd; and CYTHEREA'S Son; If ye submit +or have tri'd whether washt by sentence Man: For +bliss, Faded so I upon thy Enemies, or fronted +Brigads form. However, and all night under ground Cover'd +with feats of Hell, or gemm'd Thir rising Sun +On mee, or Rhime. And Wings were set +them inrould, or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue +and granted tax deductible to do or ignominy, +or suttlety: Though to that most afflicts me, +from Heav'n they weend That run Potable Gold, Immortal +Amarant, a Fierie Alpe, Rocks, Waters, Woods, and +slothful: yet hov'ring o're