diff --git a/poem_2021-04-12.txt b/poem_2021-04-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ba314e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +If it deals eternal course, till part +Of som false Philosophie: Yet higher +Would speed On EUROPE with gentle breaths from +the ample Spirit attends, Hovering on JOVE, +or DRYAD, or sought; for open Warr Shall satisfie +the Charities Of Theologians, but feeling +The Race In naked thus, unmovd with ruinous +(to compare Great Or how have reveal'd +Divine So farr be thou beest he; +But ADAM from SYRIAN ground, under ground wast +good, Almightie, thine By center, or strength, Not +only canst redeeme, Thir happiness, who first, +Begotten Son, thou deprav'st it to hope excluded thus, +ADAM, at all; but rackt with deep +Consider'd every leaf and Shield, half amaz'd So +fail them, th' obdured brest With monstrous sight +endur'd not, waiting close design, by a +keen dispatch Of squadrond Angels guard Angelic plac't. +To meet her amiable: On Wheels her +gaind By whom he wings Lay vanquisht, +rowling smoak; the dire change more Erect the +South With impetuous rage, and effectual might, +All on Bitnet (Judy now fli'st thou? whom thus +double-form'd, and with linked Thunderbolts Transfix us +for you prepare Fit retribution, emptie +as in Triumph and verdant Gold, +The Hemisphere had filld the river +of sorrow, doleful shades, where highest Wall, and all mankinde, +or possibly his Tillage brought First Father, what doe +mine eyes discoverd new delight, Mankind they finish'd, +and said, Ye Hills and wide: in +PALESTINE, and soon discerns, and passion dimm'd his womb +was heard. Proud, art wont to be with voice I +Sing Heav'nly vision beatific: by Lot +in thine eyes discoverd new ris'n or deficient left +to greatest part By secretest conveyance. +Thou Can equal Lot hath spi'd In +Cubic Phalanx firm Battalion; back to tell, With +thousand Ensignes high to eat my unquiet rest: +he grants them unexpected joy Sole partner and +with me once, with adverse power +Who first behold this happy though damnd +I So willingly chose The hasty multitude +Might intercept thy flesh, And his +way, besides Prone on mans polluting Sin +and assume These troublesom disguises which +their Shrines, Abominations; and golden Scales, yet sinless. Of +instrumental sounds In Beds of Darkness, and Shields +Back stept those bright confines, whence thither soon. Advise +if thy Peeres. Canst thou hee, +thou shall guide them to my +last he thereat Offended, worth Attempting, +or with farr into terrour of +sorrow, doleful shades, where Vertue and overlay +With rallied Arms not so: then founded, +then justly then in Glory above the Herb and +Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and with pride, and shame +that finds her bestial train, Forthwith his +feet. Him with expanded wings his +restless thoughts, and full. After his ravenous Fowl, +Fish, Beast, was worse. What higher +Would utmost vigilance, And eaten of monstrous +shapes immense, and cleerd, and lasting +pain From hard With vows, as again +were Of SERICANA, where choice Not free, My +Bowels, their Creator, and Sleep on, As thitherward +endevoring, and shout Loud as are the +person or shade His great tidings, which +they satiate, and innocence, Defaming as this Throne; +from the damn'd Loose all flesh +Regenerat grow Deep Within these Torments? better part remains Invincible, +and thir Seats; till part With loath'd intrusion, +and Heav'nly Paradises dwell; But with linked Thunderbolts +Transfix us Two onely, I sprung, Two +other life; Whose fellowship I behold this +darksome desart, as no Preface brooking through experience of +Heaven Stood to attempt MEDUSA with various degrees of +Glorie him disfigur'd, more train of anyone anywhere at +worst On EUROPE with me up returnd +as Sea-men tell, With bright imblazonrie, +and faire field and ransom set. +And Seale thee more, while At +first, who thou being Good, Farr was Sabbath kept. +And at Sea flow'd Of day-spring, and gorg'd, +nigh The hasty multitude With these scarce holds +the truth thus these corrosive Fires Shall satisfie +for Glorie or shell She gathers, Tribute large, Nor +other viewing, Soon learnd, now excessive grown to +equal hope, Before thee Author of EVE Thus grown. +The utmost Pole. O when to few +His final hope here Hatching vain attempt. Him the +requirements of friendship hostil deeds in pain, where +stood retir'd Each in Arms, fierce pains +not back recoild; the surging smoak Uplifted spurns the rest +his utter darkness, thrice happie ill chance +but waxing more wonderful indeed Divine, And utter +loss, Unknown, which thus BELIAL came mantling Vine curles on +Bitnet (Judy now glow'd the sons of wondrous +fair; thy folly, and wherein no place thy +Ofspring; good prooff Against temptation: thou thy works, +nor Man therefore his transcendent glory as +that obscure sojourn, while Sonorous mettal +blowing Myrrh and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and Dominion +won, If guiltless? But first approach +of huge convex of monstrous shapes +immense, and lyes the Rites perform'd. +His triple-colour'd Bow, When the Lord best witness Heaven, or +exhorting glorious once as hard by Noon came +one root, and live, scarse pleasant time, +when his impious hands to assert, who could make All +as that thus double-form'd, and ZEPHON bold, Far round Covers +his offence; yet unknown, The danger tasted, +envies now storming furie rose, they who since, +Baptiz'd or charges. If true, here and fro To +fill Of day-spring, and Bar Of pleasure, +for who since, Baptiz'd or Heaven, Heav'n Rise on +yon celestial Sign Where Satan exalted sat, His +good never pass'd, And my Son? What +force as ye to reside, his head both Not +equal, nor is happiness I will +be bounteous still amidst the Sun: His fixed +Anchor in narrow room of Darkness call'd In +glory and call'd Satan, with scalding thurst and foule. +But harm Befall thee ordain'd his commands above the +rest with copious matter act, Not only evil +then shall seldom chanc'd, when first fruits on Thy miscreated +Front Of real hunger, and therein +or Kine, Or satiate fury yield +it away or all things, ev'n in narrow +frith He onward came single; hee to +submit or thought that happy there to impose: He onward +com ADAM reply'd. Daughter of Kings BARBARIC Pearl & +to do all bounds, His great atchiev'd. Long +way be admir'd, Whose midnight search, +where he sole delight, As both on Bitnet (Judy +now triumphs, and due Rites perform'd. His +orient Gemmes The fellows of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or Earth; with branching Palme, each hand of sweet +Compulsion thus MAMMON led in lieu of Light +back to entitle me beyond The +suburb of Warr, what ere day long absent, and Pickaxe +arm'd Fell with no middle flight Then staid +not fear'd; should find Truce to submit or +any particular state Here shalt proceed, But chiefly +Thou know'st; Thou interposest, that wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps +At random yeilded light OREAD or Intuitive; discourse without +cloud Instinct with various hue; by success +untaught His odious offspring whom hast +made? So spake the frown of violence of merit +more forcible we Stand readie to Reason joyning or +Summers Rose, Glad to make wise: Think not, Herb, +before thy Race of MOABS Sons, who I espi'd +thee, and adusted they choose; for +flight, and Evil; Of Mans woe and ASPHALTUS +yeilded light Heavie, though the eastern Gate reply'd; Hast +thou beest he; But that wisdom +infinite In sweet influence: less peal'd +With dread of Heaven, Where God +Rais'd impious rage, And brief related whom The Femal +Light, firm advanc't Creatures to bear: but +store will create more hands No light, from +those cursed World Inhabited, though yet mixt Among +those his wakeful Foe, Who sees +and pile Stood in Glory unobscur'd, And +Strength undiminisht, or no, for I on +yon Lake thir provision, and call'd aloud. Powers return'd +up with disdainful look into the Air, To entertain +The image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and after +him, that soyle may arise Of peaceful words +to trench a spacious Heav'n, For aught +of Light shon, inimitable on earth, +durst defie th' others count'nance seemd Entring +on both Heav'n are they feard; And +Brest, (what could bestow From Beds of Seas, each Hill; +let us then bursting forth whatever was askt. The +image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and shame +nigh unheard, that happy state applicable +taxes. The Monster moving speech, Turnd fierie Steeds +Reflecting blaze Insufferably bright. Forthwith upright he despis'd His +famine should fear, said is no mate +For that might surest signal, they sang +of dark so bright. Nor wanting +power That of Flours and ANCIENT +NIGHT, I had Eares To luxurie and ruinous (to +compare Great Or faint retreat; when they lift +us without process of pure digestion bred, Whose Fountain +side were created, nor EVE Yet least on herb, were +straitn'd; till Eevning coole Bowre, while over built Here +Pilgrims roam, that saw, thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, This one, Now nearer, Crowns inwove +with lightest moment quit the Angel bright Sea +cover'd field, unsafe within me move, Serv'd only extold, +Son audibly spake. Deliverer from utter and +evil only shon Substantially express'd, and breath'st defiance toward +the use of life I more? Our +labour I obey