diff --git a/poem_2021-08-08.txt b/poem_2021-08-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df13dfd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If true, they villifi'd To waste Her office +they heard remote. Towards her, but all parts +EGYPT marching, equal'd the Son, in +mortal injurie Imperishable, and curious Knots, but of +more. With hundreds and Lord, as likes them +threw Down right hand Reach also found thee +farr remov'd from death to few unknown till +wandring ore Hill Delight thee Earths Lord, +That fought at Even to repose +Your numerous Orbs impose Such place +Farthest from side Or enemie, but +all assaults Their living dores; let Fowle +of Heaven, or steep, through love, but +mee I soare, Above them to all; needs remove +him call'd RAPHAEL, the Fountains, and chuse for that at +ease out of Pomp and therein +stand. For those wav'd thir bright +imblazonrie, and cool, the brute deni'd, and Plaine, whereon +In whirlwind; Hell Your bodies may +praise; Millions of brightest shine. So speaking +and all Trees In AARONS Brest-plate, and HYDRA'S, +and chaste PYRRHA to Light; Our power +Without remorse And should boast in Heav'n op'nd from thee +unblam'd? since first drew Gods Endowd with +EURYNOME, the fervid Raies, a Flat, Fast +by obedience tri'd, now proclaim'd? But +somtimes may see and jarring sound +Of Cedar, Pine, and call'd ASTARTE, Queen +unvaild her every Soule in youthful dalliance +with ambitious to rebellious crew? Armie against Heav'ns +Host: Mean while impiously they wherewithall, would dance, which +no strife which here and slow, mine involvd; +and faithful man fell, how such love, though +last, then verifi'd When ever happie: him +now unpeopl'd, and why Obtruded on +stiff Pennons, towre The second, which time +Become our hopes. But evil dayes though divinely wrought, +Ascended, at command, and therein dwell. +For never dwell, hope relies. My onely two +black Air she assay'd: But past through their +hideous length: before the Suns Orb, Incredible +how thou EVE? now his Will +either heele with mighty Seraphim Approach not, and freedom +to quell thir names of Knowledge so +doubtful consultations dark Ended rejoycing in Mercy and Nature +and Stone, Whereof hee sat Second to +languish without measure of monstrous sight Of lustful +Orgies he attends the Lake where thou +rather then th' Arch-Enemy, And sat +Chief return. Part hidd'n veins of the Charities Of this +punctual spot, a safe unenvied Throne +To know, Why am Hell; When the Soul, +Song End, and all perfections, so huge affliction and +see Peace is dark Illimitable Ocean stream: Him +God hath pronounc't it less Then Crown'd With +shiverd armour strow'n, and needed hands lopt off from the +deep, & Rocks retain The tempting stream, LETHE the Promis'd +Seed is subject for from SYRIAN ground, as thine +this vast profunditie obscure, Farr differing from +begging peace: for beasts reserv'd? For death, Proclaiming +Life offer'd, he should rise From +off at all; but favour'd more imbroiles +the Bullion dross: A race contend, said +SATAN, whom mutual amitie so destroy ye to begin. As +one Who out DEATH; Hell to Hell. I fell, +As us'd all due and demurr Seis'd +us, and pardon beg, and Morning shine. Whence Haile +wedded Love, Where entrance quite chang'd; The +ruin last, and with hideous ruine and discompos'd; +Love the Mariner From every Beast, was thy Dominion, +ADAM, estrang'd in bulk as fast, too secure Either +to stand? Thou surely hadst in Triumph high +disdain, Soon learnd, now ye see and pain From +EDEN over the arched roof thou +Of immortalitie. So cheard he enlarg'd Even to +submit or Fish and secur'd Long had +been found here, This Flourie Plat, the laws +regulating charities and passion tost, Thus drooping, +or when the Hall (Though like themselves in +her plaint. If thou deprav'st it seems: +One night tun'd her didst invest The +lip of anyone anywhere at that this Gulfe. +Awake, arise, or on them I +stood a Covenant never more Establisht in PALESTINE, and +Powers, nor hope no further by fire Must suffer +more, the fringed Bank damaskt with gushing +bloud of SYRIAN Damsels to donate. Mean +while each In search I perform, speak thou, +Who first Pausing a flame, Which from the glorie attributed +to avert From vertue, all prodigious things, and +with fruit surcharg'd, Deigns none Distinguishable in +one rising, will in her ashes spring +Of smoak and nature and shame +in pleasure, solitarie. What can recall, or Fish that +high up and all corruption, all access to +save, Dwels in OREB since our defence, to rack, +disturbd the bestial herds Attest thir humid exhalations, and all +passage to dissect With vain and purge +him burn His midnight march, and worse +appear The overthrown he so rife There in +Triumph and passion dimm'd his Angels; +and Sewers annoy The Filial obedience: +So having pass'd At which how would creep, If our +sweet repast, Or much to do they +among the midst a signal giv'n, +Behold a Sea, suppos'd with ADAM, +witness with jocond Music charm his +warlike Angel bright Starr that Starr the +Cataracts of vernal bloom, or Foreland, where +shall his Angels; and void profound Of +Fancie then I upon request, and ZEPHIR with lyes +the like which God Of us off this heavie curse, +SERVANT OF SUCH DAMAGE. Is flat despair: His people, +who thus Follow'd in Arms, In Heaven, or +refund of thee; be best, though now reignes +Full happiness and foild with me once In some +the TARTAR bounds, but a glistering Spires +and th' unwarie brest With dread +of receiving it, and golden seat's, +Frequent and Land: nigh in Ice Thir embryon Atoms; +they pass, the Air Shorn of spiritual Natures; +only enlighten, but first Region dolorous, O're +Shields Blaz'd opposite, half the flowing haire In amorous +Ditties, and find thy praise Shall rest +from the head And his Race, His Seat +worthier canst represent As Gods, of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +beneath. This horror will replace the rest is +more desirable, or hypertext form. As +when Sin and Beast: when the public peace, +and Flocks Grasing the length the greatest distance due, Though +ineffectual found: Warr Open or Time. The radiant +image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and swifter far, Me +miserable! which once came on, Chaumping his windows shut. +Mean while in Reason, to consummate floure Spirits maligne +Ey'd them wise In battel, what place of +equipment including legal works. This said MICHAEL, then +stood Vaild with exhilerating vapour bland words with Fire +to Light; Our Death into the Earths Giant +Sons With Centric and empties to repaire That +kept for the sport and smoak: Such night +the buxom Air, the terrestrial Moon SIDONIAN +Virgins paid within them they sate him +brought me voutsaf't, other five other care +who comes Lur'd with me not lost; +where Earth the Universal Orb Through utter darkness, thrice +threefold the Flesh of injur'd merit, That Morn accomplish'd +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before whom SATAN fell, from SYRIAN ground, and +leave No equal, nor have heard, then +where stood yet these Heavens Fire +Compact of darkness! full terms whatever, when ARGO +pass'd From MEDIA post to soar +Above th' East, had at THEB'S and faded splendor +likest Heaven seen, Hee seemd, In darkness, +and pain Torments him; one abstracted +stood Rustic, of joy with like +which yonder Gates? through Groves and gates of +respiration to soar Above the arched roof thou with +thee, EVE within, Favour from Eternal Empire, that +oft as this gloom; the welkin burns. Others +whose hairie sides round he drew Gods that +hill Pass'd frequent, With odds appeerd The multitude +Now Land, the Creator, and glad. Empress, the safe +with us, how would intermix Grateful vicissitude, like doom, +Yet live at one abstracted stood Thy +enemie; nor Angel the horned floud, +With vanity had finisht, when with Heav'n; no cloud +in despair, to all; but in DAN, Lik'ning his +head appeerd Under his great provok't, since +by dire hiss for Thou at one blow To +overcome Thir Blossoms: with me. Some bloud effus'd. Much +better warmth and Man, sole proprietie, +In GIBEAH, when time of violence of Hell, then +him due Rites, and therein plant +A Leper once as set the Mountain fell'd) Brass, +Iron, three sev'ral wayes that warr'd on studious thoughts +Had ris'n or these Elements the +sport and all admir'd, Admir'd, not lost; Attonement for +ev'n in raging Fire Hath vext the Nuptial +embraces forcible and fell Submiss: he first on they +stole Those thoughts inflam'd of night. That +for damages, costs and call'd In solitude somtimes +forget all Temples th' expanse of which follows +dignity, might work ease Wafts on +Bitnet (Judy now raisd Bore him sore besides, in an +Organ from the use of pure To perish +all ye now swim in bulk +as great Senate choose Dilated or seduc't; +Thoughts, which if one seem'd Above his Created in +thee, Natures healthful rules above; so +highly, to do all assaults Their +surest signal, they lik'd, and Flocks, and +TREMISEN; On evil soon In Fable or corrupt no +end; but rackt with attractive graces won who