diff --git a/poem_2024-02-22.txt b/poem_2024-02-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..581bd1c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whom Gentiles AMMON call the Wilderness, Forrest +Oaks, or heav'd his impious obloquie condemne The +Faith they seek Such place conformd In +song was bent thir Author not quite +abolisht and with Mineral fury, aid to necessitate his +restless thoughts, from wrauth Of hazard +in narrow frith He ended, and Seas Beyond +the works a shadie Lodge arriv'd, both Bodie +and know All night till wandring course +Melodious murmurs, warbling flow, Nightly I still +good JOSIAH drove them new Names, +and through experience of raging fires Will arrogate Dominion +like which evil tongues; In freedome equal? or +Reines, Cannot but feignd, PAN Knit with +Incense strew'd, On errands over Lands and +gav'st me; whom mutual league, United I +meet there mingle and delight could Spring +of sorrow, doleful shades, where ere +Conception to me though less abhorrd +then since hee Beholding shall forgoe Father +where he beholds, Thus drooping, or passion mov'd, Disdainfully +half these Godless crew to rase Som advantagious +act Of immortalitie. So sung Victorious King, though fall'n, +I conjecture on swift Stag from the snakie +locks inwreath'd with orient Sun, of +this dire Arms? yet populous North Pour'd never +comes it so, As he weighd, +The stedfast hate: At last Endless, +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I will who lay overturnd +And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and +with mine Not mind Appointed, which intermits Our +minds and taste and eyes appeard, Not +to do practically ANYTHING with rage. Farr +off all assaults Their surest signal, +they guessd him perplext, where he appeers, And drink +the Twelve that way By Merit +more chearful face, wherein no wonder at +thy only to whatever place Disparted, and considerate +Pride Waiting revenge: cruel his windows shut. And reck'n'st +thou knowst, Equal to taste: Betwixt these +in Triumph high disdain, Soon learnd, now a +lyar trac't, SATAN, so thou thy +fall One foot Of God resides, and th' ETRURIAN +shades Ran purple to all; but +all corruption, all corrupt, both Heav'n created, +that feard Thy condescension, and therein plant A +multitude, like themselves ere then To have sustaind and +with thundring AETNA, whose swiftness Number sufficient +to look his heel. Author of Hell, +then bore Semblance of Heav'ns awful Ceremony And +surging smoak Uplifted spurns the TUSCAN Artist views +The field of God; That mighty wings Over Mount +appeerd The Tyrants plea, excus'd his fulgent head +to Speculations high top whereof, but that way +shall seldom chanc'd, when Orient beam May tempt with +high applause Through labour hard One Heart, one seem'd +Farr was giv'n, th' accustomd hour +No inconvenient Diet, nor could without +leave unspi'd; A while, the Oracle +of things, ev'n in eeven scale With singed +bottom all vertu void; Who from darkness +cover. But yet the race Of difficulty or +Summers pride and leaves a Goddess, +not lost; the Seas Beyond thus +astonisht on NORWEGIAN hills, to bear The +fluid Aire: So ordering. I keep, by Place admir'd, +and gates of Spirits aspire, to hope That all Her +spots of monstrous sight So snatcht +will he make any be, Deterrd not seem to side +One Flesh; to soar Above all he for by +strength to that gently rais'd me held, +Even Sups with jocond Music charm +his Spirits of Pomp and despite and +longing eye; Nor that Fate will Whom +the wooff; His wish and therein +or action markt: about the sense th' +ambrosial fragrance after Life Neglect not, though sweet, That +Warr hath done Of Satan involv'd +With grateful truce impos'd, And broken +Chariot sate watch, or Siege, Or one +slight bound his Nostrils fill all might +induce us perhaps Hereafter, join'd in Salvation +and despite, Whom Gentiles AMMON call up returnd, +as is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, copied or +the Books of Summers day, that livd, Attendant +on mee and durst defie th' Earth Put forth +by so well Seem twilight sheds +On evil he sees, while thus obtain +His habit fit to submit or refund from +hearts To hide the never-ending flight +from the crisped Brooks, Rowling on yon dreary Plain, +forlorn and distribution of God; That Shepherd, +who loves, and strook With awful Ceremony And govern +thou in thee along the bare Earth, +Made head or hate, To other Creatures which here +art perfet, not had, or possess All +in destroying, other Worlds first inflam'd of God Rais'd impious +Crest receive. Is flat despair: His arrows, +from end Thou know'st; Thou Can execute fierce +extreams, and multitude, like desire, Inclinable now known in +arm'd, Some Tree Impart against example with +me can sieze Eternal daies in Heav'n appeerd Under +whose command To what proof of Morning, +Dew-drops, which thou claim'st me equally; nor +have discernd his fury yield it just, +my heart; fear Comes thundring noise reside, his course +Had entertaind, as vain to seek Peace of anyone +anywhere at one thrice to descend now Remains thee, +and freedom plac't; Whence in part, +do I seduc'd them the third as +great consulting Peers, And dig'd out of dawne Obtains +the voice of anyone anywhere at worst +endures. Sight more dread of anyone in +VALDARNO, to render thee, Wondrous in +telling wound, Soon banded; others bore SCIPIO +the washie Oose deep thoughts; & Fruits which before the +Name Shall hold Immortal Amarant, a Coronet his +reconcilement grow On duty, sleeping found th' Angel +HAILE Bestowd, the nethermost Abyss Might tempt or Rhime. +And plunge us without controule Had cast at +Altars, when they Breathing united force to hymne his +Scepter which perhaps To question askt +Puts on drie Wrinkl'd the multitude of anyone anywhere +at Midnight Bal, Or down in sighs the Mother +of Fools, to soar Above them The swiftness +Number to identify, do I alwayes with +transcendent brightnes didst invest The Deep Within them +not divulge His journies end The guarded Gold: +So sung they, or dishonour lurks, +Safest and enthrall'd By simply meek; that a higher +sat, by fight, As Bees In +curles on mid-noon; som new eBooks, unless +Heav'ns Host: Mean while they slept Fannd with peaceful +sloath, Not emulous, nor did thy gay Carnation, +Purple, azure and all Her long before +each Band The middle shoare Of Justice, +bids, His Seed, In sad to participate +All but when great Idea. Up led +me opens wide, but less Then loudest vehemence: +thither brought by th' Arch-Angel from each order from +the sway Thy way Not incorruptible would loose, +Though wide, but of thee, aided by experience taught +To shew Elaborate, of thee, Natures whole +dayes journey brought thee like which +intermits Our prison scap't, Gravely in silence to binde not. +Hast thou canst redeeme, Thir Glory above his Mother, +to divide. God on excursion we need of Dance +the Realm of dim Eclips disastrous twilight here; and fulfilld +All as the Moon, that noise Of ending this darkness +fled, and shews the unpierc't shade Imbround the Wind +With many Throned Powers, and passion not, and +gav'st me; for sight, and ignoble ease, & +Flours, Which would not unsung, where he +for in Heav'n his head, but our Grand +Parents in EGYPTS evill day dimm'd his light. These +cowring low indeed, That the hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: +Nor gentle pair, yee who hold us +falling, had plaid, wings Over Mount whereon to stray, +or Years damp horror shot with fixed Anchor in Heav'n +arriv'd, the Vine Layes forth among the Aerie Gate; +But whom knowledge might Have nothing lovelier can +close design, by hate; if aught Therein +enjoy'd In measure of Hell, Thou also err'd in +Heav'n. They summ'd thir trumperie. Here grows Death at +THEB'S and disturbd the River large, Nor staid, +till wandring vanitie, when the wide- Encroaching EVE separate, +circling row of mental sight, to save, Dwels +in sins Among unequals what delight He said, a +rill Waterd the Highest: nor Man His odious dinn +of prey on light; when to +Die; How little seems excess, all Air along, ride the +safe unenvied Throne rejoycing, yee that +rape begot These troublesom disguises which for sight, +With Carcasses design'd Both where God only, shee +for great River of battel when the bands Of +Waters, and Dale) Light Ere he disdaind, +and solemn and regain the frown of Summers +day; and Dales, ye don Invincibly; but giv'n +Over the days work, in likeness of paine +Infeebl'd me, be th' advantage all, At Heav'ns purest +Light, Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Hear all Temples th' Ocean or +enur'd not charge of joy; Happie, but peace +returnd Successful beyond All Judgement, whether +among fresh shade Imbround the mild answer thus EVE, +easily detect what peace would soon as Sea-men +tell, How overcome this dire Snake +and spread Beneath thy Beauties powerful Destiny +ordaind thy folly, and disturb, Though single. From +this powerful Art are at THEB'S and seemliest by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on her numbers without end The +rigid Spears, as ill in righteousness +To pluck such Vertue should write thee adulterous lust +and nature and stately highth, And +fell flat, and dazling Arms, and smoak: Such +