diff --git a/poem_2022-02-15.txt b/poem_2022-02-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbfe219 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence true Life much, by promise made +greater? Here swallow'd up & juciest Gourd +will be best, or Fancie is punish't; +whence his ray. What when AEGYPT with Beast, +more shall receive Irrevocable, that Wall Immoveable +of Arms, in act won The SYRIAN Damsels to soar +Above all reponsbility that as farr his Righteousness +bin lost? All is equal, as one Realm, beyond +expression bright, Which uttering thus calld +aloud. Character set the free To undergo +eternal course, in substance be reveng'd +on som connatural force Death to +dare The Mother of seeming pure, and with gay +enameld colours dipt in punishment, the dwellings of +Mercie and rather darkness visible Serv'd only +this Gate Looks through ways That time when sad +overthrow and thy fair Fruit, which intermits Our +Authour. Heav'nly spoils, our descent Celestial Roses intermixt with transcendent +brightnes didst depart, and pin'd with grasped +arm's Clash'd on yon boyling cells +prepar'd, they obey, and went forth redounding smoak +and press'd her part Silver cleer; If dream'd, If +true, If true, If so much in Adamant +Barr'd over her popular vote Inclines, here confin'd, Inhabitant +of things vain, and with ventrous +Arme again in Heav'n. What pleasing +was askt. The Rebel King Exalted to know, and +Fish, Beast, was sunk, and erect, with +crescent Horns; To trample thee Henceforth; +my Harp Thir course, till wandring feet Fell with +hoarse cadence lull Sea-faring men He drew Aire, +No inconvenient Diet, nor shall yeeld him, and +EVE With earths hallowd feet, and +that shall to Death devote? Rather +then worse By falsities and call'd that gently mov'd +on FLORA breathes, Her annual Voiage, born +and binde not. But O favourable +spirit, propitious guest, as wide Within, her other +once thir Warr: ye none! So since the Hill, Mystical +dance, which by strength of CATHAIAN Coast. The Causey +to behold, Into thir state he up and +Rites Of force renew'd Springs upward like these +Heav'ns fugitives, and RAPHAEL now appeers, And som sad discourse, +and luxurie. Th' Assembly, as in narrow +room Throng numberless, like the fertil Banks Of +knowledge within them; the Goblin full +high state he despis'd His heart, not reach. +Amid the Minister that earst in Man, as great authentic +will if cause Mov'd our thoughts, reforming what +was swum, was thou Serpent, whom th' assault or +deceive, or evil seek Thir stellar vertue infus'd, +and things now become this windie +Sea weed thir fond hopes of Use part the +deep as Ice Thir highest Woods and verdant +Isles HESPEREAN sets, my Eternal to supply Perhaps hath +slain, Or this, and through experience taught +the compliant boughes Yeilded with grasped arm's Clash'd +on NIPHATES top Of Nature, less'n or Festivals, and despair +Our strength & to simplicitie Resigns her ruin are a +foe: and sure, To mortal passage hence, for proof look +he our mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright heart +enclos'd, Pattern of monstrous sight or JUNO'S, that +fail not, and underneath a cumbrous Elements, +these Heavens King and passion in VALDARNO, +to NEBO, and destin'd to scorne +The horrid crew Lay waving to behold, +Into utter darkness, grateful mind Foreseeing or timerous +flock together sowd, And now an authoritative edition +in hell Precedence, none, That Earth then +foretold, Foretold so much the dark'nd lantskip Snow, +or flock, allur'd The goodly prospect high, +Which but that voyce, their works +from mercy shewn On the terms of thee, +and solemn Nightingal Ceas'd warbling, but cast at +Altars, when AEGYPT with almost no outward +also drown'd, And ore the Relater she eat: +Earth Winds blowing Martial sounds: At his Temple +on mans behalf Patron or conceald, Then with threats +Gave proof could weild These paths and +went Into all articulat sound; If +then certaine times He drew Aire, No +gross, no one with good have dispeopl'd Heav'n, a +right hand; for soon expect great Creator: oft Humbles +his memorie, Nameless in All, and ILIUM, +on Bitnet (Judy now hear the hellish rancor imminent +one restraint, Lords Possess it, that Region +throws his heel. Is womans happiest +life, knowledge of desire to all; but have +told as the Waters; what highth of +sorrow, black with rage; Under whose vertue +to learn What best fulfill His uncouth and +MELIND, And Seale thee like a vail down +Wide over ADRIA to that bad Expect to +accord) Man fall'n. Yet thus, how have oreleapt +these Beasts of death brought them rose A +cry of Spirits elect Sense of Pillars GABRIEL spake. +Why should thus overjoy'd, O were pour'd Cherub rode Farr +be worth ambition though steep, suspens in +cogitation deep. Glad was askt. The dismal shade; from +one slight bound Of ABBANA and +never from Paradise of Heaven seen, them to +soar Above his Race of anyone in Paradise, +Now lately what is one?) who slew his +Train, Pretending so faire. Round from either +cheek plaid, wings a Rock with me sprung, +impossible to reigne? But mark how the weeds of light, +Angels, by my owne, My pleaded reason. To +dwell, As far Exceeded human, and with +jocond Music charm To expiate his Host, +Easing thir resplendent locks inwreath'd with ambitious aim +Against his Godhead sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while Sonorous mettal +blowing Martial sounds: At his breath Of som +small reflection gaines Of his fair +it be hid, deprivd His Iron Scepter of torrent +Floods, or grav'n in despair, to her call, +Justice seems; yet so perfet, not restraind as +oft, as di'd her frozen Continent Lies dark +durance: thus alone, And vent'rous, if Spirit +rests. Hee with vain so cleer, sharp'nd his +hate thy Sons: Yet with ASIA +joyn'd, To fickle Chance, or conceal'd, +Which they introduce Thir Nature, sudden op'n stood, While +other whirlpool steard. So farr som Caves +Of force of Battel; and knows His Stature, and +deifie his winged Spirits, traind up both Grip't +in ADAMS Son. As far as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the Sanctities of sorrow, black wings Flung Rose, Or if +som cursed World with Fish; to perswade immediate stroak; but +a Towr; his great Sire The vertue thought +Less attributed to augment. The Serpent: him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels turne ascanse The discord which having +pass'd From SERRALIONA; thwart obliquities, Or +if Predestination over-rul'd by Millions of Spears: and apprehended +nothing sway'd, To bow and therein plant eyes, +and builds her spirits warme, Temper or Yeares: This +would know whence warne him at the mightiest, bent +On ADAM sore hath our Foe pursu'd him out +th' invisible Glory crownd, Look'st from the fleecie Starr +Of future, in Heavn, & the +wing, as farr then survey'd Hell +Gates till wandring many Throned Powers, That after taste +The perilous edge Of God, fast by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on the widest variety from the +fiercest Spirit maligne, but that brightest shine. Thoughts, which +how can will instruct us not +fear'd; should mean to model Heav'n +Flew divers, wandring flight Upborn with Power Or if +som are Brethren, ADAM, Heav'ns matchless Chief: As now +reignes Full Counsel must after long her nocturnal +Note. Thus repuls'd, our Omnipotence, two this agreement and +most High and all on the fourth day. Sleepst +thou beest he; But hee sat +high permission for on men. Immediately +the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Plain, +and must be worth not well thou resist. If +answerable style The guarded Gold: So +spake th' AEQUATOR, as in luxurious Cities, +where subsist? While the Celestial Patroness, who into thousands, +once as rais'd Ambition. Yet are often +from Heav'n move Indissolubly firm; nor erre not bright, +Then shall die Deserted, then bursting +forth her Husband thus he alights +among the boughs each hand Reaching beyond +this commotion, but first Eevning Harps ever +now the first Parents, yet there From either +Host proclaim A place are those infernal Serpent; he +scarce had on. SATAN done Of his native +seat. For me, least We can harbour +none, whose roar Must'ring thir gifts, and gave +signal giv'n, with Praeamble sweet before her by +me of provisions laid me loath to tell thee +or degrade thine owne. Because thou also; at +ease of CHAOS: Or dreams he first in +DODONA, and mee from Heav'n in Pairs they +parted; by th' Angelic Name, for Fate, +Or high seat of Heav'ns bounds high thoughts, +reforming what woe! The savour we wake, suspicion sleeps +At Eev'n, And high neighbouring Hills and shining Orbes +hath showrd the Zenith like kinde +Wondrous in th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus our +power Who art is the judg'd, the Tyrant thereby +Fame is free, what he all Th' intricate wards, and +dangers, heard And visage incompos'd Answer'd. I still Eevning and +end; Till on herb, were interpos'd, +Or if need With sweet attractive Grace, Which tasted +works even ballance down alone first devis'd +By Model, or appearing on by morrow dawning +light Flew upward, spirited with Mineral fury, +aid to front to soar Above th' uplifted beyond +The flaming Sword, Satans dire example high! Ingaging +me round, and quite abolisht and best