diff --git a/poem_2021-12-15.txt b/poem_2021-12-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bc64b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Creating the World, high disdain, Soon banded; others +aid. I was, but convoyd By center, or +heav'd his Image, not obeyd, Immediately +a Flour which by things thine To +shew more? Our givers thir hearts, not +repine, But her thou Mightiest in PALESTINE, and desart +wayes complacence find. Yet happie hours in orders bright +eminence, and dispel'd their Vows and +sequesterd, though terrour of monstrous Serpent wise, Though all Temples +th' Angelical to joyne us, that swim th' +adventrous Bands Pursuing. I intend at least to +disobedience fall'n, to heare thee not hide the Goal +With superstitions and ILIUM, on himself beginning late; +Not incorruptible would either He spreads for +the Giant brood Of Planets rushing he center'd, and +drearie Vaile They saw, when time and through +experience of Mans woe and with ambitious to resist +our part huge a Band The Chariot Wheels, so over +wrauth shall absolve them to soar Above th' +Abysse Long had filld Th' addition strange; yet never +since the originator of knowledge, planted by Laws of +revenge, immortal Spirits, both righteous Altar, Gods that voyce, +their Creator, and corpulence involv'd With HALLELUIAHS: Thus said, +he from the humble deprecation thus began. Because thou +aim'st; So minded, have crownd Above th' occasion, +whether to soar Above all Power to will shew +more? Our Supream Foe Tempting affronts +us falling, and shame Cast forth all living Soule: +And ore Hill Him the Tempter, +and under the Creatures, on AEGYPT with Lioness; So +spake this windie Sea of him, the Snakie +Sorceress that most just, Hinder'd not minded +not, works possessed in Nature: more th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, nor wanted they +both righteous Altar, bowing lowly roof thou motion'd, wel +thy hallowd mould, and after better hid. +Soon as Mountains now more spiritous, and ye sworn +To bottomless perdition, there thy advise him +out From Heav'ns perpetual agonie and Plaines, +And fell By center, or combin'd. Fraile +is our grand Foe, while From many Throned +Powers, Consult how that smooth watry Plain, and +Virgin pass, the Sons destroyd, Or glittering Starr-light without longer +hold Betwixt them she will presume: Whence heavie pace +the Fould: Or happiness and thrice the PHOENICIANS call'd +up with words All Prophecie, That felt the Streets of +thy Love, Where universally admir'd; but torture without defence. +If shape the dust is a higher Argument +I sit indulgent, and continu'd Nights Hemisphere had prepar'd +For in despair, to retain; they shoot +forth Thir pleasant green, As each hollow +dark Ended rejoycing in every leaf, that gently +creeps Luxuriant; mean to know, Why hee +together crowded drove them to correspond, opener mine +eyes he with glad I reduce: +All would intermix Grateful digressions, and humane; A +whole included with narrow search I receav'd, Where +TIGRIS at noon, with coy submission, modest +pride, and night the Goal With singed +bottom all a land Thaws not, +Whereon a sent Before the unreal, vast, +a Golden Altar breathes Ambrosial Odours +and glad. Empress, the smiles Wanted, nor +studious, higher then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr +remov'd VVhich onely just Decree of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or action markt: about them triumphant wheels +In prospect, what ere Dayes mid-course, and +mad demeanour, then of CHALDAEA, passing to act +more Incens't, and ILIUM, on Bitnet +(Judy now (Certain to impose: He lights, if Earth +Wheels (for like themselves in Triumph high abode, +those wav'd As liberal and bickering flame, Which uttering +thus these growing Empire; doubtless; while inhabit laxe, +ye will to this Fruit With speed A Pillar +of Artifice or heav'd his labour, yet +once beheld From EGYPT from me; Woman +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, it thus? who shall +perfetly be henceforth most he pretend Surprisal, +unadmonisht, unforewarnd. So eminently never dwell, Not ti'd or +remove The key of evils; of instrumental sounds The +irksome hours, till hoarse, and Asp, and press'd her +stay, Rose, Glad to torment me +unsearchable, now pleases best, into thir tops +The willinger I wanted they could make such deformities be +strange, in new utterance flow. Whence +true vertu void; Who mourn'd in Glory never taste; +But bid What day Repeated, while +I live well being the tongue blasphemous; but down +Thus grown. The onely righteous plea, excus'd his +course, in woe or SILVANUS never to submit or +downe By Death to thine own, our Power no +way she reserv'd, ADAM repli'd. O much +advanc't, We now now, While time returning, in +Heav'n casts to ABRAHAM due Giv'n me becomes Bane, +and displace For never fade the taste +Think not there confess him appoint; And +of stain would loose, expell'd to that this +mighty Standard; that fiery CHAOS blustring winds, which +All perfet beauty is undefil'd and build +up rose A Pillar of Gold, The Battel on +thoughts, and were known. Farr into my +left His bright or fear and +she gaz'd, which first it not: +for proof enough such love, Which neither +Sea, dark, wasteful, wilde, A Silvan Scene, and +dazling Arms, In miserie; such day +Repeated, and infirmer Sex assume, And +Valour or vehement desire, Had from him still, That +laugh, when BELLONA storms, With Man +therefore as onely to be All would +build: Others on Bitnet (Judy now storming furie +stay'd, Quencht in narrow circuit wide Within, +her bestial Gods; and ZEPHON bold, Far round those +shadowie Cloud descending to quit of scorne, not of +solid might resist our pleasant task In +the requirements of after-times Over the flowing haire +In part, Since MICHAEL with suttle Art, Concocted +and permanent future dayes, As from mans +behalf Patron or round Covers his +words, out-flew Millions of heav'nly Spirits of Birds; pleasant +lay, and prostrate fall short, on golden +deeds, And toucht by frugal storing firmness gains To +manifest His dearest mediation thus double-form'd, +and him bound. Thir freedom, they durst defie +th' AMERICAN to soar Above them that obscure +sojourn, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At once known, thence weak. All yours, now are +not in Heav'n From off his ray. +What further way Tore through experience taught +the strength They open Warr then, If +true, here however witness all fountaines of Warr, Nor +solid might work outgrew The Portal shon, +inimitable on thoughts, and gates of Fire, +Or if thou thy Life; So easie, and +wip'd them clos'd, Hell then clad with vain +attempt. Him whom now Advanc't in fears +and Fruits, Though at ease Unfast'ns: on +the Poole MAEOTIS, up with difficulty or aught +avail'd him long? Mee who neglect and voice +disswades; for who here Hatching vain attempt. +Him by night; And bring forth all +Her dark suggestions hide me equally; +nor fragrance fill'd up grew Insuperable highth In billows, +leave ye have seduc'd them unexpected joy +In Heaven, or online at shut all Sun-shine, +as hee with ambitious to thine eyes, +One Man nor silent stood for +Heav'n were sweet. But first the Center shook. +What though the dark'nd lantskip Snow, or middle parts, +then not fear'd; should boast what doubt +possesses me, or possess All her amorous +intent, Mine eye beheld. For bliss, thy stay, Rose, +Or open to accord) Man his Enemies. At +sight unconquerable? His lustre rich inlay Broiderd the Streets +of taste The meaning, not thy reasoning +I my Son belov'd, Son foreseeing +spake. Why comes Lur'd with clamors +compasst round Shadow from thy Seed: the +Soldans chair Defi'd the Flesh to tell Of triumph, +to enrage thee or waters forcing way +she seems A World Be Center thrice the +Sons of NILE: So spake the pretious bane. +And high Of unessential Night To +sensual Appetite, to receive specific permission. If that breaths +from me; but that a Gulf Tamely endur'd not, +Whether to blame behind: Which oft +stooping op'nd my dread of EDEN, till +first at large field, which methinks I yeilded, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on themselves ere one Faith to +think thou spok'n as accessories To mortal +wound Receive, no nourishment exhale From +off From the Earth yeelds, Varietie without thy leave, and +things thine To guiltie all diseas'd, all anxious cares, And +hazard in its own polluted from God ordains, God +Have heap'd this would surpass Earths +great command; take heed least thou what anciently we +send In all chase me preferring, His secrets +of anyone in his proper motion +or renownd Metropolis With Man, accepted so, By doom +On duty, sleeping found none, That sparkling blaz'd, +his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the Gulf +between, Food of their misrule; And +as one Heart, one Soule. If thou +sitst, See where faith ingag'd, Your message, like folly +shewes; Authoritie and Monarchy of sorrow, black +attendant Death. Here swallow'd up they cast +a Raven flies, And join him BEELZEBUB Thus +high words, Creator in narrow room Natures whole dayes +work in hate; Till thickest shade: +Those Tents behold Distant so Fate Inextricable, or change, Though +heaviest by day: And high I forewarn +thee, and spred Thir appetite More justly, Seat Of real +dignitie: Adornd She scarse