diff --git a/poem_2020-12-07.txt b/poem_2020-12-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b51e67 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-12-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Such place by freely give; Hell Gates wide +Her self into our grand Foe, Who have scap't +the sad For softness shee in Waters underneath had +need With Tresses discompos'd, and conniving seem +strait, invisibly thus hast made? So easily outdone +By EVE, For one stroak, as Sea-men tell, +With odds appeerd Under his head, hands, +wings, and full. After thir seed renewd; So +standing, moving, to plague us? what strength, Not of +Hell, or fear for the solemn Councel +thus presum'd. He left them thither +brought, and whom they around the Hall +(Though like Lightning and smoak: Such happy interview both +joyning, As one seem'd to heare +new Counsels, and sweetest Fenel, or +just pretenses in himself in Heav'n call'd +Mother Tree, The God in Heav'n +Of Mankind drownd, before us, in despair, to +soar Above th' Olympian Games or brighter, clad +with BRITISH and just obedience due, Thir glittering Tents +farr Then ever, bountie of anyone anywhere +at THEB'S and full. After the baser fire +Into th' upright heart arose: and Sea. Then this +Night, and Grace, wherein were matcht, +who saile Beyond th' acknowledg'd Power supream? And what +would ensue This Flourie Plat, the Foundation ("the Foundation" +or heav'd his Bow and Inhabitants: Her bearded +Grove The sequel each other Creature can copy and +passion into my performance: What e're his brute +human, and humane; A broad Herds upsprung: +The onely right. Or undiminisht brightness, nor +did eate. If so perfet, and with fair +Moon, whose presence falls deceiv'd The lower facultie Of +Hill not think to quell thir kindes, +himself affirming Authoritie and infirmer Sex +assume, or condens't, bright essence then harmonious +sound On that warning voice, and spread her other +excellence Not ti'd or was giv'n, +Worthiest to climbe. Thence up by stelth +Had cast him perplext, where CHINESES +drive Mountains huge He soon return, had general Ancestor +repli'd. Not unagreeable, to grow About the ambient +light. These then, Warr on bended +knee His Longitude through all assaults Their Seats long +woes are fall'n, I suppose If +any way be yet these Garden +we never to be Firmament Of Nature, hold +his vengeful ire, Or undiminisht brightness, nor herb, +tree, fruit, floure, Glistring with more Cease +I adore. Gentle to fall Erroneous, there +to thee are turnd I fled bellowing. On heav'nly +Spirits, O spirit remains him return, +Short intermission none neglects, Took envie, and Twilight +gray Had audience, Night he stay +In the Field; Upon the void immense of +nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their Altars by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on NORWEGIAN hills, to bear imblaz'd Holy +Rest; Heav'n Grateful vicissitude, like Ambition findes. But +glad Obscur'd, where Thou mai'st not; +shee busied heard no mate For dissolution wrought Mosaic; +underfoot the heart Distends with words voucht +with like sense th' AEQUATOR, as Nature rests. Hee +for himself impaird. Deep scars of mankind, +By wondrous length the Giant brood Of outward libertie, +who fill Of waters fill; And Spirit That gave +way Tore through Femal for in brief related whom +such wherein lies within 60 days work, +yet with Spawn abundant, living Soule, Acknowledge him +as Evening: Cover me thy soft as +supernumerarie To mortal sight. And THRASCIAS rend the voice of +Warr, Warr he assayd, and coast +of EDEN, distance due, Thir march forlorn, th' +Arch-Enemy, And thou disturb'd thir Palaces he throws his +punishment to whatever thing Death menac't would loose, +Though threatning, grew fast by shadie nook I obey; +so Death shall powre Raine day Thy Fathers might, +rid heav'n would I put to enquire: above +which yonder nether shape it devours +not, but SATAN sprung, And oft +beheld? those in hope to thy +fear, hath lost, brought down in narrow +circuit meets A while over built With him, +life Of Mankind drownd, before the deep +world much to adore the most High +Thron'd inaccessible, his Son? I follow'd RIMMON, whose operation brings +forth, th' AEQUATOR, as Head One day as Are fill'd, +and needs no mate For Gods! yet many +Throned Powers, triumpht In some have sought +thee withdraw The radiant visage incompos'd Answer'd. +I assume, or immortal bliss, Into +their State Left him angrie, yet from God Rais'd +on Bitnet (Judy now retir'd to tell Of +Beril, and concoctive heate Of love +or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue thought +not lost; the window climbes, or POMONA, thus ZEPHON, with +me deriv'd, yet shon Filial obedience: So farr +off all her slowest pace the +laws of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +voice endu'd; Redouble then so as farr remote, +with deeds on me where ABASSIN Kings BARBARIC Pearl +& stoop with Fire; Nathless he strode. Th' ethereal People +ran, they assayd, and knows His bright consummate floure +Spirits could repeate, As my inbred enemie in +naked Majestie seemd Once found, Among the Rivers. +That fires Awak'd should be room, though after +LUCIFER from the influence into horrid +silence and luxurious Cities, where choice too heav'nly Muse to +whatever place or Earth, devouring fire. Sounder fierie +Tempest shall his Robe Uncover'd more. With pleasant time, +when call'd In some glad Morn accomplish'd the air, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and all +maladies Of tardie execution, since by Angels watching +round? Here let dry Land: nigh The +season, prime for Fate, Too much blood, to put +off, and plac't in mooned hornes Thir natural center to +TAURUS with repose; and EDENS happie places thou +saidst? Too well I urge, Admitting Motion in renown, +Blind THAMYRIS and mad demeanour, then accurst, since +wilde, A PHOENIX, gaz'd by number still to thee +Henceforth; my darkness, and all a means of +Heav'ns now pleases best, or falling, +and with Gold. Let th' upright And +smiling Morn solemniz'd the Place admir'd, Whose liquid fire; +And high exploit: But from mercy shewn On +they thought, and cleerd, and hee +the orient Beams: when they rejoyce For +while he inward nakedness, much advanc't, Created hugest +that houre Of good thereof all +Her end us, we never parted +they, or have sunk: the will in Arms, +fierce PHLEGETON Whose vertue infus'd, and last +Of difficulty or shadow seem'd, but all assaults +Their great deliverance what compare? Second Omnipotence, and +heart of Spirits he meant that deign'd +To prune these words voucht with startl'd +eye pursu'd (though more, And brief related +whom mutual help sustaind? Let us forth, th' +offensive Mountain, built Magnificent this our scant +manuring, and permitted all, on stiff Pennons, towre The Author +not lost; the uncolourd skie, Or if (which might +work in Heav'n. And flaming Warriours, Arme again +His punishment, the night, Scorning surprize. Or ambush +from Just, and easiest recompence, and Pine, and Love To +adore the inmost bower Handed they towards the +shrill Matin Song charms the just opposite, +half abash't ADAM shelterd, took From dust: spite of +anyone anywhere at such wherein remaind (For Time, though SPRING +and feed on IMAUS bred, Whose +annual wound shall curse My journey high, +At Feed or with jocond Music +charm Pain for thee, be Preacht, but retir'd, +Victor from deep With Flaming Cherubim, and evil; +Which to augment. The coming sprung And Spirit impure +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the duskie +or Months, or enur'd not agree to do +all things, which none I espi'd thee, +Father, thy aid, Thy frailtie and permanent future we +most just; this glorious to abide that word or +high, for when vapors fir'd Impress the Chrystal Battlements: +from PELORUS, or Heaven: Thither, if unforbid +thou wilt find thy deserved right. +Or end, in proud return to spend, Quiet though +the visible Serv'd only us'd or opinion; then human. +Nor great Creator wise, more delusive, not +for ill seems: Which infinite To bottomless perdition, +there want Cornice or online at THEB'S and all +Eare, All Heav'n, with ambitious mind us unforeseen, unthought +of, know That better fight, Unless th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus to return though sharp +desire To me then, mee shall one +seem'd A while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: +At one disarm'd, Of EREBUS. She finish'd, and heart +enlarges, hath none pass through thickest +Trees, and gates of Creatures, universal Frame, Thus +with feats of God; I at +http://gutenberg.net/license). And higher grew in shape, And +feare Under thir quire apply; aires, vernal bloom, +or 20.zip ***** This inaccessible high Passions, Anger, Hate, +Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and pain Torments him; +if great atchiev'd. Long had fixt +in VALDARNO, to submit or tongue Relate thee; +greater then my sense Variously representing; yet none appeerd, +From his holy Rest Through labour still erect, with rage; +Under thy conduct, and good; I espi'd thee, and +Angels, by imprudence mixt, Dissolvd on they +thirsted scoop the Gard'n of easier to +incarnate and nam'd the surging waves, There +dwell Permits not; there From all: this darkness +fled, or pain, The Tempter, and spoil and +troule the rest High overarch't imbowr; +or possess All hast gaind, & Fowle flie above his +darling Sons Came shadowing, and transgress his forbidding +Commends thee or