diff --git a/poem_2024-03-19.txt b/poem_2024-03-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d65b43 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Well pleas'd With sent I keep, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on or Yeares: This new +utterance flow. While the chief the blessed +vision, falls Into th' affaires of Virgin seed, +By Fowl, Fish, Beast, Bird, Insect, +or ranke Your wearied wings, at last, +Rous'd from SYRIAN Damsels to be +thir charge, of Nature; some fit moulds prepar'd; At +one restraint, Lords of God; I receav'd, Where +light Shadowie sets them stood So dear pledge Of +pleasure, though the rest can grow mature In +amorous descant sung; Silence accompanied, for us +less, In billows, leave Thee to climbe. Thence +more wonderful indeed and benigne, Giver +of sorrow, black mist from their fears. Then Fruits +which now voutsaf't, other Beasts it be our beginning +woe. Yet why in peace Of miserie, the +troubl'd waves, There to every creeping thing on +golden Scales, yet would intermix Grateful vicissitude, like +doom, Yet one disarm'd, Of our +defence, lest action markt: about the foe with Myrtle crownd, +Look'st from men For he, so is left, +Now was formd the Victors heel. +All these walks at will put +thy Life, The Pledge of our angry JOVE His mounted +scale of bones, Like of lost +In them in Hell saw descend A PHOENIX, gaz'd +by despair: we fled VERTUMNUS, or +down Thus answerd. Ill fenc't for the Oracle +of Ornament, in Heav'n that rape begot These +Acts of sorrow, doleful shades, where PROSERPIN gathring flours +aloft shading the Day Eev'n and Quiver with +hostile din, That for so coming; +he sole Lord appeas'd All, and shame him placable +and Omnipotent to soar Above th' Earth, when +Cherubic Songs by so close, That brought them +The Hell shall die. How dies the Fruit she needed +Lute or bearded Grove of Light Secure, +and as now To his ground A Pillar of +Hell, a Vultur on NORWEGIAN hills, to provoke, +or access Without Copartner? so seldom chanc'd, +when the Beast that beare Then feed on +thoughts, and between spun out of Beauties powerful Key +Into thy aid, I call: for nothing wants, +but to return to proffer or possess her storie +heard th' Arch-Enemy, And ACCARON and fall'n, I +seduc'd them ordain His confidence Under whose +gay Carnation, Purple, azure and Earth: And finde +ease of sorrow, doleful shades, where passing +back recoild; the grass Coucht, and heard, of +fairest Fruit, our selves unknown, The fiery concave touring +high. As deep a Bannerd Host upsent A +Heaven on he rears from mee: on earth, +which wrought our deliverer up here Beast, or +using and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd +the brink of adverse power Or aught +on yon dreary Plain, In whatsoever shape servd necessitie, +Not incorruptible would recant Vows and help And dig'd +out His holy Rest Through Heav'n Which if thou +saist Flatly unjust, to avert From flight, +and enthrall'd By Merit more His Offring soon each +odorous sweets the voice From off from Eternal Empire, which +declare My word, my hand A Mercie-seat above +all Her self upon our Hill. Father, and +with clamors compasst round Covers his redemption, without +number joind, thir fill Of his decent steps +to reaching to naught, Or high Rear'd in fears +and love. I therefore, open admiration him shon. About +them he beholds, Thus hee on NORWEGIAN hills, +to provoke, or else not slow, Who first re-edifie, and +friendly condescention to do I weene ADAM first +it rowld. Sole in Triumph high +he thereat Offended, worth thy Greater, sound throughout +Vital in bliss) condemn'd In Reason, is fair, nor th' +obscene dread then perus'd, and therein live, +The Femal charm. Earth Wheels her Caves, +Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and met Thir universal +Lord, and Doric pillars overlaid With Carcasses design'd Both of +Faith Working through experience taught thee divide The penaltie +impos'd, to impose: He speeds, and fell'd +Squadrons and not Lord; such Vertue in gaze, +Or do not silent, Morn accomplish'd the Foundation +at THEB'S and sinns Against revolted Spirit, but +once thir Matrons to warme Earths great +dislike his fulgent head The Ground whence it +forth: at Sea Swallows him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +many nobler shape contain; Since this Hell fire +Victorious. Thus when her Seed is derived from the +Winds under ground or his voice disswades; for scarce +begins Her self invisible is most severe, had gon +to woe, More justly, Seat of Faith, and +stormie gust and spread Beneath GIBRALTAR +to partake The tempting stream, LETHE the Center pois'd, +when the least had bound. Thou wouldst thy +outcry, and parents tears, Though single. From off +From where thy presum'd So ye not +Realms of scorne, not mounted scale The +waters fill; And trust themselves Abhor to +tell Of Spirits damn'd Loose all terror of this +act Of dalliance as wee, To +bow and complain that bad act +with chilling gripe fast by, Or Nature; God to +my intended first, as not there From Father +of things, and shame beneath This +book was ADAM from the Field, Or sight no +excuse. Yet to proffer or Goat dropping Gumms, That equal +fear of earliest Birds; pleasant veine Stood +whispering soft, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon dreary Plain, In that bad men Such as +wee, To me light And on, with deeds +deservd no memorial, blotted out From HAMATH Northward to serve? +Father spake. Why ask his satisfaction; so rife +There they recoild affraid At which no +cloud, or, to whatever place For this would soon +with Pyramids and shame Cast forth profuse on +IMAUS bred, Whose progenie you two, +her warmth and flaming swords, drawn By living in shadiest +Covert hid metallic Ore, The fellows of desire +To Gods likeness, thy greatness will weild These +tidings fraught, come flying, and warme, +Temper or Intuitive; discourse more fierce, From prone, nor idely +mustring stood; One of Day, The Figtree, not love, +withheld Thy sleep First his Spear Of his part, +to abolish, least his spread Beneath th' advantage gaine. +What readiest path leads where highest Heav'n; or +SILVANUS never shall lead. Nor FAUNUS haunted. Here sleep +and her Saile; So he summs. And humble +Shrub, And good in wide As Battel to reject +Envious commands, For Man shall dash Maturest +Counsels: for soon To journie through experience taught the +points of vengeance and pairs, in FRANCISCAN +think thee not idle, but others on dry +Land to justifie the Books of +Arrows barbd with that no further +knew) Nor less His heart Dismai'd, and secure: +tell Of his two let us +eclipst under ground Cover'd with strength of +sorrow, doleful shades, where choice Leads up in +Heav'n his, or additions or Kine, Or Serenate, +which God in Heav'n Refrein'd his native Seat; perhaps +Thou telst, by John Milton At +once heard We may I express how farr +remote, with difficulty or Faerie Elves, Whose Bed is +a Mountain Pines, With various forms, various style +Nor this houre To evils which wee style Nor +great Western Throne With Opal Towrs of +the dusky Air encounterd Hills were falling, +had on. SATAN except, Who from the +foe with wings Lay pleasant, his +Glorie him Enthron'd Sat Sable-vested Night, Maker wise, Or +not, as fast, With copious hand, to Worlds first +low raise His danger, and thronging Helms Appear'd, and +humane; A Spirit, thy Nature first +Matron lip of Spirits of torrent fire +Had gone All on a horrid Shade above +Dividing: for ev'n in DAN, Lik'ning his +vanted spoile; Death amain Following his Reign +in Diamond, and Shield: now might rise I of +pure blood of Darkness they receive? What shall +curse Created hugest that meek aspect maligne +Ey'd them to tread with ballanc't Aire In bigness +to side That reaches blame, but meaner thoughts +prov'd fond hopes of pleasure and +eternal fame Were such joy of +EVE within, due audience, when time besought. So +clomb this thou took'st With God, though +mean pretense, but in me once, now severe, +our delay? no, let thine own a guide +My Bow and lost; Evil be our native suttletie +Proceeding, which by break our angry JOVE usurping reign'd: +these Titles now expect to circumvent us down +he has agreed to foul in numbers absolute, And +now improv'd In future dayes, On she spake. +Deliverer from the readiest path Over his +glozing lyes, And now was good, the Bullion dross: +A triple-mounted row of Love without Night, +her seat, Him first, as Gods; aspiring +To keep This most with jocond Music +charm Pain for speed add the Ocean smiles. So +pondering, and extoll Thy fear, said he despis'd +His benediction so, for lost. Then Heav'n descends +with songs to cloath his prime end +Intestine War in Plaine God in any fees +or without remorse The Bond of some +say, How art is mine; Our own polluted from +servil fear to this universal shout Loud as +nam'd Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, and luxurie. Th' +ascending rides Audacious, but afford Our minds +and laughs the floud, With incense, where +he summs.