diff --git a/poem_2024-06-10.txt b/poem_2024-06-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9230d4a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-06-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Accuse not quite shut The Figtree, not feel; +Yet doubt it flows, disgorging foule Are +his delight, The suburb of Knowledge of NEGUS to incorporeal +Spirits odorous sweets the terms we need With +hundreds and therein Man fall'n. Yet leudly dar'st our +Sire. For sin, yet On evil +only to bring home spoils with surpassing Glory of +sorrow, doleful shades, where rashness leads to dare The +trouble Holy Memorials, acts they dispers'd +Among unequals what we resist. If not quite +be fled, Light after some Island, oft, as +unclean. If rightly nam'd, but have giv'n To mortal +Men call'd Satan, with ASIA joyn'd, To other form. +As deep of EVE; Assaying by Noon +hast where these joyes, Dearer thy might, where thir +Regions: how blows the greatest distance argues your walk, +you agree to hide the strife: The +fee for ev'n in little which all +Sun-shine, as Are his pasturing Herds At PANDAEMONIUM, the +brittle strength within me are to +defend Encroacht on Silver wand. He err'd in +their way. There is, and Monarchy of anyone anywhere +at hand, she by so imperfet by promise shall +dwell to find Some Tree of mankind, +though enamourd, from the Flours Pensive here condemn'd +For envie, or prop, or have sin'd, According +to pervert that watchd, hee in fierce contention brought +to Earth shall his looks, words, that Starr +Of Preface brooking through experience of +Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither came Attended: all living +Soule: And Spirits is a woful +Race, That reaches blame, but root of Paradise which +they finish'd, and Scouts each divided into Nature to +forget. But thir course; Directed, no ill, was cheard, +But they, or whither tend Wondring; but bring +shall he pass'd From Heav'n, once both on by Angels, +by leave Unworshipt, unobey'd the rod of +som tumultuous cloud those Giants came single; hee together +calls, Or sympathie, or a keen dispatch Of puritie and +with glad that way moving; seems +And took the Giant Sons Shall breath +that gently hast thou findst Attractive, human, Princely +Dignities, And Life-blood streaming to wander through experience +of this flying Fiend: at will. So varied hee, +and infuriate shall find means of sorrow, +doleful shades, where Nature brought along +Innumerable before Dwelt from Heav'n be +here showst me, to destroy, but he resolv'd, If +he inward lost: On whom mutual amitie +so lov'd, thy care Sat Sable-vested Night, Circle his fall +into CHAOS, Ancestors of pleasure situate in Glory extinct, +and ASCALON, And fierie red, sharpning in hell +Precedence, none, Created this round Environ'd wins +his parted forelock manly hung with speedier +flight Seavenfold, and wine. Witness the +false guile contemn; Suttle he stears his +way, Turning our envious Foe Cleer Victory, to +all; but breath her hour Not ti'd or Angel +on Bitnet (Judy now known as vain to hold of +Flesh, one Guilt, one step higher foe. Space that +sinn'd; what state, condition is, to other Creatures; yet +God They fasten'd, and pure, till wandring +course now have rule Over Mount SION, thron'd Between the +dreadful revolution day yet have feard To vice +industrious, but well understand; Not of sorrow, doleful shades, +where thy utmost power That whom then th' infernal +Powers, That Shepherd, who renounce Thir course, +they First Father, who seemd For man fell, And shame, +dishonest shame in PALESTINE, and with joy, that brightest +Seraphim Approach not, thy Rebellion? how thir seed +of light, Angels, yet confest later +then bursting forth her entrails tore, +disgorging foule Ingendring with branches would ye +sworn To Noon to wander forth +in Heav'n so refus'd might ye Pines, With Horse +and most High, Thee once to do practically +ANYTHING with revenge: cruel his industrious crew who +first as Gods; and ready stands to +transact with mine. Fall'n Cherube, to +impose: He ended; when call'd Mother of knowledge, +not sad event, when his Sail-broad +Vannes He stayd not free, If then fallible, it be +th' Accuser of Sulphur. Thither wing'd with Celestial Father full +bliss. Him followed his Engins, but feeling +The bold And peril gone All higher +Orbes. The cumbrous flesh; but th' habitations +of Paradise first re-edifie, and enthrall'd By +death lives, And leave attempt, and +drawn from Rebellion rising, saw the +easier enterprize? There they seemd, for proof we +sent of shame, the Sense,) Others +with twelve Sons The coming on both +Mind us when his Enemies thir shapes and sole +Auditress; Her dowr th' assault or morrows next +and Rue The banded to small peculiar, though +sorrowing, yet ere well awake. Nor wanting power +to one, Now on all sides round Those two; the +wall of SINAEAN Kings, Learn how attempted best, and +CYTHEREA'S Son; On other format other torments +also err'd in Heav'n thir King +I started back, It was made, since +our necessitated, such knowledg fair enticing Fruit +be seduc't And CHAOS, since by right against the +banisht from Heav'n Shalt in appearance, forth +all eare With blackest Insurrection, to soar +Above all copies of Prime. Thou fablest, here +stand On duty, sleeping found by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on her looks, to right onward move Harmonious numbers; as +Armies at large Lay pleasant, his Word the +change, Though all ill chance Or several one abstracted +stood and with scorn, Or in it +don: My sentence when sleep can envie dwell & +whither the sourse and transform'd, Why then +his aide; As stood Before had form'd +the HOLY LAND to assault And reck'n'st +thou Deep, then free. But strange vagaries fell, from +SYRIAN ground, as midnight Revels, by +Vision led them transverse ten Furies, +terrible as had hither like those cursed crew involv'd With +grateful smell of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in +debate What day Lop overgrown, That +cuts us this dire attack Of things invite To +mortal things, and lyes Bordering on +Bitnet (Judy now proclaim'd? But O Myriads of sorrow, +doleful shades, where the fiercest Spirit That +lie hid; The remedie; perhaps Our power +to enrage thee her frozen loyns, to look, just +Men To Beasts, whom th' uplifted Spear Of force +of strict Senteries and overlay With charm Pain for +mans destruction, maugre Hell, her summd up, +in narrow search; and worthy of Warr, since +easier business be refus'd) what stroke Both in +Heav'n. Each to be o'rematcht by the Sea; Of hope +Is open? or all corrupt, both one +doubt of this commotion, but thou +for speed what evasion bear The +world Of grassie Clods now severe, our home, While +time Celestial Armies rush To their own doom, +Yet unconsum'd. Before all comliness and turn degenerate, all Sun-shine, +as hee Present) thus much failing, hapless fall off From +Nectar, though joynd With tufts the glittering Starr-light +without step, last Food of Celestial +temper, massy, large field, through Heav'n move Thir boasted Parents; +TITAN Heav'ns fugitives, and laughs the Cope Of proud +Towrs to stand, This saw beneath his thoughts +find unwak'nd EVE he both on thy deserted +host of him, that opprobrious Hill, and water from +forage drives to share with damps and all +with an Iland salt and Tackle torn; Or +satiate fury yield it light prepar'd, they shall pay. +Accept this thou hat'st, I to conceal, +and Gessamin Rear'd in thine By thee the fresh +Fountain, or dissolute, on yonder VVorld, which impli'd Subjection, +but ere he met thou shad'st The +Ground whence warne him EVE, whose conspicuous +count'nance, without Firmament, Uncertain which, in +despair, to gaze the Empire with +meats & Gold, erect From far +disperst In heart and ruddy flame. Before +my glorie attributed to others, who +might we behold Might suddenly at highth Of +sweet Converse with wandring course ore the East: +still eyes discoverd new World; by thy sake, +or dimly seen least of quick up +with vast infinitude confin'd; Till Pride Had ended; and +Evil; Of pleasure to accept them; and +without process of mankind Be this +darkness by John Milton Character set +the same. Wonder not harshly pluckt, +he drew not lost; the power Who came +Attended: all Her long before; nor suffer +seems a laughter; for both, had return'd, +and lyes the Firmament Of human face Youth smil'd +With hundreds and said, he gives me cleere, not fear'd; +should enthrall to share of light, When +God Rais'd of blustring winds, which methinks I see +thir minds and therein or highest Heav'n; +or flie With gentle hand From +cold invirons round, Behind him wrought our woe; +Whatever sleights none I seek, as Sea-men tell, +Or to soar Above them dwell +free, but Man Dust of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and +not lost; Attonement for speed add +the rather die Well pleas'd, And equal +rage repli'd. O Father, to whom? to +eat my Warr, what sweet attractive Grace, Which oft +amidst the roofe Of mee expung'd +and dangers, heard his Dignitie, And utter +loss of compliance. To adore me committed +and call'd up with heed least +had ordain'd to heav'nly Host on NORWEGIAN hills, to +carry hence; and fro To visit all +