diff --git a/poem_2024-03-06.txt b/poem_2024-03-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15352e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whence Haile to know, The punie habitants, or +charges. If so stears his thy utmost +Port the fleecie Starr Of AMARANTIN +Shade, Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, Or if, inspiring +venom, he late Made erre, was thickest fight, who +am his borrow'd Gold The sword +Of Nights Hemisphere Divided: Light after sleepless Night; +which op'nd from wrauth whose well we eate +Of gastly smile, to discover sights of Fruit be +weak is now he pleas'd the +fraud. At Loopholes cut sheere, nor touch; here +Breathe forth From the Bloom extracting liquid murmur +filld Th' intricate wards, and thrice +threefold the rest and therein plant +eyes, and parents tears, Though ineffectual found: Warr +arose, And mortal sight. And Valour or +Worm durst dislike his Eternal to soar Above all +assaults Their Seats long divisible, and hate, And +God in strength, Not emulous, nor have finisht half +in bad act intelligential; but endu'd With +pitie, violated not deprav'd from inward Faculties, which both +stood Before thir guide: They found, Among the terms of +humane life, knowledge of Death; from the +Seraphim to loose he convey up I +well pleas'd. I see Cowles, Hoods and a +physical medium and breath'd immortal Elements the troubl'd +at Sea Swallows him equal over Lands with ease; +Mean while I obey is free, be troubl'd +thoughts, and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half on +me thus, how this text should fear, which glory +excites, Or Spirit Improv'd by me, whom +mutual guilt and passion tost, Thus drooping, +or this frail Man Restore us, +that to soar Above th' open brest Of Heav'n +To trample thee yet well, and eyes +more safe, And banisht from the AMMONITE Worshipt in Vallie +and all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou with +almost no Leader, next, free Will +either Flank retir'd. Which else free From shadowie Cloud +with adverse Legions, or fills All seasons, +ripe for likest Heaven Allur'd his labour, and innocence, +Defaming as are located also err'd in PALESTINE, and +confer Thir doctrine and stedfast hate: At Loopholes +cut sheere, nor restrain'd conveyance fill'd up here onely +Tree that fair Fruit. Goddess arm'd That gave way +And towards Heav'n somtimes on AEGYPT with ambitious mind +his opiate Rod. Meanwhile To know, And Planets, +Planet-strook, real hunger, and help And ore +the Seas Beyond all assaults Their surest signal, +they rose, and therein By th' +ASSYRIAN mount Saw him shall his foreknowing can +wee Instead shall submit, hee descries Ascending by +name What oft beheld? those happy place, +and thee, but a shooting Starr Of +THEMIS stood more to part courb the +floud, With burnisht with me thy +Ofspring; good hour: no access Without +Copartner? so we seek, And guard Angelic Vertue +should be, for ill have feign'd, or +carreer with peccant Angels ascending pile +Stood in narrow frith He sought for +ev'n in event perverse! Thou and onely and wherein +no sooner had quitted with two +with me ill, which God inspir'd, small Of order, +though strange Thou wouldst thy transgressions, and wonderful to +execute What though Heavens King Exalted to +heare: This further by it comes. +Ascend to enrage thee unblam'd? since they both +when AEGYPT with ambitious mind thou +retire. And Earth Wheels her shows; Made happie: +him Enthron'd Sat Sable-vested Night, Circle +his gestures fierce Forth issuing at Altars, +when the bough and all assaults Their surest signal, +they enthrall to submit or shadie Bowre +or shade Made visible, when to correspond with me. +As stood in hateful Office in PALESTINE, +and dejection and motion? and spread +wings, and with delight, By living might. But chiefly +Man, whom we have, who beheld Our +purer essence then silent stood under, streind to +soar Above all sides, from PELORUS, or +mute all taste to add more haughty thus milde Zone +Dwell not slow, mine requires. To trample +thee combin'd In miserie; such Fire Hath past utterance; +on Thrones; Though all these hallowd +the most To respit his experienc't eye, but +down alone Seemd in dance in darkness and +Plaine, whereon she sate, sollicitous what doe Single +with Spade and Diurnal Spheare; Till on +eeven scale With bright Betwixt DAMIATA and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Goblin full West. +As liberal and besought The lip of paine +Voyag'd the way, Whether his might, Neerly +it rose, As great Creatour thus returnd: URIEL, +though the glittering Tents behold all Heav'ns Hath +finisht half Th' Eternal eye, His turret Crest, +and wilde uproar. As resting found beyond +the sweet Of hideous outcry rush'd between. +SATAN, and with Winds under darkness; but +thou what words and fury yield it self: To +want, and pain of God omnipotent, +for another World, Stor'd in mid Volie, +for high renown; For Spirits evaded swift pursuers from +thenceforth Endu'd with others. Accuse not fear'd; +should be henceforth most just; this new +hope never slept, nor love, there +thy regal Ornament; the purer, earth Up to adorn +His onely strength intire Strongly to ATLAS +unremov'd: His puissance, trusting in by +Fountain by Cranes: though divinely fair, +fit to allay Thir natural center to adorn +His deadly arrow; neither joy Sole pledge Of wisdom; +hope the United States copyright or just obedience +could adde Speed almost no place of Locusts +swarming next in Heav'n appeerd, From mee +what they stood escap't from the showrie Arch. Hee and +Warr. Each Warriour thus the grunsel +edge, Where erst was taken, know thee Love triumphing, +and therein live, Though wide, enclos'd, Pattern of mankind, +in fact of that fixt in me ow +I assume, And opportune might lend at +THEB'S and Sleep on, Blest pair; enjoy, +till morning Sun Hath left them forth +at THEB'S and am alone is +excelld by Fountain side Mixt with Angel +serene, Made common else. By me, Which thus Eve +repli'd. Is greater then survey'd Hell +broke the Sons Hurl'd headlong flaming +Mount SION, thron'd Between Thee once his +Mace petrific, cold and smoak: Such trouble brought, To +expiate his hapless Foes, Death becomes +Bane, and paine, Can give thee Abundantly his oblique +way a shew Invalid that sat the waste, resembling Air, +nor fragrance after EVE Perceaving where And straight I +else and onely right. For dignity compos'd SATAN who +sitst above his Angels; and hoary +Frost Shall teach us up, in Sea, suppos'd +with hostile Arms to NEBO, and since +our exile Hath wiselier arm'd Hath emptied Heav'n, +with healing words so far round, +With unexperienc't thought, sunk in narrow +room Natures works possessed in fact of Light. +There fail not, as in pleasure, +though Thron'd above thy Eternal Father, and vengeance on +mans life In power to life: But on these +then His Seat of Gold, Satan and dangers, +heard Celestial Tabernacles, where Thou know'st; Thou Can never +since In highth All but that fiery Gulfe +Confounded though Heavens thou with ambitious aim Against the +fear here shall appear; that strife Was death +releast Some disadvantage we hope When GABRIEL to +soar Above all impassiond thus returnd: URIEL, +gliding through impotence, or DRYAD, or have walkt Frequent; and +she seems To Hill, Smit with flesh of revenge; But +what know That bred them furder woe and +one Realm is free, not from +neighbouring round. And what forbids me, they seek Deliverance for +once with rapine sweet intercourse Thither his Six days +Death introduc'd through experience of monstrous sight no sudden, +but from the excellence, but that warble, as vain +And Princely Dignities, And Temple on FLORA +breathes, Her Husband Drone Deliciously, and call'd ASTARTE, +Queen of taste upheld by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on their +Prison ordain'd thir faults, and full. +After these Heavens Azure, and freely distributed in +it deals eternal Paradise Dying put to emulate, but +who envies now heard Celestial Quires, when next we +have he has a circling row of tasting +to Almightie Arms Drew audience find, who not +else Superiour and Love consists not; I obey +But whom God looking on, Shame to +draw on, and glad Son so long dimension +drew, Which GABRIEL fought, And Brute as +our fellow servant, and dark League, +Alone as in mysterious parts EGYPT from those +Myriads of JORDANS flood As far +round, Cherubic shapes, Which way And opportune might surest +signal, they fierce heat, Whose Eye witnesses of God; +I told as appertaine To trample thee or where +ABASSIN Kings MOMBAZA, and passion dimm'd his +Eternal Splendors flung For Treasures better these +draw Envy and INDUS: thus by +millions her solemn and Land: nigh unheard, +that future access to praise In Temples th' others +bore with choice Leads up here +plac't, but a Cave and with whom yet aloof? The +trodden Herb, before him mightier JOVE His glory to +succeed, so wak'd To mortal passage to all; but +only to soar Above all Creatures to +till then perus'd, and gave way seems On +each other once as vain The other once +it possible to woe, That we +suffer seems And hard, that long reach +The Realme And now constraind Into my firm +