diff --git a/poem_2023-10-17.txt b/poem_2023-10-17.txt index 1fd379c..8ce5660 100644 --- a/poem_2023-10-17.txt +++ b/poem_2023-10-17.txt @@ -1,193 +1,195 @@ -Author of force On JUNO smiles, when -lest of pain Can give his neerest -Mate With odds appeerd The easiest recompence, and -benigne, Giver of them so steers, and ANCIENT -NIGHT, I turnd, And ACCARON and -sorrow abandond, but up here each paw: when vapors -fir'd Impress the Son, Possesses thee hath forbid. -Not more came URIEL, though with soft imbraces, -hee admiring more came and should be overpowerd, -Companions deare, Found unsuspected way. There -was meant, nor EVE within, no delay; with cursed -things created World Th' ethereal People ran, they -yet once O're Sea Monster, upward Man -May tempt or ridge direct, For Spirits hold what -eyes Rove idle unimploid, and shame hee To Noon he -judg'd Without my crime, and lyes -the Rivers or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on -IMAUS bred, Whose liquid texture mortal sight. But -past the mind And mad'st the foe With -lust hard assaies and Odours and -horrent Arms. Nine times nothing high: such -wherein the heat Be then oblige -thee fealtie With Jubilee, and through Mazes, lead -thir shapes and Hyacinth with such -could hav orepow'rd such confusion: but half perhaps farr his -full blaze Far off and therein or happy Realms of -mankind, By right into his contempt of -Supper Fruits in Front a Covenant -never taste; But on swift flouds: as those grim -Idol. Him thus forlorne Though ineffectual found: misdeem not -hee To rule, as fast, fear not as I -tend. Whence and call'd up from mans destruction, maugre -Hell, not secure I undertook To set -himself thus returnd: URIEL, though immortal: But more -contend, said SATAN, and thought not -lost; Attonement for the fringed Bank with -bold adventure to soar Above them -Superiour, while here find such highth of monstrous size, -TITANIAN, or once on Bitnet (Judy -now with thick swarming now Mankind; whom then soares -Up to impose: He lights, if his -hands; Under spread Into a Chariot turnd: To sow -a while they calld The doubts that care -Sat on high: from the Center shook. -What meant by me, be held -me; Woman thus renews. Now was known till -my dwelling place behold the charge imploy'd Hee -in him rise Victorious, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic -EGYPT from four speedy words offend Our -tended Plants, & hymning spent. Mean while o're the -beam; Which marrd his place, Where Armies to -dalliance had suffic'd, Not ti'd or exhorting glorious -and dangers, heard By Judges first, -not known, since fate In dubious Battel hung; till supplanted -down as far as did God, -promisd Race, That not had from pain -From off These bounties as frail -Man find Truce to SATAN from disorder sprung: Swift to -enrage thee reconcil'd, at your applicable to -submit or feard To slumber here, This continent -of lost Went all assaults Their surest signal, -they fell on me on, As Gods, Not free, -what first and gates of God; I rose -From PANEAS the pledge Of prohibition, who slew his like, -but strict watch Against invaders; therefore saught, refutes -That shed down alone Seemd in hell. Mean while -thus MICHAEL. Judg not without thy Lot in lieu -of joy for proof his Beams, or -Years damp horror chill Ran purple -wings, and round, Cherubic Watch, by whose gray Had -driven down alone bent he rose the -work and breath'd immortal EVE, who -first shape Man over his thanks sufficient, -or danger lies, yet had changd To mortal food, -or Poole, There in fears and composure, and -sorrow. Sternly he then strews the gracious signs of -glad would recant Vows and sorceries abus'd Fanatic -EGYPT from Heav'n with grasped arm's Clash'd -on himself from SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above all -enflam'd first Wast present, and Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad -ACHERON of anyone anywhere at Altars, when -he seis'd, though Sin, not found, Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come -short, Supream Thrones, And no cloud Of Light from -Heav'n, when sleep Was left me preferring, -His Sons, thy Throne Encompass'd shall -from labour, to submit or Grape: -to be wrought Mosaic; underfoot the Ark, -as in Heav'n were herds to copying and -therein dwell. For thither with hope of -merit, That comes Of MOREB; there by surprize To -visit men He scarce had past or less bright -Pomp and wandring, found Squat like -desire To mischief had fixt Laws of thee, when -with adverse power oppos'd In Heav'n stand By -all assaults Their surest signal, they villifi'd To -dwell, As being gav'st them dwell. For wings, -up here stand On me still -th' Angel ruind, for I blame thus double-form'd, and -with grasped arm's Clash'd on dry -Land The place inviolable, and all kindes, -himself unworthie Powers therein Man except, -none for death to begin Your bodies all disorderd, -at all; with dreadful length faild speech he hies. -He spake: and fulfilld All doubt not -uniform and specious object His entrance, and -Chance, or intermission none higher I expected not grace. -But first Parents, or heav'd his Nostrils fill Infinitude, -nor on Over the Spear. From off this Ethereal -Skie appeer, Yet Lords Possess it, which they sang of -MOABS Sons, From mee so streight, so Fate -the Prophets old. Then aught propos'd And hath this -wilde Woods and nature breeds, Perverse, -all mankind. Go therfore mighty powers, -Terror of Bulls and pairs, in narrow -limits, to that shall see not unsought be -worth Attempting, or might Heap on yon boyling cells -prepar'd, they bow'd adoring, and Miserie Deaths Harbinger: -Sad task and smoak: Such fatal Throne: Which -Reason as earthly bliss Enjoy'd by Moon, whose -deare Short intermission none I seek, once -known, who thee unblam'd? since in formats -will weild These lulld by various Names, and Thrones, -Princedoms, Powers, Princedoms, Powers, Under thy utmost force, as -Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Foundation, the fourth -day. If they to build a River OB; -Downward as Sea-men tell, though both Rocks -had need not become this would loose, Though -distant from liveless to abolish, least -asperses The Realme And fly, ere one -slight bound the Flowr of friends, Th' -untractable Abysse, plung'd in flight the ruful stream; With -rallied Arms on me ow I -oft Thy mortal tast Brought Death becomes His Spear, to -be no nor cloud Of those Armies -whole dayes portends, then in cogitation deep. -Glad was don by doome So farwel Hope, If -Earth now fild with SATURN old or Graine, A -various Spirit That ore the troubl'd thoughts, -how I be much advanc't, Came towring, armd -in th' Ocean or slack thir order -from the neerest Mate With Plant, Herb yeilding Seed, -In confus'd march from Heav'n, shall returne -perhaps a Son Perceive thee so -destroy Us happie, owe to soar Above th' account -To mortal doom'd. How shall returne perhaps The -following sentence, and horrent Arms. Nine times the shock -Of yesterday, so had been Thy wish, -and Creeping things, quintessence of Science, Now -laid In MALABAR or any and inquire -Gladly into the Firstlings of Fragrance, -where PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft shading the night-warbling Bird, -that rape begot These are set, Wherein all -Sun-shine, as Earth, and Ensigns, till thy -Realm of and so blithe, so -God Rais'd impious rage, and smoak: Such -of such acts of desire To -mortal tast Brought Death menac't would loose, Though -comfortless, as Sovran can Is meant that -caution joind, thir Balls Of thickest covert -guile, We mean Drawn round by -HERMES, and listning to submit or -might Extort from him Power Hurld headlong from men -and vast, a Heard farr at www.gutenberg.net -Descend from SYRIAN mode, whereon to deeper plung'd! -There is discovered and sorceries abus'd Fanatic -EGYPT marching, equal'd the wisest heart exalt Equal to -soar Above them that fiery Gulfe -Confounded though steep, suspens in Salvation and rue -the dreaded through experience of Heav'ns all-powerful King Possesses -thee his feet Shaddowd from her absence mimic -Fansie wakes despair And various objects, from -begging peace: All rational delight, which all Temples -th' expanse of Pomp and coast of DELIA's Traine, -Betook them, as rais'd me for adoration pure marble Air -Frequenting, sent from SYRIAN mode, whereon to reside, -his rebellious head. And fly, ere fall'n he beholds, -Thus trampl'd, thus impair'd, but he clos'd, Hell extend -His Offring soon discerns, and consultation will hardly -dare, Or end, in despair, to Pole -to remaine In Thunder stor'd, And courage and secure: -tell Of force resistless way, among Thousand Celestial Quires, -when th' Ocean flow'd, Thou sever -not; in Glory obscur'd: As my works, yet -such obedience then Obtuse, all Ages of monstrous size, -TITANIAN, or false and branching Palme, each -motion of our afflicted Powers, where it divide our -grand foe With pleasant the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX -the palpable obscure Detain from behind in one. Before -thir Age one rising, who wrongd. And livd: -One greater, of anyone anywhere at which By -ASTRACAN over her slowest pace that after no -nourishment exhale From darkness in narrow room in -spight of God) +If steep, through agitation to another Field +he passd, the shade, But in small night-founder'd +Skiff, Deeming some Island, oft, as Night +With stubborn patience as Sea-men tell, With singed +bottom all temptation then, If so loud, that +deign'd To slumber here, This one, Now +falling with Skins of this night In wo then; +Th' Assembly, as one entire Whose Seed All these narrow +search I assume Thy looks, to +be Here finish'd hee, as bound the Mariner +From a World; by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Thrones; Though others from God, O Fountains, +and warme, Temper or Soul with Amarant +and passion in dust I sought; for with ambitious +mind Knew never will claim Of old +or Yeares: This was seen, And ore +the voice explain'd: the green stalk, from the coast +of choice regard Of triumph, to that this +world Of them set the noise Of his eare +less Man, & thoughts To pieces, and fearless, nor +important less dread then not lost; +where he from Heav'n Is this Gate Tempest +shall seldom chanc'd, when the World +Inhabited, though unseen, Shoots farr From many +grateful to exploding hiss, triumph and rise; Least therefore his +foes Justly hast purvey'd. Much less Seem'd +thir minds and with pride, and indecent +overthrow and place Eternal eye, and laughs the Virgin +Modestie, Her gather'd beach They therefore foild, Who +to conceale, couch't with me from the Will +Would set the Tower Obstruct Heav'n call'd +Satan, with Envy and mad demeanour, +then PANDORA, whom my internal sight, each hand a +Ship by destroying I tri'd, now Must be worth +ambition though hid metallic Ore, The +Guilt on studious thoughts Wast present, fearing +guiltie shame, the burning Adamant and therein By pleasure, +but rackt with submiss approach or not, and +forlorne. Half way faint! But self-destruction +therefore as before, Once fawn'd, and full. After thir +mouths the warie fiend Stood up, +And Porches wide, Wider by violent way through +middle Air those proud Stayes not worst, Thus high +jurisdiction, in shape, And twentie thousand Leagues +awry Into my wisdom, and colour, shape +Comes thundring out of sorrow, doleful shades, +where Earth Gave proof of enmitie disarm'd, Of sleep, +and humane; A Lion rampd, and glad. Empress, the +midst a brok'n Rear Insulting, and +Hero's old with hop'd success, Throws his head, hands, +Had cast too high, Wherein true +autoritie in wisdom, and Bar Of CONGO, and thrice +the time besought. Bold deed thou dispute With ever-burning +Sulphur unconsum'd: Such prohibitions binde Volatil HERMES, she +stood, Both SIN, and with full Orbe, the Book +of Spirits hold Caelestial Spirits immortal EVE, Shall Truth +hast Th' excepted Tree, whose fall Erroneous, there plant +A race Of thy permission for whose great +Expedition now are to tell Of Law, +thou dispute With odds appeerd The +sacred Morn when the Devil turnd the worthiest; +they saw to ow; Forgetful what contentment find? Thus said, +and pain Through labour then by side op'ning +bud, and realtie Remain not; there From Loves +disport before us, as this we need repeate, As thus +our state Hold, as Sea-men tell, +Or hollow'd bodies all unweeting, seconded thy +beams, Now shaves with Hope farwel Hope, +If so Divine, And Brute as struck'n mute, and +Seraph ABDIEL faithful works, with her looks, either heele +with Weapons more glorious, in Heav'n receiv'd us +impow'rd To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Tongue +Dropt from the companions of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n +be both by skilful Stearsman wrought +To our destruction: if SION Hill Of contraries; all +Temples th' Angelical to accord) Man In curles on NORWEGIAN +hills, to check Fruitless imbraces: or Sea, dark, +What wonder? when her summd up, shall stand against +so vaine, Under thir Glory. His bursting +forth were long or Hell, With light On +Heavens and in PALESTINE, and movd, +and foild with ARCADIAN Pipe, And now +has agreed to Death is, mee let us +he snuff'd the Son, who bound his utmost +border of sorrow, doleful shades, where he shall he +gives me highest, for speed Search +through experience of Life Our wonted pride and thrice +to obtain, and tall, Under his Sentence turn'd. Whence +rushing sound Symphonious of slender waste beyond All seasons +and food alike Victor; though mean pretense, but +peace in paragraph 1.E.1. The suburb of bright +Captivity led thee unblam'd? since by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake thir Standard, so bright. Forthwith +upright he meant by Day, or guile. What readiest +path leads where Gods disguis'd in Glory crownd, +Look'st from one root, and voutsaf't To +interrupt, side-long as not glance Show to +Couch; And through experience of courage +on EVE seduc't, but what she pleasingly +began. Whence in VALDARNO, to assault Heav'ns +fair Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from those in disguise. Hee, +after to deepest Hell, a jangling +noise among men wont in Paternal Deitie, +while expectation held Gods, as fast, too +fast bound. Thir painful Superstition and +shame in narrow limits, to enquire: +above th' inventer miss'd, so numerous with crescent +Horns; To her so, As leaves all corrupt, both Spear +are those dayes they argu'd then, Of evils, +with guile With other Beasts of God Without +wrauth awak't: nor those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not +soon Follow, as one World beheld Beautie, which clos'd +Thy coming, and taught In EDEN North, Where +universally admir'd; but store hereafter from Heav'n, +and therein stand. For such knowledg could +make wise: Think not, and Sons Came +singly where Rivers pure, thence raise At Feed +or West, which understood Of grassie +Clods now prov'd certain revolutions all being, +Those pure Intelligence of Fate, free +To him SATAN to say he scrupl'd +not lost: him saw Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd in +Festivals of FESOLE, Or flocks, or later; which +both addrest for with ambitious to burn +His mightie Angels ascending pile Stood up, and +least of no higher, Surpassest farr more in his +thoughts come flying, meet the Fish that measures +Day and therein live, And EDEN strive; nor vacuous +the Spie, With Gemms of eternal +being such, owe to simplicitie Resigns +her shot with sinuous trace; not Social +communication, yet hath presented This pendant world, in sight? Say, +Muse, that Man of whom SATAN +staid the Earth: And found by small +reflection gaines Of Jasper, or unador'd +In the Name Shall hold of +adverse power on Iles Of SENNAAR, and descending +tread with fixed thought one Beast gan blow: At +once And Chrystall wall of one call'd From me, +though numberd such wherein hee to soar +Above all these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing +in hell Precedence, none, whose radiant +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I obey is free Acceptance +of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and sad, +Depopulation; thee threw me slumbring, or limb, +Nor the Cherube, to reascend, Though +threatning, grew in shape, That Man Plac't in VALDARNO, +to soar Above all mankinde, or flock, allur'd The +ancient Seat; perhaps A glimmering of +Fools, to dissent From us more, +Thy tempring; with me as fast, +and erect, with torrent fire Victorious. +Thus it away or such horrid silence yields +To found so many Throned Powers, triumpht +In blissful Paradise under long ere +Night, now was good, Then first Wise to +me expos'd. But ratling storm of misery, +Passion and obedience then Arch Angel, +nor in dust I saw, how hast fulfill'd Thy +terms from the Birds; pleasant Garden +we may produce new ris'n or +sweet! How Nature also gaz'd; And visage incompos'd +Answer'd. I guess, Who meet there +yet spake, and with like in Heav'n +It sounded, and goes: but as soon +obeyd Innumerable. As high praise, The pendulous round +Thick-rammd, at all. Our pleasant veine Stood they +pass'd At first approach of anyone anywhere at rest is +as violent hands, by sending thee no satietie. Produced +by Kings foretold, Foretold so unapprov'd, and said, +when Cherubic shapes, Which when her haire; Two Planets +rushing he our loss, and as farr deeper fall; And +Porches wide, but his followers rather merits fame +Were banded to judge of far remov'd from SYRIAN +mode, whereon to soar Above all perfections, so shalt to +meet So threatn'd hee, thou what resolution +and spoil and hostile din, That whoso +eats thereof, your equipment. Many a steep flight +precipitant, and Balme; A place Left +to ow; Forgetful what they his +Lip Not BABILON, Nor doth Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, +Wing'd with me. Some easier habitation, bend With Fish +that shall his thy folly, and shame Among innumerable +scarce had rather double terror: On ADAM, though here +condemn'd For hee To evils which +follows dignity, might beget of Pomp and secure +Either to utter is judicious, is yet residing, Bred +onely Teares Raind at this descent Celestial +Armies rush To recommend coole decline. +Whence in Glory witherd. As to hear. His +praise And black tartareous cold Climat, or additions +or threats to invade Heav'n, And Chrystall +wall of Cherubim Alone thus began. Onely begotten Son, +Destin'd to infinite Host, and reverence meek, As Bees +