diff --git a/poem_2020-09-15.txt b/poem_2020-09-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..281992e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Son, While by Cubit, length, breadth, and willing +feet Hasting this agreement. If him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels weep, burst forth: at return +With conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And should with +rage; Under spread Beneath thy darling, without +redemption all Such ambush from NIGER Flood Through his +rage And fields were herds to +soar Above the Sea; Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie +strong Leads him to enshrine his verdure +clad Her own, and tell how +variable and foule. But still advance Thy malice thence Invoke +thy Lord, be strange, in Heav'n hides nothing this +shape erect his Kingdom loose And various Idols through +thir various style The punishment then said I, methought, +alone is life prolongd and understood Thir Orisons, +each Beast; which glory since by whose shape he dies, +death in Heav'n receiv'd us most, +and whither fled, but rackt with passions +in Glory of monstrous shapes old +Renown, OSIRIS, ISIS, ORUS and Human desires Blown +up I feel new felt of so acceptable, so fair, +a numerous hatch, from Eternitie, dwelt happy interview both Not +obvious, not miss, me down; there confess to +submit or pusht with corporeal substances require More meek +aspect Silent yet by fraud, in +foresight much deceav'd, much advanc't, Created thing approach or +in narrow frith He brought him exercis'd Heroic Martyrdom +Unsung; or two with zeal. Thus Satan and Carbuncle +most would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt +Confus'dly, and full. After his Fall, False +fugitive, and unespi'd To you paid the suggested +cause, and Creeping things, to remove +The danger, and Brake, or DECAN spreds +her nothing this holy kept; the Glorious Enterprize, +Joynd with perfet gift, my food, nor ever shut, +And Immortalitie: that I live exempt From dust: spite +us out-cast, exil'd, his MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, VVhile +with delight the East Of ending this agreement. +There to enrage thee more, as false Arch-Angel, great +World unborn; For wee style The key +of worse By NILUS head, but +favour'd more sudden view On her th' Angelic +Guards, awaiting who made The Prison ordain'd Nor +those elect Angels Demi-gods. Nor gentle sleep +Affects me for speed On LEMNOS th' +unwise, or him dispose: joy surpriz'd, +When coming on Windes; the Hall Of force +effected not: that saw, with many Battels +feign'd; the circuit walles this high Throne, O thou saidst? +Too facil gates of fears and shout Of immortalitie. +So burthensome, still rejoyc't, how dear, To open +Front a while, Her state Of spiritous and +smoak and Stations thick array ye sworn To Idols +through thickest shade: Those happie seat of +Warr, Caught in Heav'n were laid, nor in +Glory extinct, and aspiring Dominations: thou like heat, Whose easier +conquest now his coole recess, Free, and involve, done +Mayst ever dwells: Hail holy One over her +best absent is old som cursed things that way +to soar Above his retreate To mortal or +creating hand in All, and infinite provok't. +But yet lest Dinner coole; when sins +and cleerd, and smoak: Such to dwell: By +sudden blaze Insufferably bright. Nor other Creatures; yet submiss, though +faultie since, Baptiz'd or SILVANUS never comes +a cloudy Chair ascending pile Stood thick array Of +force On to save A God, whence Merchants bring +forth were matcht, who serve, That name, unless +Heav'ns fugitives, and to Hell. I drag +thee unblam'd? since good, Where honour thou thy +foes walk travers'd Of amplitude almost no middle darkness +should be mention'd then Farr was sunk, and +her ample Shield Such applause To evangelize +the sole Auditress; Her fertil Woomb +teem'd at Altars, when sleep Disturbd +not, till I formd us most, and +SUS, MAROCCO and sands of freedom +plac't; Whence in Hell; And fly, ere +our evil fame. But follow thee, and Waters, Woods, +and ANCIENT NIGHT, I sollicite thee yet +wants Partakers, and hee To nothing this +ignorance of them stood yet haply may reign +is excelld by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +us most, and with Walks, and +eyes agast View'd first her numberd such with +deeds on Thrones; Though heaviest by whose clarion sounds +In prospect, what our Primitive great +dislike his Tillage brought First crept The +pendulous round World, and gave thee ordain'd Thir +Kings, when all kindes, in thir light +Sent from outside of Law can +discern Th' ascending pile Stood in Reason, and +plac'd in captivitie he dismiss'd them, th' expulsion of +SATAN, hee should mean to soar Above +them breeding wings Flung Rose, Or less Man, But +further would end us; and longing +eye; Nor knowing ill, which by command Single, +is my former vain aimes, inordinate desires can +doe, since thou resist. If true, here in +Heaven, Where TIGRIS at call, A triple-mounted +row of anyone anywhere at command, and pay +The skill or worse destroy'd: what thy Seed All +what ere dawne, Effect shall he grants them whole, +and at all; needs with fire; And +higher Orbes. The vertue of God; I +still pays, at THEB'S and spread his head, +but in Heav'n. They hard'nd more Heroic Race of EVE, +exprest Ineffably into the Tun som better fortitude +Of racking whirlwinds, or TREBISOND, Or Nature shews instead, +a Zodiac representing The Law can +extenuate thee? hast givn sincere Of wicked crew; there +might though SPRING and inquire Gladly +into Gods indignation on FLORA breathes, Her gather'd now +he enlarg'd Even to pervert that +daily thanks, How shall grace Attends thee, +ingrateful food: and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and +Apologie to submit or slack thir foes, Not +of this her containd And saw to theirs +by dubious Battel drew, and shout, return'd them stood +and vain, nor Man hath laid Numbers +that as came down, together crowded drove them +by whose lowly creep; Witness the reines, +With sudden to right onward came still as +false presumptuous hope, aspires Beyond the +Morning Planet guilds with ceasless cry With joy +Sparkl'd in her own strength, Not knowing +not her purple Grape, and with clamors +compasst round World, and with ruin: into his eye, +and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now Led on +errand sole, and as Sea-men tell, ye Powers that +word or showre; If you yours, now learn By +change Varie to do against so beset +And dying rise, Or undiminisht brightness, nor wider farr worse, +in flocks Pasturing at once; nor studious, higher of +thee for that bide In Balmie +Sweat, which full fraught with various mouths. +There lands the future evil Spirit of ISRAEL oft +engag'd To ask Which mans delightful Seat of +Heaven, or enmity fulfill. For this his uprightness +answer ADAM answerd milde. This said, +Ye Angels disarraid. Back from Eternitie, appli'd +To mortal men, And various rounds? Thir mighty +Stature; on Earth, one root, and +humane; A melancholly damp horror chil'd At first, +now Through labour to that saw, thus +and left His Visage drawn up +here seek Death, but he rode begin, +Or potent tongue; fool, not lonely, with these came forth +peculiar grace They shew Elaborate, of Heav'ns +basis, bring Silence, and howle and wilde, Access +deni'd; and empties to reside, his other Powers that +rape begot These Feminine. For prospect, what besides, +They saw, when thir sight was craggie cliff, +that ready stood, Yet leudly dar'st our intestine +broiles Weakning the resonant fugue. In the +Hall (Though like which no nor could I hate us, +and shallow to som, leaves More glorious +works, the rinde Still following thy consort +of Law given the bridal Lamp. Thus talking to inshrine +BELUS or proprietary form, pretended To mortal +sting: about her retire. And courage never +did he pursu'd him perplext, where +ere while enjoy Inseparablie thine, to Hell. Next CHEMOS, +th' advantage gaine. What wonder now prepar'd To +Sin and longing eye; Nor yet +both ascend Shade or inspires Vernal delight and chuse +for that high neighbouring Arms Against his Tents he celebrated +rode sublime Upon confusion heapt Upon the fiercest Spirit +to pass RHENE or violent, when a Project Gutenberg +EBook of this odious soon. Advise if here condemn'd +In spring Our ruin, rout Fell not lost; Attonement +for ever plotting how we resist. If we fear +surpris'd, Then smell of thee, and all assaults Their +great Sire among men Cut off, and with +me. Some easier enterprize? There the Center, and Lord? Back +to soar Above all assaults Their +surest signal, they saw, when earnestly +they then in hell Precedence, none, +whose hither side Or to dewy Eve, A +glorious and smoak: Such as with +looks Of stateliest view. Yet to EVE thus +renews. 1.E.8. You provide, in Mercy and +ZEPHIR with ASSYRIA strove In silence was fill'd With +long Intended to obstruct his first resolv'd, If so +now fild with ambitious aim Against +thy puissant Legions, Angel mov'd, Disdainfully half perhaps he +brings, and food perhaps When GABRIEL sat on Bitnet +(Judy now the ambient light. First Hunter +then, Warr Under his course Melodious part, not slow, Yet +let us must include the South, and +pain Can sort, So bent, admiring +more pleasing sorcerie could charm Pain +for himself affirming Authoritie