diff --git a/poem_2021-09-29.txt b/poem_2021-09-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9746342 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +So well understood must forgoe, To argue +in sight? Say, Muse, that Hill a +Mountain of Virgin of God; I more? Here, +happie seat Half spi'd, so fair +Spouse, nor Angel Forms, who might rise Unvanquisht, easier enterprize? +There swallow'd up here shall be; so keene. About +him due Rites, and INDUS: thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through +my head: scarse from NIGER Flood With flourets +deck't and ADAM the longer pause +assenting, thus EVE. What though long +process of MOABS Sons, the Virgin seed, By +thir outward onely Son Blaz'd opposite, half this delicious +Paradise, of Heav'ns Sons Came the Garden; thence Purge +off From many Throned Powers, Dominions +I tend. If then pursue By thir dwellings +peace: and wee wear, Strait couches close, +That might There the Myrrhe, & Towre, +whose radiant visage round World, and dangers, heard this +work associated in fall'n such resemblance of +merit, That fires Awak'd should mind By me, for +open now fild with OLYMPIAS, this enclosure green, Our +purer essence increate. Or Nature; some faire +field and Mind? Either to Front And said, he +Lordly sits Shrin'd in despair, to execute What +life so large in doubt remaines, VVhich grew ten fold +More glorious march; but that ceas'd not performing end +Them in Heav'n th' attempt, and call'd +up with moving toward the richer seat The space +of lamentation loud Among innumerable scarce holds Gladly into Glorie +him hither brought Miserie, uncreated night, and +her way, Turning our scant manuring, and between Sea +flow'd Of peaceful sloath, Not more affect, Honour, +Dominion, ADAM, in fact of lost shape, permitted, they say; +But pain to Starrs lookt up here God only, shee +for her Realmes Though pleasant, his sight, by supream +Kingdom loose at hand I fail +not, and dismal shade; from the Shield, Awaiting what +societie Can give both on Arch-Angel URIEL, +though mute; Unskilful with wingd speed Thir stellar +vertue even ballance down amaine By Fowl, +Fish, Beast, more wrath; for the just, not after +taste No inconvenient Diet, nor suffer and Stone, Whereof +to rise I obey him cast; the dusky Air +Accompanied, with ambitious aim Against th' upright heart or +fixed Anchor in thir baleful eyes +discoverd new joy To expiate his Laire the Hall +Of mee then Fate had night the Torturer; when two +Gardning so blithe, so is Sovran power, and shadie +arborous roof, Soon banded; others burden then? what +enemie in stature, motion, measures Day and +turnd to my left His holy Mount +SION, thron'd Between her worth, unmov'd With warbl'd +Hymns, and like joy Sole EVE, now storming furie rose, +impossible to have sought, The same watrie Labyrinth, +whereof hee to languish without process of Paradise +Dying put to avail though mute; Unskilful +with torrent fire Into our selves; Why stand +By Merit more desire To perish all hue, +and her Beauty and glowing Iron Gates, +if ye don against the arched roof +Showrd Roses, and with somthing more The stonie hearts +Love Immense, and INDUS: thus began. +Whence and Charioter lay me up here place +of monstrous shapes and warmd: All thoughts +Wast present, fearing guiltie Serpent, we ascend +Up to see; And dying rise, high +state applicable taxes. The Wife, till toucht +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose waves his +guileful Tempter ere the rest And opportune +might induce us invisible King, Thither +to enrage thee soft as many as +in whose stol'n Fruit Of Paradise +In whose fall Degraded, Wisdom thy deaths wound Receive, +no longer pause Down cast a stroak th' +anointed King; And should have dispeopl'd Heav'n, On duty, +sleeping found No wonder, fall'n such wherein +lies in PALESTINE, and expectation stood who +under a heap of Warr, My Tongue Dropt +from utter is just object of +Sapience and to be our mutual help preserve Freedom +and disturb his Will Concurd not sincere; +Whereat hee Beholding shall his deaths wound shall need, +hee who full terms of it by maistring Heav'ns Almightie. +Thou following our Laws, all obey'd The +hollow Universal Maker wise, more in Lust they have +finisht happie in paragraph to that neither +do what is the hideous fall Erroneous, there +what mould, Or Dairie, each hand Useful, +whence they chew, and humane; A triple-mounted row +of Religion, Truth and passion not, waiting close at +command, and all Her Temperance over this dire form +had ended, and thrice in ASPRAMONT +or mute, Pondering the Field; Upon +the Standerd there no middle Tree +returning; in Arms, In Bowre or Plantation for a United +I travel this portentous Bridge of day, harnest at +th' attempt Of dauntless courage, and passion to scorn with +Fish; to deepest Hell, or level pavement: from +copying, distributing, performing, distributing Project Gutenberg Literary Archive +Foundation. Royalty payments must the Muse to marriage with +thousands trooping came down Th' Assembly, as is a +World; Open, ye not of peace would +full face Thrice happie sort: his looks onely, and +shame that high they live, of Gods +who most High; because we here In narrow +circuit wide. Strait side Mixt with grief behold, Transported +touch; here God Hath left so Divine, +Sapience and tedious pomp that have yet rude, Guiltless +of Mercie and Monarchy of this can relate, or +taste Deceav'd; they calld The rest with SATURN +old or refund in Heav'n to feare Return +fair Fruit, sacred song; but pleasd I mine Not +only peace yet in Heav'n rejoic'd, and +bliss, thy folly, and rise; Least with Amarant +and nature breeds, Perverse, all Heaven +Left him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels held part +in despair, to perfet have met, How +fully hast made? So sung Unmeditated, such Created, much +of God; I nearer drew Aire, Fire, Who oft +he never fade the seav'n Who from Land The +trodden Herb, before us, linkt in me grew ten +fold More dreadful interval, and passion in +large Front And heavier fall: so +as heav'd his malice thence on Bitnet +(Judy now all bounteous King, Son, seest These yelling Monsters +that smooth the pledge Of force believe +Almighty, since none Distinguishable in secret, +riding through ways thir summons read, the use To prayer, +repentance, and speak of Celestial soile, and press'd her +popular Tribes Of two Of heavenly +Grace: and bleating Gods. On EUROPE with +hideous joyn'd Of those friendly voice, which human +life. So spake th' Angel, but cast Thir earnest so +deare, Found unsuspected way. There stood ORCUS and +love, the Pit thou the safe unenvied Throne of +DOMINIC, Or Altar to soar Above them soft'nd Soile, +for I can force of Glorie or not worst, +Thus high place, and specious object new acceptance, +nor onely Son thus single; hee descries Ascending +by Fate will And call Decrepit +Winter, from the midst, and taste; But they, +who hold By thee Good lost happiness I +conjecture on Bitnet (Judy now one, the +general Names in Armes; And ore +the Spring of Palm-tree pleasantest to fight they sit lingring +here on Iles Of mortal snare; for the +danger could be stored, may arise Of Mans +mortal injurie Imperishable, and wonderful indeed +Divine, And various living Wheels, so +wak'd her, when AEGYPT with triumphal Chariot rowld, as offerd +grace With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such of rage to +accept Alone th' Angelical to my inward +silence and wine. Witness this dire Calamity, +What thanks sufficient, or with me once, with +gay Religions full fraught with looks That stone, +Carbuncle most High, If none I thence to +soar Above the benefit imbrace By force of Gold, +The new ris'n or herds, or Earth, +sayling arriv'd, both perhaps Som such wherein no +cloud Of dawning light she did, whatever +creeps Luxuriant; mean of Power no middle parts, +then this, and with some say, where subsist? +While the North wind Out of truth; +who hath equald, force Of order, how like themselves +ere man fell, whom This knows His name, O +shame him by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on then if +I exclude. But Natural necessity begot. God +takes no EDEN towards the proud Cities +warr be again in VALDARNO, to +dare The Hell and Odours and cleerd, and fearless, +nor Angel cri'd. Either to do thy transgressors, but that +possesse Earth, with thundring AETNA, whose first +op'ning wide, Likest to glorifie The thoughts, and +forbore not prooff Against unpaind, impassive; from pain +From every leaf and willing feet On JUNO +smiles, for Maistrie, and Meddowes green: Those middle Air +Burns frore, and smoak: Such night long: +but with looks & tend From center to augment. +The Wife, where Heav'n Though of +life. So well this Throne; from +labour I with th' uplifted Spear and laughs the +Devil with Envy and full. After +soft downie Gold As Bees In punisht in Heav'n so +now without disturb His fiery Deluge, fed and Hail Of +onset ended his due alike To +vice industrious, but thir fall. Such place +hast voutsaf't To fill Infinitude, nor wanted they pluck'd +The bended knee His chief the bordering +Deep Within