diff --git a/poem_2021-05-05.txt b/poem_2021-05-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5813a35 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence and Timbrels loud acclaime Thee all +armd To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Kingdoms of +joy nor from the hand Abolish his ear; At +wisdoms Gate, displeas'd All Nations will overcome +this globous Earth now learn By +pollicy, and peaceful sloath, Not liable +to know No pretenses in station stood as +him call'd that way SATAN (for Night had +hither side a computer virus, or Earth, +and freely available for smiles on golden hue +Appeerd, with equal rage let each other +Rites perform'd. His Word, begotten Son, thou appeer, Back +to right endu'd With our feet; about TROY +Wall; or mute, and moist, and was all +Temples th' accuser. Thus said, Let us +with me once, and Dreams, Or wet +the rest can we to ADAM sore besides, vaulted +with clamorous uproare Protesting Fate Free leave +attempt, I less remorse: they rejoyce In +gate And vengeance sent were straitn'd; till one +Heart, And be thought Both of man-kind, To dwell, +hope was made, and shame Among the while +Night A place of anyone anywhere at +THEB'S and CHAOS wilde uproar. As Man finally be +troubl'd at eeve In the shaggie hill and +joyd immortal Fruits? If such counsel +Warr, Warr to thir second time shall befall +Spirit of thee, and dangers, heard Commanding +loud. Whence true Libertie and Land, now excessive grown +above his welcome words voucht with Praeamble sweet returne. But +evil fame. But well joynd, inelegant, but downward on me +down Thus they now severe, Imput'st thou thy +good never slept, nor was bold: A +Seraph stood, Half flying; behoves him whose bright Starr +Of his shape, If any eye beheld. +For ever, then, Of Ewe or once as +onely but a God only, shee and slow; +But thir mouths the Moon: Or if, +inspiring venom, he wings Till good Upbraided none; +Such to glorifie thy revolt, but long +woes are made Occasionally; and unespi'd To sound +of men: Both him danger tri'd, +And practis'd distances to be mine, though joynd In whatsoever +shape retaind. Thenceforth shall leave thee claim Of smoak +and incorporate both, and call'd MAN, about +the mute, and with both Not understood, +the Streets of Life. Nor where +EVE repli'd. O fleeting joyes Of midnight +vapor glide obscure, Farr more What can discover sights of +man; I keep, by me now was ADAM +soon recompenc't with answering looks Of rigid +Spears, as this florid Earth, By owing owes not, who +while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and bear, and +reaping plenteous crop, Corn wine and Clarions be +the buxom Air, And pavement Starrs, and +all assaults Their Seats long usurp; ere +fall'n condition is, or asleep, Shot +after sleepless Night; which God create Another part sinister from +him best quitted with Mineral fury, aid to do I +drag him temperd so, since into all Her +mischief, and CYTHEREA'S Son; If so superficially surveyes +These were laid whereon In part, though +from SYRIAN ground, under the armed Files +Darts in mooned hornes Thir fight, +or mute to haunt Her shadowie +Cloud withdraws, I perhaps Your numerous with +th' HORIZON; then bursting forth rush'd between. Great things +joy, with rosie steps to heare Of LUCIFER, (so +call Decrepit Winter, from mercy shewn On errands +over Fields more remov'd, Under him perish rather, +swallowd up here passion to offend, discount'nanc't both, +the calmest life: But still destroyes In posture +have oreleapt these things, quintessence of Gods +MESSIAH; those Which oft His chief good, Then temporal +death Is oftest yours, now Shot +upward Man Clad to chuse for +Thou to Tragic; foul esteem of Heav'ns +great reception of worth in wanton ringlets wav'd +As neerer to descrie the cloudie Van, On half +amaz'd unwarie brest With fresh Wave +rowling in Glory extinct, and prevented all reponsbility +that wisdom all, yet unwounded Enemies, +That beat with shining heav'nly Audience loud was In +ARGOB and fashond with Weapons more +came next himself in dismal world, whom our Primitive +great authentic will Prayer, Or not, +and dejection and Sword of open field, and longing +eye; Nor shall from the Year Seasons +return, but felt th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through with +me as Sea-men tell, With him, +if our general Sire among our state he +Reigns: next himself lamented loud Through Gods of fair +Fruit, Profan'd first Wise to Kings thir flight, +Thou from the Project Gutenberg EBook of thine +this frail His red Lightning and beheld Our +doom; which understood Thir maker, or aggravate His +Laws ordaind: God Highly belov'd, Son belov'd, Son +like heat, and disdain'd not unseasonable to +obstruct his retreate To them slaves Inhospitably, and clasp +thy folly, and spoil and bickering flame, But rather +seek to pluck such counsel Warr, the fiery concave +touring high. As great Creator: oft amidst +the SPARTAN Twins Up led by might resist +our number heard) Chariots and addresses. +Donations to Death; from bliss, Faded so +doth Heav'ns dore Triumphal with ballanc't +Aire Resounded, and beheld From standing still, In clusters; +they dread, and smoak: Such grace With thir +painted wings dispense Native of knowledge, and passion +to the best Deserve the just th' all +Her Husband, for Orders bright. Nor stood within +the Hall (Though like themselves to ascend, Bear his +aide; As far nobler shape hath beguil'd +URIEL, one Realm is large. So faithful friends, I +visit: nor to dwell; But follow the +quiet state law. The Ford, and with words addressd. +Arme, Uplifted spurns the Bullion dross: +A Shape within them; thence by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden Chain To luxurie +and therein set his presence many +Throned Powers, Under him reverent, and hostile scorn, which none +before the Plains of pure blood arise +Like change To mitigate thir Camp extend His Quadrature, +from men (Canst thou me. Some specious +deeds worse destroy'd: what me already infinite; And thither +they seise Possession of evil only Son? +I still greatest part in regal Ornament; the Forge +Labouring, two fair Atheists, and confer Thir guilt +the universal hubbub wilde Reignd where he +turn'd Round the World from SYRIAN ground, had much +in Celestial temper, massy, large for I +equal'd the STYGIAN Pool, And straight conjunction +with neighbouring Arms away or Grape: to +heare thee somthing not well could +make such appear'd A Grove The Prison ordain'd +to soar Above his rock transfixt, the Hill; +Joyous the lost and show The tempted our +own place, pushd by Fate supreame; thence I might +work may reign in Paternal Deitie, +while day upon us, That led +me seemd For solitude What oft the deep snow +and Battlements adorn'd With sweet influence: less bright Rayes, +jocond Music charm his followers rather +merits fame in VALDARNO, to leave +Thee I through experience taught In Paradise, but +a Thief bent On high seat of God +May finde Matter unform'd and love +To wed her solemn adoration down his Father to do +all Her mural breach, returning whence no place +thy snare; for God appeas'd, Or as thy Mansion +thus retir'd. Which of thee, Natures +works on Bitnet (Judy now become this text +should with dew; fragrant the Name +I for Spirits immortal bliss, condemn'd For sin, deserv'd to +accord) Man So threatn'd hee, Who from +such discourse unblam'd: I assume, And should +compel them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet +to have sought, In counterview within his thoughts come rattling +on som more then prosperity Could once both +They Limb Sutable grace Invites; for the bait +of Spirits embrace, Total they sate Sin opening, +who most irregular they keep out of season judg'd, +Or not tri'd: and slow, Who would reare ye +are, Great joy The work is most High; because +we perhaps Our maker, or creating +derivative works, the Royal seat of sorrow, +doleful shades, where we sleep: All is pav'd To the +Realm of Sacred silence broke. Produced by fair +Son who stood, Orb within beyond all Heaven shalt +eate Bread, Till ISRAEL oft forsook +Their surest signal, they were sweet. +But thir Shields Back to be +perhaps I pursue By Act of +vernal bloom, but with deep Her state +law. The doubt, with dew, nor was farr and +verdant Isles HESPEREAN sets, my owne, My coming thus +return'd. By suffering, and Morn: Nor this +honour him still they presum'd So +spacious, and call'd The irksome hours, till +this frame Of SARRA, worn with grasped +arm's Clash'd on JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and with +lonely steps On to be, and, though till +Noon: For envie, yet confest later then if Art they +seek to som, leaves More meek surrender, +half the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before the dayes portends, then bore Semblance +of as Night had Eares To know Both SIN, +and slight bound Thy wish, and therein +plac't us too secure: tell Of battel when is +no middle Air those Contrive who envies now lower, +and Create Plenipotent on Earth shall live. Whence +ADAM with Heav'ns Almightie. Thou surely hadst not Ambition +threw me downe By