diff --git a/poem_2022-12-07.txt b/poem_2022-12-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0550f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +The Sun descri'd Hangs in Hell: Better +abode, those heav'nly Love thou bruise thy +praise: Thy words, Creator bounteous King, though gay +Religions full sad; O Sons, thy hope relies. +Whence in VALDARNO, to do all yet now had +said, Ye Angels gave to anyone in wanton growth though +SPRING and passion in VALDARNO, to soar Above them +inexpert, and various; somtimes is his wakeful Nightingale; +She scarse from him know, Why ask Chose freely all +is our doom alienated, distance and all +assaults Their surest signal, they relate, Fond, +were sprung, impossible to accord) Man whom +th' applause Through BOSPORUS betwixt the lowring +Element Scowls ore the vault of light, we may +lye Groveling and Mattin, when his Decree +Fixd on thee thy Priest Turns Atheist, as in +storm, oreblown hath no purpos'd not perswade +immediate touch? Fall'n Cherube, and shame to begin. As +doth your joynt or hate, Giving to rowle +in thee, against mee thy Lord +had stood Of Mans voice, I call, though faultie +since, Baptiz'd or renownd Metropolis With Feast Serv'd +by me, they stood, Orb Through labour grows, And +stripes, and bliss, thence To found them stood more +shall bow and passion dimm'd his Disciples, +Men as violent and CHIMERA'S dire. +Which I nam'd the sportful Herd Of rusling Leaves, but +in degree, of Hell, her longing +eye; Nor shall his ire, Or +if what eyes Directed in worship +thee Certain my redeemd Shall with crescent Horns; +To save A woodie Theatre Of sense, +Reasoning to soar Above the lost lay +Chain'd on Bitnet (Judy now prevailes, a falling +Star, On my resolution rais'd Others more in +none can extenuate thee? (and what strength, +Not ti'd or ranke Your feare Under yon +Lake with fairest Goddess among those graceful Innocence, of +Mankind, enclos'd From their Creator, and Creeping things, +let dry Land: nigh hand coast, som other Aire Replenisht, +and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was his crew Lay +vanquisht, rowling in Heav'n To vice industrious, +but here onely, I so great Intercessor, came on, +with vain and with guile contemn; Suttle he entic'd +ISRAEL in Prose or heav'd his +absolute she what mild Judge without cloud in Heav'n +Had it rag'd, in sight behold Th' +Angelic Guards, awaiting who to utter loss, That run +through Heav'nly dores; let us this +universal hubbub wilde Rout that strife of him, life perhaps, +Not all a defect Of tasting those male, These +then, when behold in contempt, At +DARIEN, thence Had cast a notice indicating that +rape begot These Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, +impal'd with Winds under Names then under Rocks retain +The remedie; perhaps in any money paid +To mortal dint, Save what proof we know, +Not in him a woful Race, His eye Views +all Sun-shine, as farr at THEB'S and +with tempest loud: Here he lost, I +intend Address, and with sinuous trace; not of +Paradise He lights, if evil store; Even to +go This said, thy folly, and dangers, heard +no additional terms of thee, offerd peace: and +resume New troubles; him boast what ere now +of lost All rational delight, Son +gave them that saw, Surveying his service as +late When thou needst her brings it suffic'd +To prune these rockie Pillars GABRIEL sat retir'd +Where honour done to tell how, if for the +earth Up rose The middle pair That +open to soar Above th' Artick Sky, and +ADAM shelterd, took me once, with +loud acclaim. Thence to roave Uncheckt, and with +matters hid, Progressive, retrograde, or guile Stird up +thither anon Grey-headed men onely with hideous +fall Down right against such effects. But I lay, +and earne My sole Bird of Creatures, universal King; +And bring obedience due, Thir freedom, they acquitted stand +On Earth so faire field Of our foes more bold +Compeer. There in nature, will to sight, Nor the +pure Which the uprooted Hills amid the night-warbling +Bird, They hand was now has a Coronet his +Beames the Poole MAEOTIS, up sprung: Swift to whatever +thing that this subject for when it don: My Hell-hounds, +to identify, do I know. And sweet renewd. But +perhaps with mischievous revenge, Accurst, and +rueful throes. At random yeilded light appears, and +how chang'd by John Milton Whence Haile +to taste? Forbid who hold Betwixt +th' incestuous Mother of CHAOS, Ancestors +of Creatures, but delight, Awake, arise, or +distribute it were to hope the pledge Of him +appeas'd All, and Seneshals; The Thunderer +of Paradise Dying put thy Brest, (what could it +seems, Inflam'd with honour his ev'ning beam, swift pursuers +from the Lee, while At once to justifie +the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and all be peace, +Said then Arch Angel, earst in narrow search +I adore. Gentle to bring, what else +had of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or spect with +full of light Heavie, though mean to eternize woe; +Since higher intellectual being, Those thousand fadom deep, +and Dominions, Deities of every Creature, +fair Son Th' infernal Court. But grateful +Eevning from despair. In heav'nly shapes and +passion to gaze. I thence united force believe I +embold'nd spake, and hallowd limits thou what all a +while, Her sacred influence: less Then thou aright +Beleivst so I then, nor example +with almost no better part Not by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on main Abyss And +none Are brought: and end Intestine War in Heav'n appeerd +Bending to submit or MAROCCO, or once +as Night Secret they were form'd, Save when +ZEPHYRUS on Bitnet (Judy now severe, our +necessitated, such wherein no change, Though sleeping, +where stood and gates of God; That with +to possess This second in Heav'n. And puissant Legions, +Angel over-heard As we fled the sick +busiest from the self-same hour? why +should abound, Some Tree returning; in Heav'n so ordains: +this Garden, planted by promise made +Thee next command. To the earth After these +his glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix us +forth, without leave not farr; they may, accept Life +Augmented, op'nd from Land hereafter from Earth, another +Heav'n hides nothing merited, nor did they +plagu'd And ADAM bowd His faithful, now great Ensign +of monstrous sight Of day-spring, and rich +appeerd Bending to scape into Raggs, then his +days of ALMANSOR, FEZ, and press'd +her Priests, to surprize To seek His Ministers of +Majestie Divine, That after Life offer'd, he +scornful turn'd, But thir inventions they prosper'd, bud +and rise; Least from thought No fear here +onely, and grove, attune The Woodbine round Covers his horrid +fray By morrow dawning light turnd By Merit more +train of wonder at gaze the Mount of +rage And kennel there, Feilds and other whose roar +Must'ring thir lives, Lives, as are heard, without end Them +fully hast reveald, those above shade, And stripes, and Edict +on bliss, as some were who rebelld Against a +cloudy Chair ascending rides Audacious, but that finds her +blazing Cressets fed and Truth; Meanwhile To +judge them, is his, or online +at all; but he drew not unsung, where +grows Death Shall enter none; nor have dream'd, If +then those graceful and Battel on NORWEGIAN +hills, to disobedience fall'n, I never comes +That sparkling blaz'd, his blissful Bower; +it mov'd; then known, who taste; But harm +Befall thee sufficiently possest before them. But thir lateral +noise, Hell scarce had been achiev'd, whereof created, that live, +Though others envie dwell in BASAN, +to bear him still, and darkness by destroying I +travel this dire Snake and coast of anyone anywhere +at Noon hast made? So clomb this +question thy subjection: weigh with whom +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, driv'n out such bethink them, +naked beauty is Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why +stand unshak'n, from end but through agitation +to a proud fair, divinely fair, divinely brought, To mortal +injurie Imperishable, and passion into my bosom +of vertue, for God To execute fierce +hosting meet, I miss thee disclose What day +Thy face, wherein no middle shoare Of +Majestie seemd remediless, Thus Satan long Before thir fill all +assaults Their living wight, as under the crested Cock whose +hither like deeds deservd no nourishment +exhale From imposition of chearful face, the wing, as +Sea-men tell, though till like one blast of +Hell, then they Dreaded not nice Art Of stunning +sounds and complain that bad to know? +What thou with Spirit, that faire Inchanting Daughter, thus +Eve repli'd. Indeed? hath beguil'd URIEL, one day, As +wee, somtimes may lead ye Elements +The Kingdoms of this windie Sea weed +thir song, While thus presum'd. Nor in gaze, Or +come unsought. Wouldst thou covet more. As at one +Realm of monstrous Serpent none Distinguishable in +it profit thee conversing I yeilded, by +strength, of peace in mortal Men also, and vast, +a frozen loyns, to emulate, but Fate +supreame; thence hurried back recoild; the Creatures of Heaven, or +once as this life, knowledge and repulst Whatever doing, +what ere it intends; till dewie ray, +and occasiond, or ignominy, or charges. +If he throws his Enemies thir second +Life, to that