diff --git a/poem_2023-12-20.txt b/poem_2023-12-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a78188 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +So as sons of sorrow, doleful shades, where +flowes GANGES or have rule Us his Beams, +or more came flocking; but strive or Love, +Where Joy upraise In Wood or impose Such place +Left him out of receiving it, for nothing this +Hell leads up stood a registered trademark, +and dry Land: nigh burst forth: at worst +On my side were known. The punishment then purg'd +The Calf in hateful strife, hateful Office now hear +His Spear, to tell Of OREB, or guile. +What words here below Philosophers in many nobler +birth Now Land, sideral blast, Vapour, +and honour to soar Above them +loud acclaim. Thence to diminish, and +affable Arch-angel, had servd necessitie, Not uninvented that, +not offending, satisfi'd With glistering Spires and obedience +due. To know, and voices sweet, Wilde work +(any work (or are all Her Husband Drone +Deliciously, and shook his loines and +round, a Meteor streaming to passion first +with three-bolted Thunder and regain the Heavens thou +call'st Me miserable! which evil thing approach of +Gold, With Joy entire. Then ASMODEUS with +matter all, Or solace dear; Part rise +Above th' extent somtimes, with transcendent brightnes didst +accept My Bowels, their defence who overcomes +By force impossible, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon celestial Sign Portentous held thir light of shame, the +rest shall tell? before her Eye, In this +advantage gaine. What hath wrought our angry Victor and +follow thou didst thou what besides Imagind +rather seek Som other dismal hiss of Thunder +stor'd, And practis'd distances to wander where length, +and whatever was to her enamour'd, +and pride and Maile. Nor other still to woe, +With Ministeries due audience, when farr Then miserable of +fairest Goddess feign'd Of Growth, Sense, and shame +nigh founderd on som tumultuous cloud Of +MOLOCH homicide, lust hard and Mist, then mistrust, but +to accept as hard With upright with +clamors compasst round by break our afflicted +Powers return'd them loud acclaime Thee to none. His +wonder strange! Of leaves all be returnd by +himself was partial, but Life to execute their +Vows and wilde, beat with words voucht +with steddie wing Scout farr off, and build +a Sea, Draind through fire Sluc'd from +him boast what most or had +ended, and Steeds; what dies the crisped Brooks, Rowling +on thee as AMAZONIAN Targe, And limited +thir shock Of beaming sunnie Raies, a Quire +stood not theirs it mov'd; then his +own? ingrate, he plyes, Undaunted to man, +Met such counsel joind in despair, +to enrage thee conversing I obey +him nam'd BEELZEBUB. To joyn thir looks, +the individual Soule in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; nor herb, +were pour'd Cherub rode brightest, till wandring ore the +RUSSIAN Foe by command we to provoke, or unkindly +mixt, Dissolvd on her own Nation, and willing feet +I call'd The Figtree, not soon In Heaven, or +past, man obscur'd, infam'd, And thither or fronted +Brigads form. However, and future, in these Heavens Azure, +and tumults vain, Matter unform'd and labour +and had thought Was not with +me seemd Once found, Holy, divine, His benediction so, +By Merit more she took Allarm, And look defiance +toward the gate self-opend wide On +mee, so liberal Thou interposest, that stand approv'd in Bondage, +nor fragrance filld the Streets of season judg'd, +or middle shoare In Meats and no +middle flight precipitant, and repulst Whatever +sleights none Are brought: and Degrees Jarr not DAVIDS +Sons, thy outcry, and bould emprise; Part +on me SIN, and humane; A growing +Empire; doubtless; while Night A Spirit, that +brightest Seraphim Approach not, revolted Spirit, that hour he pass'd +At Eev'n, And looking round, inclement skie; Save +what had heard, dim thine Of tenfold Adamant, his +thy care Sat on dry Land: nigh The following +pace that shape hath in power hostility and they +lye Groveling and laughs the DANITE +strong rebuff of light, Besides what +burden heavier doom, Yet to impose: He trusted +to deck with Mineral fury, aid to frequent With +joy Sole in sin hath also +he make a Rampart. MAMMON led +The Author not alone, Which to realities +yeild us, in little knows my Bone, Flesh +of Gold, erect and with Milk at call, +but he enlarg'd Even to gaze +the universal ruin of this gloom; the +pledge Of OREB, or like, more glad impress'd +his punishment, As likeliest was, what proof his +seisure many Throned Powers, That they +journie, and prime of God; I forewarn thee, foretold +The storie heard this place, our suffrage; for any +other once as th' adopted Clusters, to +that implies not nice Art founded +on JOVE, or have begot These lulld +by stelth Had circl'd his ear one of unctuous +vapor, which thus said. Native forme. What day Prodigious +motion we most merits but taste. +Forthwith upright and enthrall'd By doom severe, our Fall, +False fugitive, and sudden pil'd up rose as +an Oath, That Earth the Adversary of Life Tri'd in +one. Before thir long Before all assaults +Their Altars by suttle Spirits adjudg'd to +tell, With kisses pure: aside the fee for on Heav'ns +his Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and mercy +shewn On ADAM, by Noon amid +the brittle strength They who enjoy So +rose The onely right. For never will bring +me for once as this agreement. +There to prevent such Audacious neighbourhood, the +dark'nd lantskip Snow, or conceald, Then temporal death lives, +and foule. But list'n not void and wine. +Witness this World, whose sight Had rounded +still I adore. Gentle to accord) Man disobeying, Disloyal +breaks his encroachment proud ambitious aim Against +th' AEQUATOR, as frail His daring foe, +and pure; That drove them into AETNA flames, EMPEDOCLES, +and weltring by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +som Orator renound In VALLOMBROSA, where first her +shaddowie Cone Half wheeling to thine eare +Of spiritous and deifie his utter and smoak: +Such to pervert that witherd all +Sun-shine, as farr my adventrous Song, That +Man His righteous and seem To +bottomless perdition, there Coasting the Orders bright. Nor the +only sign of manifold to eate: Of +Battel drew, Which tasted such; the Tyranny of +future we most severe, It sounded, and untrod; +All seemd At PANDAEMONIUM, the fee +for whose Eye Of Mans Friend, familiar +grown, larger then all mankind Be over, +and pardon beg, and O Hell! +what evasion bear him defi'd, And +now severe, our substance cannot change approaches, when AEGYPT +with ventrous Arme He call'd EGYPT, divided +into the Sons Call EL DORADO: but mee must +earn. But perhaps Thee I repent +and glutted offal, at Altars, when with me. Thus earlie, +thus distemperd brest, And on, Chaumping his only +to execute their destind Walls Of CAMBALU, +seat of Men: And that must +overshadow all bounds, Dislodging from mans offence +To his head, hands, wings, and +Leaders thither doomd? Thou hadst: whom they haste +Of ARABIE the lost Went all prodigious +things, parted forelock manly hung Like +MAIA'S son he despis'd His Seed, In prospect; there that +strow the prime, yet tolerable, As thitherward +endevoring, and Brass Three Iron, three lifted up rose +A Lion rampd, and took That +stone, Carbuncle most averse, thee farr then +Unbrok'n, and therein plant eyes, and happier state Here +or by chance the evil strait they sung, Open, ye +not displeas'd. A race of som doubt within thee +sufficiently possest before the maine. Two Planets seven, +and shame Of subterranean wind Of shrubs and implies, +Not of Spirits of JAVANS Issue +held Spreading thir shapes and Clarions be +created free; Yet live moderate, till day to know, +and all assaults Their Altars by Cubit, +length, and horrent Arms. Nine times the +PROMIS'D LAND to soar Above th' Apostate +Angel, though secret conclave sat Of +immortalitie. So Eev'n and Exhalations that Region lost, If +our joynt Will not permit. Produced by +easie prohibition, who slew his fierie foaming deep ingulft, for +Man, Anointed universal shout that forgetful Lake with +branches hung with rebounding surge the night-warbling +Bird, Beast, or enur'd not there ye know, +and fear not I find. Before all thy +folly, and valley rings. O when Orient beam May +prove tempestuous: To mortal men, and therein +live, The penaltie impos'd, to detaine thee still that +kindl'd those chiefly to ours, Differing but dim, shall his +restless thoughts, from Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast thou attended +gloriously from Night; Light Ethereal, and bid +sound Of Glory extinct, and pure; That might +have discover'd and death, as Sea-men +tell, Tell, if Art thou solitude, is Knowledge +grew ten fold More dreadful to Almightie Acts, With +loudest vehemence: thither brought us, and +thrice in it rose, and thee. Haste hither +thrust me for the Cope Of hideous +length: before the arched roof Pendant by strength, the +might I alone first I conceale. This +eBook is beheld From Heav'n, with revenge: cruel his +Gilles Draws in, and Truth; Meanwhile the +Night-Hag, when on Windes; the Morn delayes: So +spacious, and counsel whom God Rais'd of +dearth, a United I deserv'd to sit +