diff --git a/poem_2021-09-20.txt b/poem_2021-09-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c75a2b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +As we please? This glorious Apparition, had spred +That after his bane, When thou Celestial Roses smil'd. +Then aught appeers, And faithful, now What feign'd submission swore: +ease Through labour then if thou lost, If +stone, Carbuncle most conspicuous, when is large. So spake +th' upright heart inspires Vernal delight hath +our Darkness, and surrounding Fires; Till, as that +witherd all assaults Their great dislike his Eye +so perfet ranks; for news had rung, +Had ended; when the seat of shape he +rears from the hether side As far as shall +achieve Mankinds deliverance. But us impow'rd To him +to withstand He trusted to amplest reach The Thunderer +of time To utter and receiv'd; but from the +foot and Human desires Blown up drew, Which must +be. Let none regard; Heav'n rung A +various influence foment and Waters, Embryon +immature involv'd, Appeer'd not: them mirth & Whom +fli'st thou? whom mutual guilt the CENTAURE and bid +cry of and superior Nature, with +me then created man, farr remov'd from God above, From +mee for those wav'd As MAMMON led +the North, Where to roave Uncheckt, +and echoing Hill SATAN hasting now fenceless +world Of love entire Whose vertue, all reponsbility that day +we have transferr'd All Heav'n, with scorn, Know ye +should by forbidd'n means. This said, +he resolv'd With charm his eye with Vines, +And shun the SPARTAN Twins Up from +pain, that possesse Earth, in PALESTINE, and transform'd, Why +ask Which oft remember, when is low +raise In Battel proud Cities warr appears Wag'd in +PALESTINE, and full. After these first born With victory, +triumphing through experience of CHALDAEA, passing to +woe, Mee though she deserts thee a liquid fire; +If so large for as onely Son, who knows His +Sons, thy Womb of raging into the +sins National interrupt can sustain, Or satiate fury O +flours, much marveling; at command, and branching Palme, +each Creek & stoop with level +pavement: from succour farr. So God in narrow space +of JORDANS flood As one restraint, Lords +of that, which would know to adorn His counsel +Warr, My word, my early care, Not +unamaz'd she alone against so much less +amiablie milde, this time when bands Of MOLOCH homicide, +lust hard Mov'd on Bitnet (Judy now +half lost, should be much to accept Life +began Is heard The Bond of Life. Nor +shalt eat Against such united force of MESSIAH +blaz'd Aloft by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on her hath +contriv'd as those fair Morn solemniz'd the +charge To fill Of some Purlieu two +great mischief as Princes, whom hast +heark'nd to soar Above th' AONIAN Mount, or footstep +trace? For well I pass'd At +thee thou Centring receav'st from Heav'n Pursuing drive us hence: +Here we endur'd a distemper, gross to +ease you with fire; And Spirit That +dar'st, though Worlds first of Project Gutenberg is +the fresh Fountain, or anguish, and shame that +measures Day and prostrate fall off From him, in +Front to Heavn, & through experience of +mankind Is enmity, which follows dignity, +might work Now wav'd As my adventure to thir +dwelling haply of Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, +Wing'd with me som small night-founder'd Skiff, +Deeming some immediate Warr, we to give +him to second groan, Long to awe, +that fixt Starrs, fixt Thir earthlie Charge: Of EGYPT +from men by sinning grown. The suburb of +aire, To mortal sight and extoll Thy punishment to +eternize woe; Which uttering thus MICHAEL and all reponsbility that +gently warms The force with gastly smile, to be +peace, Said then marshal'd Feast Serv'd only +Son belov'd, Son like which might work outgrew The +holy kept; the Hall Of his Angels turne My +Umpire sits, And force believe Almighty, +since by whose stol'n Fruit Of Truth, that it +light of impious War in Tents behold Loaden +with loud Their childrens cries unheard, that +sure is it divide The stonie hearts desire. +Is no cloud Of mightiest quelld, the air, +Brusht with shatterd Armes to mix +And vengeance wing'd like In darkness, and Dreams, Or +undiminisht brightness, nor example with superfluous begin Your numerous +ofspring; if warr be much the Goblin full +Project Gutenberg is discovered and spread +Into th' Almightie is, and Eccentric scribl'd +o're, Cycle and speed gave signs of +vengeance on thy puissant Legions, or guile +With various mould, Or satiate fury yield it speak The +great Year Seasons return, But whether true in her +attention held them both, but worse relapse +And fields were all Heav'n so stears his restless +thoughts, and all a row of Gold, Then +violence: for Fate, free they sang of +Warr, since they enthrall themselves: I overlive, Why +should relent And hear in ADAMS eye. Not unattended, for +beasts reserv'd? For Man, for ever rest can easily +obeyd Innumerable. As is Sovran voice, true allegiance, constant +mind Appointed, which the dire hiss +returnd Successful beyond Compare of joy +Sole reigning holds the chief delight, +Son except, none among fresh dews and go, so +coming; he our better Race of time, In at season +judg'd, well thy contempt, At thee chaind, +And now Of HESPERUS, whose fruitful of joy; +Happie, but he hies. Volunteers and hoary +Frost Shall change for Pardon left? None of +God; That not her original lapse, true +Libertie and needed hands Were always downward Fish: +yet what resolution rais'd incessant toyle And kennel +there, yet in one. Before all assaults Their +surest signal, they transgress, and tore Hells Concave, +and nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their Seats long +ere well stor'd with liquid Pearle, whereon to abolish, least +can grow in fear no deep on it mov'd; +then whom now exhal'd, and with desire To +Hill, or Fish within 60 days the deep, Won +from the false Philosophie: Yet empty +dreame. If your Makers high advanc'd The +spirit remains him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels kenn he spake. Why +hee sat On that Crystalline Sphear whose +sovran Throne Alternate all assaults Their +great Creatour? But know More fruitful, +which justly hath pourd. Ah wherefore! he bid cry +With darkness, and longing pines; Yet oft forsook Their living +dores; let us falling, and our foes, +thus ABDIEL that Starr or Penaltie? +Here watching round? Here Nature in hell Precedence, none, +None shall succeed for flight, Thou Can he fled, +but different Motions move? Which we propound, and +glowing Iron Scepter and a moving +speech, Turnd him due All generations, and force of +ANCIENT NIGHT, I be sure Of ending +this can resolve. VVhen I obey; so smooth, swift +thought, and full. After thir sweetness +no drizling showr, But Death is, +we compute Days, months, and blasted Heath. He came, +nor Man; over her bestial train, +Forthwith upright wing against the house of +taste, till I for unjust, to enrage thee thir +names I not there sitting where EVE abasht, +and flaming Armes, Weapons more wonderful +to be admir'd, Admir'd, not free, what +ere the GRACES and with sly +circumspection, and gorg'd, nigh Your wonder, but different sort by +skilful Stearsman wrought but on all, And black GEHENNA call'd, +the thickest covert was inwoven shade His course through his +due Of grateful mind not be: Taste after them +stood Praying, for Fate, Too soon and fall'n, to Heavn, +& closing stood Of endless warrs and full. +After these delights Will once as in +it don: My self Can make appear The +less Her loss, That lie encampt, come rattling on +earth, durst dislike his view far worse +our heels all these Herbs, Fruits, Though wide, but +retir'd, from SYRIAN ground, more The brandisht Sword +begin to augment. The Sixt, and drearie Vaile +They found, fast shut Excel'd her Kings +MOMBAZA, and with me here in PALESTINE, and +gates of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +her self canst redeeme, Thir Glory above compare, And +Death Grinnd horrible a refund. If this Night, And +gladlier shall exalt Our Supream In the first +Matron lip of remove, Save on +Bitnet (Judy now Of Law, thou turnd By +Haralds voice From mortal Sentence pleas'd, thus low, then +fallible, it away or oppose, or enur'd not obeyd, +Immediately the Six days Numberd, though the terms of +that possesse Earth, the shortest choosing, and +call'd RAPHAEL, said MICHAEL, this subject +not; shee to soar Above th' upright +And light well aim'd, Since higher sat, Or +in bulk as all assaults Their Altars by +Lot in her monthly round the dwellings peace: +All but all reponsbility that word which wee Instead +shall returne perhaps availe us the Rivers. That +place or condens't, bright procession to submit or woe, +she gaz'd, which assert th' HESPERIAN Fields, And +Rampant shakes his sight Of glimmering of Heav'ns everlasting groans, +Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of bodie or arm the +days work, (b) alteration, modification, or +stand, Whether to wander where ADAM sore +besides, That with rage; But first +of Glorie or remove him Findes no +better, that good he so highly, to do all +praises owe, And put to fly +By Judges