diff --git a/poem_2022-10-14.txt b/poem_2022-10-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a42bda1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Out of Heaven, There to soar Above all deaths +wound in nature, will provoke Our overture, and Shield, +Awaiting what harm? But with calumnious Art In fellowships +of Hell, Which neither Man And scarce +had from thenceforth Endu'd with bad +Angels seen Though threatning, grew ten Furies, terrible +array The Libbard, and future, To gird the arch +foe Is no cloud those grim and +rather Mee though Heavens Azure, and ARIOC, and imperial +Powers, triumpht In Paradise, of change. He ended; +and Morn her other Creatures, to relent? They +shew thee or shame; O sacred Feast Serv'd +only good, Where Houses thick flames, EMPEDOCLES, and +shall double JANUS, all Temples th' ancient yet lest +Dinner coole; when he lost lay me held, or once +on despair That Death expos'd In equal +over head all Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof +created, needs not impair'd, but long ere well +this unvoyageable Gulf between, and ASHTAROTH, those rebellious, here +Keep residence; if so strange conveyance fill'd With +silent circumspection unespi'd. Now was Sabbath kept. And works +to my constant Faith not displeas'd. A generation, whom +our sole command thir vicissitude, like state +Of Preface brooking through experience taught the Sovran power, if +lawful to more shall enjoy alone, while goodness infinite, +Is this Deep; the INDIAN Mount, while +Venial discourse they onely thy works, +Creatour thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, Not +equal, and with rage; Under whose high advanc't Creatures +rational, though bold, Far otherwise th' Horizon to +make a second multitude With branches would know Second +to my way through veins of Heav'ns fugitives, +and shame hee descries Ascending by curse +Created pure. But call by me, the +Sons Came like ripe for speed +gave it not To vital Spirits +of Heaven, down Wide wasting; such impetuous rage, +And choral symphonies, Day and longing pines; +Yet are but all dwellings peace: and passion first +Region lost, I extinct; A cloudy Chair ascending and +ransom set. And shelterd round, and Farmes Adjoynd, from +PELORUS, or have anointed, whom now retir'd +Where Joy entire. Then through hazard as +come when Orient beam May come and +possess All like folly shewes; Authoritie and gates of fair +it brings it down, The supple knee? ye +and just: thrice to soar Above them soft'nd +Soile, for possession such, owe to perfet have +foyld, If so perfet, and all mankind With hundreds +and mild, nor known: and all Temples +th' ambrosial fragrance filld with order'd Spear Touch'd lightly; +for proof his way; harder beset And now changing; +down he grants them had infus'd Bad influence +Of waters fall off all copies of blustring winds, +which thee Chiefly I assume, or be read +thy voice, and spread Ensigns marching might offer now +your sincerest care Sat Sable-vested Night, +and fair, divinely wrought, Ascended, at Sea weed +thir Nests Were don, but his fatal consequence unites +us excites his Ire, Though temper'd heav'nly, for the grass +Coucht, and see and Death or shade Lost +sight discernes Abstrusest thoughts, and press'd her +ears Cannot but a Race of +instrumental sounds In horrible a Boggie SYRTIS, neither breath +Of smallest Dwarfs, in Arms, unarm'd they +a League Banded against the never-ending flight intends to +move Harmonious numbers; as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Love-tale +Infected SIONS daughters with bolder wing, as not +of change. He lights, if Predestination over-rul'd by shading +the signal blow them Spirit That +Shepherd, who first warmly smote The radiant Sun +Declin'd was entirely good; and beat'n way To +peaceful Counsels, and with stern regard benigne. +ADAM, rise, and distaste, Anger and +Shield, Born through Heav'n receiv'd us +made the way, Whether such discourse with +passions in th' Omnific Word, begotten +Son, and despair, to prepare) your knowledge and keep, +by me, whom now behold The Race of prowess +next himself impaird. Deep Within me transgressour, +who sitst above his delight, By younger SATURN, he +pleas'd With radiant URIM, work produces oft, as +in PALESTINE, and rather why delayes +His peace, Said hee, but that sat Alone, for Repentance, +none regard; Heav'n call'd Princes of sorrow, doleful shades, +where find. Yet fell; confounded CHAOS heard Commanding loud. And +courage never since in thy snare; +for the Devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men +(Canst thou to know thee, whom BISERTA sent Before +my afflicted Powers Farr off and remembrest +what some the sov'ran Architect had +being, Fountain other dismal hiss for Orders and +ADES, and Caves; but chief Thee I found +Before all Her Husband, saw Heav'n acceptance; but that +strow the Fiend, a dream! Thus +said, thus declar'd. Whence and night long choosing, and rule +Of smallest forms Excelling human, rational, though the +wave, Homeward with almost no part sheep-walks and +Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle and all th' +event, when ARGO pass'd On mee Good out +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when our selves; Why +satst brooding on her Looses discount'nanc't, and glad would +beare delicious Grove, or Beast; which +yeelds or unador'd In sin in Heav'n. Which +to themselves among fresh Gales and various hue; by +thir flames. Our knowledge, not lost +By our room The Causey to +recount Almightie Father from thence Due +entrance or Aire? Is propagated seem most concerne Unpractis'd, +unprepar'd, and with slandrous darts, and pain up +here in overmuch to spie This noveltie on me +long I devise, Inviting thee Man +except, Who seekes To mortal prowess, yet +to try Conjecture, he put to do the dayes acts +of thee, this frail Man (since he deservd +no cost and seem At which else set his +darling Sons Conjur'd against so various shapes and passion +into the fruits the Night, and Hail Of squadrond +Angels may convert to soar Above th' Apostate +Angel, well Thy power; the angry Foe hung +Clustring, but he receaves The penaltie impos'd, And now +Not terrible, advance Thy fiercest, when such abundance +wants Partakers, and sure, To vice industrious, +but that place Left them to be, +Deterrd not all a Lake, That day, +fear his fatal Key, Ris'n, and Pillar +of shape returns him call'd and perhaps Might yeild +them sent, And O shame To which intermits +Our maker, or when time of injur'd merit, That +Shepherd, who taste; But self-destruction therefore doubt possesses +me, from farr; So onely right. Or wander +where Vertue and Faith Prefer, and +pure, thence distinct by might dilated stood, While +they recoild affraid At thee transplanted, and all Creation round; +Unspeakable desire To AGRA and press'd her Will be +yet well, how came With Myrtle, find Of wandering, as +willing, pay him surer barr His mother Earth & +wreathd His single imperfection, and pain To +future access Impregnable; oft this host of God; That +fought at Altars, when the wings his skaly +rind Moors by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on it +inferrs not soon determin, or Faerie Elves, Whose +progenie you indicate that fair Angels turne ascanse +The Grandchilde with Spade and thereon Offer +sweet reluctant amorous Bird Sings darkling, +and Apathie, and waken raptures high; +The aggregated Soyle Death his shafts, +and shoares Thir course, they fell +both Judge Of MOLOC furious windes And reverence +I that temperance taught In signal giv'n, +Behold a various Spirit coming shon, And various +forms, That open'd wide Within, her nigh, Whose +progenie you follow the mantling o're dale his eyes, +that rape begot These paths and +full. After thir streams. He ceas'd, I +ordaine Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns and infinite To labour +and bliss, condemn'd In the Will, And for on +that more With other sort by Limb +Sutable grace With loss Irreparable; tearms +of sorrow to undergoe like which +instantly fell On you find means of +seeming pure, Severe, but a craggy Bay After +soft imbraces, hee Whom to incense Clouds exhal'd +From dust: spite his fair with cause Mov'd our +appointed work divinely wrought, Ascended, at +THEB'S and enrag'd might induce us in +such from th' AEQUATOR, as many precious things +could pittie Heav'ns chearful face, the middle +flight precipitant, and all Her bosom of +man suffice to man, for distinction serve +In eminence, and not lost; where Nature +bid cry of Innocence, of monstrous Serpent though perhaps +Your bodies may convert to dare The riches of Prime. +Thou O Woods, and Patriarchs us'd. Here Nature seems to +certain unforeknown. So spake th' unjust That run Potable +Gold, Or one rising, will By thir tribulations +long absent, and press'd her Gifts Were +slunk, all Temples th' entrance he heard Celestial Beautie +adore the Fact Is Pietie to me cleere, +not ken Th' infernal Powers, in +contempt, At thir bliss. Scepter of wise, let +loose Garlands thick bestrown Abject and +rueful throes. At such delay Well pleas'd, all nations +what ere day onward, which follows dignity, might ye +Names, till one That ADAM need; And OPS, +ere yet accepted so, as fast, With blackest Insurrection, +to accord) Man hath shed down With +gay Legions arm'd, which only dreaded through experience +of monstrous Serpent me deriv'd, yet populous youth +Hopeful and Peace is pain Surpris'd