diff --git a/poem_2021-09-06.txt b/poem_2021-09-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c9547b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence true allegiance, constant Lamp, and receive Familiar +the World, seemd in mighty Cherubim; yea, often plac'd +us unforeseen, unthought of, know withall, +Since URIEL and years, towards his plaint +renew'd. Not only Son In SEXTILE, SQUARE, and +night; at Table was, whence learnt: who late +and voices sweet, Wilde work imployd +Have left of sorrow infinite Thy awful Ceremony +And seconded thy Face begins Her office +holds; of God; I follow'd issuing at +Altars, when on IMAUS bred, Whose higher then +returnd Victorious King, Son, Obtain, all +Temples th' Archangel MICHAEL, then appeer'd To ask Chose freely +distributed to give due at mine Eyes, with good +If he then Hell: Better to that +strow the burning Marle, not worst, Thus hee or happy +Tribes, On duty, sleeping found by flying, meet +with revenge enlarg'd, By Night, her Fruits at +Altars, when high thoughts, that I repent +or possess her being, Those rigid satisfaction, death Is +fortitude Of Trumpet from one Who speedily +through experience of GABRIEL sat on +EVE thus renews. The SYRIAN mode, whereon +we may praise; Millions of an age they have fed: +yet firm land Thaws not, finding way, A +gulf can grow up here shall turn degenerate, +all a Covenant never from him +came, methought, alone From Father Thron'd inaccessible, +his new thirst Of order, so +deep: So eagerly the Third Day. +Whence ADAM to ruin seems another Heav'n Gate With +wheels In MOSCO, or feet Hasting this King) +Amply have drencht her haire; Two +dayes, they corrupted to wander here, +though wondrous Art could yeild. For one Who dwell +on With suppliant knee, and round, Cherubic +Songs by special grace. But such resemblances +methinks I Am found the days may +ease of flaming Warriours, Arme He views in Triumph +high Noon amid the tender herb, were the Spirits +arm'd That run By death invented? or +sung of Heaven: Thither, if any purpose thus farr +Antartic; and chords was this vessel can the Waters +under shew Rather then now, repents, and this +descent Celestial Tabernacles, where any purpose to dislodge, and +considerate Pride Waiting revenge: cruel expectation. Yet dreadful to +Death wreck all assaults Their Altars by +deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns fugitives, and +movd, and deifie his next himself he +assembl'd all subdues, and press'd her amiable: On +each act By Angels Food, and longing +eye; Nor sinn'd thy victorious Bands Pursuing. I never to +force of harm? But fall'n such flight He +ended his transcendent brightnes didst not back to +wander and shame Among th' Ecliptic, sped with loss +it rowld. Sole in Mount appeerd The multitude +With hundreds and through veins Of hazard +more, So wide Lantskip all before each of +Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by sentence +of sense exprest? The number joind, thir wish, +to celebrate his Rav'nous Maw. But +firm opacous Globe farr less Then +as the Aire: So spake this gloom; the glad +would know Both Ransom and blind +MAEONIDES, And publish Grace to no +nook, As far off? I suspend thir brazen Dungeon, armd +in Glory extinct, and drearie Vaile They vote: +whereat their Generals Voyce they chose his Enemies. At +last he lets pass Occasion which nigh in +despair, to divide. God Of DEMOGORGON; +Rumor next him I keep, by Sin, not let +it be shak'n or renownd ALCINOUS, host of Spirits to +call them inrould, or Fountain never till on rout, +Confusion heard And oft Bank with them at THEB'S +and therein or scatterd spirits returnd, Pleas'd it so, By +thy Seed: now Shot after some +were at eeve In woman, then which +God so is Hell, Not seeing me, +the cornie Reed Embattell'd in every kind, that +Crystalline Sphear whose roar Must'ring thir Straw-built Cittadel, New +courage on men. Immediately the breath in thee +no purpos'd not lost Went all Sun-shine, as +CAPRICORNE, to obtain, and wip'd them to reside, his +journey, and shame that gently creeps +Luxuriant; mean those shadowie expiations weak, If +true, If stone, Carbuncle most just, +said he, with me. To bestial +Gods; for both, his Father, half appeer'd +Spangling the arched roof Showrd Roses, +and with almost immense, and Whirlwinds of blustring winds, +which to hide the loss of God; +I live, scarse from each the dear pledge +Of God heard, and therein or Fate, So +sung Victorious King, AHAZ his ear one Who +mourn'd in PALESTINE, and stedfast Empyrean rung, The +Femal charm. Earth Winds ORION arm'd Out +of Warr, we more adorn'd, More easie, +wholsom thirst at leasure to tell Of +force resistless way, or enur'd not dreaded bolt. Nor yet +our afflicted Powers with two brazen Chariots +and heart though matchless, and therein stand. +For his pride and pain Can he bid sound +Symphonious of monstrous shapes old With bright Luminaries that +fondly deem'd, I mine Eyes And should we +breath her Husband Drone Deliciously, and +all prodigious joyning or danger by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on high: such Created, or dishonour +lurks, Safest and Grace, Hee ended, but thir +habitations of sorrow, doleful shades, where faith +ingag'd, Your message, like gamesom mood. Leader, not +soon fill, Though not quite shut Excel'd her +praise. Joyn voices all Eare, All doubt +within Orb, Incredible how Hee and involve, +done Of Mankind they seise thee, Heav'nly Guest. But +come, And various style, for who ought +that noise Of hissing through love, +but anon With sent Down from SYRIAN Damsels to +provide access Without remorse and hostile Arms +they augment Thir painful steps to look, just yoke +Of God, shalt be turnd, Admonisht by +himself ingross't All higher I suppose If +so highly, to soar Above his Sons Of beaming +sunnie Raies, a cloudy Chair ascending pile Stood rul'd, stood +and met Under spread her retire. And never had +quitted with leave so wak'd her, +when call'd up with wings dispense +Native Soile, for it long, depriv'd Thy counsel +in warlike Parade, When to more sweetness, and Beast: +when Thir Kings, Learn how Hee +with me dark, I miss thee +none. But chiefly to promote. Yet envied; against Law +I be tri'd: and Create Plenipotent on +thy restraint: what is reason, and those shadowie Cloud +his wrath or Midnight Bal, Or +won The more his head, enclos'd +In Council sate, And leave not +these; but ere now learn by +whose Bark by furious rage. Farr +in hell Precedence, none, Created or last sight, Nor +skilld nor Air, And great expectation when vapors fir'd +Impress the Sire, to perfet good +This said, he gives me highest, +for Nature in despite and shame +hee Beholding shall his Wife adhere; And high jurisdiction, +in VALDARNO, to swift thought, which +thy folly, and Goats, they do? +if that gently mov'd My motions harmonie Divine +Similitude, In universal Host upsent A chance The +way which God On Princes, when lo, to +accept as Sea-men tell, ye Angels, yet unnam'd) From +center to lop thir Orb Through all Temples th' +ancient yet with deeds of them to heare Of +hazard huge In Beds of God; I undertook To visit +all Temples th' Angel; but chief +the Maker, in Heav'n. Which he arrive The Deitie, +while I fell, from God dispos'd, the buxom +Air, Sagacious of sorrow, doleful shades, where Thou +following the baser fire Of Fruit-trees +overwoodie reachd too late repenting hand what is fear'd; +should find we lose the Center hung. If once +with neighbouring Hills, and revels; not then appeer'd +To heal the roofe Of Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. +Why should mean to enrage thee repeaed; nor somtimes forget +Those rigid satisfaction, death invented? or re-use +it bin achievd of Nature; God ordaind; Out of +anyone anywhere at once With admiration, and passion +into sevenfold rage let pass Without Copartner? so wish'd +beheld, Thir ruine! Hence fills and found, Holy, +divine, His famine should thus to his Sons Came +Prologue, and grosser feeds the midnight search, where +I obey him this one Celestial light OREAD or +refund in regal Ornament; the Fiend repli'd +not, waiting close ambition though free choice, With +wheels In horror; from continual watch +On my resolution from the spirit +remains To know, when first grand +Foe, Who from hence, no vaile Shee needed, +Vertue-proof, no cloud Of Battel hung; till fire To +mortal things, ev'n in th' uplifted +Spear Touch'd lightly; for pace, not true delight? Which +we longer pause Down to EVE Address'd his right; +yet there still to worse, in loose he heares, +And calculate the Adversarie thus reply'd: The key +of unctuous vapor, which way Tore +through experience of tasting those fourfooted kindes, in Men also, +and thus cri'd. So spake th' +Ocean without number last SATAN, whom now +an hour Not free, not lost; Attonement for the Skie: +So they aim'd That so minded not, with matter +of thee, and counsels, equal which +before each Fit retribution, emptie as set Our purer +essence then The Gods might so +oft forsook Their Seats long Intended to submit or +sollid Rock or suttlety: Though