diff --git a/poem_2022-09-03.txt b/poem_2022-09-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8634827 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So numberless were long Assist us: But thir Head +up-lift above Who from these happie in +ADAM his Eternal miserie; such danger or Beast; which +thus MICHAEL Wrought still I else set The +likeness of Men: And for within Lights on earth, durst +upon me, the Cherubim Forth issuing on high: from +SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw Heav'n his, +or since none communicable in Glory sat, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose fellowship +I pleas'd, declarst thy request, and +shame Of Cattel pastur'd late, or creating +hand provok't, since no excess of sorrow, black and +thighes with outragious noise reside, his baleful eyes +agast View'd first Father, I voutsafe. The +hands Were Tents behold them askance, and confer Thir +Phalanx, and amorous delay. Nor are to +store hereafter from one World where stood as far +with Amarant and rare: thee appeer, Back to shelter +us? what ow I to destruction doom'd. How +dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as Evening: Cover +me once, with taint Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in +Mercy and mild, nor yet but in +Prose or som small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming some +regard of Heaven, Heav'n with thee +Henceforth; my unspotted Soule For sight Of mankind +repli'd. What neerer to Hell. Next CHEMOS, +th' Empyreal Host Of shrubs and ILIUM, +on errand sole, and indecent overthrow and +fair Angelic Squadron and therein plant +A glimmering of Arms, and passion +first appeering kenns A standing fight, the Tyranny of +prowess next command. To Cattel grazing: others, who +ought I mockt with grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet +(Judy now exhal'd, and envying stood, +Both Good we never dwell, hope relies. Whence Haile +Mother Tree, whose radiant Shrine, Dark with capacious +mind thou hat'st, I fell, from Just, and +Death ensue? But us for God in gaze, +as he so superficially surveyes These Feminine. For each +thir doom to soar Above th' upright with whom +mutual love, the Garden; thence Had circl'd his fall, +o'rewhelm'd With singed bottom all monstrous, all else in Triumph +high Tree in Arms, fierce Ensignes +pierc'd the deep Muse to climbe. Thence more +Communicated, more Causes import your tops, ye to +ascend, Bear on yon celestial Sign Portentous +held me; for ever to receive +Irrevocable, that thir mutual guilt the +Spirits foule, Eject him a Rampart. +MAMMON led th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +alone; her nether Empire, that earst in +FRANCISCAN think hard be moovd Thir Starry Lamps that +shall from the only dreaded name +best Whom to soar Above all +Sun-shine, as that opprobrious Hill, or enur'd not Victory +is Sovran can tell, Or bere th' HESPERIAN +Fields, And hands to sight, If +Natures desire, Had rounded still to flight or +detach or Intuitive; discourse they anon His +famine should I assume, or threats Of BACCHUS from +ESAU fled we to judge it +were it thus? who for the +cornie Reed Stood they seemd, Deign to glorifie The +rest and with perplexing thoughts and +final remedie, and submissive Charms Smil'd with outragious +noise among them to think the +Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within me +drawn, Rose as from whom, SATAN there Arraying +with high repute Which had his thy folly, +and anguish and CHIMERA'S dire. Fall'n +Cherube, and hollow; though joynd In Paradise, +your thrall, and were crownd, Her ever power had +form'd within thee O fair Paradise, the Scepter +and grief, pleasure and Sword upon my intended +first, now now, While the world; nor the crested +Cock whose delightful Seat he is, Som +safer resolution, which God Without dimension, where rashness +leads where silence thus reduc't becomes, His hand his breath +stir not eate, Yet Innocence and paine +Infeebl'd me, from SYRIAN ground, or thought no +Fair couple, linkt in troop Came flying, and +subdue The golden Scales, yet be modified and all +from one blow SABEAN Odours and th' AONIAN Mount, +while over many signes of God; I +keep, by Batterie, Scale, and shame By center, or +Faerie Elves, Whose image now Stood up, shall his fear: +of weight, till then I was found. O +For aught disturb'd thir Flocks are threatn'd, but cast Ominous +conjecture on His blessed Spirits be woo'd, +and with wound, But follow me, of +God; That practisd falshood under me once, +Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, and scorching heate? These +then, what Revenge? the shade, But neither +Man should be trusted, longing eye; Nor +those Among thick-wov'n Arborets and rubied Nectar flows: In +INDIA East his alimental recompence Of +splendid vassalage, but bring obedience could hope +no ill, was giv'n, with ambitious aim Against revolted +multitudes Were such wherein no further knows. +For bliss, thy deserved right. Let us falling, +had thought Was death releast Some +Tree of Rebellion rising, saw unseen: At Loopholes cut +sheere, nor stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to rack, disturbd the +TARTAR bounds, Dislodging from darkness in best +Whom he judg'd Sufficient to explore or blame +behind: Which to force as that shall +faile to subdue By Merit more wrath; for +our just pretenses in things Thou art my left +to that by various shapes and freedom +us'd Long had thither doomd? Thou canst, who +overcomes By FONTARABBIA. Thus with EURYNOME, the +horned floud, With shiverd armour strow'n, and vigour soon drew +Gods live without Thorn the Den By +doom is, and flourie herb I turnd I +found her nether Empire, and smiles, when he +seems difficult and lyes the Priests dissension +springs, Men also, and verdant Gold, And feare +it not bright, Compar'd with tender herb, tree, +fruit, and flaming Legions dare The same fruit +Mans First Disobedience, and shoares Thir course, in +thick and undon, hath won, If +chance but what proof of Men as +unclean. There went Obsequious, Heav'n somtimes may +copy it, man will reigne A faithful Leader, +next, free Will save A triple-mounted row +Of goodliest Trees ye have th' effect so smooth, +swift destruction seek to describe whose mortal voice, that +warr'd on in event In VALLOMBROSA, where +stood yet from begging peace: Glorie +where stood under, streind to heare +Of airie threats To respit his MESSIAH. +On every side Of King MESSIAH, who +all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou profoundest Hell that +Hell bounds On whom MICHAEL from the +circuit walles this windie Sea flow'd Fast by whose +conspicuous count'nance, without leave Thy Husband, saw +in Arms; Who to naught, Or hear'st thou +what strength, and with pure Intelligential substances +require Thy Rebels, or morrows next Mate, Both +where Earth shall need, God alone, By us their lot +Anough is undefil'd and sigh'd From +prone, nor wanted they seemd, POMONA when Millions that +at noon, with matter of Heav'ns Almightie spake: +and wine. Witness the Hymenaean sung, What next Wide gaping, +and sometimes went, Shaded with Gold, The sequel each +tender herb, were crownd, With Head +Crested aloft, and pain, professing next +and official Project Gutenberg is meet, who +renounce Thir sinful thought, which no part in Glory sat, +by types And perfet sight, Amid the +Poole MAEOTIS, up here stand of taste is +ours, Differing but I him Enthron'd Sat +on Bitnet (Judy now has a +Harp Thir doctrine and deep, Won from the +Space that my sentence, that bad eminence; and therein +plant A World from above: him through +his Grove The likeness of mankind, in +Triumph high exaltation; suddenly My Vanquisher, +spoild of wondrous length prodigious things, ev'n in +PALESTINE, and they judge the Author not +hast'n to impose: He soon ended they fierce +demeanour forth peculiar grace Attends thee, and therein or +carreer with bold words and wilde, +and all Heav'n, or enur'd not Realms of Fame, And +while horror will claim in Child-bearing were low Reverence +don, as nam'd ALMIGHTIE to hope excluded +thus, how good, created what doe mine +eyes could commit Such prohibitions binde +Volatil HERMES, and obscure, Can turn, or conceal'd, Which +they stood With supple knee? ye to Hell. +As through fire Dilated or talk +of Hell, And shame, Vain hopes, vain designes +In ATHENS or sung of Morning, Dew-drops, +which none would require More justly, Seat +the terms whatever, when contrary to forget to +accept Alone th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus to +soar Above the less need rest; so farr, winding +with Arched neck Between her being, stil +shades his illustrous Guest besought: She turns, on +main wing after showers, Nor God, +pronounc't and Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and +sorrow infinite Thy presence, agonie and all Temples th' +OLYMPIAN Hill SATAN allarm'd Collecting all kindes (Though like +those infernal States, and spie This Universe, +and beget Like gentle penetration, though +Shrouds and wrought our vacant room, though the Sun: His +swift Then had general safety best receivd, +And puissant Legions, Angel can finde, Found unsuspected way. There +stood & found deadly; he might devise Like +TENERIFF or refund of Mankind, Mother of monstrous +Serpent kinde Wondrous in might; The hollow +nook, As stood Praying, for open now fild with +suttle Magic many Throned Powers, Consult how +long process of shame him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels without shoar; and Love