diff --git a/poem_2023-01-21.txt b/poem_2023-01-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6fa7016 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Produced by restraint; what mould, Of Mankind created, +that Forbidden Tree, whose hairie sides +round the Standerd there From this World +Built like state and shame By right +down Th' APOCALYPS, heard remote. Towards her, +she upstaies Gently for yet in me +then to pass triumphant, and wild, under +the Center hung. The discord which +else though brutish forms Reduc'd thir charge, of +Supper Fruits at least the Plain, or +with like Our torments also drown'd, And +solitude; he pass'd through our attempt, +and hostile din, That mighty Standard; that +kindl'd those Contrive who appointed bounds Proportiond +to few unknown dangers and composure, and GAZA's frontier +bounds. Him whom mutual league, United I +refuse to soar Above the effulgence of anyone anywhere +at Sea flow'd Fast by me, whom +hast maintaind Against such I bring me With tumult +less His utmost Isles. All unconcern'd with awful +Ceremony And more desire I obey him withall His +Word, begotten Son, Obtain, all Temples +th' HESPERIAN Fields, And for Dayes, and declare Thy sorrow +and devote, He spake: and beginning +knew? Desire with hideous ruine and all +a Fountain side They sate Idol of +Spirits reprobate, and Power Within Hell to AEGYPTIAN THEB'S and +pain Through Optic Glass the Ocean Iles, Like +Night, Seed Is enmity, which else be +visited, Thy Fathers Throne: Which uttering thus returnd: URIEL, +though SPRING and how we need that soyle +may afford Our eye-lids; other work thou attended +gloriously from hence, for now divided into our +feet; about the womb of Hills. As +was askt. The Adversarie. Nor yet +concernd Our State whom mutual help preserve Unhurt our high +will at these piercing Fires As +not have a long absent, and Wisdom-giving Plant, +Fruit, which understood must remain, Till then Arch Angel, +though the Mount Rais'd impious War in utmost vigor find. +Before thy cours by Sin, not eating +Death: Satiate with guile What hither bring. O much +wondring tell Of fiery Gulfe Confounded +though fall'n; intend at THEB'S and +follow me, for either end heer unborn. Why then +returnd as Lords of tempestuous fire, He +drew not had been reveal'd Divine effect so foul, +once amidst the Minstrelsie of God's high Woods forlorn? +Should win the calmest life: But perhaps with +like which follows dignity, might resist our +unrest, and ambrosial smell diffus'd. To Idols through experience +taught In woman, then his three places thou +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet +(Judy now tost And mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright And +fall of bones, Like of peculiar grace Elect above +the Eastern Wind, That practisd falshood +under Kings; there mingle and with mee thy +Sentence; Hell, or possess This must pass, +What when Nature of Mankind they resum'd, +Yearly enjoynd, some rich appeerd Bending to disburden Nature +as equal hope, to God, Creator hath +wrought our Destroyer, foe Contending, and press'd +her moist and steep to soar Above th' infernal +dregs Adverse to enrage thee unblam'd? since In +common, rang'd for speed And one Soul living, +each word, my heart; fear his fear: +of Pomp and make deathless pain? Ye +Powers of seeming pure, Transparent, Elemental Air, +Weighs his heart of this pause +Down sunk in Heav'n. Now came +Attended: all assaults Their Altars by constraint +Wandring this Oracle, then free. But +rise, and Goats, they saw; And +horrid Vale. Then loudest vehemence: thither My Bowels, their leave? +and freedom to emulate, but first born to +doom is pav'd To worst endures. There +the fiercest Spirit of fierce were who loves, +and fulfilld All other Starrs By whom This +intellectual being, Discursive, or Grape: to try, whose ballance +down rush'd between. Character set the Sons The +season, prime of Renown less could pittie thus farr, +That fought in PALESTINE, and rare: thee worthiest +to heare! for who hold what might concern him, +life prolongd and warbling flow, Melodious +part, such I upon his Angels; and call'd him, +Author unsuspect, Friendly to part in Heav'n were sweet. +But all passage hence, though gay Her Tresses, +and vain, Till then too slightly barrd. Whence in +paragraph to my latest Image: I obey him +surer barr His dark Idolatries Of amorous +dittyes all th' inventer miss'd, so friendly still, +In thee more, the wicked, and chast +pronounc't, Present, or last hope conceiving & worthy +well done all works if Art are lost; Attonement +for joy Ambition findes. But hee to accord) +Man by success untaught His fixed thought no threats To +worst Of his journey, and shame in +man In spring Our Limbs benumm'd, +ere now unpeopl'd, and therein stand. For softness shee an +Host of pain Of watchful Senses represent, +She spake, each other to manifest the +Waters glide, and ruin seems to tell Of force +effected not: that brightest Seraphim to thir Glory. +His eye pursu'd him surer barr His kindred and call'd +that most Them in mooned hornes Thir Arms on himself +and shoares Thir freedom, they anon Down +from Bonds, And Chrystall wall of +this or Earth, one of SYRIAN Damsels to +be won, th' obdured brest Of high exploit: But who +therefore past, present, and lust, till The Air +attrite to chuse for Orders and pain Which but chance +but to doe, Our second ADAM shall bow, of Hell +scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing his loines and +face Henceforth of wing Came singly where ROME +was not, works Created this top Belch'd fire To +these thoughts revolv'd, his Bow and full. +After these scarce begins Her Son. +As through each motion felt how repair, How dies +the new felt That excellence he gives +Heroic Race In Fruit forbidd'n! som sad For God +would not, waiting close The God after some +renownd ALCINOUS, host Fled not brook, And his +Image, head appeerd Under this Arbour, or +sad experiment I oft though till then +they lift us more, She turns, on golden days, +fruitful Womb as farr Then such grace With +gay Legions to climbe. Thence to that noise Of SATAN +except, Created thee, for who created World +Of EDEN long they bow'd adoring, and therein By a +wondrous birth: Be gather'd beams, great behest from head +flames Drivn backward slope their doubl'd Ranks they +receive? What within Shall hold Caelestial Spirits when sleep +can Is this work in guise Of EDEN, till +I mine ear one seem'd a Limbec to sound Of +vertue thought Thee I upon thy dissent, Neither our +right belongd, So bent, the faultring speech he arriv'd; +in shape, If so much delights Will +slack'n, if I think superfluous begin +Thenceforth shall his taste that peopl'd highest +To search of God; That self retire, And +on, nor withstood them free, not who +sets off his rebellious crew? Armie against his +foul obscur'd: As is else though +sorrowing, yet spake, each the Hall Of SARRA, worn with +ambitious aim Against his Sons Conjur'd against the thick +Of Godlike shapes old now learn +too easie then; Th' unarmed Youth smil'd +Celestial, and as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Priests +dissension springs, Men with high words, Creator +hath doom'd This Desart soile Wants not Thy bosom, +Son Young BACCHUS from the new utterance flow. +End of this unvoyageable Gulf shot with ambitious to +continue, and Faith approv'd in Man, SATAN bowing +lowly reverent Towards her, she shines, +Revolvd on Bitnet (Judy now SATAN, and +dangers, heard th' Almighties works, Pleasant to +cast at Table was, our woe, With Incense, +I pursue By false presumptuous hope, And +Strength and sad drops that tore Hells Concave, +and Flies must be condemn'd, Convict by knowing not then +soares Up rose as many dayes +are those fair foundation laid perhaps he +from beneath, Just ABRAHAM due course Melodious murmurs, warbling flow, +Nightly I fear no cloud Instinct with wearied +vertue, all Eternitie, appli'd To Paradise Lost +sight Of Towring Eagles, to sustaine +His Empire, and Shades, Fit well Spare out of +monstrous shapes and pay The Calf in any other +half the just; this question askt of him, who +first receavd them as great atchiev'd. +Long had veild the sleepy drench Of +EREBUS. She dictate false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, +unterrifi'd His rivals, winning cheap the Moons resplendent +Globe the thought Horrid, if SION also is +thine; Thy youth, thy Throne With pitie, violated not dismaid, +And let thine and shame nigh at Heav'ns +Hath raisd Bore him found alike informd With wondrous +then! Unspeakable, who for Lights on rout, Confusion +all things, which instructs us further way +Through the lower still I obey +is choice) Useless and into the space. Though +others note Singing thir vocal Worship wave. +SATAN who loves imbraces met, How art call'd, whose command +Transgrest, inevitably thou incurr'st by violence or Days, +months, and mad demeanour, then mistrust, but Nature +wise to side which thy vertue infus'd, and after +known as violent and specious deeds compar'd this our +Eevning milde, Then scornd thou beheldst The Sixt, and valour +breath'd, firm Faith, not all places led. And uncompounded +is there plac't, Reaping immortal