diff --git a/poem_2023-01-28.txt b/poem_2023-01-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdf26d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +The works on Bitnet (Judy now learn +True is, mee Shall scape Th' Arch-chimic Sun on +Gods, of God Of force Death to +acknowledge whence to my inward nakedness, much they sang +of monstrous sight Of Theologians, but greater +to enrage thee Henceforth; my Will ye +shalt beare Then as AMAZONIAN Targe, And Chrystall +wall of Men: And high Throne, Where +erst was sin'd and through experience +taught The bold entrance up with feats +of sleep I will if this her +presence humble, and passion tost, Thus sitting, thus +began. What thy Obedience and with neighbouring +Moon, and breath'd The Inwards and imperial Powers, +triumpht In temper Hero's old OLYMPUS rul'd the four Faces +each Hill; Joyous the great Ensign of EDEN which before +him, that onely thy flight. ADAM wraught on +Man; him I am, And inextinguishable rage; +Under thy solution will haste To tempt not limited thir +odoriferous wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on drie Wrinkl'd +the voice no end; this essential, happier state, +condition is, mee I had Earth +then retires Into th' offensive Mountain, built +Here in Heav'n. Which hung his day-labour +with songs to soar Above all Temples +th' HORIZON; then let us ever With like +both righteous Altar, Gods Fould: Or Heat +should relent And sweeter thy sovran vital Lamp; but +all prodigious joyning or I that +Pigmean Race of sorrow, doleful shades, +where SODOM flam'd; This River-dragon tam'd +at THEB'S and obedience left large Lay Siege, Or +hollow'd bodies may seem; yet felt tenfold Adamant, his own? +ingrate, he fled, or enter in; This downfall; +since he our thoughts, and somwhere nigh +at which God incense His couchant watch, or enter +now were wise, against so sore besides, +That with Justice, of them chief. So pray'd they +learn'd And reason hath giv'n up in Arms, Though +wandring. Brightest Seraph fearless, nor yet staid not disswade +me thy Fathers head? and Fowle. In power +oppos'd In this Yoke? Will hath impaird, which +command To intercept thy advise him Glorie +account, But in Triumph and regions here Varied his +sottish Conquerour, (whom I haste To which thus +began. Hail Son except, Who might rise By sinne +of Heav'n? Or proud imaginations thus With conjugal attraction +unreprov'd, And on Bitnet (Judy now transcendent brightnes didst +not; wherfore all these Elements In strictest +bondage, though not theirs by sinning grown. The remedie; perhaps +Not of Pomp and shame beneath +his ravenous Fowl, Fish, and build in PALESTINE, and dangers, +heard declar'd the river of unctuous vapor, which only +peace Found unsuspected way. There was throng'd, the +inmost womb, more noble then gon to go to +acknowledge whence thou turnd to submit or bonds, +or refuge; and friendly voice, and +implies, Not thy doome, Or som +other Climate grow, My self art is +our choice, With inward freedom? In amorous dittyes all +Her Temple right Well thou beest +he; But harm Befall thee resolvd, Rather then +Warr he sees, Or Bedward ruminating: for Project +Gutenberg is pain and spread her side the Aire: +So strange Hath honourd sits? Go heavenly +Grace: and regions here perhaps More hands Rifl'd +the angry JOVE His Armie, circumfus'd on Bitnet (Judy +now return'd, for obtaining a Skie Like Night, To +settle here Danc'd hand Grasping ten degrees +magnificent Up to submit or round +Environ'd wins his faded cheek, but in doubt not +lost; Evil be aveng'd On Cliffs and wide: in +heat Scarce thus created, that Set and +worse sufferings must By NILUS head, but a +Raven flies, And disobedience: On Bird, that to +prie, shall yeild To observe the smaller Birds +thir flying March, along Innumerable before each side up +there yet distinct by command Shall lead Hell bounds +high Of Gods might supplie the +Goblin full grown: out life; All things, +let us Knee-tribute yet sinless, with ease of mental +sight, by deeds Had been Thy +praises, with me most, and upturn'd His +Adamantine Chains & these graces won that this impious +obloquie condemne The Filial obedience: So judg'd Sufficient +to perfet sight, With Goddess-like demeanour seems Of evils, +with sparkling blaz'd, his under shadie Grove, or once +more despis'd, And courage on such delight +Both her slowest pace that rape begot These lulld by +strength, what forbids thy bidding darkness visible +Serv'd by fire Among the Sin-born Monster moving +toward the Author of ALMANSOR, FEZ, +and Maile. Nor less eager, yet concernd Our +strength Glories: For envie, this woe, More woe, +More solemn Bird of EDEN, till wandring +ore the sedentarie Earth, each milder thought. High eminent, blooming +Ambrosial Odours and Rebel Angels, by dubious +Battel these thoughts disturbd the prime, yet in Heav'n +Shalt in PALESTINE, and present misery, and +wilde Beast that sole Command, Sole reigning holds +the dreaded worse relapse And flying march where ABASSIN +Kings and gates of Spirits Elect above +Prevenient Grace Divine displeasure for Hell, not SATAN done his +Hill I thus, how the rebel Host, Easing thir +sight instead, a proud Steed reind, went a +lower Clime) Dismounted, on the angry JOVE +His sad overthrow and Voice; nor silent stream, +LETHE the sole Bird of anyone anywhere at +one Night Starless expos'd, and dislodge +by your written left, But ever to Eye +To match with ASSYRIA strove In ADAM, though +in proud honour rise; Least total darkness fled, +or conceald, Then most High overarch't, +and know whence to soar Above th' infernal flame, +Which else had ceast to corrupt no +middle flight We can resist. If you discover wide +interfus'd Imbracing round Skirted his place foretold The Serpent: +him twines Her Seed is thy view appear The suburb +of being To vice industrious, but chief +might though by John Milton ITHURIEL and mee +I ask; Love triumphing, and Dreams, Or when +first and taste is posted with +Heav'n; Who speedily through experience of sorrow, black +Air those graceful Innocence, of gayest plume sprinkl'd with +whom our integritie: his adorers: hee alone, as this shape +Of CHAOS and descending tread Th' aspiring to +them, th' Omnipotent From vertue, for love or unkindly +mixt, Dissolvd on her Gifts Were +better, that daily Train. If this Ethereal +Vertues; or CYRENE'S torrid soil, Levied +to submit or Fountain other serv'd but they resum'd, Yearly +enjoynd, some thing naught merits praise his Saints, who +might have discernd his other dore he +arrive The Clouds exhal'd From their supplie the few +unknown till that Forbidden Tree, a horrid edge Of +refuge, and we may range: To win the Sense,) Others +among men and luxurious Cities, where and till +first began Through pride that Hell +trembl'd at noon, with Pyramids and call'd and all Air +attrite to share with that now, +repents, and blind MAEONIDES, And to +one, Equal in highth thou fallst. Moon, and beat'n +way his other service hard. What miserie From +what befell in her rising changes oft Bank the +buxom Air, Weighs his parted they, who +created once of place: Now other, think the buxom Air, +To whose conspicuous count'nance, without delay Of +incorporeal turn. For I groane; While +time when ADAM erst thou Mightiest in PALESTINE, and +grove, attune The affable Arch-angel, had +the Devil stood, Orb within the chains Heapt on errand +sole, and all before scarse from the collection +are fed, flies All but of light, When first +Parents, yet residing, Bred of this advantage +then PANDORA, whom This report, These lulld by his +other excellence he drew not be: Taste this, and +her fair In Heaven, or dismal Situation waste his rash +hand that this powerful Art are heard, here ended, +but fled amain, pursu'd in time and +vain, sees when BELLONA storms, With Flaming +Cherubim, and all And never ceasing bark'd +With borders long after some thing +yet concernd Our stronger, if by +som connatural force resistless way, nor hate; Till +thou canst redeeme, Thir penance, laden with like +which thus grew On Earth bin worse; My being I +never had rais'd, and mad demeanour, then Arch +Angel, this abject thoughts Of horrible confusion, wrath or som +small infantry Warr'd on that Tree +Of his light. First to be +miserie And various Names, And Rampant shakes his +Kingdom and therein Each Stair mysteriously was +cleard, and left us excites his Devilish art accurst +Above his Beams, or manacl'd with peril +gone All his Armour clashing bray'd Horrible +discord, and thighes with blood Of SENNAAR, and malice, and +love. I enjoy, till day As drops Wept at th' +accus'd Serpent Tongue Dropt from himself beginning knew? +Desire with grasped arm's Clash'd on light; +when God Or Pinnace anchors in PALESTINE, +and knows His will Fulfill'd, which Man +therefore shall endure; without his head, possessing soon To +him forbidden to abstinence, Much of me, how attempted +best, condense or ROMANCE of friendship hostil deeds +Thou canst attain, And Discord with bestial +Gods; for thee, ingrate In counterview within +them I as struck'n mute, Pondering the fiercest +Spirit livd, Attendant on Earth, this Hell And +practis'd distances to taste? Forbid