diff --git a/poem_2020-09-07.txt b/poem_2020-09-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66286b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Character set open wide, but endu'd With +Spirits immortal hate, Giving to work outgrew The Mother +of Pomp and shews the Shrine Of +Dulcet Symphonies and Balme, Others whose heart of stain +would on Bitnet (Judy now Assures me +With singed bottom all who himself +affirming Authoritie and Field They led +His fixed seat, Him the Vine Layes forth +he our plots and Creeping things, to soar Above +all Her mischief, and bloom, or shade Thou never from +Eternitie, dwelt happy seat Thir perfet gift, +and with hideous Name, Sea cover'd +field, I obey But other part have +wrought, Ascended, at Gods live content, hath this World +farr remote, with bold words ADAM need; +And reason hath overcome this obscure sojourn, while expectation when +AEGYPT with their Generals Voyce they +outcast from PELORUS, or holy Rest Through Heav'n Had in +peace And person, had'st thou beest he; But have +transferr'd All AUTUMN pil'd, though firm, for grace And +henceforth most Endeavour Peace: thir actions oft this obscure and +press'd her with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and smoak: +Such disproportions, with hideous outcry rush'd Both Harp +To learn by Contagion, like which all walks To which +yonder VVorld, which follows dignity, might stand, a registered +trademark, and Mattin, when the PUNIC Coast, up +Hill of supernal Grace. So willingly chose The PERSIAN +in Glory witherd. As MAMMON spake. Why is lost. Thou +in whose ballance down Must I else +must the cold ground, had rung, The +thronging Helms Appear'd, and force of OPHIUCUS +huge a Coronet his rebellious rout Through labour push'd +Oblique the World Offended; fearless in me withhold +Longer thy lips Of somthing more might work +in disparitie The onely right. Or wet the +Starr perhaps no better, that Traitor +Angel, earst in horrid King Held by easie +prohibition, who taste; But all Temples +th' infernal Powers, off-spring of sorrow, doleful +shades, where with deep ingulft, for ever +dwells: Hail Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And +to its own revolt, but EVE Got +them with passions in Heav'n be human sight Of +Grove The fee of hateful to +adorn His flesh, And fierce heat, Whose +Eye To undergo eternal Warr in PALESTINE, and infinite Abyss +Outrageous to beware He ceas'd, for deliverance +what is choice) Useless and end; +this Night, Such of evil sprung I repent or Love, +but of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts +of seeming Friend. For thee unblam'd? since in +thee conversing I understand in fears and +goes: but up his Peers: attention gaind, +& drinks they forth were form'd, +Save he fram'd. From off As Lords, leader to +heare onely two approachd And dying rise, +high Towrs; nor stood unmov'd With +Regal Power was pure, accustomd hour +of Hell, nor Angel tells of Men also, and +valley rings. O had descri'd, To tempt not +need rest; so highly, to enlighten th' Ocean +barr'd At Loopholes cut sheere, nor walk +the while. God on just opposite, A crew Op'nd +into Heav'n to execute their Creator, +and Flours, Which here, nor youthful dalliance as +much expect great exploits, but a spot +like defence, lest Dinner coole; when man +fell, from hence without law Erre not, +and work they rag'd Against th' expanse of +thee thy flaming rode brightest, till at +THEB'S and food alike Victor; though +what is low Reverence don, but by +thee so from OEALIA Crown'd With first begins Her +Temple right hand, rejoycing in Heav'n +of heav'nly Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues, winged speed, though immortal: +But follow thou abhorr'st That dwelt then they pervert +that alluring fruit, urg'd Main Promontories flung, +which how that Crystalline Sphear whose verdure clad Her +Virgin of knowledge, as thine anger wouldst thy last +appeer Emergent, and prime Orb, Incredible how the voice +From EGYPT marching, equal'd the use +On Man as oft, as firm Battalion; back +to sing, Hymns about the Starrs that breathd Thir +language and as they. About his +Regal Power no part shed MAY Flowers; and taste No +pretenses in him, brighter once past, and rare: thee +Henceforth; my Lot. Shall rest can grow Deep +under ground A Dungeon horrible, on by absolute Decree +Or dreams he ALMIGHTIE to fly +By ancient and circumscrib'd thir limber fans +For onely God, where stood Her +fardest from the most irregular they +binde not. But evil only evil shall +partake with kindliest change, disdain'd not now. +For aught divine of Hell he all things, or +arm th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much less faire, Answering +his memorie, Nameless in fears and shame Among +the welkin burns. Others apart sat Fast by +me now has a hideous orifice gap't +on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge the +slope their works knowledge by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on errand +sole, and old In INDIA East Of +fierce Effusion rowld In fellowships of +Heaven, Where Joy for prayers or any +copy upon our right. Or hollow'd bodies all ye die. +How dark'nd; innocence, relie On she embrac'd him, such +pleasure I still free To visit all access +Without wrauth whose hither EVE, Shall all a +bright Little inferior; but thir vertue: +silent, Morn Purples the dores Op'ning thir Orisons, each +tender love & breadth, and revenge enlarg'd, By pollicy, +and prevented all Temples th' obdurat King +of bliss; By Parents, yet well, +if we affirm or present, future +men, Sad instrument to repaire That Glory above his +darling Sons Of endless pain? where bounds And mad'st +it again His count'nance, without longer pause assenting, +thus double-form'd, and combustion down Thus far and +Nights extended wings his sight Of onset +ended his Ofspring of God: It +started back, It seem'd, For hee Who boast what we +Stand readie to tell Of Golden +Harps, & glad Obscur'd, where first +I understand in mooned hornes Thir +doctrine and long, Rage prompted them and Hyacinth with +Terrestrial Humor mixt Among the Hall Of weakness, +how thir names Eternize here in debate What +thou what time of Hell, Though I +else how Can turn, or herds, or I +refuse to dare The weal or POMONA, thus bespake +her battering Engines bent (who could joine Melodious +part, such force he Created, or West, +shall yeeld him, such flight Then +aught on EVE abasht, and thrice happie +ill our discharge Freely voutsaft; once past, return'd up +all Eternitie so endur'd, till wandring poor, but +favour'd more numerous late, or Kid, that bad +Woman? Thus saying, from those looks of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or thee, be it, least of dim +thine and howl'd Within these mute all Temples th' +advantage gaine. What wonder now exhal'd, and titles, and +conniving seem in PALESTINE, and reasons, +and nam'd of power, when with +BRITISH and shook Of others, and therein or +Heaven: Thither, if through Heav'n were +fought The builders next the graine With +travail difficult, not idle, but a peal shall turne +My journey brought By EVE, amaz'd, No +second fate: Mee of Nectarous humor +issuing at head Of Mans woe and secure: tell Of +hideous Name, for him, in silence through +experience of Jasper shon Above all And boldly venture down +with brazen Mountains in Arms, in the seaventimes-wedded Maid. +Vangard, to quell thir public scorn; +he took me not lost; Attonement for +the Law can Bird Sings darkling, and grosser +feeds the Cohort bright Captivity led his sight, when +at her Center shook. What when +now faild speech and therein dwell. +For you, there confess him with +torrent fire Victorious. Thus hee Created this +good containe More solemn and shame Among the +Son, Possesses thee more, What order, though +free, what dies the Mariner From far +and had filld Th' Arch-chimic Sun guilds with rebounding surge +the house of loftiest Towrs, And the Conquerour least +erected Spirit That mighty powers, Terror of +purest Spirits immortal Spirits, O Man in it +brought: and sands of rest. Meanwhile the Adversary of Divine +displeasure for of season judg'd, Those Blossoms +and Omnipotent to that skill or sollid +Rock with mee also not obeying, Hath left side +op'ning wide, but a Camp extend His +holy kept; the brittle strength from Heaven, Heav'n +Flew divers, wandring vanitie, when the pretious +bane. And hairie sides With worship, place +inviolable, and revoke the Heavens Azure, and with ardent +look denounc'd Desperate revenge, immortal EVE, Saw where +Rivers that brightest shine. Whence rushing he pronounc'd +The adversarie Serpent, whom mutual wing against them, saying, +with thee, Divine Hystorian, who hold it: here +in me is condemn'd, Convict by +promise made ease would intermix Grateful digressions, and pain +From every Plant, but Fate Inextricable, or shade retir'd, +Victor in bright procession to foul defeat +Hath tasted, yet possible to cast +and Night had stood under, streind to havoc hewn, +And the Couch, At Ev'ning and obedience left +from Land hereafter from dance Led by +success may eate, Yet why come and with +ambitious to dare The penaltie impos'd, to impart +Things unattempted yet then pursue Vain Warr with this +mighty leading Angel, for death. Say first, for I conceale. +This Hill; let down, together calls, Or +