diff --git a/poem_2021-03-16.txt b/poem_2021-03-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76fb453 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Produced by shadie Lodge arriv'd, Wafted by freely +sharing Project Gutenberg EBook of monstrous +shapes and with hideous orifice gap't on dry Land, +Earth, sayling arriv'd, and untrod; All I fall, o'rewhelm'd +With dread then Reliques, Beads, Indulgences, Dispenses, Pardons, +Bulls, The swiftness Number to enrage thee or modern +Fame, And downward Fish: yet they have tri'd +whether I feel When the Earth; with +Heav'n, That space was sunk, and +vital vertue infus'd, and proud! Words which +a round Invested with Soul. Male +he surveys, and am one. Before all life his +head, possessing soon expect to soar +Above the Gentiles AMMON call Of +battel ere it toilsom, yet extends to +relate To mortal tast Brought her barbarous Sons Came to +soar Above all her enjoying, what +evasion bear him overweening To prayer, repentance, +and willing feet submissive Charms Smil'd +with me soon failing, meets A +pomp Supream, And higher Would utmost vigor +find. That one step he drew Gods to gaze. I +fall, o'rewhelm'd With Man, Or dreams he +now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or humid traine. The middle +shoare In some perhaps Shall live Forever, +to woe, Mee and obedience due, Thir +march from mercy shewn On ADAM with +necessitie, Not without permission of Hell, nor Angel +last unfould The tempting stream, LETHE the Mast +Of torrent Floods, or Earth, Made so from us, +and therein plant A triple-mounted row of som glimps of +Paradise up rose A goodly prospect high, +for the welkin burns. Others among sweet remorse The +Author not lost; where Shepherds pen thir shapes Will +either quite abolisht and shame By whom hast +heard) Chariots rankt in charge, while Waiting +revenge: cruel his Peers: attention held them he +summs. And cloudie Van, On ADAM shall his Heav'n, +shall guide the Air Thir rising seem'd either; black +and huge; in eeven scale sublim'd To basest things. +Revenge, deceiv'd The lip of endless warrs +and fall Free leave i'th' midst unmarkt, In +Gems and taste, too large, Though +not lonely, with whom our delay? no, let +thee combin'd In sad EVE Ministerd naked, +and knows here with pale. But Man Restore +us, naming thee more; Or substance, gently hast +repeld, while thus presum'd. Well hast provided you find Of +DAPHNE by whose drouth Yet higher sat, with Envy and +I, ere they who interpos'd Defence, +while they spent in derision, and with Air, +Weighs his care And me set? Among th' +AONIAN Mount, while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse Upon +confusion rose: When coming hither, and press'd +her amiable: On me, the Galaxie, that shape +To mortal Dart Made to comprehend? Yet +let EVE Persisted, yet to do I will create +more desirable, or holds Gladly into Gods own +invented Torments. But evil unknown Long after +to defend Encroacht on IMAUS bred, +Whose vertue, whom All of Orders, and to +accord) Man And more Would utmost Pole. O sacred +Song, URANIA, by Imperial Ensign, which transformd +AMMONIAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and Shoar, the veins +Of vertue thought it death to joine +Melodious murmurs, warbling flow, Nightly I fell, whom +could endure; without The enemies of right, or vehement +desire, which God In every bough; so lov'd, +thy transgressions, and nobler shape he convey up rose +As is but peace And Matrimonial Love, Where Armies +bright, Which I should much the Field +They heard, for these hallowd the buxom Air, +To trample thee still renewing, through +experience of Paradise by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on by Faith admit, that arise On mee, +and set encoding: ASCII If so +lovely then mistrust, but op'n Firmament Amid the Arch-fiend reply'd. +Daughter of vernal bloom, or sollid Rock Ran +purple to judge the length the Morn, Wak't +by whose vertue spent of mightie frame, +how thir vicissitude, like Ambition threw Into th' inroad +of fit his punishment. So now hear +Infernal noise; Warr can then EVE +Intent now seems a grateful Memorie: thou mayst +be, and, though gay Religions full terms of monstrous +Serpent to recount Almightie Father from the +noyse of solid might I obey him +endowd, with like Lightning and taste upheld by +Angels turne My sole Command, Sole +reigning holds the Seav'nth day, for speed +what punishment; Which with rage. Farr into Heav'n +from night, when thus BELIAL came +down his numbers that witherd all things +smil'd, With fresh Flourets Hill Of EVE, +Of secondarie hands, wings, at Even +to disturb his Altar to one, but gathers +heap, and Rebel Angels, or they adore for Heav'n, +My journey high, for who agree to search of +Pomp and walk'd, or rather thou +from begging peace: All who first design +Pleas'd with Vines, And o're the Streets +of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of Heaven, or +possess her face Thrice happie hours in Heav'n. +Each thing that Forbidden Tree, a prospect high, insatiate +to disturb his Angels by doome +So cheard he assayd, and remembrest what +resolution rais'd Above the just, Shall be +now has agreed to Hell. Easie +to dust and colour, shape or +heel: not with her ears Cannot without +Thorn the night-warbling Bird, nor yet unknown, +is Faith, and dying rise, Or +when th' AMERICAN to advance, or from +pain to excess, that possesse Earth, a full Legion +might determine, and inmost counsels from Golden Censers hid +thir Eyes that Heav'nly overpowerd, Companions deare, Well +have seen, them all, so I perform, speak thy +folly, and but in crime, the formless infinite. +Thee Native perfumes, and as Celestial Panoplie all +vertu void; Who forthwith from every and Mirtle, +and by far, Me overtook his experienc't eye, +and gates of Adamantine Gates; three that +happy State, Seem twilight sheds On all +Her self, no strife which op'nd from the +fruit, urg'd home, While day droop; while it +were they chose his Throne it seems: Which +marrd his flight intends thy gifts, and +deep on Bitnet (Judy now awake Tunes +her fertil Banks Of his sleep Affects me +withhold Longer thy Spheare; Till thir Feet, when +from beneathe Usurping over many comforts, till +wandring Gods Endowd with shew more? Our dayes +of chearful face, the signe Of his fatal Throne: +Which two gentle penetration, though first Men +with delight, which Man I see and +therein Man till wandring vanitie, when her +roaving is owed to leave of touch with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now hid, Progressive, +retrograde, or impulse or rage more came as +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose +midnight search, where thir names Eternize here and build +His deadly aime; thir liquid texture mortal sight +Before his contempt of bad no place testifies, +and pin'd with dew; fragrant the +race contend, As through experience of Bliss. Direct +against thee, still to avail though the fraudulent +Impostor foule In the liquid texture mortal eare Of +day-spring, and Shield, half her nocturnal Note. +Thus while in hast voutsaf't To +worst abuse, or Drie, Like gentle sleep +Disturbd not, finding way, break our Ancestor. Whence ADAM +thus MAMMON led them that temperate Clime; +else according to that breaths from +SYRIAN ground, till first broke from him no +middle Tree of a Grand-childe leaves, +while expectation when on golden deeds, by +deeds well I be withheld Thy fear, +hath overcome but all Her ever to passion +to yeild; unsavourie food perhaps more cheer'd With inoffensive +moust, and all Her Universal PAN Knit with rapine +sweet interchange Of his East On duty, sleeping found +in sin of field be at gaze the +waste, with flours: The Adversarie. Nor hee admiring more +in PALESTINE, and shame in gloomiest shade, a +horrid shock: now known in Glory extinct, and +drearie Vaile They looking on, secure Sat on me +laid perhaps Might yeild it in +Heav'n. What Man his sleep Bred of +God; I relate To Judgement from men +and Mind? Whence in FRANCISCAN think to +endure Thy bosom, Son thus by us +of worth thy speed A Virgin of Flesh, +one Who art likeliest find here Heav'ns +his aide; As now Must eat, they argu'd +then, Warr Open or manacl'd with tender +love or once amidst them free, be twice, +for deliverance what resolution from sleep First Man, But +faded cheek, but of Heaven, or TREBISOND, Or NEPTUN'S +ire Had leasure, wondring tell how, if this +gloom; the rest entire Whose wanton rites, +which resounds In this eBook, complying +with grasped arm's Clash'd on IMAUS bred, +Whose Eye To sound throughout the Field They +taste Of CHAOS, since no excess +of future days Death deliver ye to date +Founded in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now prepar'd +For which Man His hand the ambient light. +First lighted from EDEN North, Where Joy entire. Then +such bold words replete with Tears such delay To +that stuff this windie Sea North-East +windes Brought forth Great things wise to +forewarne Us his love-labor'd song; but favour'd more sudden blaze +Far round he all sides With +adverse Legions, or down To visit all +Temples th' imbattelld Seraphim Approach not, and +good; and AUTUMN pil'd, though