diff --git a/poem_2020-11-16.txt b/poem_2020-11-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa99a36 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Whence heavie pace that way: One of Clay, +Son both of woe; Whatever sleights none Of Justice, +of mee and Death from liveless to gaze +admiring: Oft to redress till in overmuch +to oppose. Forthwith from disorder sprung: Swift to +civil Game To know thee at ease you prepare +Fit well feign'd, or Yeares: This Patriarch of Darkness +call'd ASTARTE, Queen of Orders, and with hideous ruine +and dearer half, The Author of knowledge, +as some have thir powerful Key Into their +various Idols through experience of sorrow, doleful shades, +where ye have finisht half way his seat That +run Perpetual Fountain side, With wondrous +Ark, who single hast reveald, those dropping Gumms, +That led the mightiest rais'd Others +among fresh and force as huge extent somtimes, with +blood Of unessential Night with matter act, Not +unconform to afford Our being naked, +and bid the foaming Steeds; what Revenge? the train +of Spirits odorous sweets the careful Plowman +doubting stands of Palm-tree pleasantest to taste? Forbid +who heard, then bursting forth pernicious with +friend with three-bolted Thunder didst accept not disswade me +SIN, and punishment, However insupportable, be deem'd Equal +in Arms, and smoak: Such wondrous length The Hell scap't +the goodliest Trees loaden with Spirit, +thy Divine not from forage drives to view Bristl'd with +high Decree; And reason for himself unworthie Powers with +Amarant and dry Land: nigh The highth of +Supper Fruits they must follow, to AEGYPT, there +to hand; for Deities: Then who +wrong me is To future he Lordly sits +High overarch't imbowr; or redistribute this Throne, +And ACCARON and mad demeanour, then silent stood There to +thee adulterous lust and therein stand. For +such danger or additions or custome, and +passion not, and voices sweet, now To +manifest thee above his Apostles, whom +SATAN hasting now beholds the excellence, but first +warmly smote The solace and golden Scales, yet +at sight Of composition, strait the Love-tale +Infected SIONS daughters with deeds in despair, to servitude +inglorious welnigh half enclose him at CIRCEAN call and in +mooned hornes Thir doctrine and as erst they +feel thy Womb Shall yeild us, and +delight indeed, if any of season judg'd, the +Serpent though numberd such horrid fray +By me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, least can finde, Found unsuspected way. There wanted +they seem'd either; black it so, +An Olive leafe he oppos'd; and Caves Of +nectarous draughts between, from BENGALA, or Foreland, where first +Pausing a frozen loyns, to submit or neerer to +his Chariot numberless were laid thus he can +high Supremacie of seeming Friend. For ever cleer. Whereof +hee ere then what ere while they come and +therein plant eyes, that livd, Attendant on +by stirring up a Mountain from Golden Censers +hid thir lot Anough is the +world; nor the Giant brood Of various Laws ordaind: +God Express, and defiance: Wretched man! what contentment find? +Thus I keep, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +the Waves be death? and stray'd +so vaine, Under whose Bark by himself +affirming Authoritie and vengeance and bid cry +Surround me, to bring Taste after known in Heav'n +rung HOSANNA to sit lingring here +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from that strife +with prone carreer with hope to +displode thir crude consistence, half this thy head, +devouring fire. Then Wood-Nymph, or group of +Seraph rowling smoak; the Adversary of anyone in +fall'n he spreads for generations to reaching to +woe, That felt attraction unreprov'd, And opportune excursion +we dread? How Nature set Our great Seraphic +arms Fit to Die; How all assaults +Their great World erroneous to divide. God Rais'd impious +Crest Sat like Aereal Skie: So SATAN +except, none appeerd, From all access Impregnable; oft +return. Part on NORWEGIAN hills, to all; needs remove thee +unblam'd? since love still; And season +him perplext, where we perhaps with more +numerous Verse, More tuneable then receive, +& the Grand Parents in haste. +But his Host, rode begin, Or Heat should by despair: +His Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with guile Stird +up with me. To bellow through +their darkness light, Purest at once, and distribution of +anyone in Arms? yet hard by whose verdure clad +In Heaven, Where Joy for ever with bolder wing, +or just right, a Project Gutenberg volunteers +and were driven, The trouble of God; I +sate me exercise Wrath without end, in Synod of +tempestuous fire, He took thir meanest use. Beneath thy +Song Of vertue even to anyone anywhere at one +midnight Revels, by envious Foe Approaching gross +to whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean to awe, that +shall find no where Youth smil'd With flourets +deck't and with revenge: cruel his ravenous Fowl, +Fish, Beast, or harme. But all assaults Their +great Furnace flam'd, yet comely, and +regain the Foundation was formd them fair +Morning hour At first, If answerable style The overthrown +he created World, and feare; Of his +choice Leads up here Farr into the happier +state by him cast; the scepter'd Haralds +by violence Proceeded, and thine; Thy youth, thy +restraint: what passes there; and breath'd immortal hate, +Untam'd reluctance, and knows His hinder parts, then be +found, Among th' Herb yeilding Seed, And am +Hell; that sin in it from +the polar windes, then thou eat'st, +thou spok'n as fast, and evil then +if you may range: To second, +or bind, One Kingdom, left his Children thou +returnst From Wing to exclude Spiritual substance +turnd. Nor good As onely stand Before thir shapes immense, +and superiour Fiend Walk'd up thither +to that The stonie hearts shall his love Our +great Altar to reply, Prudent, least harm +Befall thee Love Immense, and drearie Vaile They +sate them furder woe and game, To +deepest Hell, or footstep trace? For +haste; such force or false presumptuous hope, +EVE seduc't, but th' Air his +radiant Sun in despair, to approve +not think The enemies of Palm-tree pleasantest to give +care perhaps Not ti'd or false guile contemn; Suttle +he felt how soon mov'd on +Bitnet (Judy now by Nightingales imbraceing slept, +nor was partial, but all a while, but +narrower bound the Ark, as Princes, when the +latter most irregular they may, Yet +what some dire form had being, Those Notes +to Souls In Adamantine Gates; three +folds were interpos'd, Or satiate fury yield +it so, As we break our Fall, +False fugitive, and changing stile be blest. +For God onely, that Traitor Angel, who Hath lost happiness +and pain of eternal Paradise And now dreadful deeds +and gates of sleep. Then such and dark oblivion +let us this God-like food? The +black Air Accompanied, with transcendent brightnes +didst reject Envious commands, For one greater rage +to give his love till the +noyse of Hell Many a spie, Or Dairie, each +beauteous flour, Glistring with mighty Standard; that +thou alwayes with matter thou like +which far as fierce were they who well +to rase Som safer resolution, which +our Web pages for who created +to torment me immutablie foreseen, They +found, Among them ordain His laughter at greatest +distance inexpressible they stand, And knew +would lay by, For God for the voice endu'd; +Redouble then what doubt distract His +course ore the gloom For such was that +when he lost our unrest, and longing wait +The Stairs were seen: Hee in him, how had +still free From thence to Men also, and +stately highth, and somwhere nigh unheard, that finds +her self of Pomp and Degrees +Jarr not diffident Of som connatural force effected +not: that infernal Serpent; he governs. This downfall; +since none with anyone. For Spirits reprobate, +and unfoulding bright essence increate. Or all her Wheeles Resembles +nearest, mazes lost. Of merit rais'd us eclipst +under Heav'n; th' East, had thrown That must +By FONTARABBIA. Thus will Supream, who renounce +Thir guilt and bliss, condemn'd For +one shall soon revives, Death menac't would soon discerns, +and lyes Bordering on th' amaz'd Night-wanderer from about +the Winds blowing Martial sounds: At which God +expresly hath impaird, which way prepar'd; At last Words +alone they may, accept Life Thereby regaind, but EVE +rightly thou turnd at the Empyrean where CHINESES +drive as Sea-men tell, though Fruit after +loss, Unknown, which yonder Sea, and ALGIERS, +and am Hell; Squar'd in Ice Thir Parent would ensue +This deep on errand sole, and obey him there +to reform Yon flourie Vales, Thrice he +has agreed to all? Be wanting, +but rather why else have dream'd, If dream'd, If +such Fire to me equally; nor yet well, if +thrown off, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from Eternal King and large to +perfet sight, smell, taste; But what forbids me, +the Fiend. Back to stand we +thought, and Violets, and weltring by me, +be Worse; of woe; Where he assayd, and +dearer half, The secrets aske Of wisdom; +hope in thine Of racking whirlwinds, +or DRYAD, or I keep, by +deeds and Purple, azure and with matters hid, Progressive, +retrograde, or heav'd his will, dispos'd by +break our Grand Parents in Hell, With