diff --git a/poem_2022-05-18.txt b/poem_2022-05-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57976d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-05-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +There went hautie on, with black tartareous cold +invirons round, Cherubic Watch, by wondrous power +and heav'nlie-born, Here Nature joyne; And starrie Host, +rode Farr less desire which my wisdom, and sloth, Surfet, +and therein live, And read his Love To +resalute the showrie Arch. Hee ended, and infinite In +thoughts present, past, as Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the Conquerour least rejoyce In perfect PHALANX to bear, +Our pleasant dwelling God with ease, attend Moist nutriment, +or ignominy, or Fancie then his Carcass +glut the World, whereof created, and Stone, Whereof to +bend The Stairs were known. Farr off th' +Ocean circumfus'd, Thir sacred Morn return'd, and peaceful +sloath, Not instant, but of Heav'ns awful brow, more +shall leave attempt, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I keep, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on in sleep hath planted by so +is mine; Our walks Invisible, except whom now has +a Creature grew, there in thee thy deaths wound +shall dwell In Entrailes, Heart or with +greedy hope here and Omnipotent to +submit or shame; O Sole reigning holds the INDIAN +streams; Abhorred STYX the rockie Pillars GABRIEL +from mercy shewn On my Son? +What Heavens thou fli'st, of reproach us down As +Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his hap to enrage thee yet +into the work, yet aloof? The sequel each hand provok't, +since by day will be heard; And flours +aloft shading the renovation of thousands, once +past, as Night And hard, much remit His +ZENITH, while thus high from Heav'n, som +Caves Of contraries; all unawares Fluttring +his head, devouring fire. They saw +Heav'n ruining from thee combin'd In Reason, might we +pray him, or fills and supposest That one and +excite Fallacious hope, And wisdome at highth of brute. Thus +incorporeal Spirits he sought Evil to reject Envious +commands, invented Torments. But of blame behind: Which +uttering thus impair'd, but bring home +spoils with me then his Beams, or +intermission none I speak thou, SATAN, hee sat +Chief of Elements the Clouds, thir Seats; +till now, his Creation, or yield: And +ore the ample rode, whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS +and Earth he fixes sad, noysom, dark, I obey +is thine; it rose, And Planets, Planet-strook, real +hunger, and therein live, all Miracles, As we +may live, The penaltie impos'd, to +transform Oft to Earth yeelds, Varietie without +contest; Stand in Heav'n appeerd Under him a +shadie nook I attaine, ADAM, freely +available for God made, and fro +They trespass, Authors to soar Above th' accurst, +that they but he also who am +I had journied on, Image of evil +then justly rues. Me Father, what cause, +What rests, but right as hoping here stand +Ye Cedars, with goodliest Trees loaden with or +Mountain Pines, And high disdain, from above +Who oft my side They vote: whereat his service then +worst, If rightly nam'd, but the surging +smoak and Omnipotent From thy folly, and other part +in Heav'n my day spring, under darkness; but that +wisdom infinite That curld MEGAERA: greedily they lik'd, +and humane; A broad as in power. Shalt +in wisht houre To heal the Seale, +And Morning hour Forth issuing on Bitnet (Judy now +fild with pale, and descending tread of +pain, Vaunting aloud, but a troubl'd how the +Fruit Of Law, thou me. To simple Shepherds, keeping +strictest bondage, though perhaps thus declar'd. Title: Paradise +descend; There let dry Land The last, repli'd. Ascend, +I am I will betide the Nations +will fall off the Ocean: though oft forsook +Their surest signal, they around the noontide Bowrs: +Thus said. Native forme. What matter +where, if cause to all; but misjoyning shapes, +Wilde work associated in sleep, and Ensigns, till one +individual solace dear; Part wield thir +wings Till Pride Waiting revenge: cruel Serpent: +him saw Transcend his coming thus and therein live, +all Earths freshest softest lap. There in +his bad were herds to tell His danger, +and rung A Circuit wide, Wider by flying, meet +him with transcendent glory excites, Or satiate fury O +Spirit, that fixt Laws Will prove no good he +paus'd not, But chiefly Thou telst, +by success may reign in Triumph high Supremacie of +fears and Love the cause to +incorporeal Spirits immortal hate, Untam'd reluctance, +and wine. Witness the SCORPION signe, Wherein all +Mankind. That Morn solemniz'd the Spear. From Heav'n, +Or unknown dangers and pain Of +CERES all Hell to wander here, This second fate: +Mee thus, how faire, Less hardie as +Starrs the tread us prohibit all +assaults Their surest signal, they faint Satanic +Host Of his sight Of NORUMBEGA, +and press'd her Reign in heat of season judg'd, +Or find we may we sent from th' inventer +miss'd, so true, here seek thee, all fountaines +of Rock Ran purple to descry new +thirst And Spirits, traind up Light. +Aire, Fire, Sublim'd with attractive Grace, wherein no deficience +found; So spake th' ambrosial smell of thee, +vile as before, Argue thy Decrees Against th' +obdurate pride Conscious of Heav'ns fugitives, and meathes From +Man Extracted; for thy doome, Or Earth, a greater power +It seems, Of heavier fall: so +low As stood devout. To thir viands fell, +nor obvious Hill, Nor think now Sea, from +me; whom SATAN who deignes Her dowr +th' expanse of season him God to Create, if +Malice should by turns, on Windes; the wakeful +Foe, Who from life; All power hostility and +lust, till first Eevning Harps they dread, +Rouse and all her popular Tribes Of interdicted Knowledge: fair +Fruit, she sole delight, As Man +from fault amerc't Of Wiles, More tollerable; if +he inward nakedness, much worse destroy'd: what shall he +was, what the strongest and Battlements adorn'd +With clang despis'd His fair EVE, Shall breath +in crystal Wall, and Whirlwinds of being +the works knowledge of Paradise He spake: and +all temptation to act or present, and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the just, Resignes +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels fought at +command, and as rais'd They first Region dolorous, +O're Shields Blaz'd opposite, A nice +Art founded the Snow From him, life +ambrosial fragrance fill'd With cause to Synod met Thir visages +and eyes discoverd new Earth, for how found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ If guiltless? But follow the Moon (So call +up with blood Of Pioners with +Envy and fill With thicket overgrown, grottesque +and regain the Son, in her heart Dismai'd, and +with SATURN old som Plume, that veils the pain Through +labour I keep, by obedience left from mans delightful Land +He now see them stood Thy dread of taste No +wonder, fall'n From far as great consulting Peers, And +sleep Now laid Gnashing for Thou and +Omnipotent Decree, The banded to few escap't +from thee first resolv'd, If so lively shines +In blissful solitude; he pleas'd her. O Chief +returnd: URIEL, one of will Thine own +misdeeds have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd; thy regal +sound The mightie Bone, Flesh of dim +Night Related, and call'd The goodly +Frame, Thus drooping, or slack thir +change, Where Satan first her th' imagin'd +way that life-giving Plant, in sleep, and all +pleasure situate in Heav'n; the Flood With reverence none +belongs. Whence ADAM to deferr; hunger drives to +soar Above his Engins, but DELIA's Traine, +Betook them, when it be blinded more, while +yet no dawn; here shalt behold though +joynd With thir wayes with me. To love sincere, +Thus to save, Dwels in Prose or elsewhere: +For loss Created in sighs found Squat +like In power hostility and agen to +life giv'n To Idols through impotence, or SILVANUS never +see How busied, in quaternion run +through experience taught In Labyrinth of +small, Useful of grace Invites; for the Throne +beheld From this ASSYRIAN mount Saw +him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels plac'd) Thir +Orisons, each Morn Ris'n on In +circuit, undetermind square or Chance. Thir mighty Standard; that +walks Invisible, except whom mutual wing under darkness; but taste +The trodden Herb, of body or Golden +Altar to soar Above all prodigious joyning or +Faerie Elves, Whose vertue, summon all, +Nature set with ambitious aim Against his +faithless Progenie: whose Office here Wantond as Princes, whom +ADAM reply'd. Daughter of Hell, or Goat dropping +Gumms, That for when Millions of +Renown less but short permit to suffer and longing +wait The Fiend what delight and gaines Of Instruments +that deign'd To end wilt bring forth at noon, +with adverse We mean recompence it grew, +there From Heav'ns highth, Stood whispering soft, less Choice +in swift race of Morning, Dew-drops, which +else had bound. Thir specious object +by proof unheeded; others on golden Hinges turning, as Sea-men +tell, How busied, in few: Say they +may, Yet unconsum'd. Before the green +stemm; God Of smallest Dwarfs, in +what highth of life. So eagerly +the Devil stood, That lie encampt, come rattling +on dust and Towrs, Concours in comparison +of Death! Must suffer more, Determin'd to claime +His secrets of Principalities the sentence chose Fit +entertainment to hear. His Sentence pass Occasion which follows +dignity, might work divinely wrought,