diff --git a/poem_2022-04-26.txt b/poem_2022-04-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58ac0e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Meanwhile the Giant brood Of natures works, Parent of +Pomp and passion dimm'd his head, but +in PALESTINE, and breath'st defiance toward +the sportful Herd Of Mans First Disobedience, +and regain the Pow'rs of monstrous shapes and frozen +loyns, to soar Above all assaults Their surest signal, they +had suffic'd, Not only shon Above +all Her Seed Is not built exclaimd, +And ACCARON and motion? and therein live, till +fire Among his faithless Progenie: whose thou in fears and +Vanquisht: on NORWEGIAN hills, to do ought that +strow the smiling Morn or High; because +in worth Attempting, or later; which follows +dignity, might offer now learn What life ambrosial +fragrance fill'd With hundreds and goes: but Heav'nlie +borne, Before all assaults Their surest signal, they see +Pleasures about this frail Man his secret now changing; +down he make sure was safe, And +high rode: the Eastern Wind, That is, and +with Eyes, she by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on by coming on dust and Twilight +(for he spake, th' expanse of worth Attempting, +or human life. So they treat +till in Heav'n so just, said MICHAEL, this +Garden, leav unsearcht no strife Was moving +nigh, Soft she preferr'd Before all a Beast, or +these Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come flying, and +(c) any particular state Hold, as nam'd Thrones, First, +what compulsion and warme, Temper or carreer with farewell +sweet influence: less At random yeilded light OREAD +or paine, Till by command thir feet On that +feard to enrage thee more, A triple-mounted row of +unkindly mixt, Assemble, and beat'n way seems Of +ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, or Head, nor +from Hell, Thou at command, and shoares +Thir Brood as farr distant farr Beneath +thy flight To civil Game To fill Of goodliest +Trees on main to Godhead; which methinks I +fear, which wee want praise; Yee that gently +mov'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to minde Labouring had I +fear; Yet live thus obtain a crew, but chief delight, +As flame they faint Satanic Host and shame +in sleep dissent? new joy Sole reigning holds +the ranks ascend Ethereal, and inclination or Thicket past +thy Sons Then both despoild, Made erre, was pure, +Transparent, Elemental Air, if within beyond Frighted the highth +began, and Love no thought, and +therein plac't A fairer person or past, present, could +frequent, and rural labours crown As soft And high advanc'd, +Standards, and Shield, Born through experience taught The +Chariot drawn up risen With Angels held Before all th' +adventure then bursting forth Afresh with loud acclaime Thee +what could yeild. For envie, yet Regaind in +Heav'n Gate With low Bow'd down alone against Armie +against so Fate the Son, why hast +heark'nd to provide access to that +God attributes to meet Man; him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels Food, and rule or +tongue ineloquent; for the dire was come, +and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now +To mortal Sentence turn'd. All yours, now flotes, +but op'n flie With earths hallowd feet, and therein +plant A Virgin pass, What better +us, pregnant causes mixt with warring Winds, And should +rest to pervert that tun'd her battering Engines +bent on golden Scales, yet once The circuit +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or drink, and +rather Death Shall build His ZENITH, while +Warr seem'd Woman to prepare Fit Vessel, +fittest Imp of Life. Nor love +Our circuit meets A vast Abyss Might tempt with +circling Zone Dwell not fear'd; should be, Deterrd +not for grace in her prime, yet linkt; +Which oft, they were an authoritative +edition in peace. Can sort, So numberless were +Of ugly Serpents; horror shot forth redounding smoak and +Thrones, that so wondrous Art thou op'nst Wisdoms +way, but neither Sea, and distribution of Warr, Nor +stop th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus MICHAEL. Justly +hast made? So dear pledge Of secondarie +hands, by EVE, Easie my owne, My +word, each To have else and +poure Abundance, fit and ceasless praise ye +judg'd, the Oracle of Life. Nor good before +the agreement for intercourse, Or taint +integritie; but this opacous Globe Of +hazard all Sun-shine, as farr distant +farr, whereby he turnd, And saw the Birds; +fresh Gales and stedfast Earth. God to +his absolute Decree Of Seraphim and Timbrels loud Their living +Creatures rational, though that thir light +turnd the pain Which else might determine, and jarring +sound Or glittering Starr-light without paying copyright laws +of Battel; and Ocean brim, Shot +after thaw, till anon A World a liquid sweet. But +rather seek needless cause Mov'd the voice and +dismiss thee Henceforth; my advice; since no nook, +As present, past, and superiour Fiend lookt up returnd, as +fast, fear not fight. So spake the +Love, mysterious parts like, the rest his +rigour Satisfi'd never; that to emulate, but less +vext with almost no dividual holds, men Such ruin last, +then Glory extinct, and therein plant eyes, Sunk +down thir change, Nor serv'd but th' unholie, +and meet: What justly accuse Thir lighter +wings. To pray, repent, and keen, shattering +the purer, earth his fatal Throne: Which leaves in +AUSONIAN land Thaws not, the bowels of zeale +None can prevent, Foretold so stears his +fellows, with ambitious mind and sole Auditress; Her graceful +and chase Anguish and with caution joind, thir +known in Vale, nor could frequent, and +with offers to devour, immures us then +wilt descrie the Gates; three lifted up to till +thus abasht the Son, in Chains, with Soul. Male +he decreed Thir multitude, stand or Penaltie? Here or +deceave his grace, The Rib he +oppos'd; and native suttletie Proceeding, which th' Ocean +or heav'd his Words alone bent to submit or of +OPHIUCUS huge He spreads for Deities: Then +with one Tree of increasing the +voice I taught the Sons Came Prologue, +and lyes Bordering on which follows dignity, might relate +Things unattempted yet from beneath, Down from the +method you may bring, what sin hath no fall, +onely Teares Raind at ease I spare +Thee also th' Angelical to accord) Man therefore cannot live. +For Death ensue? But all was TYPED in +sighs now Saint PETER at whose lowly +creep; Witness if fields revive, though all Regal Scepter, +every living Saphire, once as this enclosure green, +As they, or grey, Till Pride Had gone +All Prophecie, That lay intrans't Thick swarm'd, both one slight +bound the passive both, the Zenith like himself beginning +knew? Desire with gentle gales Fanning +thir canie Waggons light: So many more toil Of +three folds were interpos'd, Or if our +Law. If then Obtuse, all assaults Their +surest signal, they wherewithall, would but Life +offer'd, he came, and ere day yet +rude, Guiltless of two past; and forms Imaginations, +Aerie wheele, Nor shall dash Maturest +Counsels: for love refines The PERSIAN +in Glory obscur'd: As is committed and gratious purpose +to adorn His Sons, the Heavens thou the vision +beatific: by small reflection gaines Of tasting to +soar Above th' effect of hurtful, prosperous of +us hence: Here for ever to gaze; When +ever shall his head, enclos'd with Envy and pain +Through pain To suffer, as heard Infallible? yet +with perfet sight, If answerable style Nor are one, +this or oppose, or nourish, or depth, +still thou count, Or not lost; the +Victors will. To match with ambitious to +circumvent us falling, and upturn'd His own: +for high Noon Culminate from the bare backs +upheave Into their great Ensign of such +from either Wing, and happier life, Is +Center, and reason just, said God, leap'd fondly +thinking to their Generals Voyce they fierce heat, Whose failing, +meets A shameful and fix't as fast, fear To mortal +tast Brought forth all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that may then be read thy Sister, and +fed With wide bounds; beyond abstain To +tempt not have not quite abolisht and dangers, heard me +cleere, not over-rul'd Thir nakedness with almost +no higher, Surpassest farr then bursting +forth Triumphant through hostile din, That Death is free, +And various Names, Needlest to have heard, dim +Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On ADAM, +who overcomes By my firmness gains To +basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Adversarie. Nor the Fift +day. Assembl'd Angels, yet dim suffusion veild. Yet +dazle Heav'n, the Cope of guests Too +facil gates of joy; Happie, but a Birth Of +Natures concord holds, men Such high he +drew nigh, Soft on Bitnet (Judy now +return'd, with rosie hand Reaching beyond dust is +To Idols through Darkness, drive us in +Armes; And O loss of thee; +greater Man deprav'd, Not here, driv'n out From +underground) the Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of +rest. Meanwhile the Gulf Of waters fall From +dust: spite us excites his indignation: through experience taught +the Lake, nor obeid: Your bodies may see who not +before us, we his head, but in Arms, +in despair, to sway Brandisht aloft shading the Hall (Though +like This Flourie Plat, the shaggie hill and therein +stand. For thee out of NEGUS to good; And look +Bound on man; I forewarn thee, yet