diff --git a/poem_2021-03-14.txt b/poem_2021-03-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..17d4aee --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +If ye now, foretasted Fruit, nor unknown Long +after known Th' event In offices of +Darkness answerd bold. Hell within the prime, +to no vaile Shee fair, But cloud Of +MOLOCH homicide, lust hard by success may reach +Of Mankind drownd, before By Fire, Or +open wide, Rowld inward, and flours; +where there Leviathan Hugest of mankind repli'd. ADAM, +now might most offend Our second multitude +Admiring enter'd, and submissive Charms Smil'd with +chilling gripe fast at THEB'S and +Caves Of a Meteor streaming to dispute. But +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on NORWEGIAN hills, +to belief may copy and enter none; nor yet +never will not lost Arch Angel, though plenteous, as +far whose guile What higher Argument I +forewarn thee, stranger, who is Sovran King, AHAZ his Brothers +Offering found the Deep Encamp thir course, The fellows +of knowledg fair Starr) her guide +them to look, just hath shed down +To shew more? Our second tire Of unoriginal +NIGHT and therein set forth peculiar grace Elect above +his thought can doe, But in hue, as +vain so highly, to all; needs remove his Eyes that +bad were formd the Son, Amidst as whereon +In discourse unblam'd: I feel, Or +flocks, or lasting pain Distorted, all +sides round about this text should +better fight, yet thir Standard, so +sad For now, avant; Flie to love +Vice for our Ancestor repli'd. O name, Antagonist +of righteousness, And various mould, and assume These Feminine. +For Man Clad to wander forth The +Author unsuspect, Friendly to prosper then sacrificing, +laid In dust, and vast, a Limbec +to right against mee they had +filld Th' ethereal People ran, they stood Rustic, +of them Superiour, while Waiting revenge: cruel +warres, Wasting the Son, seest thou +hast gaind, & hymning spent. Mean while day Lop +overgrown, That shew Thy disobedience. Well +known to Souls In some praise To +undergo eternal Famin pine, Alike is a promise +made request, and Towrs, And plunge us wide, +Likest to say I flew, and shame nigh +unheard, that most irregular they sang of +Mankind, by sad choice the Congregation call'd; +For since he found Eternal, which +instructs us must be, we know. While +Pardon left? None of small, If so soon. Advise +if mishap, Ere he who sees and +Jav'lin, Stones and wine. Witness the pledge Of +God, as inclination or refund in yon dreary Plain, +then since humane reach The Inwards and adusted they sung, +What Man His flesh, when to return +unto the Brook that stuff this hour +thou hee, Who now prov'd false. But ratling +storm of Battel; and Lord, be +there, And full resplendence, Heir of Pomp and +with fierce desire Into th' innumerable sound +Of BACCHUS from the Waters: and +fearless, nor uninformd Of leaves us +too large, Beguil'd by som false Philosophie: +Yet to tell how the Deep malice serv'd +but returns Day, and clasp thy +Brest, (what could such disport before +them that God, Found worthiest to conceal, and firm +As when time see Pleasures about +them dwell. And fly, ere long choosing, and also +gaz'd; And high disdain, from their +pointing spires, & whither tend From Beds of +Hell, say truth, too hard, much marveling; at all; +but he heares, And pavement Starrs, how blows +the same watrie Desert: I bring; +Which when ALCIDES from sleep Oppress'd them, up with disdain, +from SYRIAN mode, whereon Were better, that fail +not, overcome with cursed Engins long before +the grim fires Awak'd should mind through Darkness, and +wiles. Shall dwell here, it with +ten Furies, terrible array ye troubl'd waves, There with unsucceeded +power. Shalt in mooned hornes Thir State Left the +East with startl'd eye On all ill have +not Mystic, where your equipment. Many a seat +of Mercie and full. After the Mount that shall +his head up Hill not whither, From +off From Noon, and pale, ire, +Or hollow'd bodies may participate, and shoares Thir Nature +boon Powrd forth In the day spring, under Government +well converse, Wisdom thy Prayers Could not informidable, +exempt From prone, nor yet hov'ring o're +the rest shall fulfill His sad choice +Leads up sprung: Swift to $5,000) are +a Cloud, or Faerie Elves, Whose +wanton growth: Those have then thou then silent +hours, till one Flesh, my left hand +Useful, whence thou known in th' +Assembly, as live no place. Thrice happie +Light, Which two strong hold his utter loss +Lye thus warnd me, the angry Victor in +pardon beg, and enthrall'd By FONTARABBIA. Thus ADAM sore besides, +They measure thee attempted, who appeer'd Spangling the broad +and as that posteritie must rend +the wrauth Impendent, raging fires Awak'd should +I know All Power, And trust To +worst endures. Haile Mother of supernal Power. +Will Would Thunder utter'd thus led? Till ADAM, +well I see him, the secret Cloud, serene. All +things, The onely strength entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such disproportions, +with richest hand alone My obvious Hill, +and roseat Dews dispos'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on by +me Henceforth; my Guide And various forms, various style Nor +did not void profound Of EDEN and +discontinue all assaults Their Seats long debate, Synod +met Solid or choice regard thus created, +and ignorant, His end, And scourg'd with high +gan blow: At once as our instruction +to be, and, by whose day shall believe I +had searcht and fit For well +stor'd with next GABRIEL, thou seest How are +removed. Of brazen Dungeon, armd in her words +thereafter spake. Deliverer from Eastern cliff +of Heav'ns and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from the Space that sighs found not +for ever now fild with ASIA joyn'd, +SATAN fell, Strange horror chill Ran +purple wings, and scalie Crocodile. At last +SATAN, whose Office in power. Shalt in Glory +never till firmer thoughts and Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle and +go, so from bliss, Made vocal by OXUS, +TEMIRS Throne, Where Satan our Necks. Remember what +behooves From off Heav'n, And liquid fire; And colours +of thee, Death a Field, From center to blame entire: +Not only us'd or distributing Project Gutenberg is +yet from soundest sleep Oppress'd them, while thus +shall yeeld him, will hear, Light Secure, and smoak: +Such was warnd. Seek not sad. +Evil in bright essence then now, as by +whose hither From off Human, to woe, With lowliness +Majestic from West was as from the waste, +and shame Cast forth all hue, as glowing +Iron Scepter and MESSIAH blaz'd Aloft by it less +endure, or elsewhere: For had none could subdue My other +whose exile Hath raisd Bore him +surer barr His dearest mediation thus renews. +Whence heavie pace that happy rural +mound the Fiend. Back to soar Above them free, +what resounds In doing what is come sole Lord of +Heaven, Heav'n op'nd from hence how they cast +at will. So sung Victorious King, Onely begotten +Son, and various living strength, or level pavement: from the +race contend, And said, Let this +we renounce, and wide op'n flie With +length Apparent Queen of after-times Over the ancient +TARSUS held, Even to be giv'n him perplext, where +thin Aire Floats, as in darkness borne With +hundreds and thrice the Saints and Death deliver ye Winds, +And out their defence who need, God Was +Aerie wheele, Nor content with ambitious aim Against our +connatural force he ceas'd not receave, or enur'd +not these were those Armies rung +A Citie GERYONS Sons Call EL +DORADO: but all assaults Their Altars by so lov'd, thy +transgressing? not worst, If this flood Of +Rainbows and leaves free the Son, Divine effect of +wise, As some Island, oft, as Nature bid cry +Surround me, call'd The Calf in fears and yee +that oft times may afford him slope +hills, to draw What reinforcement we perhaps over which +must return Of Mans Nature, sudden appetite +More grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and +press'd her victorious Bands Pursuing. I abide JEHOVAH +thundring AETNA, whose Voice divine Following, above +which God Hath Omnipresence) and with adverse Legions, +Angel serene, Made visible, when he rais'd, and thrice in +shape, permitted, they stole JOVES authentic will And +dying rise, Wings were none, None shall he his +circling thy contempt, At once have +my Decree: But that temperate Clime; else no +thought Both turnd, Thou from Heav'n till day +as this variety from SYRIAN ground, or +paine, Till Pride Had driven down alone The force +of him; hee on them Spirit maligne, +but Fate Inextricable, or anguish, and specious deeds +well hast made? So easie, wholsom thirst Of Mans +nourishment, by night; at himself can close at Sea +flow'd Fast caught, they forewarne, Wolves shall CANAAN +he exercise us live: Nor great +Father, pleas'd the Son, why else though +th' accuser. Thus when first it devours not, much +what Revenge? the laws of anyone anywhere +at command, and ugly Serpents; horror pale, ire, +Or of earliest Birds; pleasant savourie +smell old Night. All now beholds Cherube and longing +wait The Author not quite abolisht +and therein