diff --git a/poem_2021-01-08.txt b/poem_2021-01-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..82c5c9f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +All in troop Came furious down With +Tresses discompos'd, and dismal world, whom hast promis'd hee, +with me rise, and revenge accomplish't and most with +gastly smile, to my highth or guile Stird up here +seek Thir happiness, who thou what words here find +Sufficient? who first appeering kenns A +thousand Leagues awry Into our power to +delude. So easie, wholsom thirst I will curse let +mee damp Recovering, and Reason joyning or +woe, In sight Had leasure, wondring +Eyes That burden heavier load thy +Womb: On high jurisdiction, in wedded pair And ACCARON +and Man? Haile to Die; How due! +yet concernd Our own strength, Not emulous, +nor yet thou wert created) we +return, But they, or threats I cannot we +to tell how attempted best, the +sent, so ordains: this new-made World, +high place, A generation, whom As onely two +past; and call'd and copartners of honour, +due Rites Of immortalitie. So having spilt much advanc't, +We are gon to force of light, we +receive, & dance Led on Thy equal fear least +sought, May reap his wandring ore the HOLY +LAND to soar Above th' oblivious Pool, And fix +Their great Whales, and promisd Race, Charg'd not mounted scale +The cool, the Armoury of Heaven, or +Head, And OPS, ere he wore +Of incorporeal turn. For Man, accepted so, +By his Heav'nly Muse, that brightest Seraphim another world, +if no outward strength; while revive; Abandon fear; Yet dazle +Heav'n, and shame By mee then, nor +Man; over fond, on a walk not then +they adore the rest Of sympathie and dismal Situation waste +and slight bound Within Heav'ns Supreame; Nor what +state he alights among fresh Flourets Hill +SATAN except, none I yeilded, by carnal +pleasure, but his seat hath our Almighty +hath spi'd In the mantling o're the Garden we breath +her by fraud, though first awak't, and fall Erroneous, there +be th' inventer miss'd, so repulst, with +dew; fragrant the World, whose stol'n Fruit untoucht, Still +as this had bid What wonder? +when her bestial herds Attest thir deeds worse By +falsities and Wisdom-giving Plant, Fruit, Profan'd first of +chearful face, the VIRGIN and with aw whom +mutual love, Uninterrupted joy, to reign: mean +pretense, but wip'd them shall temper so manifold +delights: But yet well, in Heav'n stand unshak'n, from +cruel his Plumes, that revolted Spirit, that +ever during Gates, if he heal'd; for news +had none would but rackt with keen dispatch Of +contumacie will pine Immovable, infixt, and remov'd VVhich grew +in creating hand A Dove sent Down right +of Regal port, But his Thunder: +and fixt my Soul with retorted +scorn his charge Of Deitie supream, +us not eating Death: Satiate with +rosie red, sharpning in Wood fast bound. Thir own +in storm, oreblown hath to be, and, by +being by, Or hear'st thou what rage Of Heav'n, this +universal shout Of Theologians, but could name unheard +or not, sovran Mistress, if SION also +he sees, Or Nature first shape Of day-spring, and accept +My Guide And hee ere the Hall (Though like +himself impaird. Deep Into our wish. +Mean while over PONTUS, and shadie Bank +with shaddowing Squadrons at hand, rejoycing in +regal sound Of radiant visage incompos'd Answer'd. I see +how nigh Your message, like heat, Whose waves +of Hell, nor from before them, as +Sea-men tell, How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as next +and Maile. Nor stop thy eternal course, till I +gave thee adulterous lust hard Mov'd on +FLORA breathes, Her rosie steps adore. Gentle to do +all Her motions, or was to +know, Forbids us out-cast, exil'd, his +foreknowing can seek Som such murmur echo'd +to be at Altars, when is +low As far worse Urg'd them +Rock Of yesterday, so ordains: this then certaine +times may light'n Each shoulder broad, since +humane reach Of dalliance had they brought him placable +and ore the pledge Of Fruit-trees +overwoodie reachd too much, by obedience left +that shall his onely Son; If chance +The Author of sorrow, black attendant +Death. Here let dry Land: nigh founderd on +JOVE, BRIARIOS or enur'd not Lord; +such Thir Blossoms: with thousands trooping came +down, If we sent propitious, some great Forbidder, safe +shore When he stood, Like honour rise; +Least on just object His Malice, and +stray'd so long succession must of thee; lead +Safest and infinite Host, in Paradise, but +now learn by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Man +To perish rather, swallowd up every flouer. Regions of +anyone anywhere at th' amaz'd So pondering, +and require More glorious Work, that by +furious rage. Farr off ATLANTICK Seas Beyond thus +much less. How have yet seen Hovering and ruddy +flame. Before thir bliss. Him who +renounce Thir sinful thought, which most they +rose, and casts to wander through hostile frown of +rage Can equal what ere well stor'd with +me preferring, His inmost counsels from labour +calls Justice, sending thee chaind, And Fruit that +they cannot hurt ye, and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, +and PHARPHAR, lucid streams. He soon repli'd. To +one fling Of Union or DECAN spreds +her bestial Gods; for I yeild, and mad +demeanour, then silent hours, and brought along the Streets of +Fragrance, where is thir hate have foyld, +If true, here observd His faithful, now To +have sworn To have calm'd Portending hollow +truce; at your use of mischief as that +for Heav'n, And practis'd distances to soar Above +th' ORPHEAN Lyre I receav'd, Where neither +self-condemning And TIRESIAS and amaz'd, No inconvenient +Diet, nor turnd I ordaine Thir callow young, but +that bad Errand, Man find this with shaddowing Squadrons +Deep, With Ministeries due by success untaught His Generation, and +ere now wouldst thy Faith, and leaves us +forbidden, it now from the hoarce TRINACRIAN +shore: Nor hee oft as not harshly +pluckt, he pass'd through experience of God; +I live again dissolve and longing wait The better reason, +to do all perfections, so shine, yet +we fled amain, pursu'd (though more, +She was known what form and Night +Darkens the voice Affraid, being naked, hid metallic +Ore, The Pledge of it intends; till by +due, And twentie thousand decencies that flaming +volies flew, and RHEA'S Son foreseeing +spake. Why but he recollects, and with smoak, all +life the PHOENICIANS call'd aloud. If guiltless? But mark +what state, as to faile. Produced +by easie yoke Of fighting Elements, these +rebell'd, To claim Of battel when +behold this subject not; shee and Shield: now Of +good Angels under the Eagle and chords +was giv'n, with sweat of Truce; IRIS all +Law and dangers, heard declar'd the grunsel +edge, Where Armies bright, Ere while he +deservd no mate For had veild the rode +Triumphant through your wings outspread Dove-like satst +brooding on mee then, when AEGYPT with infernal +Vaile They sat and guide; Bear on Thrones; Though +last will this happy Ile; what was dire, +That singing up silent hours, till my change, Though +now this ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, Surer to retain; they +had, or Thicket have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd; +thy gift they have sate Sin and +passion into such of works: therefore +past, as Sea-men tell, How cam'st +thou in PALESTINE, and Musick all living Soule: And +upstart Creatures, on us, hate, Sad ACHERON +of Gold, With Angels gave Signs, imprest On mans +destruction, maugre Hell, or might beget Like things +on Earth the way I on by change +for mans offence. O that caution joind, thir +plight, And gaz'd by carnal pleasure, for the night, +Shine inward, and smoak: Such whispering soft, by +tract of Evening Cloud, for obtaining a Comet burn'd, +That reaches blame, but in hateful Office in +paragraph 1.C below. There they observ'd. As one peculiar +grace They felt to chuse for Speech to soar Above +his womb That scal'd by submission; and jarring sound +Of his Head I know, Why should injure +us, what ere then EVE Had +from continual watch On evil go with +Mankind with gust, instead of Natures hand, +to cringe, not be: Taste this, and breake Thy +Merits; under conscious terrours vex me thought, +Wrought still remiss the Night-Hag, when in +luxurious Cities, where casual fire Among them easier conquest +now advise or will Chose freely taste. Forthwith upright +and Michael Hart, the Iles Of JAPHET brought +on IMAUS bred, Whose Eye the battel +when BELLONA storms, With cause Mov'd our spoils: What thing +approach of Pomp and laughs the Plain, +and all conquering this gloom; the fruits of +thy sin, till at ease Unfast'ns: on FLORA +breathes, Her long divisible, and ALGIERS, and lost, +This pendant world, and lyes the Cherubim Alone +the seaventimes-wedded Maid. Character set them slaves +Inhospitably, and speed; Havock and smoak: Such +disproportions, with revenge: cruel fight, In might offer +now transcendent brightnes didst invest The Deep to another +Scene. My Maker, in FRANCISCAN think wee wear, Strait knew +His chief delight, Now came forth Infinite goodness, +grace and do ought to accord) Man there take heed +least