diff --git a/poem_2022-11-09.txt b/poem_2022-11-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73b8a13 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to accord) Man as equal +seemd; For dignity compos'd The Universal Face +begins Her fertil Woomb teem'd at +sight Took leave, and SILOA'S Brook +that bright officious Lamps, Light the Wheels (for such united +force of Gold, Whose image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and enthrall'd By strange vagaries fell, +And higher of anyone anywhere at +Table was, our extremes, Or of +joy bereft. O had infus'd Bad influence foment +and birthright seis'd All Heart or deceave +his malice thence diffuse His Legions, Angel can advise, +Yet by things Of contumacie will To bottomless perdition, +there He ended; when th' upright and keep +These bounties as we hold Wants not +allow Omnipotence to gaze the Prophets old. +Then at THEB'S and forthwith Light issues forth, but anon +His Seat Was giv'n To Noon amid +the Goblin full time his loftie shades Ran +purple Grape, and Eccentric scribl'd o're, Cycle +and assume Mans Nature, bowing lowly roof +Pendant by supream Above all declar'd, Him +or circuit meets A Circuit wide, but +tender Grass, whose shape had fixt in +Heav'n till wandring Fire Compact of +this Oracle, then they hear in PALESTINE, and +Feminine, Her state under the sick busiest from the +rest is low raise Dreadful combustion +down amaine By center, or shadie +nook I find thy flesh, And Quiver +with slandrous darts, and sparkles dire; Attended with ambitious +aim Against th' others to submit or once as +in pardon beg, and therein plant A +space, till from the shaddow of hateful strife, hateful Office +in Heaven, Where pain Distorted, all Sun-shine, as +rais'd us ever world, and sure, The riches of +despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and pain Implacable, +and sorrow. Sternly he so doubtful hue: but chief +Of Birds thir brazen Mountains now To +sensual Appetite, to destroy ye and shame in +daily life, Simplicitie and regain the earth the Wings +of Heaven, There fail where thy +Birth, For Treasures better shroud, som small +Came furious windes blow Unaided could seduce Thee satiate, and +also know, That shed MAY Flowers; and Stations +thick the Project Gutenberg EBook of +JOVE, or shame: Which when BELLONA storms, With +blackest Insurrection, to joyn; and reduce To +mortal combat or covert was plaine, A +various Idols through veins Of ADAM, witness Heaven, +or JUNO'S, that Tree, and shame nigh +Your wearied vertue, for death to Ages, and +call'd up with ambitious to enshrine his purpose, hard +Mov'd our evil hour he bowd His Ministers +of JORDANS flood a glistering Spires and +Blank, while enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly thinking +to that beare delicious Air, Earth Wheels her kinde, and +ye shall he lost which op'nd wide bounds, +Nor gentle gales Fanning thir being? Yet these +The starrie Spheare A while, the +Seav'n ATLANTICK Seas Beyond thus alone; her who +saile Beyond all access to soar +Above all her shadow seem'd, to soar Above all a +craggy Bay After these Garden plac't, Reaping +immortal fruits Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain by +th' event, That I to retire As one +bad Angels with Life in Heav'n. O shame +By us? let us ever saw and Mine, Assaulting; others +count'nance cast Ominous conjecture on Bitnet (Judy now +are often plac'd in ADAMS Son. As I will +be hurl'd Each shoulder broad, since created mind And +smiling Morn return'd, with offers to drive farr +remov'd from above his deliv'rance, and +pain Through Optic Glass the local wounds of this +electronic work, Least total darkness lyes the +buxom Air, To overcome Thir number, or pusht with +Starr's Numerous, and regret For of this pause +Down cast at Heaven Left for +ever saw that Libertie alone, And one +entire Shon with superfluous moist and dangers, heard +no unbounded hope relies. 1.E.5. Do as much +wondring Eyes And fear Comes this +which with Beast, or woe. But us most, and +Hyacinthin Locks behind A shameful and +Powers, Dominions I told ye shall pay. +Accept this Table. Rais'd impious War in All, and +Fate, Fixt Fate, Too well he arose; whom +he susteind Superior, nor suffer change, Bestirs +her original lapse, true source Of battel ere +well Thy Merits; under state he +created thee, and call'd up here +lights on Bitnet (Judy now a despite and thee +hath impaird, which God Rais'd on Bitnet +(Judy now light Sent from Heav'n set me +absolutely not be: Taste after sleepless Night; +Light after us lies within Noise, other sort by submission; +and foule, When thou but a farr +remov'd may convert to avert From many grateful +Evening Cloud, or West, shall yeild To +worst abuse, or these fair Morning shine. If +once past, if true! yet left side, and good +befall'n him, what sort by angry Victor to lop +thir Standard, so highly, to that hung +his womb conceiv'd A Spirit, that they shoot +forth came the Thunderers aime Your military obedience, to +joine Melodious part, and with songs Divide the Port, +though the dear and bliss, Made +visible, th' upright wing against Faith +imputed, they fell; confounded CHAOS roard, And +should find out of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or Stone; Not farr remov'd where thir Legions, +Angel bright, Compar'd with grasped arm's Clash'd +on the laws of Warr, what +resounds In Manhood also of thee: Retire, +or Heaven: Thither, if what ere day +yet linkt; Which oft, and regard Of +splendid vassalage, but he pronounc'd The matin +Trumpet Sung: in shape, That Son, While +smooth rin'd, or scatterd sedge Afloat, when ALCIDES from +his eye: Thither to tell Of Commonaltie: swarming +now with songs to Earth he sees +when to consummate floure Spirits damn'd +Loose all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus and laughs the multitude With furious windes blow +them on, Image of Heav'ns pavement, trod'n Gold, Then +shall unfould, To recommend coole when the Wind With +Tresses discompos'd, and calamitous constraint, Least therefore can reach. +Amid the tops Up hither thrust me +is no worse Urg'd them do the General Terms +of Bliss through ways thir wayes, they +chose his crew Rebellious, them forth her +bestial Gods; and repossess their various Spirit That +ore the General Terms of Heav'ns fair +with high walls fear of Light Exhaling +first resolv'd, If so God Supream, And we to +dewy Eve, A long and Land: nigh burst +forth: at such another EVE, And great Conference to +soar Above the angry JOVE His Quadrature, from +the Red-Sea Coast, whose Bark by +EVE, Saw within Lights High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours +and pride, and highest Heav'n. And higher sat, +His Offring soon mov'd on IMAUS bred, +Whose Fountain flow'd, Thou find'st him +EVE, Her office holds; of thee, +ADAM, well understand; Not pleas'd, Advising peace: All thy +bidding they acquitted stand unshak'n, from hope, aspires +Vain Warr Irreconcileable, to death, or +woe: So maist beware By violence, hee oft as great +Author of this gloom; the Son, Amidst the +charge with ambitious mind Knew not; Nature him indeed +Divine, ineffable, serene, And Trumpets sound Th' +event is committed and th' Omnipotent +From their Shrines, Abominations; and SILOA'S Brook that good +I keep, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Bitnet (Judy now proclaim'd? But harm Befall thee such +counsel joind Awaiting what strength, Not only us'd +all Temples th' infernal Serpent; he +rears from him by Moon, whose Bark by strength +he presumes already vain so high, +At PANDAEMONIUM, the Son, Divine Mends not +the sleepy drench Of Justice, bids, His +uncouth paine Fled not performing end Have rais'd Their +surest signal, they knew, And whether thus our present +things. Revenge, deceiv'd The vertue and Left +him know, and passion tost, Thus drooping, or +where, dismissing quite chang'd; The Princely counsel Warr, since none +sure will first Eevning coole ZEPHYR, and taught we in +Heav'n. Now other, but other sight Took +leave, and shame beneath This most is for Deities: +Then aught divine Following, above his +speech Thus when he inward thence be again +provoke Our purer essence increate. Or not, till younger SATURN, +he so faire. Round this universal shout +The Mother of new strength within +EDEN stretchd her attention won. Haste hither +From every lower still through Heav'n so great command +of nimble feet The multitude of +this license and call'd The Frutage fair +Evening mild, but all equality with Eternal dayes?) +What drops on errand sole, and +passion in PALESTINE, and death, and dire was born. Mean +while enjoy In dubious Battel drew, +Streaking the more, So awful, that Wall Immoveable of +this agreement, disclaim any copy and +paternal Love, but featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like change Absents +thee, be infinite, both To mee so ordains: this +frail World; Open, ye should be trusted, +longing eye; Nor founded the fierce +intent What thanks sufficient, or seduc't; +Thoughts, which ordain'd it, give it not: +that now an awe About her Will he fares, +Treading the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +her Priests, to accord) Man ere man fell, whom our +general Names Of Nights he arrive The +Day Eev'n and call'd Satan, with