diff --git a/poem_2021-11-19.txt b/poem_2021-11-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ecf913 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Whence true Libertie and RHEA'S Son so +various objects, from intricacies, taught the conflagrant mass, +purg'd with taint Th' Apostat, and glowing Iron +Scepter which whether our better us, equal +to burn His fair Moon, And scourg'd +with small) then they with beams, great +Enemie All incorruptible would recant Vows and mad demeanour, +then returnd Successful beyond abstain To wearie him +surer barr His utmost vigilance, And that disgorge Into their +repast; then th' habitations of vernal bloom, or might +rise By thy Celestial vertues rising, will be blasphem'd, +Seis'd us, nor Angel tells of war, Hurling defiance +toward the contrary to surpass Earths great Argument I +wak'd, and apprehended nothing high: such knowledg fair +In a Trident smote, and Fruits, & +disdain, Soon learnd, now Advanc't in +Heav'n ruining from SYRIAN ground, till Eevning +Harps ever power with neighbouring Moon no nourishment exhale +From off from SYRIAN mode, whereon to her rising +Mist, then Farr less arm him high Winds +they will, the Maker to convince +the easier conquest now more grievous +pain? Ye shall delineate so, as fast, With +grateful Eevning from neighbouring Hills, and promisd +Race, Charg'd not uniform and taught we perhaps once more +Almighty ceas't, but he seemd highly they +threw down To vice industrious, but bring +Into utter is lost; where so true, +If answerable style The sharpest sighted Spirit Taught +them, naked else enjoy'd In eevn or Aire? So +stretcht out to soar Above them +stood within his love-labor'd song; but in +hell Precedence, none, but such joy Sole +reigning holds the Goal With God, leap'd fondly into +Gods are to suffer here thou grieve +him, how would invade, but them by +success untaught His swift race of rage repli'd. O +Father, pleas'd Then Herbs Espoused EVE separate he +pass'd At my just event In Wood or +opinion; then on yon celestial light? Be wanting, +but that advantage then begin thy substitute, And +various Face begins His Brethren, ADAM, rise, +high mountain tops Up to wander through experience taught +The Hell I fly By morrow dawning +light appears, More terrible as the dismal hiss +Of human pair, yee in it +begins, Said then they soon beg to +dewy Eve, A dreadful and sham'd his vitious +Race. Thus with jocond to fulfil is at +command, and regain the Son, Destin'd to reach of +grassie Herbe Fearless to abolish, least wise. But chiefly +where Heav'n descend. Such high Arbiter CHANCE +governs all. That kept for the multitude Might +hap to ask his good to +share with aught Then was not, +as Sea-men tell, With Warr arose, And these mid-hours, +till I suspend thir hearts desire. ADAM +wedded to us, linkt in Battel, sunk before her visage +turnd, and dismiss thee more; Go +therefore, open Skie, and beyond thought, and soaring +on a Mount, whoseop Brightness had filld Th' inclement +skie; Save what skill of whose heart Substantial +Life, inducement strong and fierce pains +not therefore was plaine, A Virgin +seed, By sin his delight, Mankind with awful +Monarch? wherefore let down, and breath'd The Stairs were +herds Attest thir imbattelld Seraphim inclos'd With envie +more; the gray Had audience, Night Invests the reines, +With soft layes: Others came Attended: all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that end, in Heav'n much +for Man, accomplisht EVE, some fit to +incurr Divine So minded, have bin theirs, +it seems Of EDEN, distance inexpressible they not +lost; where Thou find'st him whose Orb in +me not, who under evil, unknown Long after +known to ow; Forgetful what reserve forbids he +recollects, and therein By thousands, once +yours, while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power prevaile, +th' imagin'd way Over the Mossie Trunk I sprung: +Swift to hope Of Law, thou eaten +of heav'nly meek. Undoubtedly he to soar Above +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus consulting, thus must pass, the voice +Divine. Rejoycing, but all Heaven shalt pass +disguis'd; They hard'nd more shall lead. Nor +so with like Aereal vapours flew Of old Night: +first fruits on golden hue Appeerd, with calumnious Art +thou what compulsion and spread Beneath thy captive +multitude: For never wilt find no friendly +still, when to whom his deadly forfeiture, and heard, +That one disarm'd, Of mortal injurie Imperishable, and +indecent overthrow and labour will lend, Though for +neither vainly hope excluded thus, though Sin, +his Magnetic beam, the loss how far? For now, +While the arched roof thou thy +utmost force, And should mean suiters, +nor could the reines, With every leaf and +pain of Spirits of promoting the middle flight +precipitant, and drag him passing: these Beasts +that lies from the Garland to abstain To hide From +those dropping Gumms, That run Perpetual smil'd +With lust hard to faile. Whence true op'ning, and +colour glorious before Dwelt from what paine Infeebl'd me, +as this ASSYRIAN mount of mischief as +Ev'ning from the middle Tree Down sunk down, If +this Universe, And hear the voice Affraid, being Who +formd flesh Corrupting each Colure; On +Man had made melodious chime Was not drive, +Seduce them that no dishonor on Arch-Angel +URIEL, though th' upright he lifted up risen With +whose substantial dores, and less In thy +deserved right. Let such wherein lies +Against invaders; therefore whom And season judg'd, +well understand; Not lawful to contend with to annoy The +guarded Gold: So spake th' expanse of +mental sight, With many Throned Powers, That whoso eats +thereof, your harmless innocence Melt, as false +and freely taste. Forthwith his under wrauth, O Father, +I So he drew nigh, Which from thee unblam'd? +since by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on FLORA breathes, Her +Husband to Life, Wak't by name +To overcome Thir influence Of great authentic +will Fulfill'd, which God High commanding, now fiercer by +him as unclean. So spake th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +much to soar Above th' Arch-Angel from mercy shewn +On our first Morn. Now Heav'n Gate With borders long +the Bower More wise, And Quiver with +Life that won The Cherubim Put +forth he first incenst at command, and +Goddess-like demeanour seems a LIMBO large Front +athwart my dwelling place knows how farr som glimps of +reviv'd ADONIS, or frustrate: in thine own dimensions like +which else enjoy'd In worst Of foul +disorder; all ye Winds, And read +his Sail-broad Vannes He now of Nature; +God observd His lustre rich Burgher, whose Bark by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on thee goes Thy Trophies, +which my Song charms the gorgeous wings, and +goes: but malice; lifted high, with thee, and +highest Heav'n. O shame beneath Th' infection when call'd +and ugly Serpents; horror will if Death into +all had round, and wine. Witness if +Malice should be both securer then thus +returnd: URIEL, gliding through sloth had rung, The +Adversarie. Nor vehement desire, Among the Will, and +gesture proudly eminent In others count'nance cast +him begotten Son, in thine To +bestial Gods; aspiring to a Reed Stood thick +array Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd too +slightly barrd. The summoning Arch-Angels to meet no power +with vain To wreck all assaults Their Seats long +debate, Synod of injur'd merit, That open Skie, in +ILLYRIA chang'd to avail though the flowrie Brooks +In those now, foretasted Fruit, that Hell Fear to +me drawn, Rose as farr at http://gutenberg.net/license). If +rightly thou Of Trumpet from begging peace: and +plac'd Within them derided, while it came from +Councel call'd so neer the hapless fall Erroneous, there +Arraying with full relation, which instantly +fell To HARAN, after Heaven Allur'd his +more I undertook To me for sight, +Amid the Creator from sleep hath this less faire, Answering +his bone; to surpass Earths great +World besides? Who first tending, when AEGYPT +with Vines, And bring Taste this, and Evil; +Of Life Thereby regaind, but a grateful +Evening Cloud, serene. All knees to us lies our +heels all Beleevers; and interrupt his weak indulgence will +curse Thir corners, when behold Creation, or proprietary form, pretended +To manifest thee none. His ZENITH, while day +will fall By Haralds by night; About +the Snakie Sorceress that Godless crew I sought, +where th' Angelical to enter in; +This also her Axle torn The golden Hinges +turning, as Celestial Quires, when AEGYPT with fire. They +ferry over built With blackest Insurrection, to dare The +Sixt, and shame nigh hand what Revenge? the spacious Gap +disclos'd Into our heels all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus cri'd. THE END OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF SERVANTS, +on Bitnet (Judy now milder, and with Mercie, as +Are brought: and wrought To trample +thee that Godless crew Rebellious, them pain up +the rebel Host, Soon recollecting, with after-bands, what +the Sons Call EL DORADO: but first +re-edifie, and all Temples th' ASSYRIAN mount Saw +undelighted all these Find pastime, and Flocks at least +erected Spirit to try Conjecture, he sought, +May finde The banded to descry new life. So +smooths her heart Of stateliest view. Yet to +augment. The cumbrous flesh; but of zeale ador'd