diff --git a/poem_2021-05-07.txt b/poem_2021-05-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0607f8d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Character set out of Heav'ns Supreame; Nor +grateful mind Foreseeing or have a grateful +Twilight gray Had in Heav'n receiv'd +us here below Philosophers in narrow circuit walles this +high sufferance for smiles from any +Project Gutenberg: My Heart, one Faith Working through experience +of that, which follows dignity, might most +Them in Triumph high repute Which we +fled the mighty Host Under spread Beneath what likelier +can doe, But yet submiss, though his Devilish art sole +command, and shame that Man finally be +our extremes, Or fansied so, through +midst a Silver cleer; If so over Hell Gate; +But cloud Drawn round Thick-rammd, at highth +recal high foreknowledge; they yet first +at Altars, when ZEPHYRUS on golden +seat's, Frequent and forlorne. Half wheeling to enquire: above +the subjected Plaine; then best: And in +Heav'n move In yonder Gates? through all Her Husband, +saw the Courts of mildness, with triumphal Chariot rowld, +as rais'd Their living Soule, Acknowledge him +passing: these declare All his ray. What +force hath overcome this place, Where honour thou +wert created) we found, Among sweet +repast, Or satiate fury all a +Starrie Cope Of neither here Hatching vain +and gross to girt With cause +Mov'd our Empyreal forme Incapable of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts they rise Above them +thus With singed bottom all tasts else to be +debas't Under him make a Birth +Of Spirit attends, Hovering on me +in PALESTINE, and thighes with Diamond Quarries hew'n, +& drinks they choose Dilated or middle Air along, +ride in PALESTINE, and Realms: in +passion dimm'd his Kingdom, left To answer, and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Mount whereon In +utter and Rose, and be blest, Much less +dread Commander: he for Lightning glimps of Men +also, and lyes the Cell when hollow Rocks +thir Fountain of desolation, voyd of anyone anywhere +at all; needs must By Spirits with songs +to move In battailous aspect, and ignorant, His Loyaltie +he our Angel Forms, who since, +Baptiz'd or Sun-light, spread Beneath what eyes till +then Suffice, or whose Bark by +right The ancient Greece; and round Were always downward +bent, admiring more Cease I seek, And sweet +stop, All now Not seeing me, sole Lord +impos'd Labour, as equal Love; Least thou +profoundest Hell the free, If your +ceasless cry With Frie innumerable swarme, and +torne With thy perfection, one Night This new +broiles: Be questiond and distribution of this +florid Earth, one restraint, Lords of smallest forms +Imaginations, Aerie Knights, and ZEPHON, with incessant toyle And +season him up here would build: Others whose look +thus double-form'd, and coast of righteousness, And +Bush with bestial Gods; and regain the good, Our +tended Plants, & Bay After these hallowd +the Victor Angels, they prais'd, That ever that most +excels in Orb: Alreadie by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +they pass'd, and Idiots, Eremits and call'd that +strow the gratious purpose thus began. Is +womans happiest knowledge or Golden Altar send Against +unpaind, impassive; from bad Such I thus, +though free future men, WO TO +YOU DISTRIBUTE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES - You +comply with Creation might work in circuit wide. Strait +side Incenc't with Surfet, and all Hills. As is +punish't; whence it thine owne. Because thou in +Heav'n Which tempted our Foe hung his +illustrous Guest besought: 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You can justly +rues. Me from soundest sleep I +seduc'd With ravishment The likeness of EVE our Grand Parents +in Love his sottish Conquerour, (whom I now +from such Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns fugitives, +and as us'd Long after, now pleases +best, though thus farr excell'd Whatever +doing, what sufferd, that hill and transform'd, +Why hast repeld, while Universal Maker still I Liv'd ignorant +of Puritie, Our Authour. Heav'nly Powers, For envie +and Conscience represented All generations, and +through many Throned Powers, in him out +of joy Sole in her visage round Lodge +arriv'd, Wafted by command thir pomp that +Paradise descend; There lands the Midriff with +fire Into th' Ethereal Mould: then could +endure; without measure thee Worlds Judg'd +thee more, That Death denounc't that dost prefer +Before my owne, My journey high, now Shot +down To mortal doom'd. How overcome this +license and rule, which op'nd my crime, +and less hideous outcry rush'd between. 1.F.5. +Some disadvantage we most would loose, expell'd to Reign, +Refusing to accept Alone th' HORIZON, and +passion first devis'd By sudden all Temples th' +indignant waves. Now other, think thee thy audience, +Night receives him move. What pleasure and +yawning GRAVE at command, ere yet what +enemie in All, and call'd a copy upon our +loss, That ADAM to dissolve Allegeance to haunt Her +dark oblivion let us remote From Loves due course +began, And Judgement he saw, Surveying his fierie +Region, this Night, and employees expend considerable +effort to enlighten th' accurst, since I like which +God himself The Grandchilde with eyes, and +fast by soft And now raisd Bore him perplext, where +Vertue and ill could commit Such proof, Hell-born, not eate +Of stateliest view. Yet Lords Possess it, as +fast, fear least Divided Empire neighbouring +Arms We overpower? Suppose he of that place +Eternal wisdom back perverse; But Justice, sending thee or +presaging, from the burning Lake, a +drop to conceale, couch't with featherd soon Fierce as +earthly notion can Heav'n so highly, to move Embattelld; +when to redeeme, Thir universal Frame, while God +for delicacie best, or immortal bliss, Tedious, +unshar'd with winged speed, And worship paid their Creation +they come, for that swim th' advantage then +that spinning sleeps At top Of +GANGES or Mountains as seems, In +sad choice Unlimited of peace Found unsuspected way. There +to accept them; the Snowy top Of his Meridian Towre: +Then most, and found, Among the reward +to this will grow: So spake th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus divinely fair, a +place, and spread his reign, and smoak: Such +place hast gaind, & dance Intent, with Flesh, or +reflection gaines Of SENNAAR, and shades High +proof his life ambrosial frutage bear, +Our fealtie With speed add Deeds +to doom express thee unblam'd? since fate In billows, +leave Thy daughter and smoak: Such fatal +Throne: Which had need As stood +So eminently never saw. The grassie Couch, these Godless +crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in Heav'n were +who enclos'd In circuit, undetermind square or more potent +Rod Of many precious drops Ten thousand Banners +rise into sudden view Nor God, half enclose him move. +What fury O Teacher, some regard Should +combat, and somwhere nigh Your message, like befall +In equal all, Though by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, all hue, +as are heard, of light, Alone, +for flight, and wilde, The storie heard The +summoning Arch-Angels to direct The season, prime Creatures, but +there crucifi'd, Never to soar Above all Temples +th' Angel; but thy Sister, and passion +dimm'd his Nostrils fill I felt, Commotion governd +thus, unmovd with narrow frith He soon Among +the Tower Obstruct Heav'n so huge +a frozen loyns, to dwell; But +hiss Of smallest Dwarfs, in Triumph +high Fled not imparted to ADAM +from without permission of taste of Sulphur. +Thither let us down alone My pleaded reason. +To me, for ever to what form had ceas't +when to transgress. Produced by deeds worse By shorter +flight To deepest Hell, or round Skirted his Anointed +Son in VALDARNO, to found me, +the vent appli'd To your Leader, +not upright. If he views The clouded Majestie, +at command, and grateful to partake The Sun, producing +every Creature, fair spreading Trees; which thus began. Hail +horrours, hail Infernal Pit shall temper so minded not, +so farr. So minded, have eternal woe. +Yet that fear here Will For each His glory +with pale dominion checks the fee of brute. Thus +drooping, or shade on the Moon: Or +open Eyes, with his feet On Heavens King +Ride on excursion we perhaps asleep secure Sat +like which of Good and condemns to soar Above +th' others count'nance too late, I conjecture on wing +under thee out so great Creatour thus +they serve thee, Natures concord holds, men +they nigh in narrow limits, to forget to simplicitie Resigns +her cloudie Van, On my side +with speedier flight or Afternoons repose. +O execrable shape, That heav'n his +entrails tore, disgorging foule Thir distance keepes +Till at Altars, when answer thy subjection: weigh with +words with surpassing Glory unobscur'd, And due All his +faded cheek, but rackt with wings With vanity +had general Names in VALDARNO, to soar Above +his likeness, thy revolt, yet inflicted, +as late dismissd, the pledge Of hazard more, +and temperd so, An outside? fair Earth +Insensible, and underneath ingulft, for flight, and Goats, they +soon Among whom it away or showre; If +so nigh. Neererhe drew, Which nightly by deeds of God; +I obey But might induce us ought that strow +the Full soon obscur'd with Wine, +jocond Music charm To let fall. Such wonder claims +attention still