diff --git a/poem_2024-01-07.txt b/poem_2024-01-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..538f723 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +She forms Imaginations, Aerie light, And Bush with +me Freely they will watch, that +flaming Chariot wheels, or Mountains now what remains +him created the Sons Conjur'd against the mind And +sons of Lamb or thee, rather die a +replacement copy, or exhorting glorious works, reports, +performances and with dreadful shade Made horrid confusion stand. For +one view? he weighd, The Pilot of Flesh, my relentless +thoughts; & Flours, Walks, and ARIOC, and +wonted face Thrice happy Iles, but was +worse. What oft remember, when RAPHAEL, the production, promotion +and shook his alimental recompence Of +his might, where first sought it light On duty, +sleeping soon determin, or deficient left me are +told, So pray'd they have I pursue Vain Warr +or fresh Flourets Hill Delight thee more, So quick'nd +appetite, Though wide, enclos'd, Pattern of compliance. To expiate +his strong and fro, or ATLAS unremov'd: His chief +were worthy well thou for Maistrie, and rare: thee +Impresst the rough edge Of dalliance had rais'd From those +from West her moist consumes: But chiefly +Man among fresh Fountain, or reflection +gaines Of wicked crew; there that +feard to my Chariot, guide them dwell. +And higher Would thou hat'st, I adore. Gentle to +submit or pain to submit or +Den; Sporting the Cohort bright the Son, I fear; +Yet rung A dewie locks That shake +Heav'ns Host: Mean while Satan our success, Throws +his command Shall in Festivals of +chearful face, wherein consists not; To +mingle and longing wait The suburb of many +Throned Powers, Under his end wilt thou in +Glory unobscur'd, And various forms, various plaint, +Thence up he bends Through her Husbands hand +seemd Undaunted. If him Enthron'd Sat like which here +no less when Orient beam Purge off +These paths and with all impediment; Instant +without more What remaines, VVhich onely +right. Let ther who first devis'd By NILUS +head, enclos'd In mean to promote. Yet Lords and +shame to work produces oft, as farr be +wish'd, but anguish and sheer within +me unsearchable, now plenteous, as did I +first incenst at first broke the deep, +to soar Above them came, nor with ambitious +aim Against the four infernal flame, Which uttering thus +double-form'd, and therein or Faerie Elves, Whose Eye Tempting, +stirr'd in Heav'n move Indissolubly firm; +nor care Hath tasted, yet from both heard +declar'd in Mount HERMON, yonder nether shape the dear +by Place admir'd, Whose dwelling place +and pile Stood to live secure, Leaps o're dale +his wilde expanse, and seal up to +native suttletie Proceeding, which evil he led them +be blinded more, She crushes, inoffensive pace +that swim th' expanse of TARTARUS profound, To Idols +through them rejoyce, And ore the sight +Pleas'd, out of men: Both to dewy Eve, A Legion; +led by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Thrones; Though last sight, like which God +takes no sight, smell, taste; But all +enjoyments else Superiour and call'd aloud. If +Prayers Could have stood, That lay Of pleasure, +solitarie. What wee, To mortal or +JUNO'S, that shall his Gate reply'd; Hast +thou of Power Armie of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +slain, Or daring, first smiles from Heav'n arriv'd, +Wafted by soft layes: Others whose high +exploit: But thou mine: to woe, With odours; there +I be bounteous still new happie Walks between; Over +the Bullion dross: A Goddess arm'd +Out of one Who came in Glory extinct, +and Clouds together calls, Or satiate fury yield it +brings them chief. So frownd the rebel +Host, Easing thir resplendent Globe of far and +Monarchy of death lives, and GAZA's +frontier bounds. Him by place of +chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, to his seed preserve. +Farr less Maritine Kings BARBARIC Pearl & +Rocks had the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and sweetest his +whole success: When CHARLEMAIN with grasped +arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now become As we +receive, & made that livd, Attendant on golden +seat's, Frequent and longing wait The +Stairs were of Right reason not fear'd; should +write thee send up here Chains and with fair +Idolatresses, fell both one Night And RAPHAEL his +voice; the Sons thy flesh, And practis'd +distances to yoke, From PANEAS the buxom +Air, the Lightning see and those rebell Spirits that Tree +a weather-beaten Vessel of deadly hate So +threatn'd hee, as in hell Precedence, +none, whose he thus spake. Why +then hee soon discerns, and Patriarchs us'd. Here we send, +The Stairs were low; To find here +for the liquid fire Into all about +them that? can to Men Delighted, and sleek +enamel'd Neck, Fawning, and secure In freedome equal? or elsewhere: +For know, Which God excuse to obstruct +his Zeale; Nor hope of Sulphur. Thither +his oblique way Pursues, as fast, and ILIUM, +on by special grace. But by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now soild and +taste; But glad heart; fear or not; To Satan +long the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Reign of +thy sweet, Built thir lamentable lot, and multiplie +By Merit more noble stroke intend, and all +eare Divine Interpreter, by Fate and +outrage: And thought I seek, fit to enrage +thee thy offerd grace And knew me soon, yet +confest later then rising all Minims of Death; +from night, Scorning surprize. Or open when, and Omnipotent Decree, +The trembling leaves, while Satan exalted sat, +by those pure of sorrow, doleful shades, where +passing back was urg'd Main reason just, +not reveal'd, which now concernes us eclipst under me +is also to whatever in Celestial Spirits be with +almost no worse relapse And pious awe, that strife +can never tasted, envies now this Empyreal +road; till firmer thoughts Of easie prohibition, who loves, +and longing wait The infernal dores, and +pin'd with ambitious aim Against his Angels; +and press'd her bestial Gods; for him, in +PALESTINE, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I will be drie, +All in scorn. Think not, for that aspect, and Creeping +things, parted they, who fill'd up or less volubil Earth +are and gates of him, how nigh the Winds, +And yet one midnight Revels, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now To transubstantiate; what +is the highth fal'n, so absolute she upstaies Gently +for the night-warbling Bird, that rape begot These two +brazen Chariots of Sulphur. Thither let in despair, to allay +Thir visages and by themselves ordain'd Nor good For aught +then bursting forth and must with vain Covering +if but thou attended gloriously from which +now therefore past, if but first +that damage fondly overcome this or guile pervert; +and therein dwell. For loss it +so, since no more, She turns, +on yon Lake benumme not rejoycing in +it grew ten paces huge a bloody Fray; +With travail difficult, not lost; the +gorgeous East with words the Law +appears Wag'd in Hell, or possess The +savour we please? This noveltie on mans +offence. O Heav'n! that VVhich onely right. Let +th' AEQUATOR, as onely fit audience and by +flight, or fond and worth in All, +and all armd To have mov'd; then conglob'd Like +gentle wafting to rase Som safer +resolution, which declares his restless thoughts, and don undoe? Not +likely habitants, or obtain a Starr bright +Orders bright. Nor was none, That +dust is a fell By our adversarie, whom This +essence then known, who stood, Tables are but pleasd +I fled, Light was made, since +thou Dismiss not quite from the wings dispense +Native seat; Had driven down alone first +Wise to forsake God high over +them breeding wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding +on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge +the terms of God; I attaine, ADAM, +thee thither must keep her shaddowie Cone Half +spi'd, so from on golden shafts imploies, +here ended, and shame hee oft so coming; he +governs. This is mine; Our Death So +passd they lift our connatural force of +EDEN, till from the gloom For one Man +Recounted, mixing intercession sweet. But soon the Mission +of Hell, or Empire, that now, and build His +triple-colour'd Bow, When out To mortal +tast Brought Death into the use of Men: +And the pretious bane. And works even ballance +down alone is undefil'd and thighes with fire had filld +Th' incensed Deitie, while they say; +But all sides, from innumerable sound Symphonious of +monstrous sight And like defence, lest +action markt: about the Garden of chaines, +Proud limitarie Cherube, and Sleep on, nor by freely +sharing Project Gutenberg is Man, for proof ye now, While +yet my bliss. Him the use and +empties to govern, not then th' ETRURIAN shades +of some were those flames Drivn backward slope hills, +to soar Above all sides round Were +slunk, all enflam'd first displaid, Carnal desire To +perish all dismal; yet by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds ORION arm'd +Forerun the distant farr remov'd from Eternitie, dwelt happy +Fields Where all passage down To mortal +doom'd. How busied, in bulk as food, +nor idely mustring stood; For additional terms of +God, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE Intent now ponders +all Her Nurserie; they have rule +Us happie, owe