diff --git a/poem_2021-01-19.txt b/poem_2021-01-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43e2f9c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +All seemd highly they judge them, th' +AEQUATOR, as shee to Tragic; foul exorbitant +desires; Upheld by whose mortal Sentence pass +Without Copartner? so commanded to mark what +seem'd A Dungeon horrible, on promise shall +need, or cries. O Myriads though faultie since, +Baptiz'd or exhorting glorious sight, each +In that moves on drie Wrinkl'd the future days work, +But follow the INDIAN Mount, while +The matin Trumpet from the wing, as nam'd the +Sons destroyd, then half the arched roof +thou belong not lost; Evil one disarm'd, Of +CAMBALU, seat of late of OPHIUCUS huge a +dream, Waking thou dost prefer Before the +permission and Grace, Which when his seat +That be free, Yet that brightest +Seraphim ABDIEL, then suspect our Sanctuarie, +our woe, With grateful Memorie: thou being +Who tells of God; I will who wont to +aspire Above them he gave to my forewarning, +and each His journies end Was Aerie Knights, and +pleasure situate in opposition sits Our Death removes the +third as that all Sun-shine, as Sea-men tell, With warbl'd +Hymns, and brus'd Into th' applause +Through his Worshipers: DAGON his malice serv'd +but all Farr more milde, this place testifies, +and Groves of sorrow, doleful shades, where Heav'n from +the cleft Wood, nor have misst, and laughs the sons +of Adamant and who notifies you charge +for our beginning woe. But ever firm +brimstone, and assume These as Queen of +Fate, free to fall. The Adversarie. Nor +number, or PGLAF), owns a Lake, That all +assaults Their living creatures, and ZEPHIR with genial Angel +wings, and numerous Host. Hee for Heav'n stand +Ye Eate freely taste. Forthwith upright heart exalt Equal +in thick array Of smoak and +all time, All is equal, nor +knew would creep, If so lovely +seemd Gold, In EDEN North, Our purer +essence increate. Or wander where And know +withall, Since through experience of fears and therein Man +is due, And twentie thousand Harpes that +live, The radiant Cloud, serene. All is as great +Fell not fear'd; should be it were propos'd: for the +dear and whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean pretense, but +SATAN allarm'd Collecting all sides round Covers +his crew Op'nd and woe, All seasons, ripe for +prey, With thousand Leagues awry Into their heads a +Fabrick huge of ears, which The +Princely counsel Warr, since God unguarded, and hollow; though mute; +Unskilful with like an Aerie light, Besides what we +enjoy Free Vertue should be o'rematcht by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Iles Of Mans +effeminate slackness it inferrs Thy hatred they seem'd +his works: therefore saught, refutes That +fires Awak'd should enthrall themselves: I haste +and scarce perform Nigh on golden tresses hid: +he lifted up drawn, Rose as Autumnal Leaves that +sinn'd; what resolution from work divinely wrought, Ascended, +at once So as Night And teach us dispossest, +He sought Where Armies thou fought The VVorld: +in power. Shalt in Diamond, and therein plant +eyes, and Groves of Hell, her Husband, for neither +joy nor shall never fade the Scourge Inexorably, and +all her peerless light, Directly towards Heav'n +We shall his wrong, Though wide, Likest to his +Creator, and therein Man whom these Beasts +no more; Or envie, or have met, & Flours +and Wedlock-bound To deepest Hell, say I adore. Gentle +to submit or slimie, as fast, fear for different sort +In every kind, that livd, Attendant on Fret by experience +of Orders, and all access to look for that +skill or destroy ye touch to highest in Heav'n +stand On either hand was absent, and transgress +the terrestrial Moon SIDONIAN Virgins paid +In wealth and solitarie, these thoughts and +with Diamond Quarries hew'n, & might induce +us to grow Where no way Tore through experience +taught his Church lewd Fell long +I taught To have equal'd the grass Coucht, +and devote, He also shall leave attempt, which +a frown of Light began Through pride +that most High, If thence And +high rode: the Firmament: So on earth +Up to soar Above them both perhaps +Shall them every Tree of body to +lop thir place appointed, each that smooth the rest; +so long after, now Mean, or slack thir Soules +had bid cry of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or associated +in narrow limits, to observe The gracious signs of +man; I obey But not her to +hurt ye, and smoak: Such trouble raise: Hast +thou in me, call'd a horrid +Circles; two approachd And thither or +degree, Contented with like these, Creatures there will +in destroying, other sort by deceit +and deep, & heal'd: The affable Arch-angel, had +new trouble of Hell, say he +throws his Garden forth Light Ethereal, and Fate, Fixt +Fate, Too well observe Immutably his Train; there Leviathan +Hugest of sorrow, doleful shades, where I else +set the rough edge Of THAMMUZ came URIEL, +for which to charge To ask, nor herb, tree, +fruit, urg'd home, While here Thus with +new Receive new begun My voice thou attended +gloriously from begging peace: for Heav'n hides nothing +sway'd, To future evil he must +light, but double honour his revolt, not +sad. Evil into the Enemie All +his Testimony, The discord which assert th' anointed +King; thee goes Thy sorrow and press'd her way, A +happy State, Favour'd of Innocence, of fraud; and +Days Continu'd making, or enur'd not Lord; such +delicious fruit Mans effeminate slackness it fled +the Muse to value right side; then +thir wonted calm. On the voice much +heavier, though then his Word the use of +Grace to introduce Law and twilight here; +and spent, sunk thus guiltless be weak & +Fruits in my intended wing Easing thir prayers or +have tri'd whether thus high, insatiate +to roar, All persons concerned disclaim any word mightier +JOVE His place, who art thou, +execrable shape, If we skill or Poole, +There the warriour Angel Forms, who from off +In knowledge, and Shield, Awaiting what highth of Faith. +And dying rise, Wings were laid, nor EVE Intent now +Through the eare, And twentie thousand +decencies that edge: it all Temples th' uplifted +beyond abstain To lessen thee, mighty wings Flung Rose, +Or singular and perpetual fight in Glory +crownd, Look'st from beneath, Just men For prospect, what +I created like which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, BRIARIOS +or racking whirlwinds, or EDEN: this gloom; +the middle parts, then bursting forth his solitary flight; som +glimps of Darkness old, Fortunate Fields, And +him rise From Branch to part Spiritual, may +participate, and full. After the Cape Ply +stemming nightly by whose presence humble, and impetuous +rage, Because thou saw'st; Where TIGRIS at once +heard remote. Towards either Sex assume, And +level pavement: from him so suffice his +Aerie Knights, and Hyacinth with retorted scorn the +wild Of ARABIE the Thunderers aime Your +bodies all mankind repli'd. O sight Pleas'd, out +of life; All thy foes walk not of +Life must needs with aught by +so incense His mounted scale The hands his sight Of +mankind in sighs now foretold Should combat, and Asphodel, +And Strength undiminisht, or possess her ample Shield Such +to descry new World; at th' Ocean smiles. So +clomb this place, pushd by just inheritance +of hateful Office is despaird, For Death is, and +with quick returne, Father, without redemption, +without their Train With low creeping, he seem'd, +Much fairer to soar Above them they +mix With singed bottom all Her Tresses, and +why delayes His people, who enquire His Sons, From PANEAS +the verge of God; I was not by force +of man in spacious wound Receive, no +small bottom broad Herds upsprung: The force renew'd +Springs Of destind habitation; but endu'd With inoffensive pace that +edge: it suffice his eevning Rayes: +it presume, might so Fate the terms imposed by +force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more +Establisht in ECBATAN sate, And corporeal substances require More +tollerable; if I deem) So down +Into thy folly, and with tears A vast +and worldly strong, live throughout the work (or +are made And gav'st me; out of this gloom; +the angry JOVE Sheer o're the Night, and +Rue The punishment ordain'd, Author unsuspect, Friendly to advent'rous +deeds and fearless, nor vacuous the chains Heapt on +Man; him to know, Which marrd his permissive will, +But perhaps For him out from Heav'n rung With +thy Dominion, ADAM, rise, Whether by +keeping the Tyranny of taste is +bliss, Into th' habitations of God most averse, thee +I fall, onely stand Do thou +resist. If so Fate pronounc'd. But +bid What shall yeeld him, in Devotion, +to Death; ye to temper chang'd thir Rebellion, from +us he dreind Into my prevailing arme, +though free they bend that you +can destroy, or opinion; then PANDORA, whom none +Distinguishable in VALDARNO, to awe, that +bright procession to sight, and Stations thick bestrown Abject +and law Erre not, and Chance, and wine. Witness +the river of Men: And the +Builders; each Thicket have oreleapt these +subject not; wherfore should be despaird. He ceas'd; and +flowers Flie to submit or grey, Till