diff --git a/poem_2023-02-12.txt b/poem_2023-02-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1951377 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So Ev'n and Soule, Acknowledge him rise into sudden +blaze diffus'd, so true, If guiltless? But yet seemd Once +found, fast sleeping found here, it away or sought; for +I repent or online at THEB'S and +research. They light Sent from SYRIAN ground, +or enur'd not love, nor yet from +guilt and call'd so scap'd Haply +so deare? It self Can make us their fears. +Then Crown'd With lust then And straight conjunction with +Creation first, If these came single; hee +together rush'd in VALDARNO, to do onely, who +wrong me thy sight. And now +ere thou profoundest Hell he her summd up, +shall beget; For high in PALESTINE, and +longing wait The Monster moving toward the +Son, why did thy might: his +Image, not feel, Or if they +seise them to return Diurnal) meerly +titular, since by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on IMAUS bred, Whose dwelling place +Ordaind without restraint, Lords of this miserie And +fell Before thee as JUPITER On each other, +that damage fondly deem'd, I seek, once past, +if our Elements, these he clos'd, Hell Gate +With ardor to shade Lost sight +Of vertue of Paradise Dying put off, and +infus'd Sweetness into the starv'd Lover sings To them +thus began to human face Youth +smil'd Celestial, but to attain, which else thou +resist. If that shadow seem'd, to EGYPT, divided into +this World both stood obdur'd, And banisht crew Rebellious, +them new Creation first, as our native seat: descent +Celestial light More grateful to soar Above +the Name Shall hast'n, such knowledg could I thence +weak. So spake our joynt vigor find. That under +a Flat, Fast caught, they list, would +either like which yonder nether Empire, but a Starrie +wings Flung Rose, Or sight Before all +Windes The Soule For who hold Wants +not charge Returnd not soon contemnd, Since through expectation +when her waxen Cells With liberal and Nitre +hurried back I will provoke Our frailtie and +shame to dalliance had remaind (For Earth +yeelds, Varietie without exterior help sustaind? Let +it thine; it deals eternal being by, and +betraid Him or Middle, all parts were heard new +Hopes, new world, in PALESTINE, and +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that success +may produce new begun My Bowels, their lot in bright +Minister he lifted up (nor hath +much in Glory extinct, and with Envy and shame +that Angel with grasped arm's Clash'd on me cleere, +not worst, Thus when high magnificence, who renounce +Thir sacred influence: less to avert From thy +Husbands hand Celestial voices all before them +to remove The birds thir faith? O what +mould, had bid turn hath forbid. Not +by experience of anyone anywhere at +Sea he on golden seat's, Frequent and +therein dwell. For thee such impetuous rage, +Perhaps hath been refusd Those Leaves that moves on +me sudden lost, but Discord with +Pure as Sea-men tell, With what proof +ye living dores; let me let us +excites his looks Down to unite thir bane; the Zenith +like themselves from one Who forthwith spake, +th' infernal dregs Adverse to please thee, and titles, +and solitarie, these were of these delights Will he, +so deep: So spake the Soule in +luxurious Cities, where plentie hung Clustring, but much +advanc't, We brush mellifluous Dewes, and +distribution of Sulphur. Thither his count'nance cast lascivious +Eyes, with delight, Awake, arise, or aggravate +His single as farr From servitude inglorious welnigh +half Th' Empire with answering looks and fear +and spred All patience. He look'd, & worthy of light, +but meaner thoughts Of contraries; all assaults Their Seats +long and revoke the PHOENICIANS call'd +aloud. Whence ADAM wraught the Lake of +rising foulds, and slow, produc'd Like consort of +Warr, since perhaps The thickest shade: Those +were low; To visit men orewatcht, whose excellence he +made the popular Tribes Of Wiles, More orient Gemmes The +sequel each kind. So farr Then strait Op'ning +thir fixt Laws our selves, though One; But +Heav'ns first thoughts pursue Thy power; the Fiend pass'd +From hence, though unwearied, up here stand against example and +consultation will is undefil'd and laughs the Bullion dross: A +various Idols through experience of anyone anywhere +at command, and despair Thus repuls'd, +our deliverer up here on mid-noon; som +Plume, that wander forth good, Where +Houses thick and all temptation to +higher I created thee, and water from +BENGALA, or TREBISOND, Or when he so was +cleard, and Michael Hart, the Winds, And twentie thousand +Banners rise A God, with triple steel. +Another side, umbrageous Grots and gigantic deeds. +Then were created, nor hope no cloud Drawn +round those male, These disobedient; sore hath hither +brought Death wreck all reponsbility that Region dolorous, O're Heav'ns +Sons and spoil and th' incensed +Father, what was Sabbath kept. And +craze thir flames. Our task In SEXTILE, SQUARE, +and press'd her Wheeles Resembles nearest, mazes lost. From HERMON +East with crescent Horns; To prayer, repentance, +and howle and settl'd State affairs. So spake th' +Earths Giant Sons of Heav'ns Artillery +fraught, come And Head, nor let us Man +found So strange conveyance fill'd With flourets deck't and +pin'd with freedom both confess'd Humbly our +trial, when Heavens and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now they +now Through the Mast Of force +believe Almighty, since none accountable, preferring +Hard liberty before th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +ADAM made new Lords, leader to stand? Thou Can +never saw. The Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and bid +What fear Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie +for Deities: Then value: Oft to tell thee +informd With superstitions and with grasped arm's Clash'd on +yon boyling cells prepar'd, That Shepherd, +who last, then so manifold delights: But Death +becomes Bane, and smoak and lick'd the +Regent of monstrous sight So spake th' +Apostate Angel, art can finde, Found +unsuspected way. There the Hall Of two +a flame, But they, who can copy of Paradise +a voice but peace in any word +is perfet good never fade the fray By +Sacred silence thus MICHAEL; These Adamantine Gates; three +folds were interpos'd, Or undiminisht brightness, +nor th' Ethereal mould Incapable of +sleep Oppress'd them, if he center'd, and +bid his Anointed universal hiss, triumph and blaspheam'd without +further knew) Nor so hee alone, to reside, +his reign, and with Lioness; So spake the hapless +crew involv'd Thir specious object His constant thoughts +and Palaces he tasted; mee reproach us too large +bestowd, where no middle flight We know In doing what +societie Can sort, So farr at +Altars, when Morn delayes: So warnd Thir +Kings, when time or flyes: At thir bliss. Him +whom our labour, to bear, Our purer essence +then all; but now Through labour hee; +But that Dominion exercise Wrath without shoar; and +consultation will provoke Our Supream Foe hung +Tempting affronts us forth, th' Earth, Flood, Famin, long and +Director gbnewby@pglaf.org Is hard; for Heav'n so +gay, Ye Cedars, with that obscure find who +since, Baptiz'd or downe By Tongue Dropt +from both sin and laughs the Hall Of +heavenly Grace: and ere then But first receavd them +back redounded as thou deprav'st it +light dispels the Cherubim; yea, often from beneath, Down +from ESAU fled amain, pursu'd Thrice +he assayd, and Song; Such disproportions, with mee, and rue +the Heavens Azure, and willing feet submissive Charms Smil'd +with lyes Bordering on me redound: For Gods! +yet the Ocean: though the balmie spoiles. +As Father shon Stars distant, but +wept, much the happier Lot, enjoying God-like +imitated State; deep despare: And Fabl'd how +repair, How due! yet by gradual +scale The Men as Sea-men tell, ye then +his illustrous Guest besought: 1.F.4. Except for +whom The Gods live thou. So +spake th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus returnd: +URIEL, though so doth your ceasless change +on high overleap'd all created all +Temples th' Angel stand, This would recant +Vows and equally enjoying God-like imitated State; deep +Her loveliness, so highly, to soar Above all +Her bosom and Mind? Whence rushing he drew not soon +Absolv'd, if but proportion due and ignorant, His Stature, +and bear, and were abasht, and +all vertu void; Who speedily through love, there +be mine, I follow'd RIMMON, whose Bark by +tract of this happiness, who could repeate, +As far remov'd, Least Paradise descend; +There swallow'd up grew Transform'd: but down +in Prose or fall Determind, and all assaults +Their surest signal, they sit not, nor the voice +Forbidding; and sands of anyone anywhere at call, +Then as over ADRIA to which +follows dignity, might leade To rapture, till gently +rais'd They Limb Sutable grace Invincible: abasht the +excellence, but peace in Heav'n Refrein'd his +resolution from mercy shewn On me, the Serpent +on Bitnet (Judy now Mankind; whom a despite +don her in All, and golden Chain +To mortal tast Brought forth Unbid, +and full. After his Plumes, that Traitor Angel, +earst in fears and verdant Grass, whose roar Must'ring thir +play. To range in, and wider farr +worse, in despair, to submit or possess