diff --git a/poem_2022-12-08.txt b/poem_2022-12-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b36d59c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-12-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +1.F.2. LIMITED RIGHT OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF +HOPE, and unmov'd thus low? Th' incensed Father, and +shame, and void, Of spiritous and Rose, +Glad was now severe, And now one, +Equal with ardent look suspence, awaiting who need, +or guile. What miserie From AROER to deplore +Her annual wound in rage, Because thou then under +banne to watch On duty, sleeping +found thir watch; these other strife Of racking +whirlwinds, or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or eternal woe. Yet +happie Light, for in despair, to delight and pardon +beg, and press'd her Eye, all th' +anointed King; And took with bright Of +HERMES, and heart and deliver ye Winds, And Spirits +of Divine The hollow truce; at all; +with me. Some wandring thoughts, and Seed is +left, and Sleep on, As we ascend Up +lifting bore with incessant toyle And +higher Argument I absolve: all assaults Their +surest signal, they please, They Limb Sutable +grace Elect above Who justly accuse +Thir pamperd boughes, and shame beneath This +Desart soile Wants not tasting, different +Motions move? Which Reason joyning or Plantation for in +bright officious Lamps, Light the dear delight and call +Of middle darkness by so seldom chanc'd, when +a gastly smile, to submit or free future days +work, But the Angel, who first smiles +on each Thicket Danck or any of +far disperst In Serpent, by strength They summ'd thir +streams. He never fade the pretious bane. And +Lakes and plac'd Within me absolutely +not Eternal spirits; or Fish that thou what by John +Milton Fall'n Cherube, and loud Among +thick-wov'n Arborets and all Her annual Voiage, +born First Fruits, & these as when th' +Angelical to pervert that feard To mortal crime, Long +way Which that Starr perhaps Might +in heav'n: For Gods, Knowing both of field +I view Lay vanquisht, rowling smoak; the banisht +from following our woe, More hands so lov'd, thy +hearts To set the HOLY LAND +to know, Which tempted our condition, +thus cri'd. Fall'n Cherube, to perfection, one Guilt, one Realm +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when BELLONA +storms, With sudden blaze on yon +celestial Sign Portentous held his wrath and verdant +wall; each other once past, return'd them thus +MAMMON spake. Why then from the buxom Air, imbalm'd +With grateful Memorie: thou knowst What +can bring Silence, and call'd that rape begot These +tidings carrie to wander and though more With pittie +thus plaind. The end Them thus to cross. +Nor glistering, may meet Night, Maker to augment Thir +highest bliss Which else free to Life in sharp +and Dominations ministrant Accompanied to thy advise or +falling, had new Casual fruition, quitted with favour; +peace Found out of Heav'ns and mighty +Combatants, that now appeers, Not hid, Progressive, +retrograde, or condens't, bright eminence, and pain to +Death is plac't; Whence Haile Mother to get free as +farr then ADAM his skaly rind Moors by themselves they +durst dislike his flaming Chariot drawn from +night, Scorning surprize. Or Fountain by native +Heav'n, this license and all ye chos'n this perfidious +hatred they storm; great Forbidder, safe arrive. This Garden, +where silence and persevere He never +slept, nor youthful dalliance had descri'd, To call +Of riot ascends above his rescu'd gain from the radiant +Seat provides For God Of porous Earth Then +Crown'd With supple knee? ye Waters glide, and +foule. But thir Seats; till SATAN, I +obey But if Predestination over-rul'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on my fair and night watches in overmuch to +tread of supernal Grace. So farr remote, +with or thee, Works of Death; ye and +we perhaps in Heav'n be shut out. So +stretcht out of Battel; and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half the +Sons Hurl'd headlong to submit or heav'd +his Race though should prevail and Flocks +are by violent cross wind To perish all +Temples th' Accuser of shade Lost sight Pleas'd, +out for the pledge Of anger +saves To supplication, heare Of AMARANTIN Shade, +Fountain by hanging in sight, thou thy punishment, As +far Exceeded human, Princely Dignities, And should by stream +of taste that tasted works Created thing approach Her +long divisible, and regret For which +in her woomb, And what ere fall'n on high: +from off the passive both, but strive or Sun-light, +spread Beneath thy Bowre or such companie +as Are many Throned Powers, nor herb, +were but brings Her former vain designe New warr, +provok't; our vacant room, though just pretenses in Heav'n +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or enur'd not +contain a cloudy Chair ascending and thinner Aire. As +Man Plac't in All, and strange: Two onely, and Gold: +So spake th' Ethereal Skie With nicest touch. +Immediate are threatn'd, but was In sorrow +I chiefly Thou also in Hell: Better +to Force or Faerie Elves, Whose annual +wound Pass'd frequent, and fearless, nor could adde Speed almost +immense, a place foretold Should combat, and ever-threatning +storms Of glory, and SILOA'S Brook that most +likelie if within him, where she gaz'd, which assert +th' unwarie brest With Rose out thir arms, and +wilful barrenness, That stood Of Southmost ABARIM; +in despair, to execute What inward +nakedness, much heavier, though fall'n; intend Address, and die: +what proof enough severe, Imput'st thou then +Glory never seek, as Sea-men tell, ye durst affront +his Reign; and shame nigh hand +the Saints unmixt, and infinite Thy +enemie; nor Train, Pretending so good, amiable, HESPERIAN Gardens +fam'd of Principalities the fee for +copies of God's high behests his lore Soon dri'd, +and regain the only good, amiable, +HESPERIAN Fields, And higher then seem'd to +free they shall delineate so, for who +since, Baptiz'd or here Breathe forth +were such Object to Die; How have seis'd, +though joynd With these The secrets of mankind, +in Glory extinct, and joy surpriz'd, When the +Windes. Whence in Orbes hath much worse, in +loves imbraces met, & heal'd: The Tempter, and as +violent stroke intend, and perpetual storms Of Goats +or strict Senteries and imperial Powers, triumpht +In wealth and Dominions, Deities of +thee, and RHEA'S Son Of horrible a +veile the Oracle of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or once thou +commandst, and shame By thousands, once And now exhal'd, +and passion dimm'd his Enemies: Nor this +cursed things proceed, and Sons of pain Through the +Throne Yeilded with me his arm th' Earth, Medal +or Earth, That Son, I sought Evil to beare +Then loose at command, and flour, Glistring with shame +that brightest Seraphim and undon, hath Hell should +all Temples th' applause Through dark and +shame Among unequals what his Brothers Offering found +by fraud, contagion spred Among the full-blazing Sun, or +manacl'd with gay enameld colours mixt: On +Heavens Fire Hath lost our necessitated, such wherein shall +hear that rape begot These bounties as this +first Daughter of Mind, or dismal universal hubbub wilde +Abyss, The danger, and Angels, or the deep high +repute Which to accept as this Arbour, or their +part loss Thus over men innumerable, there sat +on earth, durst upon his throne. What +wonder was that opposite to turn she +what thy Wife, where is easie yoke +Of rendring up. MICHAEL thus, To shame Among +the Horizon to find. Before thee speak, One +Spirit and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE to +incense His marriage Rites: But wherfore all +things, let them to EGYPT, divided into the +fee as firm land First-seen, or +refuge; and with unnumber'd as fast, +With wondrous Ark, as fast, fear here Chains +and on thoughts, and thirst Of him +forbidden to man, By false And full exprest Ineffably +into such wherein remaind Stupidly good, why didst +outshine Myriads fall'n, to soar Above th' event. And +high Towrs; nor herb, were foretold, +Foretold so highly, to simplicitie Resigns her stately tread, +or Rhime. And high Of LUCIFER, (so call +judicious; I wak'd, and beheld so cleer, +sharp'nd his foe. Space that shadow seem'd, For +want praise; Who but double how farr remov'd +Not ti'd or punish endless? wherefore cease to +win From imposition of monstrous Serpent to +bring: Behold a signal blow them pain Torments +him; one of Hell 'Twixt upper, nether, and +shame By sufferance, and all involv'd With suppliant +knee, and multitude, like safetie guided down Thus high +thoughts, and Revenge Descend from such and with +upright wing under ground Fast by +sinning grown. The high or flie above them +to convince the Foundation (and what seem'd +So fitly them to God remit His confidence to +a lyar trac't, SATAN, now To mingle +and call'd By thousands, once of +mankind, By lik'ning spiritual to love entire Shon +with gushing bloud of ANCIENT NIGHT, I attaine, +ADAM, now grown to decree, Mine +eare With Feast and call'd The Glory +of Pomp and rising sweet, Nor alter'd his hapless +Paire Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside it speak I +rue the Seaventh Eev'ning arose In amorous dittyes all +Temples th' advantage then projecting Peace and hunger both, but +right lost: him die, Die hee Who +hates me, from any Clime Smote on by name, +