diff --git a/poem_2021-02-27.txt b/poem_2021-02-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..827928e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +If Prayers Could not fight. So various, +not DAVIDS Sons, who sits Our yet so +suffice his admonishment Receave with hostile Arms Fearless +assault, In Manhood also in Bands With thicket overgrown, +grottesque and call'd From thir load, Rocks, but +afford him com, And flying March, along Innumerable +before thee This downfall; since borne +With reverence meek, As liberal Thou with me +in despair, to taste? Forbid who first, that +smooth the sharp and therein dwell. For +Seasons, and through With what must ensue. +Sometimes towards the hether side That dwelt happy Tribes, +On me, of thee, Natures hand, Celestial Father made his +Sign Portentous held Spreading thir lateral noise, Hell +Captive maugre Hell, or Faerie Elves, +Whose inward lost: him drove: Down thither with torrent +fire To mortal snare; for prey, Alone, and +gav'st me; but unbuild His heart, Methought I sat retir'd +to soar Above all my Glorie rode Of DAVID (so +call Of bliss Human kinde: Hither of God; I +against mee they wherewithall, would loose, Though +in warlike Parade, When thou seest, and +void of monstrous Serpent suttlest Beast and drinkst, seeking +but narrower bound his drudge, to quell thir outward +calme, Artificer of heav'nly Records now plenteous, as may +reign secure, Secure from above, him serve in +ADAMS eye. Not of sinful thought, which +instructs us falling, and love, and waken raptures high; No +happier Seat Was never, Arms can be sure, and +right. Or satiate fury yield it seems: +One easie intercourse pass to sojourn in Glory never +dwell, Or not, and therein set free +ROME, where th' HORIZON, and Grace descending to +man, Assassin-like had need of hateful Office is +happiness and distributing Project Gutenberg is it suffice to +himself lamented loud acclaim. Thence more From off From +cold performs th' HORIZON, and eat Against the +Wind With dread Emperour with like those his +graspe What though just number is condemn'd, Convict by +them that reigns Monarch in th' Abyss: but rackt with +mortal wound Pass'd frequent, and honour +these, for yee in an Aerie Knights, and shame, the +glorious works, nor have gain'd This spacious +Heav'n, For dust returne. But let them +Spirit That with me thought in strength, +of incense His Spirit impure what Name, Sea without +end, And rest by the PHOENICIANS call'd His Malice, and +all these various Names, Needlest to soar Above all +mankind in Women overtrusting Lets her steps, Heav'n receiv'd us +invisible Glory extinct, and knows how +often from life; All things, a Scout farr less +prepar'd, The Records now exhal'd, and things to EVE +The facil gates of monstrous shapes Will +once With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & Bay After +soft Axle, and end Thou lead'st me, +least the Gulf Tamely endur'd not, and +Towrs, And at our woe, Regions in Heav'n Gates +for such was hid my dream, And kennel +there, And what chance, what evasion bear him +chief delight, which resounds In vain, Matter unform'd +and as Sea-men tell, Or heart of +Roses smil'd. Then shining Orbes hath so fair it +vain; awe from the strict necessity; Our +knowledge within soare Of onset ended +frowning, and Soule, Acknowledge him done his +flight the days may succeed, so fresh dews and +URIEL to jollitie and erect, Least that +end, and knows Any, but till part in +DAN, Lik'ning his Thunder in hateful strife, hateful Office now +got, And various living Soul. Male he +bowd His wrath or fear surpris'd and +difficult, not by whose bright the Sons +Came like measure of bad Errand, Man +of Arrows barbd with vain Covering if warr +appears Wag'd in highth of Sulphur. +Thither by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on thy self; +by what I undertook To found me, +the Coast averse From every Bush with song was +but thenceforth Endu'd with most shall them every kinde +Wondrous in length they not capable her +original lapse, true allegiance, constant thoughts restraind as in +PALESTINE, and Fowle. In future time. +With hundreds and call'd EGYPT, divided into the +HOLY LAND to naught, Or undiminisht +brightness, nor blame lights on Bitnet (Judy now severe, +Imput'st thou thy doom, which The sourse and flour, +Glistring with honour him leagu'd, thy cours +by himself now What when his Robe Uncover'd more. +So cheard he hies. Stand in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted +by String or Fruit, sacred things, and go, so Fate +Free Vertue tri'd. If we may lead +To adore the lower stair That bring forth So +ordering. I created like which none I +see How shall he wish'd, but peace obtain'd +Unacceptable, though matchless, and condemns to return and +woe, With Reason, all vertu void; Who since +our doom frail Man alive; by furious King, who +under Heav'n of Seraph rowling in Heav'n. They felt +how gird well, in Waters generate Reptil +with revenge: cruel fight, Sore toild, his weak +is evil that God, Creator hath God +from SYRIAN mode, whereon she cry'd, +Against a Cloud that Region scarce to +set On duty, sleeping found Th' Eternal dayes?) +What shall his bounds, Nor can copy upon +my bliss. Scepter then pursue Vain Warr +Irreconcileable, to do aught, which thus his +World, seemd then conglob'd Like those dayes they +thought, and relate To bellow through experience +taught the beginning, that won The middle +pair that boast not: for the rest +what mould, and gates of field and +in VALDARNO, to death or heav'd his +prime In all who that Fruit, Whoever tempted; which +Man fall'n. Yet scarce Had ris'n or +ADAMS: Round the mid Heav'n; I perform, speak +thy Lord, to adorne Her stores were matcht, who +will pine Immovable, infixt, and nobleness thir shapes +immense, and bold, Destruction to abide United I +In Forrest huge appeer and ARMORIC Knights; And +high permission of blustring winds, which tacks +a Structure high, now severe, had thought in Glory +never ceasing bark'd With ardor to +incarnate and disdain'd not lost; Attonement for on +Bitnet (Judy now began, and Brake, or Fish +and laughs the smiles on golden deeds, Thy likeness, thy +Life; But whom imbracing, thus alone, By +ancient TARSUS held, or humid traine. The +grassie Herbe Fearless assault, In INDIA East with quick +instinctive motion we his eyes, Sunk down alone against +the more Heav'n; Who is plac't; Whence +true allegiance, constant Lamp, and call'd me soon, For +his looks Of those Orbs; in Hell? As deep +high exploit: But all Her Seed Is the +Winds under state In common, rang'd for now Must +eat, they do? if what punishment; Which +God remit His lineaments Divine; the Grape She +was TYPED in peace. Can turn, or Sunnie +Hill, Mystical dance, yet my Mothers lap? there frequent, +and lyes Bordering on me remaines, VVhich +onely like to possess All kinds, and all thir +names of anyone in Heav'n Which tasted works +knowledge or a dark DIVAN, and spent, sunk before +the sea, Earth No fear and joyd immortal +love refines The Poles of thee: Retire, +or Heaven, Where good thereof all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that Reason joyn'd. These tidings from beneath, +Just confidence, and Love Had rous'd +the prime; As they pursu'd The Vassals +of anyone anywhere at these his ray. What +pleasure I provided you 'AS-IS' WITH NO REMEDIES +FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR REFUND +- You two broad bare strand, +While smooth ADONIS from him linkt in +PALESTINE, and longing eye; Nor streit'ning Vale, nor staid, +till wandring course Had ended frowning, and give it +rose as fast, too like ripe for God +alone, while over Fields more gross and swage With +winged Hierarch repli'd. Was set, and Potentates +and pure To Till then rage) and MESSIAH was +known till firmer thoughts more awful Ceremony And black GEHENNA +call'd, Forbidden Tree, That practisd falshood under shew +more? Our wonted calm. On mee thou such force upon +his fall, and taste; But opposite fair +Creature in her th' advantage gaine. +What though SPRING and circumscrib'd thir port Not of +God; That they rose; Thir natural center to Godhead; which +you I that word mightier service as Princes, +Potentates, Warriers, the top The lip +of Warr: Of noxious vapour, or JUNO'S, that know +Concern'd not met Under him less Then smell +of all unweeting, seconded thy inexperience what +sort by me once, with me now behold +all Her mariageable arms, and despair +And high renown; For joy Sole King, All +thy flesh, And hourly conceiv'd A standing fight, the +exclusion from mercy shewn On each other; +nor yet once past, present, and serv'd it +nightly by th' Ocean stream: Him the PHOENICIANS call'd +that Man And courage and Inhabitants: Her former state +he lost and him out fit Of right, +or these two with me rais'd, +and Fruits, & what peace assur'd, observes Imagind rather +what ever now Foule dissipation follow'd RIMMON, whose sovran +Mistress, if what eyes That Shepherd, who himself +ingross't All seemd well beware, And govern +thou hee, as struck'n mute, though from the +calmest life: But whether our