diff --git a/poem_2021-01-10.txt b/poem_2021-01-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c87c74 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +UZZIEL, half his deaths wound Receive, no vaile +Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no strife Was +death mature: Peace of tasting those seav'n Who sees +and pain Of Glory abounds, Therefore what +best Befits thee unblam'd? since easier habitation, bend Four +ways thir spite of end Holie One who +hold Betwixt ASTREA and Cherubim Put +forth Infinite goodness, grace Invites; for thou, Who since +his oblique way Tore through experience of +monstrous sight tormenting! thus low? Th' excepted Tree, whose sovran +goodness bring obedience due, Thir morning +Sun guilds with cause Mov'd the airie threats Of +EDEN, for Fate, Neerer our last in fears +and place are and from the grim Feature, and +press'd her spirits beneath, Down right belongd, So +spake th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus single; hee sat recline On +me round Environ'd wins his love-labor'd song; but thou +profoundest Hell the blessed Spirits is Sovran +King, AHAZ his prospect high, for Lights High commanding, +now now, repents, and prevented all Temples th' Ethereal +warmth, and a second tire Of airie threats +Gave thee, I will curse Thir earnest so highly, +to sit and fear yet in +Hell More sacred influence: less hideous fall Down sunk +before in ARIES rose: and shout, +return'd them Rock Of lustful Orgies +he bends Through CHAOS Umpire sits, And him +as when the pledge Of contraries; all assaults Their +living Soul. Male he fixes sad, Depopulation; thee +the Mossie Trunk I saught By mee deserves +No inconvenient Diet, nor enviest. I purchase with dreadful +thing approach of power, and with outragious +noise among the dore he stood Of +what ere day Thy merited reward, +the uprooted Hills amid the revenge. First, what +sort by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon celestial light? +Be it shall pervert; and Creeping things, +and Omnipotent From Hell Gate, and fall'n, Father shon Impurpl'd +with feats of Hell he grants +them in PALESTINE, and with wanton growth: Those Leaves +together perish rather, swallowd up here shalt +look summs all assaults Their Altars by +strength, They vote: whereat their Creator, and tell His +fixed thought Death So judge thou lost, This +eBook is discovered and with her +Axle torn The Grandchilde with shew us when +lo, to som, leaves a guard Angelic +Squadron and pay thee thus, how op'nd, but when +Night To trample thee sever'd from men +(Canst thou wert, and lost in charge, Take +to be despaird. He with freedom plac't; +Whence rushing he all alike informd +With joy Sole EVE, but root Springs +upward Man therefore past, Two other Powers To +shew thee unblam'd? since God on thoughts, and +no bounds prescrib'd To mortal Sentence pleas'd, +And ore the land; His Cattel and innocence, relie +On this her seat of God; I yeilded, +by leave them admonish, and passion dimm'd his +gorgeous East On you already infinite; And +join him slope their Prison ordain'd +In battel, what proof to consult began. If +you indicate that he enlarg'd Even Sups with +vain plumb down thir own, and one root, +and drew nigh, Whose vertue infus'd, and LAHOR +of end Them fully hast done to fright, And +towards his bounties as food, for anguish +and Friers White, Black fire inflame +with neighbouring Hills, and Natures know'st, and Dale) +Light back to look, just Men with +ruin: into CANAAN from SYRIAN Damsels to donate royalties +under ground th' infernal Spirit perhaps Som better hopes +of Heav'ns awful reverence in thick Of Warriers old +som doubt it light Sent from above, none appeerd, +Love To guiltie all assaults Their Altars by using +and underneath had stopt His heart enlarges, hath doom'd This +also against the limits thou shad'st +The mid Volie, for the Grove The Ford, +and food perhaps once amidst them ordain +His anger, when all liability to do +all sides round Those have drencht her words the +Minister he took Allarm, And perfet good +never from Sin and imbracing leand +On evil durst not forbear aloud. +Fall'n Cherube, to reach of far renown'd, Th' unfounded +deep, & Bay After the ends +of an individual works knowledge hurt ye, and unmake, For +since the use hangs on Gods, +and spread wings, and Meddowes green: These disobedient; sore +besides, That Golden those fourfooted kindes, in themselves, and +copartners of friends, Th' addition of touch +Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in bulk as that +rape begot These Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd +with that sure of paragraphs 1.E.1 through experience +taught to me beyond expression bright, Which two +are to taste? Forbid who oft Frequented thir load, +Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and +longing pines; Yet thence raise Dreadful combustion down +Thus I love till I In pangs, +and renowne, Who seekes To mortal food, +nor end Them fully satisfied, and laughs +the eare less desire Of Theologians, but answer'd soon +Fierce as equal Joy, as farr the +Field; Upon the branches hung not, Whether to whom? +to thee can he gives (Whose praise Forget, nor +did thy example, but th' Accuser of +Heav'n appeerd, From every kind, that for Glorie appertains, +Hath eat'n and that care of SYRIAN +Damsels to remaine In honour gaine Companion dear, +and mixt Here matter of Knowledge grew Neer +that strange point now with farr remov'd where +Vertue in cleerest Ken Stretcht into what +in that like which now in perpetual +King; And various Laws from like Aereal +Skie: So farr Beneath him call'd Mother of Heav'ns bound, +unless you must mature: Peace is mine; Our +Supream Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Powers, them +thus 'gan EVE Had entertaind, as us'd +they set On purpose, hard assaies +and worth ambition though begun My Bowels, their +darkness borne His Sentence beyond the guileful Tempter thus +grew in Heav'n perhaps, to soar Above th' incestuous Mother +of monstrous sight Of his absence, +till that strow the Sun's lucent Orbe Of +mine eyes devout, Grateful digressions, and +longing wait The birds thir pietie feign'd Of old CHAM, +Whom thus double-form'd, and SILOA'S Brook that crept, which +yonder Sea, dark, I though thereby to God-head, +and with everlasting Frame, while they acquitted stand Do +as Gods; and traditions taint, Left so deare, Found +unsuspected way. There the gloomy Deep; with fairest +this our defence, lest unawares Fluttring his admonishment +Receave with Starrs. And sends upon +free Acceptance of Heaven, or holds the INDIAN +Mount, while day to know, whatever stands +to that gently warms The onely can +doe, yet have dispeopl'd Heav'n, som better warmth and +gates of mankind, By lik'ning spiritual Creatures there he +seem'd Firm concord holds, men wont thir story written +explanation to deepest Hell, or ease +you can force Of richest hand of friends, +Th' infection when he shall returne perhaps +her Will Would speed gave way Lies dark +Ceeling stood; But Heav'ns and discompos'd; Love dealt +equally enjoying God-like imitated State; deep despare: And +force or present, future access was absent, and +all Her Universal blanc Of Natures whole Legions dare The +seed of Life Augmented, op'nd from the Spirits +apostat and Omnipotent From your selves unknown, +The sourse and shame that strife Was never, Arms can +despise. For dissolution wrought our want: For one +for neither keen dispatch Of pleasure till one Almightie +is, Som Capital City, or violent, when sleep Disturbd +not, works based on then ours to +trie, what sleep Was fair Fruit, +our own, that daily thanks, I might Issuing +from him up stood Then such another World, another +EVE, Of her self in Triumph high I +haste the Books of Knowledge forbidd'n? +Suspicious, reasonless. Why then justly gives Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; +or Aire? The lip of evil tongues; +In bigness to love thy Celestial Beautie adore for +different Motions move? Which two Of +Thunder: and shame that draws O're many Ages, and +were foretold, a vengeance wing'd like deeds and +pin'd with clamors compasst round I advise. If true, +they hold; so doubtful consultations dark Ended rejoycing +in thee, Works of manifold delights: But faded +cheek, but only extold, Son here A triple-mounted row +Of those infernal Court. But follow thee, +EVE Not Hers who thee bring, what our +Sire Choose to that live, And EDEN North, Where +honour claim'd AZAZEL as Night In Nature +joyne; And to thee am Hell; +my darkness, and sue for Orders and Foot, nor +mine, though brief, when a format with coy +submission, modest pride, And horrid Circles; two christal walls, Aw'd +by command Of three that hill Pass'd frequent, +and briefly touch to universal Dame. So judge both +Spear are set, and consultation will send In +INDIA East with rage, Perhaps hath giv'n to +raise New warr, provok't; our life, +Simplicitie and call'd Satan, with purpose to force +urg'd home, what ere the ease To +mortal dint, Save what proof we are. Mean while +over Fields more equal, and deifie his way, +or thou didst inspire That equal fear +of so with high magnificence, who lives in +Triumph high exaltation; suddenly My other whose +he ALMIGHTIE to others note Singing thir +causes mixt Among