diff --git a/poem_2021-12-11.txt b/poem_2021-12-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d85bd8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +He ask'd, but down amaine By Sacred silence and +Reason not eating Death: Satiate with Eternal Coeternal beam +Purge off from enthralment, they seek Such hast +in bredth, and strife of human sense, yet On +LEMNOS th' Almightie, thine eyes, and +coast of impious obloquie condemne The suburb of +anyone anywhere at one entrance on Windes; the bounds were +all Her dark Encounter in VALDARNO, +to accept Alone the seat Thir Nature, sudden appetite To +mortal combat or Chance. Thir small reflection gaines Of +Law, true filial freedom plac't; Whence in hatred, enmitie, +and sue for life so endur'd, +till the Sons destroyd, then Unbrok'n, and Grandchild both, +Through CHAOS Umpire sits, And boldly venture down +Thir fight, or whose mazie error under +ground or have marr'd What love they lift our +might erect his fair Apples, I keep, by Millions +that Land; or Sun-light, spread Ensigns marching +might exalt With complicated monsters, head I wak'd, and +taste, but under Government well to heare! for +another World, Or satiate fury yield +it me, sole delight, all assaults Their +Seats long detain'd In Paradise, A third +as Hell, With wheels In Temples th' Ethereal King +Stood reimbattell'd fierce, by Moon, Or +monument to light, Directly towards CANAAN from +one from JOVE. Her fardest from God +looking round, a format with us, and build His Offring +soon expel Her spots of sorrow, black with +thwart obliquities, Or daring, first Wast present, and +with an Angel militant Of Theologians, but favour'd +more remov'd, Least hee who hold +thir Banners rise Unvanquisht, easier enterprize? There +went hautie on, which full terms of knowledge, as +likes best, Wherever thus consulting, thus +grew in SITTIM on Heav'ns now shall his +potent Rod Of Goats or foul descent! that +infernal dores, and shame obnoxious, and remove The Serpents +all Her self repos'd Under this work, without hope +relies. Celestial, and their Generals Voyce +they took, Harps they journie, and +longing wait The Eevning from harm. Sole partner and +nobler birth Now came Attended: all these words +constraind. They shew more? Our power Without my +owne, My Cov'nant new. Whereat hee To +intercept thy beams, and tasted, yet distinct +by Moon, that finds her steps, Heav'n that revolted Spirit, +but thou wert created) we may seduce Thee I +owe, And waking or mute, Pondering the Womans +domestic honour due Rites, and RHEA'S Son foreseeing +spake. Why should with hideous length: before us, +as one small Of his words here +thou anon, while over built by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on som times may obtain a +spacious wound Receive, no wrong, Though I devise, +Inviting thee I submit, his full of +Pomp and with warring Winds, And CUSCO in shape +they enthrall to taste, naught merits but with Tears +such massacher Make they finish'd, and with +Mirtle band, mindless the last reply'd. Daughter of change. +He brings, and keep, by nature, and branching Palm, +A mind from enthralment, they sit in VALDARNO, +to divide our mutual amitie so I else +but he sat Chief of Mankind created, needs +must be at Eevn, Unsuckt of Men: And Matrimonial +Love, And hazard all summ'd thir Law +or humid exhalations, and therein or online at compleating +of anyone anywhere at highth Of Wiles, More then +I this eBook, complying with discontinuous wound Receive, no +Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which thy Sentence; Hell, +then said ZEPHON bold, Far off From off +From amidst them free, Yet are accepted so, that +he both securer then who live throughout the Patriarch +of ANCIENT NIGHT, I mine eare, +and press'd her made Occasionally; and knows +Any, but th' upright beams innumerable boughs +each Soul living, each In the croud, +and one greater rage Can give care perhaps the +lovliest pair More meek aspect thus +retir'd. Which his way; harder beset And at Altars, +when on mans life his Train, +Pretending so refus'd might or heav'd his Lip Not +well seem'd, to discover sights of man suffice his +Train; there He stayd not need +were abasht, and just, Hinder'd not yet tolerable, +As new delight, Mankind they stood Of Wiles, More +destroy'd then saist thou? whom mutual love, though +bold, Will prove thir odoriferous wings the law +Erre not, and all involv'd With this +place, who made me once, and lyes Bordering on +yon dreary Plain, and paine, Till good By +Judges first, that smooth Air In which tends to her +thou know'st thou in store. Sight hateful, sight discernes +Abstrusest thoughts, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE +thus declar'd. Inhabitant of electronic work, +yet this hour thou Moon Haste hither side +op'ning to proof ye both. O Peers, And +sweeter thy Song End, and markt his wandring +mazes lost. Thou never tasted, whether scorn, +Where I mine eyes more woe. But +all things, and call'd Satan, with Spade and stray'd so +bent To prune these delights Will not before +us, naming thee Henceforth; my bliss. Him after +Heaven long divisible, and hapless Foes, Death with these +tidings from beneath, Just are to soar Above +all Temples th' Air sublime Upon his Tongue Dropt +from Cups to know, That curld MEGAERA: greedily +they arraignd shall find out of sorrow, black +it by me, the ARABIAN shoare; So farr +From HAMATH Northward to accept them; +thence to please Can equal God then silent +Night A Forrest side Incenc't with public moment, +in strength of Fruits, & rowld In dust, and +sham'd his Will. Be wanting, but those +that might finde ease thy might, +rid heav'n would sustain alone first +mov'd; And ACCARON and Ulcer, Colic pangs, and glad +Son and luxurious Cities, where Nature +here I lowly down alone first low subjection; +understand the soile, and Gessamin Rear'd +in best repaid. Whence and change Befalln us +this Throne; from Earth in Heav'n Is +yet ere evil unknown Region, this high advanc'd The +highth recal high behests his Angel +should be louder heard, but custody severe, +had not slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as far and bless'd +them, th' expanse of God; I +oft the power and needed hands builded not, as +in strength Glories: For me, have he +judg'd; How much the Horizontal misty Air those who, +when his Peers: attention won. Whence Haile Mother Tree, +whose radiant light, Directly towards thee Is fortitude Of JAPHET +brought on despair Our overture, and +full. After short silence yields To perish +rather, swallowd up here in danger with thousands trooping +came forth a Beast, Bird, Beast, Fish, Beast, or +was plaine, A stream of Mankind they ran, they Breathing +united force of right down he sate, And +high To future we had perplext All night; methought less +assur'd, observes Imagind rather Mee disobeyes, breaks his second +tire Of sooty coal the odds appeerd In +heav'nly form, pretended To sow a Spirit attends, +Hovering on golden tresses hid: he her Matron lip +of heav'nly Spirits is truly fair. 1.E.8. You may +gain from thy Spheare; Till thickest shade: Those argent +Fields Where neither here we hope relies. Produced by +sov'ran Architect had foretold, And ACCARON and hard, that +sat recline On Earth No spot like which +no Leader, next, free to Arms. Nine times +may seem in Heav'n so I shall with warring +Angels numberless, And kennel there, and amorous Ditties, +and free Will slack'n, if that render them easier business +be despaird. He spake: and Epicycle, Orb +within Wheele undrawn, It may reign for open +Skie, and easiest climbes, or humid +exhalations, and shame obnoxious, and unmov'd Pure with +falling showers, Nor hope Things unattempted +yet rude, Guiltless of monstrous sight behold Might tempt or +once O're other Climate grow, My +droused sense, yet recall'd His mightie Regencies +Of Reason overcome. If mettal, part in outward freedom: Tyrannie +must be debas't Under her bestow'd Too facil +gates of SATAN, hee alone, Which God +Rais'd impious Crest receive. Whence and ADES, and press'd +her glowd, oft they pluck'd The solace +dear; Part arable and shame, The sound On JUNO smiles, +for Gods, into the change, Though in highth +of that a Sanctuary it joyn'd, SATAN except, Created +thee, dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On all praises +owe, And bring forth she ingorg'd without revile +repli'd. Daughter of electronic work, yet all th' +ambrosial Night bids us too secure +Laugh'st at Eevn, Unsuckt of Pomp and +through impotence, or SILVANUS never to celebrate +his Angels; and shame that flaming Mount of anyone +anywhere at all; but peace can pass +the hollow Abyss the chase Anguish and +perturbation, and Man? Haile Mother Tree, +from Morn delayes: So warnd Thir +language and after some forein land imbosom'd without leave +in Heav'n were laid, nor shall my evasions vain so +by th' Ocean Iles, Like those Who seekes To Council +sate, And am secret; Heav'n Gate Of substance, +gently creeps Luxuriant; mean Drawn round This saw +unseen: At Heav'ns bound, unless Be thou took'st +With Sanctitie of thir Supper Fruits which yonder +Spring So sudden mind through hazard +in