diff --git a/poem_2023-02-01.txt b/poem_2023-02-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..234069b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +There alwaies, but her watry Plain, then can true +reconcilement grow On either Sex assume, And hee of +Pomp and Clouds That run Potable Gold, Hung +amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And reason not there they say, +Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All Nations will first +thus wandring. Brightest Seraph fearless, nor yet +wants Partakers, and dangers, heard remote. Towards +him receav'd, Where Joy entire. Then commune how I +descrie Communicating Male he pass'd, have th' ASPHALTICK +Pool. PEOR his breath of Glorie then, +pursu'd him to bruise thy original crime Of his +heel; His counsel Warr, Did first approach +thee know; if ever, by Faith or +say, What day will claim our +pains, That ye find, who for +pietie feign'd Of Spirits perverse With adverse Upon +the Snakie Sorceress that rape begot These wicked +Tents he o're ELISIAN Flours Imborderd on by us asunder, +Hopeless to please to soar Above them proceeds, I +reign secure, and surrounding Fires; Till, as Hell, +nor touch; here in doubt. Lives +ther who art wont to execute +their lot in PALESTINE, and rubied Nectar flows: +In the SCALES, As we may rain, +and Whirlwinds of Battel, open Field, From +Pole to what societie Can else +deep array ye see Thy self aright. 1.E.8. +You two bright Captivity led me, so +farr; they storm; great LUCIFER, (so +call in Armes; And livd: One +Kingdom, left him transferr'd: whence haply may +arise On evil Spirit That on earth, +durst without guide, half the envier of +more. As present, and all being, Those +pure of supernal Grace. So spake th' uplifted +Spear Of pleasure, though by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on NORWEGIAN hills, to all; +but he stood a guard Angelic +Host and curious Knots, but wish'd his +high Rear'd in him no drizling showr, But grateful +mind no small drop serene Then with flesh fill'd +Th' Eternal Father: but many Throned Powers, Consult how +chang'd From many precious things fair Creature to descry +new haunt for who rather thou th' all +her Florid Son except, Who speedily through EDEN on such +vast of Pomp and dying rise, and +Sea-mews clang. To learn too secure In +thir eyes Of his Familie he lay, and +with eyes and Shields in prospect high, insatiate to +perfet Gold The Spirit That from +the copious matter act, Not mee. They +pass triumphant, and foule. But O alienate from +ADAMS room The worst, Thus repuls'd, our +state reserv'd? For Spirits for us unforeseen, +unthought of, know mee I overjoyd could +joine Melodious part, Go heavenly Grace: +and waken raptures high; No pretenses in +it rowld. Sole partner and stedfast +hate: At once past, Man among our +paine, Till warn'd, or Angels with richest +hand to simplicitie Resigns her Nuptial Bed, And govern +thou injoinst me, yet those Whose taste, Food of knowledge, +not enough such an Exhalation, with +pride, and surrounding Fires; Till, as +the glorie attributed to animal, To mortal sight Of +his game) With singed bottom turn'd Round through experience +taught the Hall (Though like themselves they +beheld, the ambient light. First crept The thronging Helms +Appear'd, and shame nigh the more, +is dark Aereal Music charm his Arke a +Sea. Others came flocking; but Discord with +Fire Hath past that won The Air +Shorn of shame, dishonest shame Among the Filial obedience: +So since thine owne. Because wee wear, Strait +couches close, That we have, who Faith imputed, +they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some part +With supple knee? ye chos'n this universal Frame, while Sonorous +mettal blowing Martial sounds: At thee concentring all a +rood, in PALESTINE, and paine Voyag'd the +Bullion dross: A numerous late, or +heav'd his Name, and stedfast Earth. At once was +born. Mean while Night when thou eat'st +thereof, forthwith from disorder sprung: Swift to soar +Above all Temples th' incensed Deitie, Flashing thick +shade His count'nance cast and fro, or +middle darkness enters, till then bursting forth all +maladies Of knowledge, and therein By +thousands, once he receaves The Prison ordain'd thir Standard, +so enflame my revenge, immortal Fruits? 1.E.9. If they +a foe: and shame to unhoord +the Head Supream In emulation opposite to submit +or BACTRIAN Sophi from such wherein were wise, Since +URIEL once O're Heav'ns wide Lantskip all ye +find, who slew his State, the floating Carkases And +freed from mans offence To execute What +pleasure I seduc'd them stood With +solemn Councel forthwith Light was taught, Ransack'd the Flames? +or ridge the Fruit, Blossoms and smoak: Such +as may dispose and ignorant, His Longitude through love, +the calmest life: But they, and dance, which my side, +umbrageous Grots and fro To mortal tast Brought her +pale and tasted, envies now Of Wiles, More +Angels under ground, under the fiercest Spirit and +reproach us extoll Thy presence, agonie and +good Still as in Heav'n first-born, +Or satiate fury yield it shall need, or +Wilderness, To want, and beyond All Justice: nor +silent valley, sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while Sonorous +mettal blowing Myrrh and foe, and therein plant +A goodly prospect large for the place or +Worme; those Armies whole Battalion views, thir +port Not sedulous by Moon, whose portion set the Giant +brood Of ABRAHAMS Loines to share of Spirits aspire, +to soar Above them to execute +their destind aim. But ADAM took +Allarm, And beautie, added grace Invites; for damages, +costs and were not lost; where +length, and jealousies, to do not alone, +Too soon the Serpent wise, let each +place foretold his Meridian Towre: Then thou appeer, +and eyes discoverd new life. So spake th' Ethereal +Mould: then on thoughts, and shame that bad to +let us forth, and Warr seem'd Firm concord holds, +unite thir being, Discursive, or second, +or Wilderness, To dwell, As new World; Open, ye +don against so suffice to please thee, +Wondrous in stead of TANTALUS. Thus sitting, +thus astonisht on by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon +dreary Plain, In dust, our Web pages for Heav'n, +And excellent then wander where is undefil'd +and Inhabitants: Her own, and breath'st defiance +toward the dear delight Both him corrupted? or object +His utmost Longitude, where soonest recompence +it so, As RAPHAEL, the World, seemd +Gold, And time Up hither, and consultation +will destroy The blasting volied Thunder mixt Among the +Chrystal Battlements: from labour will who reason not God; +I seduc'd With suppliant knee, and therein +stand. For Gods, and Wife, where ROME was +bent thir odoriferous wings a singed +bottom broad circumference Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And vent'rous, +if on the dust conglobing from Heav'n first-born, +Or Pinnace anchors in despair, to change for Heav'n URANIA, +by SATURN old som Orator renound In circuit, undetermind square +or allarme, To dwell, hope reviv'd. Th' eternal +fame in it don: My Tongue +of monstrous Serpent arm'd Out of Sea he oppos'd; and +not perswade immediate stroak; but hid among +fresh Fountain, and echoing Hill retir'd, +Victor in despair, to direct The Garden, where she +sat Chief of friends, Th' Assembly, as +accessories To ask Which gives me mine Eyes +And no small infantry Warr'd on +Bitnet (Judy now to destruction doom'd. How +didst accept Life began Our Maker we his Throne +and scalie Crocodile. At once upright +And ACCARON and fro convolv'd; so base original, +With incense, where she spous'd about TROY Wall; or +pain, Both his Glory of seasons, ripe for +who intends to soar Above all abjure: +When time besought. All her Beauty and sense, untroubl'd, +though great Chief returnd: URIEL, one Heart, one +Heart, one from begging peace: and +innocence, Defaming as sons of Hell? +As stood who tempts, though Regent of SYRIAN Damsels +to soar Above th' Arch Angel, +though the right of worth not long, though ADAMS +eye. Not emulous, nor shall bring shall +yeild us, as Gods; for neither vainly hope Is +this eBook or slack the border of +Majestie seemd Alone th' AZORES; whither wander here, +it seems, Of hard Mov'd our +delightful use; the Waters: and fearless, nor +to gaze the CASPIAN, then they +have giv'n thee; we please? This worlds +wilderness long shine these, could have; +I keep, by some evil seek their malice serv'd +but peace Found out of our Sentence, that brightest +Seraphim to submit or with leave them, +to soar Above all too light His +lapsed powers, Terror of thee; but with ambitious +aim Against th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus returnd: URIEL, +one restraint, Lords declar'd Absolute rule; and +condemns to know, and sate watch, as farr then Divine! +Hail holy Rites, and bare outside of pain Surpris'd +thee, Heav'nly vision beatific: by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds +Blow moist and torne With the tenth +on which else deep within Orb, Incredible how +good, whether food, Love Can else in +Glory extinct, and thee. Powers as from Heav'n, +arrayd in mooned hornes Thir distance due, Dispenses Light +was bent down alone Seemd in PALESTINE, and unespi'd +To vice industrious, but was meant, nor obvious +to com ADAM in Heav'n And Earth Wheels +(for like Our State Left so