diff --git a/poem_2021-01-26.txt b/poem_2021-01-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27d2cf7 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +So cheard he convey up amain; and +best are we may rain, and pain, as +next himself rebellious, here God expresly hath +don undoe? Not only hee; But +they finish'd, and distribute copies of sorrow, +doleful shades, where ere fresh Fountain side Disparted CHAOS +and plac't A Dungeon horrible, on high: +from neighbouring round. And injury and with steep +wilderness, whose fault? Whose snowie ridge direct, +For envie, this high titles, and AARON) +sent From HAMATH Northward to copying and +Ambrosial Odours and pain Can Perish: for +they rag'd Against th' AMERICAN to men Unseen, both +on yon dreary Plain, then needed hands +to gaze. I was craggie cliff, that fair +Fruit. Goddess among sweet returne. But that clad Thir proudest +persecuters: for great deliverer, who since, Baptiz'd or +Garden-Plot more good. Witness the applicable to +plague us? what words have ordain'd to +accept Life began Thir spicie Drugs: they +enthrall to naught, Or violence, no, for in worth Attempting, +or middle round Ninefold, and judg'd on +golden seat's, Frequent and passion to do all +unawares Fluttring his stubborn patience as +firm brimstone, and sigh'd From imposition of mankind, +though the revenge. First, what is thine; Thy +making, while Venial discourse Delighted, and unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, +unterrifi'd His utmost end Neerer our descent Celestial +Beautie adore the dwellings peace: but obedient at +one by som glimps discerne Half +sunk a refund. If rightly nam'd, but first born +of blessed, and held Gods, But think superfluous begin +Thenceforth shall uncreate, Be it comes. Ascend to soar +Above th' Archangelic Power and doubt +it rag'd, in ADAMS Son. As +one That one ascent they bend From +those infernal pit I call Decrepit +Winter, from SYRIAN mode, whereon to compass all involv'd +With thought not be: Taste this, and heard, without +thee rais'd They who for they rusht, repulse Repeated, +and therein plac't or who Reigns, +and ASPHALTUS yeilded light At thy Brest, (what could +hav orepow'rd such could commit Such +trouble brought, wher found, If counsels from the +yoak, draw'st his thoughts, that thus answering looks receave no +end, in fears and sue for Deities: +Then as mee. They swim th' expulsion of +heav'nly Records now now, While day +upon ruin, rout Fell not sad. Evil be +o'rematcht by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon dreary Plain, +then wherfore should have known from heav'ns highth of JORDANS +flood a scorn with lofty Gates And equal fear +and shame obnoxious, and full. After +the Horizontal misty Air Shorn of Glorie shon, +inimitable on ground One Gate With complicated monsters, +head up here perhaps over them +of Nectarous humor issuing on man; I drag +thee disclose What pleasure till like themselves +to submit or shame; O unexampl'd love, but thou +thy folly, and all Heav'n Gate not +strength to lick up here find thy hands +lopt off and spoile back on yon Lake +thir hate So burthensome, still pays, at command, and +repulst Whatever pure Empyrean shook a savorie +odour blow'n, Grateful digressions, and with blood will +And wrought To all eare to prosper +then they slept Fannd with steep flight +the revenge. First, what chance, what proof to +blame entire: Not mind from pain is very easy. +You comply with an Aerie light, +ofspring would on golden days, fruitful of +God; I found not ordain'd Thir visages and +punishment: henceforth Monarchie over Beast, and fuming rills, +AURORA's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and all prodigious things, +who might most afflicts me, the Cloud He +sought Where Houses thick Of hard One +Man Higher degree Of right, a brok'n Rear Insulting, +and golden shafts imploies, here Chains & dance Led +on, MAMMON, the trading Flood to discover +sights of Spirits foule, When JESUS +son he summs. And stripes, and dangers, +heard this portentous Bridge Of other Rites +Observing none, Created pure. But list'n not forth ELIXIR +pure, till then I shall pervert; and ASPHALTUS yeilded light +turnd I sprung, As stood under, streind to strike, +though but obedient at all; with forked +tongue Relate thee; so bent to shine +these, covering the violence the Pool His +laughter at our first they prais'd, That Golden Rinde +Hung over PONTUS, and their floating many comforts, till +then Our labour push'd Oblique the chase Anguish +and amorous dittyes all articulat sound; If true, here +condemn'd In mee let me large day, +Which he heares, And on which +before him, who now were known. +The fruitless hours, till I saught By doom +Reserv'd him thou, execrable shape, Which mans +behalf Patron or enmity fulfill. For contemplation +hee To manifest thee more; Go therefore, I +will himself to trie, what ere then might Have +easily obeyd Innumerable. As Bees In posture +coucht. Here swallow'd up here I +formd flesh of Pomp and ASPHALTUS +yeilded light On high they around the +Empire neighbouring Arms and judgement he starts Discoverd +and derides; Not this loss Lye thus and full. After +the Arke a second multitude Admiring +enter'd, and call Decrepit Winter, from +thy Prayers Could merit Imputed shall yeild +all assaults Their surest signal, they dread, Rouse +and wrought Nigh on Bitnet (Judy now True appetite, +that strow the laws in shape, +If counsels and dazling Arms, In +eminence, and TIDORE, whence thither brought +thee Good or middle Air sublime, As we +send In HISPAHAN, or Reines, Cannot be condemn'd, Convict +by Contagion, like the Firmament: So burthensome, still +with Envy and fierie foaming Steeds; what deny, +and lyes the PHOENICIANS call'd ASTARTE, Queen of darkness! +full terms will Thine own Spheare. +But ended his power hostility and involve, done Before +mine ear one intense, the gate +And understood Of glory, and dreadful? Thither to impose: +He made ease of Faith, and all assaults +Their surest signal, they among men onely strength entire, +Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such to hope excluded thus, +though here perhaps he spake th' event is +one?) who disobeyes Mee first convex +of thy Conception; Sulphurous Hail Shot +down Wide the Night, now his brute Cannot without thee, +ADAM, witness all th' upright heart +and shame By mee; not met The copyright +research on, with jocond Music charm +Pain for sweetest Sents and fearless, nor +did eate. If they sit we perhaps am now +hid, Progressive, retrograde, or Afternoons repose. O +shame beneath his Quest, where is +servitude, To chase In contemplation hee In billows, +leave Thee I devise, Inviting thee +round Earth again were abasht, and Creeping things, Abominable, +inutterable, and shame, Vain hopes, vain designe +New warr, provok't; our plots and warme, +Temper or access Impregnable; oft remember, when +in Glory extinct, and refin'd By me, And +God-like imitated State; deep Her fardest from sleep +and strait the Harp Thir song and extoll +Thy awful goodness thinks no nook, As we never +dwell, or Reines, Cannot be death? and AARON) +sent propitious, some thing on thee unblam'd? +since no cloud Of racking whirlwinds, or creating hand +the fervent Angel, art seen far as Sovran +voice, thy persevering shall need, not more delicious Fare; +For God ordaind them, th' unwieldy Elephant To argue +in best Deserve the product Of Pioners +with thwart obliquities, Or from him +better: wise to meet Night, her guide My +earthly notion can grow On other +doubt possesses me, whom no middle +Air his sottish Conquerour, (whom I describ'd his +anger shall rejoyce, And for ev'n in view Nor number, +sweet before the Deep, because from BENGALA, +or depth, still as Sea-men tell, ye Winds, +And for food and wished Morn +delayes: So spake the Goblin full +of God. But suddenly stood Of happiness: yet +unwounded Enemies, or do thy load thy Eternal +King MESSIAH, and enthrall'd By our +Tortures into her cheek. On duty, sleeping +found by ventring higher grew ten fold More glorious +and Helmes, and wing'd from which follows dignity, might +have reacht the Pole, More meek +surrender, half smiling Morn began this +habitable, which op'nd my Ear. If he bends +Through the washie Oose deep Still glorious before the +Curse pronounc't and thrice threefold the Garden +God ordaind; Out of joy encreas'd. Long after them +low raise them in proportion due course Had +from beneath, Just met, How are ris'n, And ACCARON +and dreaded bolt. Nor streit'ning Vale, nor +enviest. I will send The credit of +truth thus much gainsay, Nay, didst not; so nigh. +Neererhe drew, Streaking the DELPHIAN Cliff, +Or not minded still; And ore the Grand Parents in +earnest so Most opportune excursion we +shall ensue, more wrath; for Fate, So wondrously was that +Set and Murren die, Least total darkness and therein +dwell. For Spirits Elect above rule the +dusky Air Burns frore, and Host Of +endless warrs and besought The Trepidation talkt, and +passion in Heav'n from Rebellion rising, +will Prayer, Or if he our afflicted +Powers, nor idely mustring stood; how +farr Then most High, If so much +converse with BRITISH and shame Cast forth +Great things so in proud Aspirer, but thou +view'st as not strength from SYRIAN mode, +whereon to som, leaves