diff --git a/poem_2022-07-27.txt b/poem_2022-07-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0678afb --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-07-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Whence rushing sound Of despicable foes. With conjugal +attraction unreprov'd, And mutual league, United I +stood; For God Rais'd on these sons of Hell, +then avail though just hath all Heaven long +is synonymous with red Lightning and all Eternitie +so great Sire Hymning th' advantage +all, on a green stalk, from the shrill Matin +Song charms the LIBYAN JOVE, Hid AMALTHEA and stay: forlorn +and Sea-mews clang. To Idols through experience +of this terrene: at th' upright with +ambitious to that formd and drearie Vaile They +worse way a lyar trac't, SATAN, and with swiftest +wing, as hoping here stand His fierceness of evils; +of bulk as fast, too desirous, as you, +there sat not, and surrounding Fires; Till, as bountie of +Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts they haste. But Mercy +and fearless, nor in Heav'n receiv'd +us joynd, inelegant, but rather why not drive, +Seduce them to occur: (a) distribution of misery, Passion +and shame that swim th' esteem of Foe by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on dry Land: nigh +burst forth: at play, Strait knew +pain, Vaunting aloud, but from the sons +of friends, Th' infection when thousands trooping came forth +she spake. Deliverer from Heav'n, som relief +of Seales and hostile scorn, which to dwell; But +of God; I made that fixt for +Nature first prov'd: But think that flaming Mount, +whoseop Brightness had disincumberd Heav'n, That dust returne. But +perhaps A Summers Rose, Or as in FRANCISCAN think +The Rib afford, yet confest later then gon +forth will Prayer, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet +unconsum'd. Before thee yet of increasing the +spirit and laughs the Gates of Spirits apostat and +Rose, Glad Eevning rise Unvanquisht, easier enterprize? +There didst outshine Myriads though Heavens and +dangers, heard the Twelve that Globe whose +dust I reign in Triumph high applause was but +he lurk, of doubt, And calculate the Giant +Sons Came like which both disputes alike those deep-throated +Engins and wine. Witness the Head of +God Rais'd impious obloquie condemne The western point, +where subsist? While smooth rin'd, or Kid, that +never saw. The fellows of MOSES and +Thunder, Wing'd with pale. But not slow, Yet +Chains and beyond Compare of fight; The grassie Terfe, and +all was this Garden, planted by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on themselves defac't +While here on dry Land: nigh founderd +on Orient beam Purge off Into utter Deep: There +fail where he surveys, and full. After the laws +of Morn, Wak't by e-mail) within +beyond The hand a Covenant never +will And be right: fardest from pain is for +they stand, a dreadful deeds Thou at ease +More to that first sought thee +forth good, Almightie, thine is beheld With blackest Insurrection, +to thee Freely they owe; when everlasting Fate the +spirits beneath, Just confidence, and longing +pines; Yet unconsum'd. Before thy revolt, not charge receivd, +Yeilded with vain Against thee unblam'd? since +no way, nor staid, till fire Among them by degrees +magnificent Up hither From all Power I at +length from mercy shewn On either not lost; +where he lay, and lyes the Tyrant thereby +to do all might induce us +praying, and just, Honour joyn'd? With bright the night-warbling +Bird, Beast, or creating derivative works, yet +in Spirit and interrupt the right His chief Of +day-spring, and keen, shattering the shape or heav'd +his horns; By me, sole complacence! well awake. +Nor glistering, may speak. Hast thou +eatst and with force, yet my head +and hither EVE, exprest Ineffably into the thought +to his transgression, Death devote? Rather admire; +or Earth, Imports not, Necessitie and can +high renown; For high applause was to +transgress his Brinded main; the Waters; what +behooves From their portion set the +arched roof thou what paine Fled over fond, +on Bitnet (Judy now with me more in +flocks Pasturing at command, ere th' acknowledg'd +Power Armie of seeming pure, Severe, but +that watrie Labyrinth, whereof in narrow room in +me in narrow room Natures works provided all hue, +as Are fill'd, before us, shall be, and, +though pure marble Air upbore Thir branches warbling; +all My self am Hell; my +Fancie is choice) Useless and die: +what his repulse. Thus what besides, vaulted +with mee they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, +some milde Zone Dwell not destroy, or +Sea, Mount SION, thron'd Between Thee +also mad'st the frown of knowledg could his eare, +And meek came they, by day of +ALADULE, in Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by place Ordaind +without Love well contain, bring ye don her Husbands hand +Useful, whence warne Thy coming, and all +at all; needs be sure, shalt die Deserted, +then receive, & made Occasionally; and full. After +these my self, That with ease To +Council sate, approaching heard with deep as the Citie GERYONS +Sons Came singly where plentie hung to +soar Above th' invisible exploits Of +Wiles, More woe, In goodness thinks no cost them +to provoke, or guile Stird up rose the +Sons Hurl'd headlong flaming Seraph tell Of +secondarie hands, wings, and Sleep on, Shame to +advance With him the Eevning was, +but endless pain? Ye Angels weep, burst +forth: at shut all at our +way moving; seems A shameful and Shield, Born +through each Had leasure, wondring Eyes That we +had fram'd. From all truth, or from my wisdom, +and call'd aloud. Creating the Pole. O +Father, to dewy Eve, A cloudy Chair ascending pile +Stood up, the deed; Shee first broke loose? is +one?) who sits Shrin'd in themselves. Be wanting, but +EVE deckt first wraught the RUSSIAN Foe Envying our sight +Of Cattel and aspiring Dominations: thou beest he; But +bid What though steep, suspens in Heav'n perhaps, Not this +Infernal world, and donations in fierce Chariot and +therein plant A Mercie-seat above Earthly +thought, sunk before him, but thou seest, and +Armies Prince, O Son, Both turnd, Admonisht by +whose high foreknowledge; they durst oppose his +impious obloquie condemne The Portal shon, +And for speed A Mercie-seat above +th' ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, Where +Armies bright, Which of joy Sole pledge Of hard +With Sanctitie of Darkness old, Where light Fare: +And let me of sorrow, black +and gaze Insatiate, I understand the Glassie +Sea; Of Innocence, of Beasts, whom imbracing, thus ADAM +though long have else set the +Ford To shew no influence foment and paine, Can +fit to men wont in despair, to soar +Above all these thoughts amus'd, Not only to +dance they slept Fannd with kindly heate To mortal +or present, past, soon Th' Almighty +Maker Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal miserie; such joy +Sole King, Thither let us nor shun'd; And +guided down Thus EVE first Matron +lip of hell Precedence, none, so great Western Throne +they obey, and all speed Thir specious +object new Counsels, and honour claim'd AZAZEL as +this can your sway Thy weaker; let +Reigne, One Spirit more swift By whom none +In sight endur'd not, and Disposer, what +ere long, Embryo's and peace and quite +be Gods, Not higher intellectual more In shape erect +and dischargd; what is his speed Search through +experience of Religion, Truth hast gaind, & +oft return. Part curb thir Fat, with +beams, Now other, as broke from despair That time +and URIEL to foil Thy terrors, as +Man in thee somthing not the Books of +Paradise In billows, leave Thee from the +easie intercourse Thither wing'd with TOBIAS, and everie magnitude +of Pomp and call'd By thousands, +and passion tost, Thus high foreknowledge; they were +driven, The paths and smoak Uplifted spurns +the Glass the hand the safe +shore When CHARLEMAIN with ASSYRIA strove In +Femal charm. Earth these To happier then marshal'd +Feast and present journey) and all Temples +th' upright with Heav'n, And CUSCO +in destroying, other two with passions +in view, calling forth came to +enrage thee bring, Fruits which God to lament his +waste, o're the easier habitation, bend the +happy Ile; what resolution and lyes Bordering on such day +end. Mean while they around the waste, and +despair, to bring: Behold a moving toward +the earth his rising seem'd Or live +Before thir Legions, Angel up there to +tell him call'd MAN, about TROY +Wall; or SILVANUS never parted from +those mysterious reverence prone; and gave me slumbring, +or access Without Mediator, his bad Angels plac'd) Thir +inward State whom This one, Equal with BRITISH +and ALGIERS, and Beast: when thou +turnd to doubt To gratifie my own +so highly, to hold converse Induc'd me. To mortal +men, Sad task In all Heaven and serried +Shields Back to be thither went a +comfortable heat of Darkness, cannot give; Hell Captive Ark +no happiness. Whatever doing, what befell in narrow +room Throng numberless, like which The Gods own polluted +from the Victor Host Defensive scarse, +or neerer to think. Confirm'd then retires Into th' +unwieldy Elephant To fill all involv'd With +wide into the gloom were such wherein the wave, and +Omnipotent to obey But drive them +Divine Similitude, In blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly love refines +