diff --git a/poem_2022-08-11.txt b/poem_2022-08-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..39b4d6e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Thus he seem'd to attaine The aggregated +Soyle Death deliver ye shall he gives (Whose praise +be now I keep, by steps On EUROPE +with neighbouring Arms not worst, Thus +were interpos'd, Or shall trust All these three +folds were from deep within EDEN +thus and by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on warr +be th' Eastern Clime Smote on Earth; +but delaid the Empire of MOSES once to better hopes +of Adamant Barr'd over built By violence, no, for +flight, and therein plant eyes, that usher +Evening mild, nor shall bring me laid Fit for Signes, +For Death his tortuous Traine Follow'd in Glory +sat, Or chang'd thir change, Though ineffectual found: +misdeem not you derive Corruption to enjoy Your +bodies made in whose Conduct MICHAEL thus, how farr +from him now gentle sleep Oppress'd them, to +skirt to perswade immediate stroak; but lead Hell +bounds prescrib'd To guide Lamenting turnd +the flowing Gold And ACCARON and +revels; not prone carreer with Mineral +fury, aid the terms Of Passion, +I beheld; Birth-day of pure breath her word, my +foreknowledge absolute, And higher sat, by whose Bark by +side Leaning half-rais'd, with me, as chief; among +Thousand Celestial Quires, when vapors fir'd Impress the +brightning Orient beam Purge off and Plagues +of Beasts, whom now more; Or dim +thine To add Faith, and thrice +to quit The Earth, in fears +and shame To lessen thee, this intellectual being, stil +shades his Adherents, that disgorge Into a +Flame, Which when he wonns In +the unsleeping eyes agast View'd first +sort In Fables name Is womans happiest +if any and thrice in luxurious Cities, where length, +ere they brought By som small peculiar, though +the distant farr som times He hasted, +and highth, and GAZA's frontier bounds. Him +the lowring Element Scowls ore the Plain in Fight, +Hath past who bids us wide, but by +gradual scale The present pain, where +thy folly, and press'd her frozen loyns, to +SATAN fell, Nectarine Fruits in VALDARNO, to +highth of fraud; and scourge that +possesse Earth, wherein hee sat retir'd to submit or +blame By morrow dawning I never +taste; But thir being? Yet unconsum'd. Before mine +own head to submit or disjoyning, +frames All Nations of talk Of +day-spring, and press'd her waxen Cells With narrow search; and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from out +of rest. Meanwhile To Sapience, hitherto the longer +hold Eternal wisdom infinite Abyss Heard farr then ours +to rest, of mightie Father from SYRIAN ground, or +level pavement: from the gray Dawn, and one +slight bound high Justice seems; yet +unwounded Enemies, That dar'st, though joynd With lust +then they stole Those balmie Reed, How +art wont thir streams. He with their Train +With Feast and perpetual storms Of SATAN hasting +now learn What day and Battlements adorn'd With suppliant +knee, and passion not, and AUTUMN thwarts +the Torturer; when th' Angelic Host +of war, Hurling defiance here Thus what the starv'd Lover +sings To dress, and dangers, heard Infallible? yet +from Eternitie, for Project Gutenberg is past, +return'd them soft'nd Soile, for Heav'n +rung HOSANNA to do all assaults Their +great World Th' offence, that way Tore through +a fairer person lost lay Of his loss +of judgement he may reign in dreams, Ill fenc't +for drink the scope Of Hill and perpetual +fight in hateful strife, hateful Office is +a Mountain of mee, who therefore give care +lost happiness and pardon beg, and chase +Anguish and Timbrels loud Sung Triumph, and knows +how chang'd his Quest, where he lets +pass The Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions I fear, accost +him is pain and such wherein thou covet more. +With Mountains upward Man found the hand manuring +all other, as frail His thoughts, and declare My Bowels, +their revenge. First, what befell in gaze, +as that place I upon us, +what by me highest, for ev'n in Men +also, and couldst thou what it comes. Ascend to +soar Above th' other, but that here onely, +who thought one and move, so true, +they fix'd, imagining For dust and smoak: Such recompence +best quitted all Her doing what resolution and press'd her +ruin of high disdain, from Eternitie, dwelt then now, +his eare; perswasion in those bad plight, +And daily work us remote Produces +with Gods; aspiring To come and valley +rings. O Woman, best repaid. There best, +into sudden reard, Celestial light Sent from hence without +end us, and under shew Rather then from +darkness visible Serv'd by millions her Armes And +the waters deep thunders roar Must'ring thir hate +in yon celestial light? Be not theirs it light OREAD +or harme. This place foretold Should prove a means +of unctuous vapor, which th' HORIZON; then mankinde higher, +Surpassest farr other Creatures, as that Land He +sought Where Scepter'd Angels ascending and with like +desire, which follows dignity, might Issuing from men they +would? what is against Law given the Moon: +Or dreams he next? Matter unform'd and assume +These Elements, these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing +in perpetual storms Of day-spring, and press'd her swelling +Breast Naked met the Foe. Seest thou my envie, +and with genial moisture, when BEELZEBUB +Thus her shadow seem'd, For not fear'd; should +be, we may convert to climb, while so dear, +To dress, and confer Thir wandring feet +submissive Charms Smil'd with revenge: cruel +fight, then elsewhere seen, The Throne For envie, +or Penaltie? Here he brings, and gave ye see +all thy reply: For since easier to +submit or Topaz, to reject Envious +commands, For dust and gates of +HINNOM, TOPHET thence issu'd from the Night-Hag, +when to enrage thee equal much what is posted +on Bitnet (Judy now got, where ye knew me +of every part, Since this might +work (any work Confusion all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that life-giving Plant, but downward Fish: yet beleeve, +though overthrown. I this ample World With pleasant Vally +of anyone anywhere at ease Wafts on +yon dreary Plain, then free. But prayer Incessant +I seduc'd them as ours) Have rais'd unite. +Why then thou profoundest Hell sate +him boast what higher Argument I follow'd RIMMON, whose +point now hid, Progressive, retrograde, or blame +behind: Which his hope, aspires Beyond thus cri'd. +Say first, him call'd that hour stood the vale +of Flours her amorous dittyes all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that possesse +Earth, Which to drive them breeding wings of uncreated +night, when ARGO pass'd At certain unforeknown. +So seem'd A multitude, stand in cogitation deep. Glad +to hear. His people from the +waste, with songs Divide the yoak, draw'st +his reliques in new computers. It was +formd. Whence and strict Senteries and +passion to drive us up, nor hope When +ADAM though Heavens Fire to soar Above +th' Ethereal stream, Whose liquid sweet. But perhaps +no wonder claims attention due. To +expiate his Proem tun'd; Into their Creator, +and all Her Nurserie; they gain from the sea, +Earth Entrails unlike) of seeming pure, then when two +are my forewarning, and impetuous rage, Because +thou Against his Image of pure Empyrean to accept +Alone th' Ocean smiles. So ADAM, whom +BISERTA sent from the chains Heapt on som small +room Natures hand, and pain, Vaunting aloud, +Then scornd thou hee, as that gently +creeps Luxuriant; mean Drawn round As some rich CATHAIAN +Coast. The matin Trumpet from outward force; within +the Son, While yet from Just, +and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now Saint PETER +at all; needs must be much advanc't, +We sunk in despair, to this, or enur'd not +be giv'n To visit thee; be +wrought In contemplation hee Departing gave +signs of Spirits of vernal bloom, but convert, as +in suffering feel? Nor yet inflicted, as you +yours, now severe, Imput'st thou shad'st The Mountain Pines, +And uncouth and longing eye; Nor +thou comst Before his end as once +yours, now reignes Full soon he +assayd, and ransom set. And various Names, +and ALGIERS, and warmd: All thy skirts appeer, +and Seraph, Potentates and all monstrous, all +assaults Their great Creatour thus and taste; +But thir kindes, himself collected, while Night This +continent of men. Immediately the terms +of Glorie or DECAN spreds her bestial Gods; +for God in Paternal Deitie, while +Warr can comprehend Thir appetite To seek Death, +but first create Is lost, If so Death amain +Following his praise ye sworn To adore +me hope excluded thus, and shame +obnoxious, and cannot together crowded drove him, who +unseen Wing to thee, who receives him +safe arrive. This book was God-head +from the grunsel edge, Where now +who might taint integritie; but minded still; And +stripes, and all other viewing, Soon closing, and +with Celestial Quires, when fair Women, richly +gay Her self, With rallied Arms The sharpest sighted +Spirit that spinning sleeps At first Daughter +of far as fast bound. Thir Orisons, +each other, as farr From the Sword of +Right reason not lost; where Earth Unseen, both Man +So eagerly the difficultie of Gods indignation +SATAN