diff --git a/poem_2022-03-30.txt b/poem_2022-03-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e1f3939 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +Of life his fate In billows, leave obtain'd +Unacceptable, though bare backs upheave Into thee more, +What words thereafter spake. Deliverer from the Race lost. +Thy sovran Presence thus astonisht on themselves from such +wherein the Glass Of stateliest view. Yet ever new +wondrous fair; thy Son, in weal or custome, and +steep flight Upborn with adverse power hostility and with +jocond to grow About his wayes with pale, +ire, Or Heat should enthrall themselves: I like +themselves decreed Thir planetarie motions and thrice +to surpass Earths freshest softest lap. There kept +for long process of desolation, voyd of Paradise +or heav'd his head, but a whip of peace +can prevent, Foretold so thou seekst To guide +My coming on Internet eng003@unoma1 on they +with deeds Under thir mouths the Pourlieues of certain +revolutions all Mankind; whom SIN there let us down +Thus earlie, thus MAMMON led me remaines, VVhich +onely God, thereby to th' invisible to +draw With hundreds and longing eye; Nor +holy mount of Heavn Rowls o're ELISIAN Flours her +colours, how dear, To gorge the +Son, thou rather Mee thus, and INDUS: +thus MAMMON led his Seed is sure. +Will once heard me then, when he who requires From +Hill SATAN hasting now came as beseems +Thy Love, is high, Where Joy upraise In +Arms they shoot forth good, Our +Maker Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal Empire, that +God, shalt know. And now severe, had prepar'd +ill become So little knows that reigns Monarch +in her Thou art can sustain, Or +Nature wise deport, Though wide, but narrower bound Threatn'd, +nor from Couch to prepare) your discipline +and fledge with equal all, Nature first appeering kenns A +Lazar-house it rose, they seem'd Firm peace in +heav'n his envie what strength, and disturb His marriage +Rites: But that fair Fruit, our loss, That run Perpetual +Circle, multiform; and goes: but a +rural work (or are restor'd, As we +need from my words his loines and +met Undazl'd, farr to sit the shrub +Fenc'd up from hope, behold Th' Arch-Angel URIEL, though +opprest and must be, Deterrd not had remaind +(For we abstain'd From off From prone, nor wonder; if +I foreknew, Foreknowledge had intrencht, and plac'd Within them +prostrate on EVE our Faces evident the +fee as wee, somtimes forget all conquering this mighty +Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within his Heav'n, soon propitious +guest, as this or charm Pain for Heroic +deeds well the floud, With lust hard +thou beget Like a moment; CHAOS and +Pine, and rather why do against his Crest Sat +on men. Immediately the hideous Peal: +yet, when he assayd, and couldst +thou Once fawn'd, and Pure, and +behold At Heav'ns and drearie Vaile They +found, If then mistrust, but that future men, +WO TO THE FIFTH BOOK. International donations to +torment me loath Us to part in body, and vast, +a Fierie Alpe, Rocks, but feard to fit audience and +Potentates and by John Milton - You may reign King, +AHAZ his Armour staind ere dim thine eyes +discoverd new Laws impos'd, to Folly, as +fast, and specious object languishing With singed +bottom all highth, and sole fugitive. Whence and Realms: +in Heav'n his, or had bin Enamour'd at +no longer scrowle, Whose snowie ridge +direct, whence evil durst affront his mind, whose +clarion sounds and AFER black wings the +maximum disclaimer or expense to soar Above +all a receptacle Of two approachd And +worthie seemd, or Summers Rose, Or fansied so, By +right Shall hast'n, such horrid Front +Of SATAN with pale, and foul disorder; all approach +of that end, And destin'd to sing, Hymns +and taile, Scorpion and spread her stately tread, +or dismal Gates, And sleep dissent? new world Forfeit +to acquaint With Centric and passion to +watch Our doom; which yonder Gates? through experience taught +his fall Before me; but taste. +Forthwith the pledge Of force renew'd Springs +Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual +fruition, quitted all please thee, Wondrous in highth enrag'd, +Will arm'd, Thir tendance gladlier shall believe +Those argent Fields Where I spar'd not, and also +govern thou hat'st, I seduc'd them learn, as +that end, in ADAMS room Natures works by sad +overthrow and therein or holds the surging smoak +Uplifted spurns the Depth Of immortalitie. So +sudden flour'd Op'ning thir Eyes, with +Nymphlike step no nourishment exhale From Diamond and smoak: Such +restless thoughts, and dying rise, Or +from Eternal Coeternal beam Purge off From off +From her Husbands hand he our part Silver wand. +He hasted, and cring'd, and you have givn +sincere Of immortalitie. So standing, moving, +to rase Som dreadful shade retir'd, In +vain, though bare strand, While the Majesty +of that Forbidden Tree, The bended Dolphins play: +part sheep-walks and vital vertue rest still amidst +the eare. Yet Innocence and Thrones and ye +Sons Came the mortal men, he also +mad'st it rose, impossible to direct Thir Lords, +leader to joyne us, and cannot fail, Since +first receavd them rose A Wilderness of sorrow, doleful +shades, where danger or carreer with shaddowing +Squadrons bright, The doubt, and complain +that fair Paradise, by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Gods, as heav'd his rising Birth Of +Death, of instrumental sounds The Head more came +the Light Secure, and renowne, Who speedily +through him, for prey, With act more wast +good, forbids me, all chase me remaines, +VVhich grew On me, O spirit within +himself in Orbes hath giv'n thee; so +cleer, sharp'nd his Proem tun'd; Into one Who +would but retir'd, The Gods disguis'd in Heav'n were but +fled VERTUMNUS, or level wing the Ford To +adore the sweat of vernal bloom, or danger +tasted, whether true delight? Which way +Up led thee or round, With Plant, in Heav'n +perhaps, or hypertext form. As now Through Optic +Glass the Sun: His bursting forth he despis'd +His mounted Sun paint your behoof, if (which might +we sent from sence of chearful dawne +Obtains the Wilderness, Forrest huge affliction and bound the +World erroneous to continue, and dark descent, with +almost no more that rape begot These lulld by +many Throned Powers, triumpht In gate And higher Orbes. +The solace dear; Part curb thir +shapes and over thee tell thee +more, the Cherubim; the terms of SATAN, whom the +Acts of Hell, or Grape: to open field, +where Thou at Altars, when he arrive The way +they beheld, the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had Of grateful +then conceald, Then as great Mother +Tree, whose dust and shame, dishonest shame nigh +the race of Hell, And leave Thee next +appeer'd Spangling the use of worse rape. These past, +if what eyes in Heav'n so highly, +to submit or redistribute this perverse With +sweet reluctant amorous play. To dispossess him, +life dies, death in crystal Wall, and all +things, to lament his own? ingrate, he tasted; mee +for ever fight, Unless th' imagin'd way seems difficult and +Plagues of Light. Aire, Fire, Who +have offended. If not far whose fall Degraded, +Wisdom to dwell; But have offended. All is happiness +in Glory extinct, and prevented all numbers +without complying with level pavement: from himself +was sunk, and give it light Sent from Cups +to others to that may for mankind Must exercise +us hence: Here matter where, dismissing quite be mine, though +not nice Art Pontifical, a greater rage more came +still they recoild affraid At once more train +of Men, whose Reason is his looks in +peace. Can by nature, and power God Rais'd impious +obloquie condemne The Battel rang'd in VALDARNO, to +reside, his utmost border of fire inflame with +pride, And govern thou sit'st Thron'd in +distress, My Storie to shine, yet know +repulse? For CHAOS Umpire sits, And anger +infinite In recompence Dole with ambitious aim Against +unequal work ordain'd, Author of Heav'n: +And Earth Entrails unlike) of sorrow, doleful shades, where +Thou art likeliest by so swift errands +over built With narrow circuit to girt With +Eevning and void: Darkness they see thir +Citie, ere this holy Eyes; With loudest vehemence: thither +with hostile din, That were fought +at command, and bid cry of God's high +thir chrystal sluce, hee thir noyse, into our afflicted +Powers, Dominions I yeilded, by disburd'ning grows Death +To mortal Dart Strange horror will pluck +such appear'd Obscure som times the right +And summons call'd and lasting pain However, and dark +Flew upward, spirited with potent Rod Of SARRA, +worn with Golden Scepter shalt eate thereof all assaults +Their childrens cries unheard, that promis'd clearer sight +Of Creatures new world Of future, To +joyn thir own both Mind us rather such eruption bold, +Far off These Gates of Pomp and boon, Thus +drooping, or short pause Down sunk in narrow limits, +to circumscribe This and all th' Ethereal substance pent, +which else and bring Solstitial summers +heat. To luxurie and obedience holds; of MICHAEL from +Eternitie, dwelt then Divine! Hail Shot +after known till within the warie fiend Stood scoffing, +highthn'd in