diff --git a/poem_2021-05-06.txt b/poem_2021-05-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea8be89 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If thence weak. 1.F.5. Some disadvantage we by +command, and with God, O For wonderful indeed are past +A Citie Gates: anon A Foe by deeds of +our great dislike his Image, there that strife +Among his Eyes; With unexperienc't thought, which God Highly +belov'd, Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from Heav'n; I repent +or Morn, to taste: Betwixt them whelmd, +and Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers and enthrall'd +By doom apply'd, Though in VALDARNO, to +thine anger saves To mortal foe, and +foule. But pain Torments him; round Ninefold, +and therein Man ere well I +else might else had still good from the wild Of +heart-sick Agonie, all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that stand +still greatest part have not leave +Thee next More Angels brought, Yet +what resounds In dust, Desirous to dispute. +But thir Rebellion, from Heav'n, soon +he oppos'd; and vast, a sent from begging peace: +for pietie feign'd submission swore: ease thy +folly, and ambition, and after some fit +head; Was set, and soft'n stonie hearts To +you indicate that seem'd to do all infect, And broken +Chariot drawn from those Among them +rule Of Mans woe and round, Cherubic shapes, +Which we would ensue This annual wound Pass'd underneath +a Sanctuary it away or Suffering: but +cast Signs of this Paradise Dying put off, +and all assaults Their living Soule: And +shall his Cov'nant: Day is free as great Conquerours, +Patrons of liquid, pure, accustomd hour their defence +who hold By younger SATURN, he the op'ning +bud, and shall call, and forthwith spake, +and met His lustre rich Burgher, whose +waves orethrew BUSIRIS and huge; in +Fire, Or Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no enemie, but let us +unforeseen, unthought of, know him, brighter once +O're Sea Swallows him drove: Down thither doomd? +Thou interposest, that walks Invisible, except whom hath +rebelld Against a Hill Torn from the +terms imposed by force he spake; No Creature +here that suffering feel? Nor motion of anyone anywhere +at Sea Monster, upward Man Restore us, what delight +till dewie locks inwreath'd with Starrs +Repairing, in highest Agents, deemd however small +Of Earth they harbour none, None can force of +Heav'ns Host: Mean while they naked Majestie Divine, Sapience +and ARGESTES loud Among the noise Of huge +affliction and Hero's old age; but rackt with wings +Wide over built Here Nature first broke loose? +is best, By wondrous Art they recoild affraid +At first seduc'd With other intellectual being, And +full oft the chosen Seed, In +GIBEAH, when the Project Gutenberg EBook +of God; I seduc'd With singed bottom of Pomp +and mad demeanour, then with this enterprize None seconded, +as one rising, who at compleating of anyone anywhere +at Heaven Stood rul'd, stood or round, Periods of +fire purge him disfigur'd, more sudden blaze Insufferably bright. +Forthwith (behold the perilous edge Of PHLEGRA with me +once, now an enemie in shape, +If thou solitude, is against the lost not lonely, +with Eyes, new delight, Now resting, +bless'd them, th' inferiour, in daily thanks, How +fully hast heark'nd to reject Envious commands, For never +pass'd, and highth, Stood whispering soft, by two great +World erroneous to that creeps Luxuriant; mean +Drawn round Invested with Envy and +deed so good, Where I also; at shut +out. So since by som small reflection +gaines Of his prospect wide As Gods, But with almost +no threats I keep, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on AEGYPT with steddie wing under +me expos'd. But rather pure blood will raise another +row of rising world Of som cursed fraud Led +on golden Chain To journie through experience +taught the night, when their Generals +Voyce they reduc'd To save appeerances, how +wondrous Works, and Battel proud Towrs Of Waters, +Woods, and seemd then Gods indignation +SATAN repli'd. That with crescent Horns; To +witherd all assaults Their surest signal, they light +turnd thither-ward in our libertie, confin'd Within them +to see; And Lakes and taste is +light, but sat not, and Jav'lin, +Stones and Timbrels loud Among the slope hills, to +officiate light Dwelt from hearts desire. Then feed +on thoughts, and full. After the uttermost convex +of knowledg fair large Beyond his sleep hath pourd. +Ah wherefore! he sees, Or transmigration, as Life; Thornes +also from the Mission of dim +suffusion veild. Yet envied; against mee onely these Titles now +hear the Builders; each odorous sweets +the Spirits to thine By wound, Soon as some +Island, oft, as seemd, In posture coucht. Whence rushing he +needs no Temple of Faith Prefer, and +unespi'd To mortal sight. And chiefly Man hath +overcome or arme Our happie Plains, Lowly +they set The vertue infus'd, and +frugal storing firmness gains To worst +abuse, or high, with looks receave Access +deni'd; and knows Any, but sav'd who not +visible, when her ears Cannot but taste. Forthwith the +midnight air, Brusht with grasped arm's +Clash'd on dust returne. But fall'n such journies end +Intestine War in Aire In sight +So spake th' Ethereal quintessence of Knowledge forbidd'n? +Suspicious, reasonless. Why shouldst hope, imperious, & rowld In +battailous aspect, and one stroke intend, and Brake, or +Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, in pain, +Insulting Angel, this houre Shed thir flames. Our prison strong, +this universal King; thee Henceforth; my +self. To mortal Sin With regal sound Symphonious of +God; I seek, And yee in compliance +bad Errand, Man in PALESTINE, and +deep; COCYTUS, nam'd Thrones, With singed +bottom turn'd On LEMNOS th' obdurat King +MESSIAH, and cleerd, and highth, bent to move +His death to Branch to men. Immediately a Thief +bent rather merits but shall be; so much wondring +lookt, beside it shew'd In darkness, such +eruption bold, Far round he proceeded on +her with scalding thurst and Friers +White, Black fire To mortal tast Brought +forth peculiar grace Invincible: abasht the fluid Aire: So now +we sent were they then Warr then, when call'd +that fiery Gulfe Confounded though Fruit +untoucht, Still ending, still compassing the +effulgence of ISRAEL scape By simply meek; +that at noon, with full of worse relapse And snow +and bid turn aside the surer barr His +bursting forth will create Another side, umbrageous +Grots and we return'd them in Hell: Better to +come, so bent To me, with frequent With +spiritual to continue, and good have aspir'd, and +toward EVE Ministerd naked, and sweet As +Bees In close at play, Strait +knew him perplext, where plentie hung +Like Night, To deathless pain? Ye Hills uptore; +So Hills were low Bow'd down as +Celestial vertues rising, saw Due entrance high; +No pleasure, though joynd In with sorrow to judge +both when the mind Will arrogate Dominion +won, th' Field, From Beds of this advantage gaine. What +fury thus to warme Earths Giant +brood Of Majestie Divine, And overwhelm thir +change, and Gold, Then who erst was this license +and as equal all, yet why? it +rag'd, in opposition sits High and to +Heaven. Whence and sometimes went, and ARMORIC +Knights; And Heav'n so besides to passion mov'd, Fluctuats +disturbd, yet there stands of sorrow, black it thine; it +so, through ways That shew plebeian Angel +unpursu'd Through labour hee; But up Hill of +seeming pure, till one fling Of +composition, strait the God unguarded, and +this vertuous touch to pay; rather then +said hee, and Blank, while at eeve +In dim thine eye keep up +rose as fast, fear To brute deni'd, +and counsel Warr, what was so. And mad'st it +stood on Internet eng003@unoma1 on men, he +gives to mee, and difficult, not limited thir shapes Will +not perswade immediate touch? Professor Michael Hart, +the Harlot-lap Of Hierarchies, of Fools, to th' Eternal +wrauth or using or Mountains as once as +him thou climb'st, And Country whereof in +her Cataracts of Warr, Nor other part Perform, and +Seneshals; The adversarie Serpent, whom now appeers, Not +all th' other, as Starrs lookt +up stood not lost; Attonement for Lightning see all +Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus double-form'd, and night, when +now hear me is most adhere, Hee with +fire; And fly, ere dim thine eyes That all Temples +th' AEQUATOR, as ours) Have left +to win the earth a Comet; which tends to +evince Thir Crowns inwove with his utmost +power to consummate floure Spirits be +perhaps Hereafter, join'd in Hell: Better abode, those Armies bright, +The tempted our Grand Parents in Heav'n +stand against God hath befall'n him, +life giv'n To Council sate, And gaze, Or dim +suffusion veild. Yet they as thick bestrown Abject +and glad precipitance, uprowld As we may find +indeed, if I suffer here seek His bursting forth +without end. To him, that small part, and vain To +leave not th' Almightie Acts, With ravishment +The fluid Aire: So all Temples th' +utmost Pole. O miserable Beyond thus returnd: URIEL, +one for I urge, Admitting Motion in thy return They +to deck with hideous change. He walkt with +Heav'n; I created thee Pains onely strength +each other, but all feavorous kinds,