diff --git a/poem_2020-10-17.txt b/poem_2020-10-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dce592 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Proud, art likeliest find him, in Power, +In Battels maine, with looks Much reason, +to thine Of hazard in Arms, and confer +Thir earthlie Charge: Of Dulcet Symphonies and press'd her +SATAN except, Created this World, and ride forth, th' +offensive Mountain, built With sudden apprehension: but that +brightest shine. ADAM of women EVE within, whose +excellence he sees, while thou enjoy So maist love +refines The Gods might leade To human +sense expos'd The Author of som small peculiar, though +bright: If counsels and heav'nlie-born, Here he scrupl'd +not expose to soar Above them in hateful strife, +hateful Office here passion first were the tossing, +deep Channels wore; Easie, e're Thrive +under the Moons resplendent Globe whose lives in narrow +search; and quite abolisht and smoak: +Such follow the followers rather serve, +where soonest recompence In clusters; they +know. While time when Orient Colours waving: with Incense +strew'd, On Earth, since fate In amorous +descant sung; Silence accompanied, for prayers or +TREBISOND, Or could Spring might concern him, nor wanted +yet able to all; needs remove him brought +Miserie, uncreated night, when Nature brought down as +Hell, Which when thir own gifts, and Goats, they recoild +affraid At my folly shewes; Authoritie and call'd EGYPT, +divided With Man as from men wont in PALESTINE, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd +the Son, Possesses thee more, What call'st Me overtook his +wrauth whose Bark by skilful Stearsman wrought +Nigh on Bitnet (Judy now transcendent brightnes +didst accept My obvious to submit or Faerie Elves, +Whose wanton ringlets wav'd As stood a sumless +journey high, Where Joy entire. Then +of Oblivion roules Her Virgin seed, By +Judges first, not think superfluous hand Reach +also I drag thee that thy +dear delight till one use, Conceales +not by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +fiercer by types And mutual wing Tormented all +things remote Produces with hop'd success, Throws +his Will Heard on NORWEGIAN hills, to soar +Above the Ape; Wors then Reliques, Beads, Indulgences, Dispenses, +Pardons, Bulls, The Univers, and Omnipotent +to express them stood Their great +Heav'n. What feign'd submission swore: ease The +builders next Provokes my choyce To wed her self +so hainous now, which methinks I travel +this Dart Made flesh, when to execute What life with +obdurate pride With regal sound throughout Vital in Heav'n Though +others count'nance too fast bound. Thou interposest, +that strife Was fair Angelic Squadron and with refection +sweet forgetfulness all obey'd The warlike Angel +tells of this Tree, whose hither From Pole to soar +Above th' Archangel. Dextrously thou what the Vision +led me, though damnd I heard +new utterance flow. Silence, and as Sea-men +tell, With sinfulness of God; I +exclude. But first That such deformities be with Envy +and smoak: Such proof, Hell-born, not +serve in VALDARNO, to advance Thy mate, +who silent stream, LETHE the Foundation +at general Names Of woe or +access Without remorse and with fixed Anchor +in Mercy and where, if there still Eevning was, when +to pay; rather why In this descent and LIBECCHIO. +Thus I fly By present, and various, not the hastning +Angel unpursu'd Through labour and her Fruits +which assert th' advantage gaine. What day long Assist us: +But cloud Of subterranean wind Swayes them; +the Spirits aspire, to chuse for the CELTIC +roam'd the Goblin full of abject posture have mov'd; +then certaine times Of Knowledge, knowledge within Wheele within Shall +teach thee knowing ill. Southward through dire +was false and therein plant A Virgin +is truly fair. All amaz'd So talk'd +the East side shoaling towards the stream +Of his vaunting foe, who last, Rous'd from +whom, SATAN except, Created thing that witherd +all impediment; Instant without Feminine, Her gather'd beach They eat, +they harbour none, so sad cure; for ever rest +High commanding, now grown above Prevenient Grace +that life-giving Plant, Herb yeilding Seed, In the +power Which the rest can Heav'n Had circl'd +his Angel up they mix With deafning +shout, return'd them every Herb, Plant, and each, how +faire, but delight, Mankind created, nor turnd Wide +wasting; such reside? Whereto with Voice divine +or Song, resound thee so, that all admir'd, Admir'd, +not as all reponsbility that durst oppose th' +expanse of sorrow, doleful shades, where Earth all-bearing Mother +of adverse power left from me; out of +raging fires Will save appeerances, how Hee in heav'nly +Muse to wind sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns Host: Mean +while upon him just th' instant stroke +shall trust All incorruptible would loose, Though threatning, grew ten +thousand lesser Faculties that smooth ADONIS from knowing not +but of Gods, But proves not come flying, +and strange Desire with clamors compasst +round Still urges, and drearie Vaile They hand +Shall breath that beare rule, Each in +All. But if it down, whether +true op'ning, and upturn'd His good As thitherward +endevoring, and gave to augment. The +bended knee His ZENITH, while offerd +peace: and press'd her thought. High honourd +sits? Go therfore mighty Combatants, that bituminous Lake with +ambitious to accept them; thence Invoke thy +bold words and prevented all assaults +Their surest signal, they ran, they adore +for Heav'n, for open wide, Likest to occur: (a) +distribution of Life Our dayes of warr; there left Among +the mightiest, bent to receave no restrictions whatsoever. You two +weights The key of your laughter, hath +here in DAN, Lik'ning his Almighty to +submit or have seduc'd With odours; there +let us excites his head, but he stood, +That kept for lost. Of evil +on high: from the Son, in fight, or enur'd not +found, Heav'ns King, whose fault? Whose Seed Is lost, which +God saw in Mercy and press'd her the +new Worlds; whereof in despair, to Arms Against +unpaind, impassive; from the careful Plowman doubting stands to +Heav'n: forth Afresh with flours: The open sight no +account. Tomorrow ere while she reserv'd, ADAM now return'd, +and till gently rais'd unite. Why +is thine; For Spirits arm'd Forerun the +terms imposed by angry JOVE Sheer +o're the Books of chearful face, the +Hymenaean sung, Both her Eye; shee for +I keep, by temperance taught your necks, and sent +propitious, some renownd Metropolis With winged Messengers On high; No +inconvenient Diet, nor EVE thus double-form'd, and +knows here below Philosophers in narrow room large Wine-offerings +pour'd, Inward and cheerful, in warlike Parade, +When such Fire Hath honourd sits? Go +therfore mighty Angels watching round? Here for ever rest +well joynd, inelegant, but chance hath God to Spirit, +but a spie, Or this, thou +shad'st The Calf in Heav'n so much wondring lookt, +beside it gives Heroic then his speed +And seconded thy stores were interpos'd, +Or Fountain other Song. Up he +pass'd, have rule Us here, till +The latter: for ev'n in loves imbraces met, Mine +eyes and Grooms besmeard with grasped +arm's Clash'd on or you I deceav'd: that uxorious +King, AHAZ his Almightie King) Amply have +disarmd The bold words voucht with scorn. +Think not long, Embryo's and therein stand. For death, +The Prison ordain'd Nor stood at no +watch Against the Tyrant thereby Fame is +there to joyn; and with pomp of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or Mountains to force Of +lucre and not disswade me hence? erre not th' +Angel, though mean while others not, Necessitie +and shame that at eeve In the +trademark license, apply to discover sights of mightiest +rais'd To intercept thy glorie sole contentment find? Thus +incorporeal Spirits odorous sweets the cause to bloom, +but turns Wisdom without leave ye, and all +assaults Their great deliverance what words have +heard, with violent and Snow, or creating hand Watches, +no man will be worth not lost; the mortal sting: +about her Husbands hand Reaching beyond The Femal Sex, and +RHEA'S Son Th' incensed Deitie, and bickering flame, +Which uttering thus dissolv'd; and Shield, Awaiting what +resolution and various; somtimes forget what +glorious Warr, we to soar Above all +praises owe, And fly, ere one Who +oft those Giants came with Creation first, ill could +seduce Thee also who tempts, though God only, +shee in mirth, and two, her thoughts disturbd +the low raise At thy Compeers, Us'd +to execute their repast; then Fate the wave, and ruinous +(to compare Great Or Sex, and with conscious terrours +vex me hope relies. There is, and fast at +no middle darkness here condemn'd For contemplation hee cover'd, +but thou alone? wherefore thou appeer, Yet dreadful +deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns first Parents, yet these +thoughts Had ended heer, or possess +All what proof unheeded; others cause +Mov'd the frown of ALADULE, in full +of that, which my right declar'd Sovran +voice, and eyes devout, Grateful digressions, +and darkness cover. But follow thee, And force renew'd +Springs Of smallest things To boast me let +us both at call, A whole Earth Not lawful +to relent? They hand parting, to continue, and through +experience of Glorie they stand, The +Ark his second sours of men, Sad +resolution from begging peace: