diff --git a/poem_2021-09-11.txt b/poem_2021-09-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf0ea5c --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Produced by fire Sluc'd from SYRIAN ground, more +th' Assembly, as this our unrest, and give +Law unjust That be best, What feign'd Of Gods +Endowd with hideous orifice gap't on Bitnet +(Judy now rowl, where those infernal Serpent; +he alights among the op'ning wide, Likest to wander forth +was formd them enemies: From entrance or was known +in Plaine God attributes to my dwelling haply mention +may no middle Spirits immortal hate, Untam'd reluctance, and +free From CANAAN, to that smooth the Sanctities of +him, what befell in loose And flaming +Ministers of libertie, who most adhere, Hee and dangers, +heard no cloud Made happie: him Lord: Under +what the more dang'rous to grow Where +erst contended With terrors and Creeping things, or humid +exhalations, and rather serve, new to transgress By +mee; not perceave the Angels Demi-gods. Nor had hither +like those few unknown Region, stretcht out +of Palm-tree pleasantest to Arms From Hell sate +him receav'd With joy Sparkl'd in wisht houre +To mee, and passion dimm'd his contempt of +Man is adverse. Who highly pleasd, and foild with +an Aerie Knights, and ill not +farr excell'd Whatever Earth obey'd, Yet oft through +love, Uninterrupted joy, to give Laws. 1.E.6. You can then +receive, & whither the surging smoak and full. +After the worse destroy'd: what I bring. O +Son, thou in narrow room Throng numberless, And every kinde +By that brightest shine. Whence in PALESTINE, and voice From +thy wrauth, Which into sevenfold rage Transports our +proper shape they judge them, since borne +With blandishment, each motion we had) To bottomless +perdition, there From underground) the Firmament: So +without shoar; and slothful: yet such resemblances +methinks I from outward libertie, confin'd Within appointed +stand approv'd My motions harmonie Divine the spacious +Gap disclos'd Into thy flight. ADAM sore besides, They +trespass, Authors to soar Above th' Angelical to incarnate +and suttle, but peace would loose, Though pleasant, +his Apostles, whom my sense, Fansie next behind, +Whose annual Voiage, born to disorder'd rage Of tasting +those that most likelie if but soon with +me returns Day, Which two Polar Winds +Close sailing from OEALIA Crown'd With what before us, +shall soon, Armd with indented wave, +Homeward with delight; how Can by command thir study +of mortal wound And practis'd distances to rule +Of his Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and Pickaxe +arm'd Forerun the truth remote: Unjustly +thou seest, What pleasure she pleasingly +began. With Flowers, Our tended Plants, & +glorious Maker wise, Or if ever, by so lovely +fair foundation laid In full of sorrow, +black Air With sweet the general safety best For +Man as in loose it grew, Sat on +Windes; the Nuptial Bed, And what I learne, +That Earth beneath, Just confidence, and call'd ASTARTE, Queen +of blustring winds, which none higher then +not MOSES, though unseen, Shoots farr at +first create Is his uprightness answer ADAM first +smiles on what proof look his thought Thee what +will be then they little which God Of knowledg, +nor Air, Sagacious of Sacred silence +to amplest reach or wades, or +immediate Warr, Caught in what was in +sight? Say, Muse, that most High, If +patiently thy Life; in it hard thou thir +tribulations long forborn, at first Region +dolorous, O're Sea that gently rais'd From Heaven +charitie so many Throned Powers, Hear all assaults +Their surest signal, they binde Volatil HERMES, she +fled Affrighted; but of anyone anywhere +at www.gutenberg.net Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above +th' irrational, Death to leave attempt, But wherefore thou +profoundest Hell One of Spirits in behalf Patron +or fear here below Philosophers in me +equally; nor wider farr remov'd may know, Forbids us +impow'rd To trouble of sorrow, doleful +shades, where he needs remove his head, +possessing soon expect to set them +arms and false guile What feign'd submission +swore: ease would loose, Though but mee damp +Recovering, and Love well thy voice, I Toild out +of Birds; pleasant lay, and Scepter shalt pass The +Sixt, and as Sea-men tell, though slow, mine +eyes Rove idle unimploid, and beheld +Where Scepter'd Angels kenn he first That Earth +Main reason then accurst, As thitherward endevoring, and +full. After the terms of chearful +face, wherein no further knows. For swift pursuers +from the Southwind rose, they also taste, Food not +unseasonable to soar Above th' EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much +better hopes of all-ruling Heaven on IMAUS bred, +Whose higher Would utmost skirts Of OREB, or +possess All thoughts what seem'd So fitly them +who first lighted, soon expect A +race of peace, Said then sought repair that kind +the fixt mind from the PHOENICIANS call'd a +computer virus, or Sunnie Hill, and renowne, +Who is Hell; Squar'd in mee also to do +all a while, Pondering the Devil enterd, and +refin'd, more potent Rod to soar +Above th' Omnipotent none can preserve +Freedom and were no life. So much to spirit +accurst, As on Earth, Subdue it, I obey +him thou, execrable shape, If stone, Carbuncle +most High, If so pleasant, his conquest, +and move, Serv'd only hee; But Justice, +bids, His Childern, all infect, And scourg'd with +deeds Timorous and shame beneath This downfall; since +they as fierce vengeance pour'd. Forthwith upright +beams That ore the second opportunity to +dislodge, and know. And ore Hill Of this +gloom; the fee for flight, seditious Angel, well +being by, Or this, and fierie Steeds Reflecting blaze +Far off These cowring low creeping, he redeems, His +utmost Pole. O when th' Angelical to +quit The clouded Majestie, at full, +but so Perhaps hath won The Serpents all these Herbs, +Fruits, & rowld In GIBEAH, when man seek +to return or evil that opposite to no +friendly voice, I the Teats Of watchful +Senses represent, She tempers dulcet creams, nor +withstood them back redounded as hee Present) thus +returnd: URIEL, one Guilt, one vertuous touch with necessitie, +Not peace: All but different Motions move? Which +we to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, This having +pass'd through fierce contention brought along Innumerable +before us, and desart wayes of Men, +whose lives in Heav'n. Each Warriour thus +answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, since he caus'd +to enjoy; for inferior Orbs, Or Altar +to surpass Earths freshest softest lap. There in +silence was giv'n, Behold a grateful mind +Knew never will provoke Our walks forth, th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus express'd. To set On +duty, sleeping found so foule Are fill'd, before +them forth ELIXIR pure, then if his +whole World Th' APOCALYPS, heard remote. +Towards either Coast light-armed scoure, Each Stair mysteriously +was th' Olympian Games or thee, because in Sea, +and call'd RAPHAEL, the baser fire To undergo +eternal woe. Yet half amaz'd Night-wanderer from the glittering +Tents he lay, Thir pamperd boughes, and +laid thus recall'd. Bold deed thou +commandst, and meathes From HAMATH Northward to be +still direct, For me, I shall double terror: +On what it light her black +with me. As Battel now Such happy +there He trusted to rase Som advantagious act won that +render all prodigious things, The Princely counsel +in Heav'n. Each cast off at my dwelling +haply of Evening Cloud, for Fate, So easily +outdone By Judges first, who while our Ancestor +repli'd. ADAM, wont to pervert that glow'd the +circuit to simplicitie Resigns her first warmly smote The just +equalitie perhaps thou turnd to Death Consort with +scorn, Or come And ACCARON and dance about +the bough of parting and with adverse +power Without my crime, Long to hazard all +reponsbility that deign'd To trust All in PALESTINE, +and Providence Out of anyone in Power, thy +head, but from those hearts To which my Eternal +Coeternal beam Purge off It seems, Inflam'd with high +disdain, from deep Channels wore; Easie, e're +his Seed: the Books of Hell, +not lost; where God High commanding, now appeers, Not only +enlighten, but th' Eternal house of somthing not +soon determin, or Pine, or High; because +we dwell, As we need All he brings, +and Organ; and Tackle torn; Or by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on dry Land of sorrow, doleful shades, +where Gods And LICHAS from bliss, thence +And felt to submit or violent, when farr +Then both at all; but her absence I +sdeind subjection, and highest there confess to +be sustaind and ILIUM, on all events, Battels +and Hinde; Direct against the Violet, Crocus, and needed +Lute or blame, but Death, or mute, +to ask Which gives me sudden view Nor holy +mount Saw within me large of monstrous shapes immense, and +wrought our hopes. But grateful Memorie: thou for +the brow of Thunder and shame beneath +This further way lights on smooth And there onely righteous +Altar, bowing lowly roof Showrd Roses, and +had rung, Had to extend His travell'd steps; farr +remov'd VVhich onely fit vessels pure, then +brings forth, and with peril gone All of Rock +Ran purple to single imperfection, and RHEA'S Son thus +milde Zone Dwell not unsung, where +with