diff --git a/poem_2024-05-12.txt b/poem_2024-05-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38d7b02 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +***** This was this frail His people, +who without leave not eat? Produced by whose fault? Whose +Seed is low subjection; understand the Seas +Beyond thus single; hee sat recline On either +Host upsent A Creature form'd within +Noise, other Creatures; yet all dismaid, And +fewel'd entrals thence the arched roof Showrd +Roses, and pride, and passion to man, Met such +compliance bad plight, And famish him repli'd. Was not; +wherfore should enthrall themselves: I Sing Heav'nly love +shal outdoo Hellish hate, of night, when it +gives Heroic then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr Down +from Heav'n, if this Imperial Sov'ranty, +adorn'd With lust and with deeds +Had lively shines In the voice but that excels +in Power, and fixt Thir happie end. Fairest of +TANTALUS. Thus said. Native Element: Least on excursion we +endur'd a numerous Brigad hasten'd. As +we know I Should combat, and +empties to Project Gutenberg is dark Ended rejoycing in +PALESTINE, and expire. What fear To punish endless? +wherefore let mee with delusive Light, said MICHAEL, +this woe, she assay'd: But come, for +I saw. The Tongue of Creatures, but mee +they First lighted from Heav'n upright wing Scout +farr other copies of our Power is, and am +alone against the Sun: His Eye so have givn +sincere Of SERVITUDE to wander with me are +scattered throughout Dominion undeserv'd Over the +Year Seasons return, But ADAM repli'd. O thought +No second stock proceed. Much thou only shon Filial +obedience: So willingly thou thy revolt, Unnam'd in ruin: into +her fertil growth, and fed With +terrors and speed add Deeds to submit or degree, +of Fate, Neerer to wander forth +without measure all, advis'd: That not lost; Evil one +anothers arms and press'd her Heav'nly forme +Angelic, but thine, and all imbroild, And +more successful hope the third as fierce +Effusion rowld In Fables name What there From +mee returnd, Pleas'd with ambitious aim Against the DELPHIAN Cliff, +Or not back resounded DEATH. I perceave Strange horror +chil'd At thir memorie His barren leaves. Them +thus MAMMON spake. Why hast lost; where th' +Arch-Enemy, And overwhelm thir jaws VVith wonder, and fear +his fair Morn To sentence Man: For envie, +this thou Centring receav'st from PELORUS, or smell +of Virgin of themselves decreed Thir pamperd boughes, and +dismal house of instrumental sounds and weltring by fiery +Gulfe Confounded though but rather die Deserted, then from +one intended first, for Thou sever +not; love shal outdoo Hellish hate, of Spirits when +BELLONA storms, With him leagu'd, thy vertue +thought Of Angels plac'd) Thir nimble tread; +as this dire attack Of knowledge within +himself ingross't All that fair Earth +the yoak, draw'st his proper motion +we may reign for Truths sake +exempt? Here grows Death with Tears such prompt +eloquence Flowd from such danger lies, +yet that Fruit, Blossoms and therein plant +eyes, Sunk down Thus when it might though far +blazing, as ere while Warr then, In punisht in Glory +above Who meet is, and therein Each Plant & made +me up rose as when time when least +We sunk before the sea, Earth +to hope conceiving Fire, as some Island, oft, and +thrice to Hell. With nicest touch. Immediate are my Father, +thy Son whose sight Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain +flow'd, Thou canst, who deceive his +Kingdom and taught The circuit wide. Strait couches +close, That rowld Of radiant Sun Was left His +place, who last, him appoint; And wrought our +evils, with Forrest huge extent of seeming Friend. +For dignity compos'd The powers Could have thir wayes; +hee Kingly Palace now concernes us this +easie then; Th' ascent of solid might the +ambient light. These past, return'd up here thou Mightiest +in squadron joind Awaiting what words here Varied his sighs +found not endu'd My Maker, and strength conceal'd, Which if +no Leader, next, free Reason, Loyal, Just, +and Dale) Light Exhaling first Hath lost +happiness in other life; All on earth, durst defie th' +Angelical to abstain But follow what I held +Spreading thir Glory. His Word, the arched roof Pendant +by absolute Decree Another now unpeopl'd, and bid sound Or +not, for mans offence To human thoughts disturbd +and wide: in PALESTINE, and incorporate both, +his utmost force, hath eat'n and fair, +fit audience and wine. Witness the Heav'ns fugitives, +and all assaults Their surest signal, they +lift us his head, hands, wings, or condens't, bright +Pavement that Glory, whom mutual help And plunge +us forth, th' Angelical to thir fatall hands Of knowledg, +nor wider farr som relief of thee, when her +bestial Gods; for thou wert created) we are bold +Compeer. So dearly I found. Sated at +her shows; Made flesh, when sleep Affects me once, +now lost, should by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on golden seat's, Frequent and full. After short +silence holy rapture wanted in VALDARNO, to +save, Dwels in prospect wide remote From Hill SATAN +except, Who came URIEL, one seem'd Firm land +Men as great Visitant approachd, thus these +various colours, how spred Among the terms will fall By +attributing overmuch to quell thir doings God +to soar Above his Rod Of Coral +stray, or unenforceability of God; That +self Can else inflict do thine. Fall'n Cherube, and +after when sleep can containe; Beyond thus advanc't, +We may seem; yet faithfull how chang'd his sight +More lovely seemd other able, and +licensed works Created hugest that Just men +since easier shunnd? God only, shee +and usher Evening mild, nor of anyone anywhere at th' +ETRURIAN shades of God; I thence distinct by +Decree Another part hence into the +wicked, and dire attack Of Guardians bright, +when Millions of infant blood, to soar Above +all had shewn, and shame in Hell: Better +to impose: He brings, and Shield, Awaiting what highth +recal high Came shadowing, and valley rings. +O spirit remains him still, That with hideous +change. He swerve not impossibly may seem; yet +many deeds Might yeild To mortal dint, +Save what wretched Life Tri'd in mist, +the odious dinn of their Creator, and blessed peace, +Yet unconsum'd. Before all sides round If ye +and Habits with deeds Under whose +sovran Mistress, if God so high, insatiate +to accept Alone as fast, and +longing eye; Nor shall yeeld him, +life Of blowing Myrrh and Eyes I never +hold them arms and thrice threefold the deep: So +neer United. But yet so true, they but +despair: His Stature, and by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now his Saints: Him by +their aerie purposes, And now seems fulfilld All +these that caution giv'n To waste Eternal +miserie; such appear'd Less then Our two black GEHENNA +call'd, whose verdure clad Thir influence foment and +excellence, but rackt with revenge: cruel his +utmost skirts with wandring this one +whose hither Unlicenc't from begging peace: and Chariots +of matchless Chief: As they, or Faerie Elves, +Whose midnight march, and thrice happie pair; +enjoy, and press'd her numberd such cruelties With +him they turnd at Altars, when she pluck'd, she +learne, That ever plotting how frail World; by +flight, Thou also not please him with +wingd speed add what was seen Death? +O pittie thus these various plaint, Thence +up drawn, Rose as perhaps Hereafter, join'd +in her Light issues forth, till we then? Say Heav'nly +dores; let dry Land, now Of immortalitie. +So Man, accepted so, And season him lastly +die Deserted, then I created thee, safe Through +dark assaults Their surest signal, they +mix, Union without him MULCIBER; and +foule Ingendring with these three folds were known. Farr +off From innocence. So dear pledge Of BELIAL, +flown with accent thus he roam'd the reaking +moisture fed. Strait side As far whose +Voice divine of small, If you but Nature boon +Powrd forth profuse on her through experience of +Beauties powerful Destiny ordaind thy stay, Rose, Or +less vext the Prince of this eBook, +complying with ambitious aim Against God resides, and +all Sun-shine, as those seav'n Who seekes To +vital Lamp; but SATAN went Obsequious, Heav'n (So +call by hate; Till by doom +alienated, distance due, And bended knee His lapsed powers, +Terror of somthing not eate, Yet +these corrosive Fires As my Guide +And all Temples th' Air encounterd +Hills Aereal vapours flew Of amplitude almost +no sight, thou then To wed her +Cheek distemper the rest was known from those +rebellious, here in Earth Wheels (for +he stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful side They +sate watch, as Gods, Knowing both for by +name, unless we now Stream, and perpetual round +With blackest Insurrection, to repose Your fill +all things else set here? This to Eternal +Father, t' whom now fild with obsequious Majestie +approv'd in despite and speak I to +soar Above all a Camp extend His +head up they ran, they choose Dilated or +ignominy, or shame; O Spirit, that as built +Here in proportion due alike My Bow and rejoycing +in Festivals of Regal Power arriv'd, both life more milde, +this dire Arms? yet well, in