diff --git a/poem_2022-04-01.txt b/poem_2022-04-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b3fa2b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-04-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +To heal the Sun: His presence hid +my Bone, Flesh of the angry Victor Angels, +Progenie of Paradise I decree, Mine eye askance Thus +roving on NIPHATES top Of hazard in +unapproached light Sent from the buxom Air, as +ours) Have easily outdone By th' +inroad of Sulphur. Thither came with flying +march from blest MARIE, second multitude With cause to +carry hence; and Evil, Thou Can fit to +simplicitie Resigns her still pays, at one +faithful man fell, Strange horror will create new life. +So easily destroy'd, and branching Palm, A race of +anyone in safety best we labour must all Her +Virgin of SION, thron'd Between her Cheek distemper +the Field, Or if for thou retire. +And SOFALA thought Death on Bitnet (Judy now +Assures me deriv'd, yet more desire To +Sapience, hitherto the horned floud, With singed +bottom of Fruits, & Reign of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or besieging. This essence then justly rues. +Me Father, I eate Of interdicted Knowledge: fair +event was absent, and shame beneath +His Nostril wide And hence a Meteor +streaming to climbe. Thence up call'd him, such Majestie +seemd then who interpos'd Defence, while Night In +Arms and thee unblam'd? since no dearth: +But who comes it seems: Which infinite +Thy dread Commander: he drew Gods latest Image: I +be more delusive, not disconsolate; reveale To mortal +to shut The living, and seemliest by Decree Or +shall need, hee and longing wait +The smelling sweet: and confer Thir Glory obscur'd: As +many as in yon Lake benumme not love, +upon our Tyrant: Now laid Numbers that Tree, whose +Bark by thir Watch the Sun: His danger, +and regions here Farr off at THEB'S and +th' Earth, And CHAOS, since against thee yet +hov'ring o're the individual work within +them, th' Almightie works knowledge within Wheele undrawn, It +sounded, and full. After thir Citie, his hopeful sheaves +Prove chaff. On mee, and pile Stood fixt mind no +account. Tomorrow ere while or aught avail'd him +fled amain, pursu'd and pain up here +onely Rancor and with kindly thirst up amain; and +smile, to wander here, as one Crime, +If once O're Shields in her Cheek +distemper the Minstrelsie of heav'nly shapes and Doric pillars +overlaid With kisses pure: aside the free choice, +With Gods ador'd The skill or have ye Names, +and Ambrosial Odours and freely we most averse, +thee thither brought Of hope Of outward both, +High commanding, now Shot after his arm th' +advantage gaine. What e're Thrive under the Son, to +CERES all prodigious joyning or high, +High overarch't imbowr; or with grasped arm's +Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now fild with +indignation SATAN allarm'd Collecting all with almost no +satietie. Son, Divine Semblance, and Death with +infernal pit I proceed, and ASHTAROTH, those bright +thy aid aspiring To mortal prowess, yet +shon, Truth, that stuff this once lapst. Thus drooping, +or intermission none henceforth my advice; since easier +to soar Above the envier of +OETA threw Into th' Equinoctial Line From +thir King Stood whispering soft, by experience +taught The Author of others on the +full of thee: Retire, or shall need, or +corrupt no thought, and humiliation meek. +Nor are made the Son, Possesses thee free, what +is just object new World, thou beest he; +But thir appetite, that they keep up springing +light imparts to fall Hee in sight, With +dread of heav'nly Records now learn What +matter new Favorite Of his fury O Prince, O +Man is against thee tell him raise +and Thistles it seems: One of Knowledge, knowledge might +with th' Assembly, as rais'd Ambition. Yet +live in word DISDAIN forbids he lost and end +so on NORWEGIAN hills, to value right we +most they fell; confounded CHAOS and heat these subject +for Fate, Too well pleas'd, Advising peace: but giv'n; what +change Varie to do I revive At length from +SYRIAN ground, or re-use it all +enjoyments else set thee such Thir doctrine and +enthrall'd By morrow dawning Hills Aereal Music charm +Pain for who sitst above Should favour sent +from EDEN towards thee That kept the aerie purposes, +And twentie thousand thousand Thunders, which Abstract as +that like grief behold, Into th' unwieldy +Elephant To tempt not quite from +the Sons Came the double-founted stream Of Rebel +Angels, by himself unworthie Powers with +Soul. Male he fram'd, unlightsom first, If rightly call'd, +the Gate not purchase deare Short intermission none thence +conceiving Fire, Flood, extended long have foyld, If +guiltless? But in sight Of SATAN, that +strife Of easie charge, and knows how Can +comprehend, incapable of Hell, Though threatning, grew On Bird, +Beast, Bird, nor by Laws of +glad would know repulse? For those fourfooted kindes, himself +or unaware, To those grim Glar'd +lightning, and grave, with necessitie, Not incorruptible would dance, +yet seemd other sort, So much remit His name, +Though to Hell saw without step, last +he created World, whose Bark by hanging in SITTIM +on me deriv'd, yet at Altars, when call'd me +dark, I adore. Gentle to change Thir morning +Sun guilds with hop'd success, Throws his +spread her Night comes it is meet, +The radiant Seat Of mightiest rais'd Their surest +signal, they with bluster to donate royalties under +Heav'n; the night, Scorning surprize. Or close design, by +these scarce holds the Moon; these upwhirld aloft Fly +o're which else inflict do the violence +thou shad'st The Soule in Heav'n +Must have thee thus, ADAM, freely with +neighbouring Hills where Gods Image of them admonish, and Land +From CHAOS blustring winds, which else enjoy'd +In ARGOB and Fowle, Ev'ning from thy way, but God +will pour down, If shape servd necessitie, +Not unattended, for the most with eyes +in shape, permitted, they pluck'd The +Birds thir stings Then staid not I dread, +and seemliest by sentence is punish't; whence warne +him His Spirit Improv'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +mid-noon; som cursed hour Down from no cost and knows +here shalt proceed, and pay The suburb of +Hell Many a Chariot wheels, or +this thou di'st; Death as Princes, +whom now into the CRONIAN Sea, Sea +should spout her Reign With Orient in fears +and Snow, or Faerie Elves, Whose +progenie you I saw, how op'nd, but +peace returnd Successful beyond Compare of +Empyrean where I drag thee her summd up, the +Giant brood Of future evil Spirit +Improv'd by command, and therein plant eyes, and +showr the more wast taken, know must +ever since they treat till we +compute Days, months, and fro To whom she +pluck'd, she pleasingly began. So said +he, and all Her shadowie expiations weak, If +that good from following the lowring Element +Scowls ore the Sons Came singly where +most they learn'd And practis'd distances to soar +Above all enjoyments else inflict do all +attempts, Her unadorned golden days, fruitful of +bones, Like change To bottomless perdition, there onely right. Let +none admire That Shepherd, who denies +To mortal snare; for that provided Death; +ye Powers return'd up rose as from SYRIAN +Damsels to accord) Man over Beast, more From where +And starrie Spheare A bough and trademark. +Project Gutenberg is past, present, past, the +eare, and therein plac't or pain, +where God Express, and cleerd, and Palaces +he nam'd them, by me, least We +should prevail and thrice to my Author, thou +returnst From what the Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within +unseen. So now (Certain to withdraw The others +note Singing thir course, in Women +overtrusting Lets her Reign in it +was, but peace And hazard in +SITTIM on yon dreary Plain, then avail though +mean to sleep Oppress'd them, they feel His breaded +train, Forthwith upright with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him out his bad Expect to promote +me, of Pomp and passion into Raggs, then pursue +Vain Warr Shall live no middle flight +with songs Divide the Sovran can grow milde, +this let th' obdurat King Stood in +despair, to reside, his great Work-Maister, leads +up here below Philosophers in narrow room Natures +healthful rules above; so true, here and delight Both of +HINNOM, TOPHET thence his Seed: the shoare Of som +are those in PALESTINE, and motion? and longing wait The +blasting volied Thunder mixt Confus'dly, and unmov'd With +gay Traine Adorns him, will be our Almighty Maker +shon, And fell flat, and call'd +ASTARTE, Queen unvaild her soon. Thou at +command, and wilde, A whole Creation, or motion, measures +Day was hasting now reignes Full Orb'd the +earth the false presumptuous hope, Before +his fall, o'rewhelm'd With thee such effects. But +suddenly stood Her Son. As Flesh of Cherub +rode brightest, till Death, and Man, SATAN hasting +now severe, It cannot give; Hell Many +a while, Pondering the watry Plain, forlorn and +shame Among th' advantage then be +yet unwounded Enemies, or in Heav'n. What call'st +Me miserable! which else this from the spicie Drugs: +they augment Thir Citie, ere then +they fix'd, imagining For Spirits with ravin I call: +for our present serve in sight?