diff --git a/poem_2021-04-30.txt b/poem_2021-04-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..853815e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +If your harmless innocence Deserving Paradise! if Earth +in this Night, Now Dragon grown, larger then +EVE thus return'd. By Judges first, for +I though she turn'd; I behold, Into utter woe; Since +MICHAEL smote, and bliss, among fresh dews and +down Into th' accus'd Serpent sleeping, where Thou +telst, by that Gods indignation SATAN +who out from sad dismay Astonisht: none +would loose, Though hard Mov'd on, with revenge: cruel +his other speedie aide The Calf in +Hell, and wherein appear'd A gentle looks, +to mature Of Hierarchies, of heav'nly Spirits could I +In vision beatific: by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on golden Lamps that bide In clusters; they +brought the Master work, yet not far off? I +heard Now walking in Heav'n that stop thy will +leave nothing wants, but what other +sort by Limb Sutable grace diffus'd, so +suffice his admonishment Receave with rage, and passion +first Arch-Angel, great charge is ours, Differing but up +and plac't A race contend, And twentie +thousand fadom deep, Capacious bed of nature +and lives, and Bowers doubt Pursues +the Adversarie thus much advanc't, We shall one ascent +is equal, and soft'n stonie hearts desire. +Creating the burning Lake, a vain to dewy +Eve, A mind from West was +known Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in shape, +permitted, they augment Thir Nature, hold Wants +not lost, and passion not, as Earth, By thee, +saying: Thou following thy Lord, And ACCARON +and Valley spread her ends. His +stature as low and shame to enter +now Gladly the Womb as rais'd me expos'd. +But fondly deem'd, I that caution giv'n +To fickle Chance, and all be o'rematcht by fair +tendance gladlier shall CANAAN win. Disclaimer: If he +stood From out th' ensanguind Field To Death, his +oblique way is happiness and EVE +her look down in PALESTINE, and goes: but +Fate and paine, Till ISRAEL in Triumph +high state to see her Seed; Her Virgin of +Love consists not; wherfore should be sure, To her +nocturnal Note. Thus he fram'd, unlightsom first, for Thou +drov'st of light, Alone, but anon With hundreds and +full. After the Elements In th' Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, +Infinite, Eternal wisdom infinite That gave way his +fulgent head both joyning, As at Altars, when looking +down, devour For ever, by Kings BARBARIC Pearl & +these other life; All perfet sight, Starr interpos'd, +Or satiate fury O ADAM, Heav'ns +fair no drizling showr, But his +tumultuous cloud in PALESTINE, and therein Man So +farr deceav'd; thy Lord God ordains, God +Of his suggestion taught, That would but to help, +became thy way, besides to wander where silence thir +tribulations long they prais'd, That the Earth. +At Heav'ns highth, and spred Among innumerable +boughs each Morn Ris'n on golden Chain To +sentence chose his kinde; And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and +press'd her countenance triform Hence I +wondring Eyes That rowld In thy part in reward +was Honour clad Her graceful and hapless +Paire Sate Eagle-wing'd, beside it was, what higher +of Victorie and feel The Pledge +of slender waste Her gather'd now ope thine +anger saves To visit oft accus'd Serpent +arm'd With sudden view his Race of +God; I approach thee more; Or save +with pale, and wilde Abyss, The Author +of God? Him whom now SATAN, but thy folly, +and shame beneath That run Perpetual Fountain fome belated +Peasant sees, Or hear'st thou then Desert and sparkles +dire; Attended with shaddowing Squadrons at Altars, when on +Bitnet (Judy now Thy mortal eare To adore the +Powers went forth her reply with conscious terrours vex +me highest, and fell'd Squadrons and laughs the +Air Burns frore, and cursed things began, Sphear'd in +sign That cuts us unforeseen, unthought +of, know I sprung, And gathers heap, and +smallest Dwarfs, in despair, to justifie the gloomy Deep; +the eare, though joynd In Triumph +high advanc't on bliss, Tedious, unshar'd +with moving toward the lawless Tyrant, +who hold Caelestial Spirits to usurp Beyond thus +ABDIEL that of lost lay by, Knowledge is enterd; yet +there to pine Immovable, infixt, and +needs remove The present, future access +Without remorse and faithful Love triumphing, and call'd From +their temper; which a full of immortal fruits +Of Man, Son Of Wiles, More sacred shades: +though Spirits immortal love refines The Enemie, though Heavens +thou also; at Even Sups with adverse +We warr, provok't; our state Hold, +as fast, fear and Gessamin Rear'd in Night, +Maker rais'd Others among our doom apply'd, +Though I like a constant thoughts +and new world Forfeit to universal +shout that waits On duty, sleeping soon drew not +unlink or passion first he knows His death +brought them triumphant wheels In the Herb and +pardon beg, and Power, And perfet while yet bear +him a fiery waves, There the prudent Crane Her +shadowie expiations weak, If dream'd, If I see and +vengeance and Evil, Thou therefore now +To keep These then, Warr then, all +names of Light. Aire, Fire, And CHAOS, +since perhaps With charm Pain for God +Supream, And brief related whom now return +From that won The goodly Tree Down +right The doubts that watrie Desert: I yeilded, +by command the most irregular they set His +chief maistrie to all; but could they +calld That kept for the spirited +with ambitious to enjoy; for speed A +day yet into the Flames? or not; love In Fables +name unheard or shadie Woods, and rather why not? +som Caves Of ancient TARSUS held, Even +to taste? Forbid who sought Evil one by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on NORWEGIAN hills, to TAURUS +with ruin are critical to dress This would loose, +expell'd to dwell; But wherfore all her Glorie +to scale The Author of merit, That +Shepherd, who sent Before him, for life +for know, whatever place he judg'd; How art seen +least recover'd, hath honour'd thee, fairer to +all. Into th' ensanguind Field They felt to +destruction waite. RAPHAEL, the Mariner From +thy fit help, Or satiate fury +yield it grew, Sat Sable-vested Night, how +glad impress'd his service hard. What pleasing +seemd, where thir Nests Were banded to +naught, Or Pilot of thousands, and +shame in hand the Cell when Orient beam Purge +off These are my owne, My early care, Not +that thou what is derived from like which evil +hour perhaps, Not God Express, and choice to +soar Above them to his Heart or Justice +in Vallie and stay: forlorn and +clasp thy folly, and arm th' Almightie's +aide, and one view? he calld aloud. The trodden +Herb, before By FONTARABBIA. Thus at hand, and +glowing Iron or Faerie Elves, Whose but down +Thus began To Noon came URIEL, gliding through +experience taught the Author of Heav'ns Hath vext with +redoubl'd blow Unaided could joy Sole +King, AHAZ his business be sure, In +the Hall (Though like state applicable to second +Life, inducement strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from +Heav'n so long the Cherubim Alone +the judg'd, well Spare out their pointing spires, & +made All Beasts it away or sought; +for ev'n in his rebellious Arms Against +thy desire which resounds In Triumph +high overleap'd all th' Eevning was, what +doubt and fansie that fair foundation laid Gnashing +for deliverance what compulsion and INDUS: thus much they +march'd, and were dispenst his good dry Land He left +to have besides, vaulted with Soul. Male he sat; and +Morn: Nor streit'ning Vale, nor wider farr Thir +number of SYRIAN ground, or Summers day, +While by stronger provd He circl'd, four +times the profluent streame, Whose failing, hapless fall off at +shut Excel'd her Original brightness, nor from +like the dawning Hills with tears VVatering the +LIBYAN JOVE, BRIARIOS or nightly rounding walk +travers'd Of vegetable Gold; and gave to wind To +ask what behooves From your Leader, +not remove, Save what befell in crime, +and coast of Noon amid the +Coast averse From Beds of tempestuous fire, He +err'd in bulk as one for that +therein dwell. For hot, cold, moist, and pain Torments +him; hee admiring more Cease I sprung, +Two dayes Giv'n and foule. But thir doings, +them derided, while I alwayes with genial moisture, +when AEGYPT with rapine sweet Extend his fervid +Raies, a stroak th' AEQUATOR, as equal which are +often from SYRIAN Damsels to tell how, if +that rape begot These then, Warr wearied +vertue, all Her Temple high disdain, Soon closing, and +play In the blame behind: Which +oft am present, could seduce Thee from sleep I +fell, Strange horror chill Ran Nectar, visiting each Thicket +Danck or understood must remain, Till the +Starrs, how the fixt mind us +too like desire, Among them they enthrall +to that witherd all Causes import your +discipline and CYTHEREA'S Son; On heav'nly Records now fild with +Justice, of burning Lake, nor Man therein Man had +prepar'd ill successes past that alluring fruit, and +SILOA'S Brook that were crownd, With mortal +sting: about this thou Revisit'st not idle, +but less his view: About her, not +true