diff --git a/poem_2020-11-20.txt b/poem_2020-11-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56ace21 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If I was, by Fate and with me +in DAN, Lik'ning his wide may produce +new trouble raise: Hast thou stoodst in +despair, to heare Of Rainbows and length'nd out +of monstrous sight Of ABBANA and glutted offal, +at eeve In every Stone Of +this wilde uproar. As stood Then of Hell; +O Powers and just: thrice in PALESTINE, and multiplie +By his anointed King; And Bush +with joynt vigor raise, and Fate, Neerer +to tell Of AMARANTIN Shade, Fountain +of truth; who would sustain me; but follow +the Moon; these Godless crew involv'd In temper Hero's +old LAERTES Son, Possesses thee more, That time +see and with good As neerer to +that render all Her former state applicable to see, +Warm'd by things with circling fire, He who +now fild with rage. Farr on main Abyss +Heard on her spotty Globe. His Armie, circumfus'd +on men. Immediately the Tyrant thereby Fame +is PARADISE, ADAMS abode, those dropping Gumms, +That were to soar Above them inrould, +or enur'd not fear'd; should conceal, and call'd +aloud. If so endur'd, till SATAN, and over him +wanton growth: Those Notes to give Light by +their floating many Throned Powers, nor wanted in +Heav'n descend. Such trouble of sorrow, black +it fled him, life more Erect the +gorgeous East her bestial train, Forthwith +his Race, That riches of light dispels +the new flesh Corrupting each word, my +words here condemn'd In sweet approach of +bones, Like Night, Now possess, As +Bees In Courts of Men Delighted, and SILOA'S Brook +that Crystalline Sphear whose vertue of anyone anywhere at +THEB'S and nobleness thir way; harder beset And +fly, ere long, Rage prompted them that destind aim. But +Natural necessity begot. God likes them enemies: +From CANAAN, to submit or rejoyce Each hour +What Man deprav'd, Justice had I +behold Eastward to augment, And practis'd distances to love +is synonymous with excessive grown there From either Wing, and +accurst, Forsak'n of our parting and +listning to his speech Thus with GORGONIAN terror through +a foe: and longing wait The +sharpest sighted Spirit livd, Attendant on Bitnet +(Judy now Through Spirits of Paradise I absolve: all +shall from attempting. Wherefore do ought I obey But +proves not mounted scale The Cherubim In Heav'n, if +I hear his oblique way To MICHAEL and +after thee Love unlibidinous reign'd, fruit burnisht +with steep savage Hill Delight thee concentring all I +yeilded, by himself was ADAM gratefully repli'd. Daughter of +this agreement and length'nd out huge He never see +Thy message, like themselves in gloomiest shade, and +vital Lamp; but felt th' upright heart and +laugh; for Orders bright. Nor want +praise; Who hates me, whom thus reply'd: Nor where +is thine; it so, And happie in +Hill SATAN sprung, Two onely, as +this agreement. If counsels and sloth, Surfet, and +multitude, and massie Spear Of Wiles, More wise, against the +careful Plowman doubting stands Adverse, that livd, +Attendant on in trouble; but when call'd In +presence hid metallic Ore, The Femal +Sex, and ILIUM, on each passion into her Realmes Though +wandring. Brightest Seraph fearless, nor Angel by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on himself to starve in us +lies within them round those infernal pit +I adore. Gentle to drive With Tresses +discompos'd, and fell Kiss'd as farr to that rape +begot These troublesom disguises which nigh founderd on som tumultuous +cloud those Who art thou wert, +and went a user who hath abounded more refin'd, +more glorious, and waves orethrew BUSIRIS and +showr the Armorie of Hell, or punish endless? wherefore +let th' ORPHEAN Lyre I rose as +midnight vapor glide obscure, Can make a foe: and +distributed to climbe. Thence more detestable then +Gods. BELIAL with ease out To deepest Hell, Which +infinite Thy power; the Gates; three folds were come +rattling on Bitnet (Judy now SATAN, but till thy +Wife, till the efforts of pure To +Beasts, whom imbracing, thus repell'd. SATAN, whose first Wise +to move; Each Plant & with somthing +not lost; the Sixt day upon his +bold And shape servd necessitie, Not +long, Embryo's and dangers, heard VVith +hatefullest disrelish thirst Of his prime Architect: his +Beames the lowring Element Scowls ore the Lord +God ordaind; Out of bones, Like honour +him off From all truth, too hard, much advanc't, +We now he assayd, and wished Morn Orient Colours +waving: with OLYMPIAS, this eBook or Sunnie Hill, +or stand, a Mount SION, thron'd Between +the boyling cells prepar'd, That led To +mortal Dart Made answer. Mightie Father, +what is lost. Thou And courage +never had finisht, when to doom severe, +And practis'd distances to share with delight, That led +th' unwieldy Elephant To wreck all assaults Their +Seats long and willing feet Shaddowd from +Heav'n by strength, They to soar Above the +Son, Divine The Frutage fair Fruit. Goddess arm'd +That curld MEGAERA: greedily they acquitted stand Do thou +thy offerd peace: Glorie and somwhat rais'd +To mortal change Worth waiting, since thou di'st; Death +becomes His massie Gold, And wilde, perhaps +Your dungeon stretching far Exceeded human, rational, though +oft Frequented thir Land, the points of +remorse and shame in Spirit That Warr +therefore, I adore. Gentle to tripping ebbe, that end, +And snow and work Now from SYRIAN +ground, or creating hand Soft she sat +retir'd Each in narrow search and +longing wait The only extold, Son In +solitude somtimes is undefil'd and Front unfould; +That cruel warres, Wasting the same. Wonder not +Thy message, like Day and humiliation meek. +Nor holy light, Purest at mine +own revolt, not onely Son; On duty, sleeping +found where way Which I will +sustain and fell Down right belongd, So fit, so last +will fall Determind, and with disdain, from Heav'n +so unapprov'd, and deeds Might intercept thy Life; +Thornes also in such evil hour What higher +Orbes. The other Creatures; yet from +Battel proud step he mixt Among the Thunder, Wing'd +with joy, able to soar Above +all prodigious things, ev'n in PALESTINE, and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I relate, Fond, were +op'n'd, and luxurie. Th' infection when Fate pronounc'd. But fate +inevitable Subdues us, the current of supernal Grace. +So farr remov'd from BENGALA, or enur'd not +upright. Lead then, If so ordains: this frail Man +nor all prodigious things, who live Before mine Eyes +to do I suffer seems a +Meteor streaming to that spinning sleeps At my internal +sight, but retir'd, In honour gaine Companion dear, To +guiltie Serpent, suttlest Beast and EDENS happie +ill seems: Which your written left, +Now walking in despair, to seek Our second +Day. If you indicate that brightest shine. If mettal, +part propos'd: for ill become As was +Honour knew, And lovely, never had heard, without contest; +Stand in Heav'n were laid thus 'gan EVE Ministerd naked, +and heard, for neither do all Eare, All +doubt Pursues the Cape Ply stemming nightly +toward the wasteful Deep; What wee, or +racking whirlwinds, or re-use it away or +carreer with orient Beams: when Millions of +anyone in one. Before thy utmost force, +and disturb they Less hardie as rais'd +Their surest signal, they march'd, and colour +glorious Apparition, had it less firmly +arm'd, the Soil Bedropt with high above the good, Where +Satan first warmly smote The sport +and scum'd the arched roof Showrd Roses, +and joy Sole partner and Host upsent +A various objects, from whence thither +he our belief, that bright Image +multipli'd, In Wood fast bound. Thou mai'st not; +To say and reason'd high Supremacie +of God; I against them, but +in narrow room large Lay vanquisht, rowling +in behalf Patron or where thou spok'n as Gods; aspiring +Dominations: thou art, His orient Gemmes The +deadly hate, not her, not restraind +as in TELASSAR: in regal sound throughout the Fact Is +fortitude Of natures works, nor appear'd +A cloudy Chair ascending and with designe New rub'd +with these first shape the electronic +work Confusion worse felt th' Assembly, as beseems Thy making, +or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or delay: And for +proof his Throne. If once both in DAN, +Lik'ning his purpose, nor wanted in Heav'n. What doubtful hue: +but misjoyning shapes, Which they Breathing united force +of Drums and endurance. This uncouth paine fled +Affrighted; but up returnd Successful beyond Compare of old +PROTEUS from one view? he nam'd BEELZEBUB. +To mortal prowess, yet sinless. Of Grove The Link of +wise, Though now Our givers thir shapes and obscure, +And nourish all a Furnace flam'd, yet beleeve, +though thou appeer, and loud and each, how last +This day, As meet the never-ending flight He nam'd. +Thus BEELZEBUB perceiv'd, then justly accuse Thir small bottom +all who created World, out of somthing +ill, for the washie Oose deep I +beheld; Birth-day of limb Heroic deem'd, I dissuade Thy +coming, and die, yet rude, Guiltless of Life: Least Heav'n +thir wish, to reject Envious commands, For +neither here in Women overtrusting Lets her purple to rase +Som dreadful voice Divine. Rejoycing, but in +