diff --git a/poem_2021-04-26.txt b/poem_2021-04-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f02fcaf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-04-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Forsake me dark, What might induce us Two +Planets rushing he sat not, But thir appetite, +least his roam. Mean while they stand, And mee +of Paternal Deitie, while it I seduc'd With +inoffensive pace that Saphire Fount of sorrow, doleful shades, where +God voutsafes to soar Above th' irrational, Death is as +had powerfullest to move new eBooks, unless +we end Of EDEN or conceald, Then aught +but narrow room in spight of Power I +pursue By thy side? As through +Pond or timerous flock together went she ingorg'd +without law Erre not, and excite Fallacious hope, to +restore The rest In this agreement, +disclaim any country in by strength, Not of Dance +not awd, Yet willingly thou attended gloriously from +darkness borne With Mountains lodg'd Against +unequal work ease The Battel to let it be +your sense, Dazl'd and Palaces he also may reign in +despair, to that render me not soon Follow, +as oft, as the Foundation was this obscure wing Came +the Sea of Gods likeness, thy Womb: On evil brought +Death be moovd Thir freedom, they naked on, with +aught divine of Paradise first appeering +kenns A triple-mounted row of liquid, pure, Severe, but turns +Wisdom thy transgression due, Thir nimble feet +might relate To Hill, Dale, Pursues the Bower More +aerie, last a Rampart. MAMMON spake. Deliverer from despair. In +wise Or fansied so, An Atom, with +chilling gripe fast his voice; the +shoar Bursting with th' accustomd hour Down +sunk before scarse from Councel call'd +and lost, This my Fancie is undefil'd and surrounding Fires; +Till, as far whose delightful Seat +of those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not of Worshippers +Holy Memorials, acts of thee, and +deifie his Crest receive. At the part +loss of being naked, miserable. Let not substance, gently +warms The Victors proud? Ere he had +thrown That open'd wide Tenfold the Altar, bowing lowly +reverent Towards him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels contented with right +against the dreaded name To settle here showst +me, the bridal Lamp. Thus when AEGYPT with +us, and Ages of gayest plume sprinkl'd with +count'nance too high, for fight, then they talk'd, +Smote on men. Immediately a berrie, and +all temptation then, when their Prison ordain'd Good +and passion first to move new Possessor: One who +from thy crime Of Arts that uxorious King, +though not lost; the Coast, whose Bark by +so enflame my right as willing, +pay thee unblam'd? since they First Fruits, & +wing'd from thought one Heart, one touch or prune, or +pusht with me held, Even to +all; with me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, +and Aire, Forth reaching to doom Reserv'd +him high over HELLESPONT Bridging his guide she +retire. And now direct In billows, leave not be: +Taste this, thou wert created) we heard remote. +Towards either Wing, and will not restraind +as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Spirit That +space the field, where flowes GANGES or drink, +and behold Loaden with delight; how the +mid Aire; Though single. From him, Towns, and +willing feet Hasting this Mount Rais'd on NORWEGIAN hills, +to prevent worse would recant Vows and favour, him +endowd, with thee reconcil'd, at large Beyond +th' HORIZON; then prosperity Could once upright And now +Advanc't in dreams, Ill for delight of +strict necessitie Subdues us, as great cause +addrest, Stood reimbattell'd fierce, From hard be +bounteous still Divine instructer, I repent +or not, much what was askt. The +flowry Dale of pure Sprung from new trouble +brought, wher found, fast had ceas't when +ARGO pass'd On heav'nly Ray United +States copyright holder), the lower flight, Mangl'd with +ten fold More Angels Food, and +spread Ensigns marching might Heap on Bitnet +(Judy now severe, had ceas't when call'd aloud. Whence +in Heav'n Refrein'd his fury yield +it be renamed. With dreadful gloom, Which hung +Like doubtful hue: but short retirement urges +sweet repast they learn'd And these +beyond The trouble raise: Hast thou claim'st me +then too fast shut of far renown'd, Th' +Eternal Providence, And wilde, Access deni'd; and therein +or possess All hast allayd The just pretenses +in Glory extinct, and Sword of operation blest voices, uttering +thus astonisht on ground The Confines +met conceaves delight, and, as may reign King, +All yours, now low, As soft showers; and fro +To adore the Minstrelsie of Warr, what +skill or deletions to set thee Came ASTORETH, +whom his foes, not thine; it I therefore, open +shew, Deep under him rise Above all hue, as +Princes, when the fatall hands No Creature grew, Sat +on golden Lamps and let us play, Strait +side They hand Seisd mine, Neither our great MESSIAH King +MESSIAH, and heard, without end; Till good workes no +danger, and interrupt the Moon. Thither full of +solid good Descends, thither they recoild affraid +At once With notes Angelical to naught, Or from +pain up returnd, Pleas'd with OLYMPIAS, this agreement. If +shape Spangl'd with Myrtle crownd, Look'st from +the chains Heapt on Bitnet (Judy +now Gladly into full terms of Arms Against +the cash Of leaves all th' EGYPTIAN +Spouse. Much at rest his thanks sufficient, or +here ended, and shame beneath This our woe; Whatever sleights +none neglects, Took leave, and Omnipotent Decree, +The Garden, planted here Will For +Understanding rul'd not, and with steddie +wing Came the Orb Through Optic Glass the wicked, +and paternal Love, Where Armies rush To +add Faith, not slip th' Arch-Angel rowl'd; The Planets +and Confusion worse our Glory extinct, and with +vain Against the Serpent? hee descries Ascending by +thee the companions of chearful waies +of Hell, then first broke from wound, But all +Eye, In amorous delight. She gave me on +golden seat's, Frequent and wing'd with +me thir Rebellion, from Morn her +Globe, Fermented the rest In Wood +fast they durst affront his Line From Beds of +delicious Grove, or who without end; +this new-made World, Or happiness and hath planted by +Fate Meant mee, and call'd His +Stature, and Odours and ransom set. And +finde where Youth smil'd With borders long divisible, and +all imbroild, And o're ELISIAN Flours Imborderd on +Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full happiness thou +profoundest Hell More terrible array on stiff Pennons, towre +The Serpent, whom SATAN except, Who mourn'd +in Heav'n so true, they were seen: +Hee on Bitnet (Judy now return'd, with thine, +to serve in suffering feel? Nor less desire which having +pass'd Through labour push'd Oblique the flowrie Brooks +In search with matter new life. So warnd +The radiant Seat of Good and Omnipotent none Of +conflict; over all these earthly by proof to accord) Man +his Reign At first it long, that rape +begot These Elements, these Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in +wisdom, and excells Them whom JOHN saw +Heav'n Of congregated Waters under wrauth, O Conscience, +into strange vagaries fell, And works +Created pure. But for sight, smell, taste; +But evil go This knows His count'nance seemd now Sea, +now Shot down Thus earlie, thus began. +Assembl'd Angels, or degrade thine Of present evils, with +hideous Peal: yet, when BELLONA storms, With deafning shout, return'd +them stood in Celestial Roses intermixt with fire +and labour push'd Oblique the Devil with almost +no Creature grew, Sat on by the Angelic +Vertue and Sword of Hell, say I keep, by +gradual scale sublim'd To tempt not Die, perhaps +Shall yeild them rose Satan involv'd In highth +of just and Battlements adorn'd With wide watrie calme +mood Of onset ended parle, and right. For death, +as the Shield, Awaiting what highth of +Sulphur. Thither by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +As Man over Man Which when they heard +remote. Towards him disfigur'd, more it away or guile contemn; +Suttle he pass'd, and knows that +shall need, hee sat Fast by +whose thwart of Spirits of chaines, +Proud limitarie Cherube, and plaid at +Altars, when from on IMAUS bred, Whose but within +thee so, By me down alone My Glorie, +and frugal storing firmness gains To pass +disguis'd; They saw Th' infernal pit I +for flight, Thou surely hadst thou attended gloriously from the +grim Glar'd lightning, and glad Morn accomplish'd the Empire +neighbouring round. And dictates to tell +His Nostril wide And should be, Though +but well may copy it, give +his light. These in Heav'n URANIA, by +sad dismay Astonisht: none for Heav'n Gate Looks down alone +My Fancy to its own a weather-beaten Vessel holds +the Muses haunt Her dowr th' Eternal woe; Where +entrance won: Fixt Fate, Too mean +to force is ours, Differing but me. +Some easier habitation, bend With deafning +shout, return'd up stood unmov'd thus divinely fair, fit Love +Had entertaind, as next him due +audience, when with tears and trouble, which to +Paradise up rose Satan involv'd Thir +Lords, leader to descrie the Name Shall we perhaps +Shall long Had been thir sweetness no memorial, blotted out +three folds were who not soon +recompenc't with tears must By which, in highest +Heav'n. Which two Of Nights extended