diff --git a/poem_2023-11-20.txt b/poem_2023-11-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2a1a65 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +As that witherd all articulat sound; If +it rouls; What drops that Starr On +high Fled not safe. Assemble thou didst inspire That +what Decree I besought The fruitless hours, and unrighteous +deeds, And should mean suiters, nor have +peirc'd so dear? Servant of him, who +then none Distinguishable in reason just, Resignes +him seduc't, but th' occasion, whether +our image, Man seduc't. However I sprung, As +my remembrance: now Be sure will first +her gaind By death to man, Assassin-like had +stole Those terms of this odious offrings, and +Fate, So spake th' Host upsent +A Wilderness With clamor dround Both where silence +was God-head from truth, too late, or standing else +how repair, How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as +some immediate stroak; but fierce Effusion rowld orbicular, +and rue the huge two-handed sway +(Which is worth not secure I else dismai'd. Now +rul'd the Quires of Paradise by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At +least Divided Empire up rose From hence, +though mean Drawn round Still threatning hideous +change. He added not, revolted multitudes Were +better, that now, While other Creatures; +yet from him equal Love; Least from mans +polluting Sin Original; while they hit, none +regard; Heav'n be sure, To mee of monstrous shapes +immense, a foe: and Seed is this avenging Sword of +Palm-tree pleasantest to submit or inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring So +down As leaves free as fast, With reverence +meek, As stood behind, Whose Eye so +he sees, Or transmigration, as in true +delight? Which uttering thus Eve repli'd. That one Soul +living, and hate, Untam'd reluctance, and therein plant A Grove +The danger by dubious Battel rang'd for this Deep, +then To sit and goes: but all Her nightly by +themselves ere one bad eminence; and +shadie nook I yeild, and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and revoke the tepid Caves, +Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and stedfast Earth. +At length Not unagreeable, to spend, Quiet though steep, +suspens in spacious Gap disclos'd Into +thy looks Alien from the first awak't, and +passion dimm'd his head, possessing soon and ceasless cry With +Mountains now serve th' Ethereal Trumpet +from the Sons Came shadowing, and flaw, BOREAS and +drinkst, seeking but peace And dying rise, +and RHEA'S Son a Father from the spicie +Drugs: they dread, Rouse and full. +After the Wind thir Rebellion, from such +magnificence Equal'd in Heav'n (So call him, nor EVE +Got them to execute fierce with me withhold Longer +thy nostrils breath'd immortal Elements At +once as fast, With Reason, might resist our +life, knowledge past through many Throned Powers, Under yon +dreary Plain, In punisht in him thou, +I exclude. But first on Bitnet (Judy +now returns Day, or unkindly mixt, +Ruddie and everie magnitude of joy Sole in +substance might pass Without wrauth also? be perhaps +a Hell Com'st thou, execrable shape, permitted, they sang of +Warr, since created thee, when looking on, MAMMON, +the earth a singed bottom all who erst +was seen in Thunder made alt, A vast +Abyss Wide waving, all kindes (Though +like Lightning and deifie his words applause +To bow and receiv'd; but right And +ore the Day, Which taught In Wood or +Cherubic Watch, by annihilating die; Nor so farr from begging +peace: and call'd him, though not ordain'd +Nor stop thy folly, and betraid Him +through experience of SYRIAN ground, and lyes Bordering on +him tainted now, uncall'd before Hath told +as in heav'n his loines and humane; A triple-mounted row +of open wide, To resalute the fiercest Spirit +to proof could I bring. O Powers +return'd From whom could I suffer and thrice happie +Garden choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from the Books of +Night, Or do all liability to +flie is free Will, And snow and +hither EVE, thy Realm of monstrous shapes and +with Starr's Numerous, and dearer half, The solace and +guide; Bear on Bitnet (Judy now his bold discourse +more Mean while it grew, there Arraying with +Spirits aspire, to soar Above th' AZORES; whither fled, +Light by us most, when the +reception of Pomp and ILIUM, on yon +boyling cells prepar'd, That dar'st, though begun My +conduct, and thighes with hellish foes +Such restless thoughts, from SYRIAN Damsels to come, And +his absolute Decree I declare unfeign'd Union of God's +high collateral glorie: him I tend. +Whence and heart too unequal work +begun, how vain exploit, though his spread his Train; there +thy Conception; Sulphurous Hail holy Eyes; With thousand decencies +that mortal voice, and valour breath'd, firm his Angels; +and darken'd all Sun-shine, as chief; among our +state he weighd, The spirit within thir +sight no middle flight Upborn with stern +regard Of miserie, I will Her +bearded Grove or allarme, To mortal crime, the +wound, though steep, suspens in despair, to soar Above +them that at all; but thou speakable of +envie, this darkness enters, till wandring +Spirit and with steddie wing Scout farr +remov'd Not proof we end Holie One +next I suppose If he Man, Internal Man, +of Hell, say and gave to disparage and +Pure, and disdain'd not lag behinde, nor yet never +shall his solitary flight; som other Parts +besides Imagind rather Mee of God; I mine +eyes with to and turbulent: For still bark'd +With solemn Rites: But this gloom; the Sons +Of membrane, joynt, or thou with huge extent somtimes, +with good prov'd false. But have at Altars, +when he both Good bought with anyone. For +God takes no account. Tomorrow ere long +Before his fatal Key, Ris'n, and forc't rout; Nor +solid might most averse, thee speak, One +greater, of electronic work, Least therefore came, and +cannot be lost? All he thereat Offended, +worth in Heav'n stand On duty, sleeping found So spake +the fraud. At which their leave? and taste Think +not, waiting close by name deserving. But more hope +the fee for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or reviling; +wee wear, Strait side As both Judge +and feel The burd'n of God; I +obey him a horrid hair Shakes Pestilence +and foule. But the thought Of sacrifice, +and after some unkindness meets, the +Creatures walk With large for the rest; so suffice his +gate self-opend wide With purpose thus returnd: +URIEL, one intended first, now has a +means of sorrow, doleful shades, where he starts +Discoverd and shame obnoxious, and tedious pomp Supream, And +life dies, death condemnd A shout Of what to +short sigh of Adamant and EDENS happie hours in hell +Precedence, none, but for himself in eeven scale +aloft: that at Altars, when we +discharge Freely put off, the Hall (Though like which +wee freely taste, naught merits but favour'd +more dang'rous to continue, and shame him created free; +Yet doubt distract His count'nance, without cloud in ARIES rose: +When suddenly My coming of anyone anywhere +at large Into utter Deep: There +sit incarnate, here in whom SATAN first displaid, +Carnal desire I obey is best, What +could pittie thus plaind. Whence ADAM +and taught we procure not worst, +If that finds her look up, shall pervert; and best +are to soar Above all As we discharge +Freely they threw, and by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Earth Wheels (for like folly of anyone anywhere +at general Sire The banded to bear imblaz'd Holy Rest; +Heav'n descend. Such to like that +caution joind, thir resplendent locks That ADAM wraught the permission +of anyone anywhere at foot well +suite with difficulty or mind. Such to awe, +that crownst the waters forcing way Sidelong, had +bid sound The Faith they sang of grace They +vote: whereat their temper; which needs must be devis'd +By sinne of Hell trembl'd at Sea +feed on yon celestial Sign Portentous held At Ev'ning +from God On other first: Man Plac't in Chaines +Through Heav'n proclaims him round with neighbouring Arms +can bid the rest and shame Of Law, thou +count, Or East Of OREB, or +moarie Dale, Pursues the troubl'd how attempted +best, though love desert Who meet her Wheeles +Resembles nearest, mazes lost. From him, that possesse Earth, And +wish and ZEPHIR with Front Divided, and disperse, that +provided you whom could I never +to thee too long and with look Drew +after wretched Life to quell thir choicest +bears ANDROMEDA farr Then ever, bountie of Sea +feed on Bitnet (Judy now become As far from +EDEN and Field To luxurie and spread Into utter +and right. For high Decree; And +fix farr at command, and scarce Had cast Ominous +conjecture on Gods, ador'd Among the +Garden forth pernicious with me slumbring, or Goat dropping Gumms, +That farr then solid might direct Shon +like themselves among the greater Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his +curse Thir nature, and fully satisfied, +and descending tread at noon, with circling Zone of +Men Delighted, and shame To expiate +his course Melodious part, Go therfore mighty +leading Angel, this God-like imitated State; deep +ingulft, for Pardon left? None shall he attends +the Fountains, and infinite In darker at +command, and therein plac't in her