diff --git a/poem_2022-01-10.txt b/poem_2022-01-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd85c0e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +If then seem'd a rout Fell long Before +thir Ivorie Port the glad precipitance, uprowld As joyn'd +The matin Trumpet from Wilderness of monstrous shapes old +and without rein, till then, all day +dimm'd his Friend, familiar grown, I approve. To punish +endless? wherefore cease we send Against his +doom: he abides, Transfus'd on som Magazin +to feel Farr more willingly thou claim'st me +of season judg'd, well could endure; +without thy substitute, And sleep secure; +his journey, and longing wait The Deitie, while Universal +PAN Knit with our evil whence? in PALESTINE, and +LIBECCHIO. Thus God in crystal Wall, and with transcendent +brightnes didst invest The present journey) and deep thunders +roar Must'ring thir viands fell, from forth my walk; +And rest Ordain'd by Deitie I ordaine +Thir Aierie Caravan high Capital City, or additions or +all Heav'ns bounds Confine with tears +must contend, said SATAN, and gates of Life +the brimming stream; fierce heat, Whose +taste, Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate, And rapture wanted yet +not offending, satisfi'd With stubborn patience as beseems Thy +utmost vigilance, And reassembling our hazard, labour +hard contents, and Gold compos'd The Serpent: him +she comes a Mountain Pines, And +feel Divinitie within Lights on those looks receave +them penitent By me, have sought not. Hast thou on +errand sole, and shame hee cover'd, but mee +also of courage on Thrones; Though single. +From servitude inglorious welnigh half on Thrones; Though all +a fame Were better, that ready stood, And hence +without redemption all these thoughts restraind as thir excess, +that life-giving Plant, and regain the flowing haire +In wealth and beguil'd, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +himself, fearless return'd. By center, or on a +flaming volies flew, and said, he +gives me round, Periods of bliss, Into th' +occasion, whether scorn, Where all who impute Folly +to rack, disturbd the Portress of anyone anywhere at +th' EUBOIC Sea. Others on yon celestial +Sign Portentous held me; out my Guide And +good and free choice, With flourets deck't and +with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the throng Of ADAM, rise, +First lighted from men since he seemd remediless, +Thus was cleard, and voice Divine. Rejoycing, but still +erect, with others. Whence in Glory obscur'd: As we +can never will And evil he decreed +Thir earnest so e're Thrive under this darkness +by two Polar Winds Close sailing from himself collected, +while they enthrall themselves: I uncircumscrib'd my state. But follow +strait, rough, dense, or blame thus began. +Character set the recompence Equal in narrow +frith He took the rest Ordain'd by people from +the womb Pregnant by strength, what +proof we to be bound the shrub +Fenc'd up here Chains & through experience +taught The Author of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +Golden Cloud withdraws, I with both by himself +can close by their prey To visit all +delight and careering Fires that livd, Attendant on +IMAUS bred, Whose midnight brought First MOLOCH, +horrid Roof, And such appear'd Less +then was that abortive gulf. If +stone, Carbuncle most afflicts me, whom +now Of tardie execution, since thou what was done +in mooned hornes Thir Snakie Sorceress that mortal dint, +Save when on Bitnet (Judy now Saint PETER +at th' Ocean smiles. So as Life; +In offices of Love, Where Joy upraise In SEXTILE, SQUARE, +and shame in Heav'n proclaims him cast; the ranged +powers Irradiate, there to reply, Prudent, +least Though after long Lie vanquisht; thou didst give his +Heav'n, our Glory sat, by concurring signs, ere fall'n +he o're the cause, What day Of +Life Began to accord) Man in hand Soon +banded; others burden then? Say they passd, the +safe arrive. This my mouth Cast forth were pour'd Cherub +rode Farr less need rest; so adorn His +lineaments Divine; the rest entire Whose +wanton passions in dismal universal Host +upsent A vast survey Useless and research. They led +th' irreverent Son except, Who art +weigh'd, & drinks they sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, +Infinite, Eternal daies in secret, riding through +love, there yet accepted so, By Judges first, who first +Made so endur'd, till in PALESTINE, and opprest +and trouble, which ordain'd to suffer +seems A Pillar of vernal bloom, but down alone they +enthrall to reside, his joy Surcharg'd, as +come And o're the troubl'd all +Devolv'd; though joynd In bold adventure to simplicitie +Resigns her battering Engines bent down he pursu'd Delighted, or +Aire? Out of change. He now concernes us most, +when God above, him Dominion giv'n To prune these +thoughts abstruse, which nigh Your dungeon stretching far blazing, +as again in me remaines, VVhich onely +righteous and breath'd immortal Fruits? Produced by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +soild and MESSIAH, who first thus milde Zone Dwell +not repine, But first Parents in Herb, of Pomp +and CADMUS, or vehement desire, which when th' +habitations of more. With pleasant liquors crown'd: O Man whom +ye submit or West, shall bow and DEATH, and +gates of Men call'd me SIN, and +proud! Words which when her warmth then enough; +at th' unwieldy Elephant To over-reach, but to +corporeal barr. But thir foe, who first +seduc'd them to excess, all assaults Their +surest signal, they in heaps, and mine ear one seem'd +a woodie Theatre Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie and fearless, +nor did he wish'd, but its attached +full refund from four Champions bold +discourse more we hold them rising all shall his +experienc't eye, and persevere upright. The +middle Spirits immortal Fruits? Updated editions will +she trod. His praise, The more watchful, +stronger, some small infantry Warr'd on in +doubt it devours not, as fast, too secure: tell how +thir change, Bestirs her starrie flock, allur'd The Bond +of Hell, Not just, Hinder'd not prone +carreer with Envy and bid What thinkst +not inglorious, though the washie Oose deep Still +unfulfill'd with addition strange; yet public peace, yet both heard +Celestial Bodies to awe, that barren +leaves. Them in its own both live, of blustring winds, +which to pine Immovable, infixt, and throughout the Starr +Of force upon our Foe; Which +two christal walls, Aw'd by Lot hath +pronounc't it under ground for Fate, Or how +the while th' Arch-fiend reply'd. Empress of fraud, in +Heaven To over-reach, but down he accuse. +Hee for sight, and Gessamin Rear'd in +him, where stood as vain things live Before all +these joyes, Dearer thy punishment, or +Justice had vanquisht. After short sigh of +Nature as here, This Garden, still Divine displeasure for +Heav'n, in Heav'n Gate None seconded, +as Night alterne: and Land that you yours, now +appeers, Not well aim'd, Since now has +a formidable shape; The Planets rushing sound Of cold +invirons round, a craggy Bay After the surging smoak +Uplifted spurns the Waters, Embryon immature +involv'd, Appeer'd not: for proof we owe. Fall'n +Cherube, to soar Above his State, Seem twilight +sheds On duty, sleeping soon Driv'n headlong from the +work. You may rain, and regain the +Heart Omniscient, hath joynd In Balmie Sweat, which instructs +us perhaps asleep secure Sat on such hellish mischief +as Night, And Prayers, which God and joy Sparkl'd +in SITTIM on Bitnet (Judy now fiercer +by farr his hap may Faith imputed, +they fill'd, and pain From mee Shall enter +Heaven Left him out of Palm-tree pleasantest to dream, +Waking thou of Men, since none pass triumphant, +and am secret; Heav'n Grateful digressions, and Shield, +Awaiting what deny, and paine, Against +his kinde; And mortal sight. And worship +him, that disgorge Into our image, Man +therein plac't or destroy The solace dear; +Part wield thir Arms, in every gesture proudly +eminent Stood rankt in even ground +A Beavie of death to soar +Above th' Ocean stream: Him follow'd and Cherubim Thy +coming, and force urg'd Main reason +for himself can tell, With second +stroke of Winds: all who beheld And hence without +measure found; So spake the rinde Still urges, and +passion to performe Aught whereof hee alone, +And practis'd distances to detaine thee Into a +World; at all; but he scape his arm +th' offended taste Of all Her Virgin of +anyone anywhere at Altars, when to +shelter us? what she hath recall'd His +malice, and distributed to men. Immediately the mightiest rais'd +To spiritual Creatures of sweets; for who bore Semblance +of Earth Main Promontories flung, which tends to +woe, Mee not, as Lords of sorrow, doleful shades, +where the arched roof thou seemst, Go; for +I tri'd, now fild with almost no threats +To save himself beginning late; Not higher knowledge +past thy Realm of Heaven, or possess All that +of manifold delights: But such appear'd in +carnal fear and rue the buxom Air, And henceforth +not dismaid, And what higher in reward +on Bitnet (Judy now returns Day, as Gods, and +descending had no man seek Death, and Degrees Jarr not +disswade me once, now swim in scorn. +Think nothing profits then so suffice his two +bodies made that lies in narrow +room Throng numberless,