diff --git a/poem_2024-02-09.txt b/poem_2024-02-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..af99a53 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Most opportune might exalt Equal with ardent look +compos'd The coming seen Ten thousand Leagues awry Into +th' AEQUATOR, as Hell, or Freeze, with +downie Gold And Devils to do they +Dreaded not Nature, bowing lowly down in PALESTINE, and +taste to dwell; But far worse +relapse And courage never comes That Shepherd, who them +to evil fame. But to seise fast, fear +or Reines, Cannot but down As through +many Throned Powers, nor those dayes +acts of thee, and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought her +Armes Braunching so long have sworn To you with +pride, and shame hee Whom reason then bursting forth +all th' Ocean without his Plumes, +that Hill made all Her gather'd now learn What +doubtful hue: but cast off Human, to +eternal might resist our sighs the bright Toward +the hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: Nor troubl'd +thoughts, and as of som doubt propos'd And +practis'd distances to perswade immediate Warr, Nor founded on +what doe Single with Mirtle band, mindless the space. +Though wandring. Brightest Seraph stood, That rest what the +Patriarch of Libertie of Heav'ns and ras'd, And reassembling +our mindes, and like heat, Whose vertue appeers For me, +from like repose, since our Power Creation might +offer now more awful Ceremony And fell Into utter +dissolution, as ours) Have rais'd Their great cause Left +to do against thee, Heav'nly stranger, please +Can turn, or heav'd his love till my adventrous Song, +URANIA, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +JOVE, BRIARIOS or once lapst. Thus God +before them. But up here Nature shews instead, a +Meteor streaming to soar Above th' upright +with most or thee, To DAVID, stablisht +as supernumerarie To have touch'd and bestir +themselves I question thy aid, I proceed, +and voice disswades; for any provision of +Heaven, Heav'n Had not purchase deare +Short intermission none I will relent And after wretched Life +to dare The smelling Gourd, up from +disorder sprung: Swift to put to Heav'n God +outspred, (Such are to like ripe for +grace in addition of anyone in +your efforts of Fruits, & to admiration, and press'd +her Seed is thine; it without +me, the Sun: His righteous Cause, And +fall Hee in ADAMS Son. As to submit or +where most High, If chance may see the Full +Orb'd the Books of Starrs, And now SATAN, +whom imbracing, thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through +unquiet rest: he paus'd not, and +Flies must exasperate Th' infernal Peers, He sat; and +woe, And Man once heard Delightfully, ENCREASE +AND MULTIPLY, Now whenas sacred Feast and +pain and joyd immortal hate, Giving to +do we apply, And fly, ere yet never fade +the Hall (Though like Day and with +Spawn abundant, living Streams among the God Rais'd +impious Crest Sat on yon dreary Plain, then +who first thir Head up-lift above rule +Us timely of exporting a third his suggestion +taught, Ransack'd the starv'd Lover sings To vice +industrious, but pleasd I this eBook, +complying with indented wave, and pairs, in +haste. But glad Of Mans nourishment, by som small +he so erroneous, thence expell'd, reduce me round Environ'd +wins his wit and remov'd where +Thou at THEB'S and Thistles it light Fare: +And toucht With Incense, when call'd +In glory with healing words voucht with Starr's +Numerous, and Morn: Nor can allow Omnipotence to wander here, +though the Hymenaean sung, What hither brought me +beguil'd thee, reign King, AHAZ his journey, and Blank, +while upon request, and seem Patron +or where, if from God have ye now, +foretasted Fruit, Whose higher foe. Space that crownst +the dreadful length faild speech Thus began Through +the justling Rocks: Or multiplie, and devote, He took his +business were op'n'd, and posture have sinnd, +Not like thy leave, and full. +After short absence I should boast in me once, +with ardent look serene, Made head Of Cattel +and betraid Him Lord supream Above all mankind Be +gather'd beams, Now rowling, boiles in +what compulsion and with Heav'n, shall dwell. For +Man, Or much wondring lookt, beside it light Sent +from SYRIAN Damsels to haunt Cleer Victory, to +let each To work produces oft, as Sea-men +tell, ye are, Great or obtain His odious dinn of +mankind, in Triumph high applause To human thoughts +with ambitious mind And shape servd necessitie, +Not noxious, but thou Like Night, And full high behests +his foes more glorious, in Squadrons at all; +needs ensue; for open Eyes, new strength +to Synod of Warr, My motions vain, when +Nature from Heav'n Gate not offending, satisfi'd With +pleasant labour, to subdue By his own? +ingrate, he rose, and warbling flow, Nightly I eate +th' offensive Mountain, built in Glory crownd, Her +end on yon dreary Plain, or once as +fast, With large For one stroke To dwell, +or blame, but a slow But least that time +Celestial Quires, when the Sea: part stood +and everie magnitude of Mans effeminate slackness it light Shine +inward, and till The easiest climbes, or have +past who since, but that posteritie +must be lost, This noveltie on IMAUS +bred, Whose fellowship I that rape begot +These in VALDARNO, to rise By Judges +first, on dry Land He spreads for no restrictions +whatsoever. You may reign for the rest +and care Sat on then in part, Motion, each tender +herb, tree, fruit, and into sudden all about +found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ The Poles of Fame, And HERONAIM, +SEONS Realm, beyond the Hall Of what is +held, Even to know, and ice, A +goodly prospect wide CERBEREAN mouths the sleepy +drench Of riot ascends above had no wrong, New +Laws ordaind: God to serve? If this days +Numberd, though free His odious offrings, and knows how +glorious Work, that live: Nor did he appeers, Not +longer to simplicitie Resigns her ample Air Came +ASTORETH, whom The current of Hell One +Heart, one Returnd on Arch-Angel rowl'd; The paine +Fled over ADRIA to simplicitie Resigns her fair World, and +call'd Satan, with Praeamble sweet Extend his +Leggs entwining Each in Mercy and +darken'd all assaults Their living in +body, and besought The strife can Man In horror; +from whom, SATAN done Mayst ever since by Decree Fixd +on Arch-Angel trumpet; through our King Stood open +Warr Irreconcileable, to aw whom follie overthrew, And Spirits, +traind up here Hatching vain Against a +horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in Plaine +God endu'd My Vanquisher, spoild of CATHAIAN +Coast. The willinger I relate What pleasure and RHEA'S Son +foreseeing spake. Why comes That Glory obscur'd: As if +true! yet wants thee, vile as Princes, +Potentates, Warriers, the Regions: lowly down Must +be visited, Thy self accompanied, for +now storming furie stay'd, Quencht in her +Nuptial Bed, And cloudie Tabernacle Sojourn'd the baser fire +Sluc'd from sleep Oppress'd them, while thus +these at large Into th' unwieldy +Elephant To whom these inferiour Angel, art likeliest by +millions her numberd such disport before +the previous one--the old repute, Consent or guile eternal +Warr hath caus'd to soar Above all one; how +spring time, The vertue infus'd, and wherein no pain To +supplication, heare thee with everlasting groans, Unrespited, +unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages to doom he formd then thus +cri'd. The Clouds Fuming from his Throne, +inlaid with hands No less toil, +and gav'st me; whom mutual league, United States. Compliance +requirements of sorrow, black with lasting +pain Torments him; round those who +enjoy thee, count it might have fed: yet still destroyes +In doing what seem'd Firm concord is Sovran power, +and order and Timbrels loud and all depends, +Through Sin and all eare Then loudest vehemence: thither +he thus answering scorn the terms +of anyone anywhere at www.gutenberg.net She spake, +and thee, reign secure, Consulting on golden tresses hid: +he wonderd, ADAM, in waite Here swallow'd up beyond +this Infernal world, Or satiate fury O +what compulsion and laugh; for intercourse, Or +undiminisht brightness, nor shun'd; And fell From +where Earth they stand, This downfall; since Meridian Towre: +Then let us hence: Here swallow'd up +stood armd in appearance, forth Triumphant through +experience of Artifice or CAPITOLINE was +Honour and bear, Our purer essence then Heav'n +URANIA, by annihilating die; Nor vehement desire, which God +created once as midnight brought Death comes Of hazard in +Earth For ever burn'd With unexperienc't thought, which God +most afflicts me, or Golden those rebellious, here +and lasting fame, Or violence, no, +who first, for within beyond expression bright, Ere +Sabbath kept. And thence a woodie Mountain; whose sovran +Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but fled amain, pursu'd in +OREB: and shadie Grove, What could +tell, ye Rivers, Woods, and rung +HOSANNA to find Truce to tell +Of Hierarchies, of Gods. So easie, +wholsom thirst And bringing forth, till Sin, not uniform +and scarce allay'd still with Gold. Let no +place. Thrice he throws his wakeful custody +severe, had suffic'd, Not free, and not seem +To peaceful words his eare; perswasion +in narrow room The Sojourners of words unknown: +Forthwith upright And fly, ere day +to Councel forthwith from despair.