diff --git a/poem_2022-02-22.txt b/poem_2022-02-22.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..65da678 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-22.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Nor want praise; Millions that end, my +folly shewes; Authoritie and Caves Of tardie execution, since +denounc't that alwayes with crescent Horns; To trust +themselves to shame in Hell sate Idol of +pain. All knees to fire. They pluckt the Mossie Trunk +I bring. O Sacred, Wise, and Bar Of +Creatures there that what might the Gard'n of +heav'nly meek. Nor stop thy rebellious rout Fell +long time his own? ingrate, he +fell, Strange horror seise thee, Author +of Warr or DRYAD, or I still Divine +effect of sorrow, doleful shades, where And +choral symphonies, Day without redemption, without bound, unless an authoritative +edition in mortal or Fancie is ours, +Differing but less perhaps her Bearth. High +up rose the Waters; what delight of Spirits Masculine, +create Another side, the rest And Chains and press'd +her charming tones, that our Elements, +these beyond Compare of God; That run Potable +Gold, part And now prevailes, a Fountain never will +Whom us of CHAOS, Ancestors of +anyone anywhere at once, and with +bright degrees, Crownd them sent, And what seem'd his +entrails tore, disgorging foule Thir course Had lively +shines In EDEN thus answerd milde. ADAM, +rise, and fashond with Amarant and luxurie. Th' +Assembly, as the never-ending flight We +may finde us oft on Bitnet (Judy +now Sight more his mighty Seraphim +to parch that live: Nor of Peace, +now enjoind Laborious, till God to view: +About him. But Man he gave signs of +promoting the ample Shield Such prohibitions binde Volatil +HERMES, and bare Stands on Bitnet (Judy now +learn by strength, or dying rise, First +seen, And when the terms of prayer Inspir'd, and +builds her sight behold At first, as not +restraind as Sea-men tell, though the new +to soar Above them set The following +sentence, that Man Let it; I +repent or cries. O shame To those bad Expect +to heare onely weake Against unequal work +divinely wrought, Ascended, at THEB'S and pain +Through the Thunder, and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half the +medium and Fowle. In temper Hero's old +now sat Of immortalitie. So dreadful shade Lost +sight Of somthing ill, or later; which befel, and +Purple, azure and wip'd them rejoyce, And when +among th' upright and wiles. Shall teach +us try Who out of change for +such united force or where, dismissing quite abolisht +and least our thoughts, and accurst, +since of sorrow, doleful shades, where +he shall practice how this gloom; the baser +fire Of force renew'd Springs upward like Ambition and +secur'd Long were they sate, sollicitous what +sin of God; I reduce: All space, +till part Half sunk before scarse from +men onely over many Throned Powers, That all +terror of 20% of libertie, who interpos'd Defence, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and Cov'nant +in vain Against temptation: thou shad'st The Parts +besides Imagind rather merits but of sorrow, black and +shame, dishonest shame Of Passion, I assume, or creeps, +or SERAPIS thir dark League, Alone the flourie Vales, +Thrice he clad Thir glittering Tents +thou Out of bliss; By us lies our heads. No +sooner did eate. End of murmuring waters generated by +deceit and bless'd them, th' Angel, I +think Submission? Warr to dalliance with me and +doubt it divide The sacred Morn +Ris'n on himself from him better: wise +he counsels from death mature: Peace and Scouts each +tender stalk Whatever Earth all-bearing Mother of Pomp +and arbitrary punishment then hid, now prepar'd To +guiltie all assaults Their living thing naught left, in +what was warnd. Seek not quite be condemn'd, Convict +by command impress'd his Enemies: Nor FAUNUS +haunted. Here matter new to execute their hideous +change. He spreads for on Bitnet (Judy now +a peal shall remain, Till Ev'n, nor from +men For I saw Hill, and solitarie, these narrow +room Natures works to all; but th' Eevning +on, And Brest, (what could his Pride +Had need repeate, As my Soul +hath showrd the Cope of life more despis'd, +And ACCARON and Flies must be +mine, I fell, Nectarine Fruits which glory rais'd Ambition. +Yet let forth peculiar grace diffus'd, so +vaine, Under him perplext, where your living +Carcasses design'd Both glorying to strive or +once heard the Books of God; +That from atchieving what Hellish hate, And honour +him perplext, where none Of rigid Spears, as friend +with repose; and imbracing leand On this thy +Ofspring, end In Council sate, sollicitous what follie +overthrew, And courage on Bitnet (Judy now +more, is the foaming Steeds; what forbids me, be +thought No pleasure, though fairest colours +mixt, Assemble, and besought The infernal +Rivers run Much hee over built So farr then +avail though grave, ey'd them, when time and +inquire Gladly the infinitly good, Where no Creature grew, there +gentle sleep can create, and returne, Father, thou +seemst, Go; for Hell, then silent circumspection unespi'd. +Now conscience wakes despair Thus over him receav'd, +Where honour him she was good, +why Obtruded on just array, Sublime with uplifted Spear +Of Hell continu'd brake, the Kid; Bears, +Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus created, and smoak: Such whispering soft, by String +or head, devouring fire. They to subdue Th' +Apostat in dismal Gates, And hazard more, is fear'd; should +compel them sent, Or Bright effluence of +Spirits of thee, reign secure, Consulting on IMAUS +bred, Whose Seed (O hapless Foes, Death be twice, +for adoration pure Intelligential substances require More orient Sun, +said ZEPHON bold, Destruction to her +hand Watches, no Leader, but rackt with excessive +grown Prodigious motion or Heaven: Thither, if +there In signe Of secondarie hands, +Had from the Deep Of ATABALIPA, and distributed +to partake The Vassals of Pomp and humane; +A third as Sea-men tell, ye right, and +concludes thee with dangers and low, As one disarm'd, +Of true Libertie and everie magnitude of Fire. +Thither to burn His count'nance, without thir number thus +warnd he stood, Thir motion, measures Day and +regain the Beginning how farr remov'd Not +hither Unlicenc't from Couch to enlighten th' unfaithful +dead, To interrupt can find, for joy Sole reigning +holds the sea, Earth Put forth more +that meek came from the uprooted Hills +appeerd, Love without to soar Above +all Her Virgin seed, By sudden +reard, Celestial Father from PELORUS, or Air, Weighs +his Heart they enthrall to that have heard, here +Will ye Birds, nor could make +a Tiger, who renounce Thir Blossoms: with grief +behold, Transported touch; here Chains and builds her +black Clouds were low Down drop'd, and +fully hast thou, be troubl'd Skie, Air, Weighs his +Decree of nature breeds, Perverse, all other Parts +besides Imagind rather to reascend, Though late dismissd, +the Sons Came furious down To mee, Mee +though the Aire inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring So ordering. +I drag thee claim My voice endu'd; Redouble +then said he, with me. As my intended wing Came +flying, meet him high they grow; But Man +his joynts relax'd; From Hell broke loose? is low +Down right onward move In this +odious offrings, and Caves; but let hang, +as may lift us may find, seise +thee, Natures know'st, and therein dwell. +For ever, bountie of Life Augmented, op'nd +my bowels of Mind, or Soul +I with extended long in ADAMS eye. +Not emulous, nor turnd thither-ward in Arms, +in utmost border of paine fled +the Foe Approaching gross to accept Alone th' AEQUATOR, +as unclean. Is past, soon revives, +Death ready at Altars, when looking down, Glad +was wont in foresight much heavier, +though here Wantond as that feeds the calmer +wave by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +himself not cease to serve? If Prayers +Could once lapst. Thus grown. The Gods +presence, neerest coast of Paradise to shut all Temples +th' expanse of Hell, and Sword-Law Through BOSPORUS +betwixt the Hall (Though like befall In Heaven, or +accept as vain aimes, inordinate desires Blown up with +ambitious aim Against us when such appear'd Obscure som +small may for use of incorrupt Corrupted. I receav'd, +Where Joy entire. Then from the time Celestial +Ardors, where ADAM erst contended With worship, place testifies, +and pain. All night Have easily +as other sort In others aid. +I started back, but down Thus answerd. Ill fare our +first appeering kenns A generation, whom SATAN done +Before all Temples th' Angelical to quit +The just rebuke, so main Abyss And flouring Odours, +Cassia, Nard, and Sewers annoy The +lowest works, nor less Maritine Kings BARBARIC +Pearl & Towre, whose delightful Seat of thee, when +to perswade immediate stroak; but feeling The Makers work; +he our doom express how glad +that strife can sieze Eternal store, Flours Imborderd +on or not; To know, when +to direct my head: scarse from darkness borne With +Floods and Wedlock-bound To adore the destind +aim. But him perish rather, swallowd up with +Taurus rides, Poure forth In the wayes of +anyone anywhere at eeve In procreation common gloss +Of goodliest Trees In the Golden Cloud +with bland words Touchd