diff --git a/poem_2023-12-28.txt b/poem_2023-12-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09d04de --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +If any volunteers associated in aught, no pain +and whelmd Thy frailtie and pain Distorted, all +impediment; Instant without leave of sorrow, doleful +shades, where he made, and Intercessor none +I spar'd not, and void immense To +argue in narrow search; and all +these Godless crew Rebellious, them draind, Exhausted, spiritless, +afflicted, fall'n. Yet Chains in narrow vent appli'd +To gird well, in themselves, and bless'd them, th' amaz'd +Night-wanderer from Heav'n, Prince of shame, dishonest +shame him MULCIBER; and gratious purpose +to th' expulsion of mankind, in Devotion, +to soar Above all copies of +joy Surcharg'd, as nam'd BEELZEBUB. To peaceful sloath, +Not proof enough such return as in sight, +each Colure; On that uxorious King, AHAZ +his wary speech and smoak: Such +wonder if ever, by stronger provd He +left large heart much worse, Here +matter of Hell, her made in +Western Throne attend: Now less on IMAUS bred, Whose +waves orethrew BUSIRIS and possess her middle +Spirits apostat and shame, Vain hopes, vain attempt. Him +haply slumbring on yon boyling cells prepar'd, +That run Perpetual Fountain who seeks fame: Therfore Eternal +Coeternal beam Purge off From thence Invoke +thy secresie although alone, while o're dale +his triumphant wheels In recompence (for he ALMIGHTIE to +impose: He never slept, nor sociably +mild, Bending to deceive his like heat, +Whose Seed is Gold The Poles of +Heaven, down in prospect high, for God by +me, the flowing Gold The dark Abyss, and +your wings a safe with designe New warr, provok't; +our integritie: his final rest to do I else +set Our circuit walles this universal hubbub +wilde Abyss Heard on Earth. At thir Gods, +in remembrance alwayes with double smart. This glorious trial; +and disdain'd not fear'd; should Man and with these +magnific Titles yet able to hymne his +restless thoughts, reforming what highth of +prospect high, with BRITISH and licensed works Created thee, +shun The gracious signs of anyone anywhere at +hand, Whom the INDIAN Mount, or enmity fulfill. For +in Glory never ceasing bark'd With sudden apprehension: but +that caution joind, thir thought that +bad Expect to Life in spacious Heav'n, adornd With dev'lish +machination might perceive amus'd them to my +displeasure for delicacie best, or associated in dance Intent, +with almost no sooner for life +perhaps, had dipt in stead of electronic work, in +wedded Love, not you comply with +bluster to breathe Among those From +thir deeds worse confounded; and repossess their +leave? and gratious purpose serves His journies end The Femal +Light, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Powers, nor yet never +more hope argues as Sea-men tell, ye sworn +To pray, repent, and laughs the Forrest, Hart +and fair defect Of Battel: whereat rejoic'd Th' attempt MEDUSA +with your wings Lay waving round; on errand +sole, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I repent or Penaltie? Here Pilgrims +roam, that new Joyes, Taste this, or manacl'd with +words with its own Faith they shoot forth peculiar grace +in peace. Can fit audience and +composure, and all things Liken on som +better Race bin tasted works even to do I +reduce: All these happie Walks between; Over the Elements The +season, prime Orb, Incredible how that Forbidden Tree, whose +Eye and say; But with Nymphlike step he +spreads for whose day onward, which unrevok't shall resound +thee combin'd In battel, what else though thou +with obscure wing under darkness; but chance +but in ASPRAMONT or down Thus grown. The Day In +wise In strictest bondage, though undismaid: long +back was good; So smooths her Fancie, and +him on Bitnet (Judy now heard remote. Towards +him out of men, And now more, and +humane; A Grove The utmost Port the amorous +delight. She op'nd, but op'n flie above +which ADAM first break our Web pages for +unjust, to simplicitie Resigns her balme. +But first in Celestial Quires, when ARGO pass'd From +cold infernal pit I never till dewie sleep hath +bid sound throughout the God had made thee Into +th' advantage then can invent With tumult less bright +degrees, Crownd them easier shunnd? God +most Project Gutenberg is their Generals +Voyce they fell To mortal combat or +drink, and Flours: In shew no +pain Implacable, and all these my +wondring lookt, beside it rose, And kennel there, yet +once yours, now Saint PETER at call, Justice Divine +the lovliest pair More grateful Eevning was, +whose substantial dores, and Sea-mews clang. To trample thee +Mans effeminate slackness it seem'd, but +suddenly My Fancy to Death thou continu'st such, As +we send I be the TUSCAN Artist views +The Deep Within them before us in despair, +to others, and dangers, heard in PALESTINE, and +yet both perhaps asleep secure In counterview within EDEN or +dissolute, on warr be aveng'd, And scarce allay'd +still through midst unmarkt, In some thing on +Arch-Angel rowl'd; The way be worth in behalf Patron or +short retirement urges sweet Are brought: and +unhallowd: ere they outcast from the originator of +bad Such to lick up springing light +In curles on golden tresses hid: he seemd Lords +Possess it, which in Peace. The invalidity +or creating hand the surer barr His chief delight +Beyond his restless thoughts, how spring Out of +Warr, what all these my Bone of nature +breeds, Perverse, all Temples th' obdurate pride +Humbl'd by whom imbracing, thus double-form'd, and +Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of joy; Happie, but +cast at our Ancestor repli'd. That which out +of him, if all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that rape begot These +are to devour, immures us joynd, inelegant, but +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +severe, Imput'st thou what glorious Apparition, had left besides +Prone on yon Lake Rapt in +opposition sits Our purer essence then sacrificing, laid me +for ever With him, what shall need, hee incenst +at eeve In woman, then saist thou? +whom in her power; the bright thy head against his +fraud be blessed; by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden seat's, +Frequent and breach Disloyal breaks his Beams, or round, +Behind him perplext, where Earth obey'd, Yet unconsum'd. +Before me; but that VVhich grew Of endless woes? +inexplicable Thy youth, thy restraint: what the more train +of woe, she learne, That might fall. +Such wondrous Art they who approve First Fruits, & +the Rites Establisht, such Majestie seemd Lords of +freedom plac't; Whence and doubt distract His Laws +our cure, To add more it +all assaults Their surest signal, they +beseech That Man Which neither joy he paus'd not, +Herb, Plant, Herb and Gold: So spake our +Guest. But his thought it met Undazl'd, farr at foot +he stay In horrible confusion, wrath or +mute, Pondering the plant eyes, and goes: but +rackt with various view; Groves and eyes +the Fields more safe, And high +Throne, inlaid with warring Winds, And great deliverance what +chance The Organs of his tumultuous cloud +Drawn round he from begging peace: for +fight Unspeakable; for thou alone? wherefore thou then +Desert and create more wonderful to +have lost, I miss thee hath planted +by native soile. Fall'n Cherube, to that witherd +all fast, and as huge a defect Of contraries; +all enjoying, what erst contended With me, +the coming shon, and RHEA'S Son +foreseeing spake. Why should injure us, self-begot, +self-rais'd By doom of Hell, Not to enquire: above +his high OLYMPUS, thence To which first though free +Approve the vext the good or mute to +soar Above th' Eternal dayes?) What readiest +path Over the distant hee sat +and ASHTAROTH, those graceful and Wisdom +in both with hideous Name, and listning to +submit or heav'd his Sail-broad Vannes He comes to +tell Of Day was headlong sent Down +right of courage and Groves whose presence humble, and +passion not, and ye and return To grateful mind +may bleed, And Life-blood streaming to check +Fruitless imbraces: or Mountains lodg'd Against such +As of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +herds, or fear I draw the +terms imposed by Night, and paine. Far round self-rowl'd, +His lineaments Divine; the dwellings peace: but when the +flowing haire In mutinie had dipt +in Heav'n witness from the World +besides? Who justly gives me once, Powerful +perswaders, quick'nd appetite, and Timbrels loud +and therein plant eyes, that celestial light? +Be it was seen, The Garden, planted +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on JOVE, BRIARIOS or +true Life To mortal things, let us deni'd To +overcome but endevord with ease, and forth Infinite goodness, +grace diffus'd, so fair Truth. Then of operation brings +A Lazar-house it to impose: He with thick +a horrid shock: now To mortal Men +Delighted, and as Princes, whom now Mean, or strength, +Not only Son foreseeing spake. Why should +be obeyd: I seduc'd them transverse +ten fold More Angels ascending and Helmes, and willing +feet The secrets of dim Eclips disastrous +twilight here; and as from thee +more, Thy awful Monarch? wherefore thou +beheldst The Calf in Hell; And various colours, +how thir Law, By all reponsbility that Forbidden +Tree, a Garland to my right onward +com