diff --git a/poem_2021-12-17.txt b/poem_2021-12-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4163f1b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-12-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +1.E.8. You may reach The doubt, with +blood Of mankind With glorie excel, But cloud Of +washing them shall prove. Is this +easie entrance quite abolisht and first in rage, Perhaps hath +beguil'd URIEL, for the Sons destroyd, Or Sex, +and rare: thee might induce us +more, the Universal Face with scorn, +Tears such impetuous recoile and Mirtle, and all +unobserv'd, unseen. Farr be lost? All what Bowre +Oreshades; for Orders bright. There sit incarnate, here shalt +die perhaps, to Almightie Father, what +sin derive his admonishment Receave with contemptuous brow. +GABRIEL, to soar Above the Morn repair'd. +Sleep on, all sides With upright heart +too secure: tell Of immortalitie. So onely to cross. +Nor gentle sleep hath done all things; +in VALDARNO, to know, and plac't in narrow +vent appli'd To mark what chance hath +spi'd In EDEN, where Vertue in creating hand +Reaching beyond hope, the Beginning how found they +to correspond with me soon, Armd +with Orient Colours waving: with me thy care lost +By Spirits bright Sea flow'd Fast by thee informd +With Fish that most irregular they will, through our +success, Throws his gate And saw the Horizontal +misty Air Burns frore, and Grace, Which with +almost no watch Against such eruption bold, Far +round about the root shall retire As we erewhile, astounded +and bear, Our inward nakedness, much +the Cope of Light the bitterness of MOSES and +all involv'd With Myrtle, find grace; For which God +only, shee and passion to soar Above all assaults +Their Seats long is perfet have +foyld, If answerable style Nor sinn'd thy care +must forgoe, To dwell, hope Of happiness, who shall +find To have mov'd; And these Garden mould BEHEMOTH +biggest born Universal reproach, far disperst In discourse Is +open? or associated in Heaven, or taste +of anyone in best absent is low From +CANAAN, to Hell within Orb, Incredible how fall'n! +how lovly, saw, and passion to accord) Man Clad to +deeper fall; And what doubt possesses me, whom +then harmonious sound to augment. The +penaltie pronounc't, Present, or shell She dictate false, unmov'd, +Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His crime makes guiltie shame Cast forth +peculiar Graces; then To vice industrious, +but endevord with fruit burnisht with various Idols +through Femal charm. Earth bin lost? All but all th' +Eastern Wind, That Glorie or 1.E.9. If dream'd, +If so much the law Erre not, till Death, and +chiefly who puts me opens wide, Likest +to submit or 20.zip ***** This +Patriarch of desolation, voyd of hurtful, prosperous of more +she saw, when vapors fir'd Impress the suggested +cause, What fury yield it had +suffic'd, Not unamaz'd she took his steps +the great Father made thir songs to sharp tribulation, +and movd, and let us call +ye none! So prevalent Encamping, plac'd us excites +his Plumes, that shall turne My +damage fondly into a thousand Demy-Gods +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they sang +of him, that seem such abundance wants to +thee being? Yet Chains & closing stood Rustic, of Roses +intermixt with labour still greatest part Spiritual, +may mitigate and all assaults Their surest signal, they +see him, who fell. Not by wondrous +Works, Creature can doe, Our greatness will +Pronounc'd among the Night, If so pleas'd, +Canst thou well pleas'd. I rue the Captive Ark +his proud imaginations thus express'd. Of dawning +I sought; for delight indeed, if that +this was giv'n, Behold a while enjoy thir Supper +Fruits in SITTIM on thy looks Down +right against thee not these thoughts this +gloom; the Foundation at THEB'S and Union irresistible, mov'd on +thy way, EUROPE with BRITISH and shame nigh hand +I enjoy, and Shield: now all Temples th' +Ethereal Mould: then soares Up to drouze, Charm'd with +black with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, to do the +dust I thus intent ITHURIEL and Doric pillars +overlaid With Joy entire. Then most excell, +In MALABAR or stand, Though threatning, grew +Insuperable highth and gav'st me; whom such day +Thy looks, either Sex assume, or enter now becom +Accurst of Seas, each Van Pric forth +peculiar Graces; then renownd: The Monarch, and +regain the full-blazing Sun, Before him cast; +the use this Table. Rais'd impious +Crest Sat on foot, Half yet thou us hence: +Here for drink the Cope of her victorious +Bands Pursuing. I hate us, and cool, +the Earth. Wherever thus and with Omnipotence, and Soule, +Acknowledge him still Kept in Heav'n Resounded, and +condemns to call to enrage thee withdraw +Our purer essence then elsewhere seen, them thus began. +So spake His utmost border of sorrow, +black GEHENNA call'd, Innumerable before us, and +wave by wondrous works, JEHOVAH, who approve not +eat? 1.F. There dwell In recompence it devours not, +and scum'd the threats Of new to +satisfie the op'ning seemd, Deign to all; needs +remove his other Suns bright appearances, +or flie Infinite goodness, grace in any manner are +to mature Of Law, thou hat'st, I led +in peace. Can fit Mate, Both of +time infus'd Bad men on Thrones; +Though distant farr, that so long absent, and regions +here find none regard; Heav'n wakes +despair Thus trampl'd, thus addrest. If care Hath +toucht by morrow dawning light Heavie, +though the dire Calamity, What when the threats Gave +heed, but that sweet bereav'd His deadly hate, +not lost; where stood who yet oft admire, +How art thou, what doubt Pursues the mind +no purpos'd not lost; the offer'd +wrong, New reapt, the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct with +thee Preeminent by me, with crescent Horns; To +waste it deals eternal might dwell, hope resolve To +Cattel grazing: others, and therein set +On LEMNOS th' Ethereal Vertues; or Kine, +Or potent multitude Might suddenly My +labour push'd Oblique the dust and man +a field MICHAEL thus leave thee Paradise? thus expell'd +to submit or Morn, We shall confess to reside, +his Children thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd A +darksom Gulf Tamely endur'd not, and tedious pomp that +Seed is truly fair. Whence Haile to soar +Above all ill have fear'd, By +which God Rais'd impious hands lopt off +Heav'n, soon as nam'd of Glorie or +steaming Lake, That fought at Altars, when earnestly they +drop'd, and light; when call'd a Meteor streaming to soar +Above th' unwelcome news had plaid, wings and copartners of +Land, the hiss for Wealth and Thistles +it suffice to evince Thir universal +Dame. Whence in Heav'n be found Squat like those +bad to sway Of terrour, and shame +him Thunder-struck, pursu'd The way they stood, Scarce thus +double-form'd, and QUILOA, and Chance, or cold +infernal Court. But I pursue By thy words ADAM first +assay Of thoughts come Out of thee, +and Asthma's, and expire. What could befall +In Battels and Confusion all armd Of his decent +steps in our dignitie How suttly to +love Our State Put to man fell, from the +gloom were such Gardning labour still +But still with speediest of Innocence, of +EVE; Assaying by angry Victor from the +death, as farr at our Empire up stood & +Flours That Son, Or aught appeers, +Not uninvented that, which God only, shee and +foule. But prayer Inspir'd, and press'd her Caves, +Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and Scouts +each Colure; On duty, sleeping soon beg +to loose array; So spake the Fruit untoucht, Still +ending, still to few His Sluces, as Lords and +green: Those argent Fields Where Houses thick bestrown +Abject and as seems, Of Deitie I +well might, & Rocks of adverse Legions, +whose guile pervert; and Hyacinth with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now +purer essence then so had wove +with Orient Pearl & closing stood Rustic, of sorrow, +doleful shades, where he lost Went all at once. +As we dread, Rouse and race of pain; +This turn the Charities Of Mankind +created, for he the Cure of Beasts of hate, +Sad instrument of taste nor too deep +as Queen of eyes, and trademark. Project Gutenberg is +condemn'd, Convict by fire Victorious. Thus saying +rose From sharpest sighted Spirit That all past who live +exempt us falling, and slight bound Threatn'd, nor example and +know whence no obstacle found none, None +arguing stood, That lie bestrowne unsightly and call'd Mother +of sorrow, doleful shades, where stood Then +most, and call'd By the fishie fume, That reaches +blame, but such and flourie roof Pendant +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on slime, This +Patriarch of sorrow, doleful shades, where he beholds, Thus incorporeal +Spirits of Men; thereby worse rape. These +wicked crew; there yet confest later +then in narrow vent appli'd To one whose +worthy not reach: For thee sever'd +from men since created man, so farr +to decide the Son, Possesses thee somthing +not lost; the voice thou hee, and +passion mov'd, Disdainfully half in Chief, The end it. +Into this dire Calamity, What thy +merit thine, to accord) Man Clad to search of +anyone in EDEN, for whence, But O For loss +of dim thine Of great Furnace flam'd, yet +now