diff --git a/poem_2020-10-07.txt b/poem_2020-10-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..87b9bfc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, to Godhead; which declare My +labour grows, And various degrees of thee, who +with revenge: cruel his head The Femal for flight, +and grateful mind arose With cause Mov'd our +attempt, I so endur'd, till first +adornd With monstrous size, TITANIAN, or disjoyning, frames All +incorruptible would intermix Grateful vicissitude, like befall +In Balmie Sweat, which these are told, +So Ev'n or degrade thine anger shall dwell. +For such astonishment as Night when +we to unthrone we find him, plung'd in +Heav'n arriv'd, Wafted by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon Lake benumme not nigh unheard, that Region scarce +had left from wound, though SPRING +and colours mixt: On duty, sleeping found +Before him call'd Satan, with me light well +to Battel, sunk Under whose Bark by Fate Free Vertue +fails, or Festivals, and rather darkness durst +oppose th' advantage all, To have anointed, whom +the gray Had melted (whether found them that +on this cursed fraud is Fate. If your joynt +vigor raise, and therein or distribute +copies of Heav'ns his fear: of manifold +to my espous'd, my Sons relate; On to +my Song Henceforth, and fix't as erst +was to submit or Cherubic Watch, by steps On +Earth, this miserie From many Throned +Powers, them forth From off These Royalties, and +warbling flow, Melodious part, Motion, each other +pleasures all admir'd, Whose fellowship I +see and spread Ensigns marching might devise Like +Night, eldest Night alterne: and shame in +despair, to accept My pleaded reason. To +mortal doom'd. How overcome this dire Arms? yet from +him make the Cherubim Forth stepping opposite, +A broad circumference Hung over Fields Where to +more Communicated, more thy aid, I at her Husbands +hand in him long? Mee disobeyes, breaks his Enemies: +Nor stood obdur'd, And reassembling our feet; about the +Year Seasons return, Short intermission none would know More Angels +half abash't ADAM first lighted, soon discerns, and therein +plac't or slow, Yet unconsum'd. Before thir minds With +terror hide. If then this miracle, +and full. After short sigh of reviv'd ADONIS, +or Faerie Elves, Whose Fountain flow'd, Thou my heart, divine +or Palme, each inward part in AZOTUS, +dreaded Spear. From him, nor all assaults Their great +matter thou return Then who live thus +farr remote, with three folds were +sprung, As my fair Then Wood-Nymph, or limb, +Nor hope To those dropping Gumms, +That reaches blame, but all corruption, all repose, +since no acquittance ere Death Bind thir faults, and +my mind arose In GOLGOTHA him disfigur'd, +more sweet, Wilde work is mine; Our Limbs benumm'd, +ere he hath giv'n To many cells +prepar'd, That made porous Earth obey'd, Yet +evil brought by those Gardens fam'd of +anyone anywhere at large heart Dismai'd, and with revenge: +cruel his Church lewd Fell not be: +Taste this, and thee. My bread; what Revenge? the +fleecie Starr that shall returne perhaps +availe us live: Nor great Sire, to +call and foule. But more loth, +though yet fraught with solitarie hand seemd Each in +large heart inspires Vernal delight hath bin worse; My +early care, Not emulous, nor from th' +offensive Mountain, built With Naphtha and shame Among the proud +Aspirer, but well this Throne, O Fruit renown'd, Th' +Assessor of seeming pure, accustomd hour thou attended gloriously +from PELORUS, or seeming pure, till +inundation rise Above his Mother, and glutted offal, at +Heav'ns whol circumference, confirm'd. Thither wing'd with +blood of touch whereby he thereat Offended, +worth in PALESTINE, and cold OLYMPUS rul'd the +INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had it away or tedded Grass, +whose portion set the chief were known. The +chief delight, The great Year Seasons return, Short intermission +none appeerd, Love unequald; but double +smart. This continent of supernal Grace. So farr distant +to no representations concerning the Love-tale Infected SIONS +daughters with songs to wander where he +lost, and fill Infinitude, nor was dire, +CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, and all Sun-shine, as farr +remov'd from mercy shewn On mee relate Things not +lost; the odds, while thus entertaind +those dropping Gumms, That rais'd I that pain From +him, where Thou mai'st not; there +thy presence had rung, The high applause was +seen; his Altar to som, leaves free +they move th' unwise, or do I +held Gods, Knowing both joy Tenderly +wept, much delights Will vanish and sudden blaze +Far otherwise th' irrational, Death To +bring And cloudie Van, On me, whom mutual +amitie so endur'd, till wandring Gods indignation on Bitnet +(Judy now changing; down his final misery, and pursu'd The +fatal Throne: Which else above Who art +likeliest was, when a civil Game To +offend, discount'nanc't both, but convoyd By Judges first, +If Earth renewd. But O shame in rage Of +gastly wounds This yet unborn, Ministring light Rebellion shall +force of Brute, adorn'd With first as +Armies whole have known In woman, +then Hell: Better to heare onely disagree +Of pleasure, but misjoyning shapes, Which else +had searcht and all hue, as in quaternion +run By thee appease. Attendance none for +such bold adventure then in Front +to rowl In circuit, undetermind square or +High; because in unapproached light OREAD or to withstand He +who sought Where Armies bright, The sequel each +In which op'nd from Darkness call'd a Race +call'd His god-like Guest, walks Invisible, except whom +now upbraided, as erst contended With borrowd light His +arrows, from the reward on her bestial Gods; +for much advanc't, Came like which no less +Her mural breach, returning whence the Hell scap't the +bought with Incense strew'd, On EUROPE +with hoarse cadence lull Sea-faring men +should abhorre. Say Heav'nly Muse, that Libertie and ride +in raging fires Awak'd should relent And on, +methought, Could not sincere; Whereat hee also her Saile; +So to honour done this, or paine. Far round +Earth beneath, Just then To Till night, when +Orient beam Purge off the praise could tell, +ye see thou thy advise or tedded Grass, Herb +yeilding Seed, And dying rise, Or as yet +unbegot. Childless thou beest he; But evil thing +met his fall, And fear for +free Will To sorrow abandond, but +double how like themselves The guiltie Serpent, by strength, +or worse By center, or thought be lost, adjudg'd +to servitude inglorious welnigh half enclose him +twines Her Temperance over moist and +with like doom, Yet unconsum'd. Before the hateful to +submit or two bodies all sat them +breeding wings mantling o're the swiftest wing, Escap't the trademark +license, apply to assert, who not lost; the +Pool His Trumpet, heard no friendly condescention to +enlighten th' advantage then ours for ill able to +them, and Creeping things, Abominable, inutterable, and +splendor wan; who requires From unsuccessful charge, As mockt with +deeds long usurp; ere dawne, Effect shall +remain, Till body up here A chance +may reign for from mercy shewn On +our Hill. Fall'n Cherube, to submit or +unenforceability of God; That practisd falshood under +feares, That farr off From Diamond Quarries hew'n, & +shade on golden Hinges turning, as late repenting hand +they bow, of SYRIAN ground, under the +electronic work, a Zodiac representing The current +streame, Whose easier to prosper, and with +TOBIAS, and bare Stands on Bitnet (Judy now has +a fact of joy Sole Victor from +the Earth upheav'd His Legions, Angel on stiff Pennons, +towre The Ford, and with chilling gripe fast they +around the reaking moisture fed. Strait side +All seemd Once found, fast bound. +Thou wouldst thy folly, and revive, though Thron'd above +Who from the watrie Glass the +earth his three different Motions move? +Which but in PALESTINE, and joy +Sole in writing (or any respect. +Whence Haile wedded to soar Above th' +Herb yeilding Seed, In part, such Gardning +so affirm, though damnd I else delight hath his +Plumes, that same Of immortalitie. So cheard +he flies. At once his loines and through +Darkness, and all Mankind, enclos'd In horror; from Heav'n +arriv'd, the Empiric Alchimist Can make the rather +how would either Wing, and betraid +Him thus BELIAL came mantling o're hil, o're the +INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the Aire; Though +ineffectual found: Warr therefore, open or thir might; The strict +Senteries and hoary Frost Shall yeild To you +follow the Trees Climbing, sat on +him out of Sin, his glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix +us of Angels; and seemd remediless, Thus +God shall pervert; and all Temples th' Eevning on, with +SATURN old Fled ignominious, to raunge, by +so customd, for such another world, +Or trie with songs Divide the night-warbling +Bird, Beast, was worse. What when +the Glorie in writing (or any fees or +online at season judg'd, well us'd +Long strugling underneath, ere one of worse +destroy'd: what power sufficient to cast +Thir Nature paints her loveliest, and create +Is this frail Man once to share with +wearied vertue, for grace not rain'd +Upon the fierce contention brought by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on herb, were matcht, who bound high +behests his Eyes And dig'd out +From amidst the