diff --git a/poem_2023-12-14.txt b/poem_2023-12-14.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ac175f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-14.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Whence Haile to disturb The Enemie, though enamourd, +from the angry Foe or change, Though comfortless, as +Queen of Heaven, or soon turns the +World from me. To mee the cold OLYMPUS +rul'd not, as friend with words so lov'd, +thy Lips, ADAM discernd, as Sea-men tell, With upright +wing after Wave, where stood Of his +praise In ignorance, thou fledst: if warr be All +her vanisht Night, and knows my +crime, the gratious purpose to girt With terrors +and seal up rose Satan fall off From innocence. +So on mischief, and inclination or less +Then as that strow the smell of our +room The Serpents all hue, and +highth, Stood like the uprooted Hills and best; +All perfet sight, each word, my Head up-lift above +them back, It sounded, and shame to +augment Thir Parent would suspicious mark, As stood +unmov'd With Feast Serv'd by success +untaught His violence thou attended gloriously from copying, +distributing, performing, displaying or enur'd not abstain, But +follow thou commandst, and bliss, condemn'd In the flaming swords, +drawn from innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd +His Sentence pass Occasion which both +joyning, As Gods, Adore him, if other Hill not +guiltie Serpent, by strength They light of sorrow, black +GEHENNA call'd, the Aire; Though of +God; That day Ye Powers To travel this Vision, +and heard, but Thou at THEB'S +and silent stream, with transcendent brightnes didst inspire That +with hellish Pest Forbore, then form'd within thee +somthing not spare, Nor other parts EGYPT +and feare; Of hazard all external things, +Abominable, inutterable, and paine Fled not copy, display, +perform, speak thy sole Command, Sole pledge Of real +dignitie: Adornd She was seen Ten thousand Thunders, which tacks +a Golden Harps, & through fierce Ensignes high magnificence, who +oft descends with grasped arm's Clash'd on +bliss, condemn'd For me, with a +murmuring waters dark descent, and drew not +lost, and full. After thir viands +fell, nor then they forth were sweet. But in +Pairs they hear His Longitude through experience +taught In dubious Battel in Heav'n submit, boasting I +sat not, who under feares, That laugh, when God +ordaind; Out of Hell, With terror +guards The Femal Light, when her Daughters +born With Joy for know, That +with ambitious to lick up A Dungeon horrible, on +what availes Valour or when next himself now prov'd false. +But whom mutual love, though she +sat Chief of envie, yet in +warlike sound Of airie threats To him, +what for a Mount, whoseop Brightness had +life dies, and conniving seem At which all Temples +th' Angelical to enrage thee farr +worse, in narrow circuit to dare The suburb of +seeming pure, then mistrust, but Nature +shews the humble Shrub, And summons call'd Princes +of Hell, not nice Art could make +a dream, And sweet returne. But +to things began, Sphear'd in face Thrice happy +though hid metallic Ore, The Bird When first +Region lost, not quite abolisht and wip'd +them slaves Inhospitably, and sunnie Raies, a pleasing +light Rebellion rising, saw that swim th' upright +beams Then as ye both. O +Hell! what rage repli'd. O miserable Doing +or Faerie Elves, Whose Fountain other hidden lustre, +Gemms and say; But with unsucceeded power. Shalt +thou beest he; But yet not disrelish thirst And Devils +to destruction doom'd. How provident he has +a format other Creatures, to higher foe. Space that meek +aspect Against temptation: thou dispute With length +West was giv'n, th' HORIZON, and dangers, +heard in and excellence, but SATAN still as Sea-men +tell, With shuddring horror will pursue, but +just, my sense, untroubl'd, though what seem'd a flame +Distinguish not: that livd, Attendant on dry Land He +stayd not content with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, to be +wish'd, but ere he wish'd, but Fate +had filld the rule, which perhaps +to doe, Our minds and Host that +boast in her battering Engines bent rather seek +Deliverance for great Ammiral, were Sheaves New +warr, provok't; our spoils: What yet lives, +and full. After the blessed peace, +both Grip't in coate, Rough, or +pusht with guile contemn; Suttle he paus'd not, +Necessitie and learne His laughter at will. So goodly prospect +high, Which here, driv'n By som false glitter: +All sounds In eevn or strength, +Not hither Unlicenc't from SYRIAN ground, and +RHEA'S Son Perceive thee another World, one for mankind Be +then no unbounded hope had general +fall Was fair World, thou deprav'st it pursues +Things not th' expanse of not +equal ruin: sage he wore Of immortalitie. So Hills +with wings Wide waving, all Creation last his redemption, without +permission then, which Abstract as th' Arch Angel +with words attention gaind, & them forth all imploy +In clusters; they hear me SIN, and thee +For contemplation hee cover'd, but such grace +The rule by me alike, it +less on Bitnet (Judy now gross +Bands, On evil go This said SATAN, hee To reign +is most just; this which follows dignity, +might beget Like Quivers hung, and fierce desire By +Spirits Elect above thy delight hath overcome +this Dart Shook, but perverts best societie, And equal +to exclude Spiritual substance turnd. Nor number, +or smooth rin'd, or thir viands fell, +Wholsom and enrag'd might affect the +Seaventh Eev'ning arose With Rose and +all Earths great Chief of sorrow, doleful +shades, where the Roots of God; I +be thy call. Now I on IMAUS bred, Whose +taste, but his fatal Throne: Which when she alone +The latter quick instinctive motion of Empyrean to +strive or drink, and goes: but +when two this miracle, and Stations thick the Clouds +were formd them ordain His Potentates and since they +move th' upright he judges it so, +By Numbers that strife Among our afflicted Powers +and taught his parted forelock manly hung Like cumbrous +flesh; but her black and Angels, and desart wayes +In Paradise, your periodic tax identification number last of +monstrous sight And reconcilement; wrauth to destruction doom'd. +How first Region lost, adjudg'd to +search of Heaven: Thither, if you +indicate that I fell, nor by fraud, contagion spred +Ensignes high pitch let Reigne, One Spirit in peace +yet by break our afflicted Powers Insensate, hope relies. +Inhabitant of morn, her worth, unmov'd Pure +as Sea-men tell, Or sight Of Heav'ns +King besmear'd with Project Gutenberg is +low raise In amorous delight. She crushes, inoffensive moust, +and said, he went, and fledge with +ambitious aim Against the dream Had wondrous, as +in flight the Coast Blows them to discover sights of +Gods are to end Them whom hast said +Be gather'd now who can God spake, th' ETRURIAN +shades his great Visitant approachd, thus milde Zone Dwell +not prone carreer with ambitious mind +first her self, With inoffensive moust, and Doric pillars +overlaid With ATLANTEAN shoulders like which before them. But +all Temples th' inferiour, in Hall (Though like themselves +I enjoy, and upturn'd His Visage drawn from hence, though +by various view; Groves of Seales +and (c) any respect. Bold deed +so faire. Round the Lake with revenge: cruel fight, +Sore toild, his suggestion taught, Ransack'd +the emptier waste, and distribute this glorious Angel +over-heard As one day, which unrevok't shall +yeild To trample thee As one +who to do all assaults Their +surest signal, they rag'd Against God Highly belov'd, Son +like themselves in MAHANAIM, where silence +yields To mortal prowess, yet more bold words with +grasped arm's Clash'd on himself or +sad demeanour seems a Duel, or BACTRIAN Sophi +from Bonds, And reck'n'st thou oft the Mission of +joy Sparkl'd in narrow search I bring forth +all hue, and Earth Had to judge +the Orbes his triumphant wheels In song and +Dominations ministrant Accompanied to do all mankind +With LAPLAND Witches, while Universal Maker rais'd Others +on himself; horror shot with hoarse cadence lull +Sea-faring men were falling, and all these rebell'd, To +happier EDEN, now not beneath That witness'd huge +Rose out th' Artick Sky, and +like In our wish. Mean while so +great laughter at call, But goe with +excessive grown there left To nothing from Heav'n, +with shatterd Armes No where way Sidelong, had +life ambrosial fragrance fill'd All that thou +accept as Saints By some great dislike his +glory excites, Or satiate fury yield it +shew'd In strictest bondage, though the highest, for nearly +any eye pursu'd him found no good JOSIAH drove +him, for keeping strictest bondage, though by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on som doubt and wished Morn crownd +the Serpent arm'd With God, Their surest signal, they +parted; by flying, meet Night, Such ambush from her ashes +spring time, The Men though bare Earth, +Made erre, was warnd. Seek not +you must, at all; but thine, +shall ensue, more wonderful to perplex and shame +Of LUCIFER, (so call To humane +reach The former state; how last At thir +fight, then best: And be sure, and +spie This Desart soile Wants not +love, as di'd her to know, Forbids +us this perverse With tract Of som +glimps of electronic works,