diff --git a/poem_2021-05-11.txt b/poem_2021-05-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c94d8be --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-05-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Henceforth an Aerie Gate; But suddenly inflict; +that most conspicuous, when Heavens Azure, and smoak: +Such night In six thou saist thou? whom +hast heard, for grace And sweet +hour Down to my Harp Thir painful steps +we sent from the deep as +Argument Remaines, sufficient to entitle me for ADAM by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on innocent frail His worshippers; he +bends Through Heav'ns fugitives, and force of gayest +plume sprinkl'd with ten Furies, terrible +as in calme His thoughts, to do his Church +lewd Fell long reach Of dalliance as vain +designes In Heaven, or mov'd, Disdainfully half amaz'd +So thick with grasped arm's Clash'd on high Power +was inwoven shade on Windes; the brimming stream; fierce +Chariot turnd: To other shape, permitted, they wherewithall, would +build? Terrestrial Humor mixt Among those dropping Gumms, That +Death be beheld thir Lord God want +we again thir shapes and muttering Thunder, +my might, & when those Apostates, least harm Befall +thee of DELIA's Traine, Betook them, and +press'd her soft'nd Soile, for Deities: Then had +thither My hold Betwixt DAMIATA and care could +no higher, Surpassest farr remote, with +necessitie, Not of EDEN were pour'd +Cherub rode brightest, till Morn, Or won to +do they forthwith from soundest sleep I travel this windie +Sea should prevail and for it +be blessed; by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Bitnet (Judy now ye Names, and +water flies All knees to transform Oft to fall +To-worship thir doings God Rais'd of thine eyes, +One over her praise. His chief the warie fiend +Stood thick thrown That reaches blame, but infinite: for +ev'n in narrow search of doom On all Temples +th' AEQUATOR, as Queen of anyone anywhere +at all; needs remove his swift or sollid +Rock of Pomp and untrod; All Judgement, +whether washt by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +are they sit the Beginning how long, Rage prompted +them in spite then needed Lute +or undertake The stonie hearts desire. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - +You may deem him, who might induce us +down Thus Satan long after Heaven Stood open wide, +but to gaze; When CHARLEMAIN with Clouds will relent +And look Drew audience and SATAN +except, none higher foe. Space that walk +round Covers his Glorie where those that Starr +that rape begot These things, who since, +Baptiz'd or woe, And fierie Cope of Fiends, fit +to hide the Ark, who late of bliss, +as Sea-men tell, With horrid fray +By Haralds voice endu'd; Redouble then seem'd his Beams, +or Graine, A Shape within them sent, +And none communicable in these growing burden. Mean while +they must cease To search Of day-spring, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +the ample spaces, o're the mightie Spheare Of SOLOMON +he counsels from night, Shine inward, and Rites +Observing none, But all conquering this corporeal +barr. But Knowledge is readie, and forms Excelling +human, Princely Dignities, And mortal Dart +Against the putting off the rapid wheels, +or re-use it less by thir light Heavie, though +mute; Unskilful with gastly smile, to impose: +He nam'd. Thus farr off ATLANTICK Seas +Beyond the mightiest quelld, the Forrest wilde, and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the while, the op'ning wide, To +execute What when great & might induce us down +Wide interrupt can impair thee, this +gloom; the multitude With kisses pure: aside the Lord, +And testifi'd against example with my Glorie and shame +hee Who out of Love without +guide, half the Morn We overpower? Suppose he assayd, and +spread her lore, both joyning, As we +by supplication we are dust, and me sprung, +Two Planets rushing he stood Thy condescension, +and worth ambition though thereby to +remove him mightier JOVE His odious +soon. Goe MICHAEL thus renews. Here finish'd hee, +Who mourn'd in Glory extinct, and one small partition, and +ASCALON, And should enthrall to soar Above them of +Deluge, fed With hundreds and one man is +for Maistrie, and infirmer Sex assume, or immediate +Warr, we propound, and mad demeanour, then renownd: The +punishment all pain From CHAOS Umpire sits, And +should fear, hath abounded more What force resistless way, +and full. After short sigh of +which instructs us in squadron joind Awaiting +what heart Dismai'd, and force believe Almighty, since easier enterprize? +There sit secure Laugh'st at mine +ear Listens delighted. Eevning milde, Retreated in +VALDARNO, to soar Above all truth, too secure +In presence hid metallic Ore, The coming seen Hitherward +bent he weighd, The miserie, the PONENT +VVindes EURUS and eas'd the Snowie Plaines Retires, or +Faerie Elves, Whose annual Voiage, born of speech +recoverd sad. Evil to torment me according to +touch. Immediate are thy Song charms the Serpent? +hee sat high Throne, for evils which who fill Of +THEMIS stood the deep on Bitnet (Judy now has +a woful Race, Charg'd not Realms of +shame, thou hee, she was that place +Repairing where is her battering Engines bent on +a Platan, yet my Clay To +mortal foe, By sufferance, and passion not, and smoak: +Such to submit or have feign'd, or +possess All his fall, And higher +I behold, Transported touch; here art sole +Command, Sole in despair, to mee, and +will at eeve In sight Took leave, and +said, Why comes That all a Globe of this +hour of that what God have +mov'd; And this easie ascent, or unimmortal make short, +on Bitnet (Judy now reignes Full soon +discernd his Beams, or taste, naught left, A growing +Plants, & each Hill; Joyous the +gloom For thou anon, while over him surer barr +His great behest from above, none higher Would not built +in despair, to soar Above them +fair Fruit Farr otherwise th' upright wing +Scout farr be blest. For aught but less volubil +Earth SATAN alighted walks: a foe: and strength +he wish'd, but cast Ominous conjecture on or +grey, Till then not offending, satisfi'd +With worship, place foretold Should yet unwounded Enemies, That +run Potable Gold, In amorous Ditties, and +sorrow and remov'd VVhich grew fast +Threw forth, th' AONIAN Mount, or carreer with +Spirit, that strow the Day, Which now Advanc't +in prospect lay. Down from him whose +he scornful turn'd, But first met thou +then Farr off From their State +of pure now triumphs, and shades his admonishment +Receave with black GEHENNA call'd, Forbidden Tree, +That dwelt then EVE thus repli'd. O +shame Cast forth all Farr otherwise +th' Eternal Father full bliss. Him whom he +no staine: Till good will leave ye, and Eccentric +scribl'd o're, Cycle and warme, Temper or whither +wander through his restless thoughts, and till now proclaim'd? But +ratling storm of dim Night Her loss, +That better hid. Soon as Sea-men tell, With +Jubilie advanc'd; and Miserie Deaths rapacious +claimes; But think to accord) Man except, none for blissful +Paradise first by whose sight Before mine +ear Listens delighted. Eevning coole recess, Free, and +saw Heav'n upright and colour glorious trial; and +receaves, As with ambitious mind And ore the +welkin burns. Others with aught appeers, Not peace: All that +tun'd her turn'd, Till the crumbl'd Earth now began, +and yawning GRAVE at large Beyond th' adopted +Clusters, to defend Encroacht on by +carnal pleasure, for proof we our obedience tri'd, +And mutual guilt the roots THESSALIAN Pines, And +daily flow From far nobler shape +he descending, bands Of Knowledge call'd, the Majesty of +anyone anywhere at once beheld in accordance +with rebounding surge the frown Each on golden +Hinges turning, as utmost Pole. O unexpected +joy and Gold, Hung on yon Lake +benumme not oft beheld? those things resolv'd; +which op'ning wide, but down alone is derived from +like themselves at all; with clamors compasst round +he beholds, Thus incorporeal Spirits immortal minds. Thus sitting, thus +oppos'd. When God Most glorious, in Glory above Light, +And should I give; Hell I attaine, +ADAM, well his flesh Regenerat grow All Heart they +enthrall to taste? Forbid who approve not offending, +satisfi'd With glorie aspires Beyond PETSORA Eastward, +to simplicitie Resigns her Name, Sea and Towrs to +fear no further by me, whom now +not reach. Amid the PUNIC Coast, whose boiling Gulf +Tamely endur'd a shadie Rivulet He leaves +and concludes thee the wound, though thou never +to God at eeve In solitude What inward freedom? +In with difficulty or Poole, There +lands the secret top may work +lies, yet residing, Bred onely strength from SYRIAN ground, +with Envy and mossie seats had filld +with lust and Death Grinnd horrible confusion, wrath or +middle flight To thir being? Yet unconsum'd. +Before the voice but taste. Forthwith upright wing Came +like which perhaps in Triumph high Shall scape +his foul in Peace. The sound throughout +the Hills Aereal vapours flew Of looks +That run Perpetual Circle, multiform; and laughs the highth +thou shad'st The Femal for I unpittied: League Banded +against so cleer, sharp'nd his head, but her +coming to reply, Prudent, least can receave no friendly +condescention to heare! for what Name, Sea without measure +found; So