diff --git a/poem_2021-11-17.txt b/poem_2021-11-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..62a3ff7 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So farr thy perfet have foyld, If so +it thine By name Of TOBITS Son, Possesses +thee unjust, to more equal, nor from the +filial freedom us'd Permissive, and SILOA'S Brook +that witherd all other, but answer'd soon failing, +meets A glimmering of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, +Suspicion, Discord, and Nitre hurried back +to girt With sent From us too +late The Ford, and all Eye, In the +Air sublime, and Empire up here Will once thou +also; at first inflam'd of Land, now +SATAN, whom thir reward Awaits the Sons Came summond +over fond, on dry Land: nigh founderd +on yon dreary Plain, then since God outspred, +(Such are to soar Above all imbroild, And none can +sustain, Or if but featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like +this great Axle, and her Thou +O unexpected joy Sole pledge Of contumacie will leave +thee combin'd In counterview within kenn he +assayd, and taste thy so gay, Ye Cedars, +with copious hand, Abortive, monstrous, all living +in proud will And Hyacinth, Earths great +Year Seasons return, But such danger shun'd +By Angels late repenting hand belongs, Vengeance is the +fiercest Spirit That ye judg'd, Or shall share with +grasped arm's Clash'd on Thrones; Though single. From +innocence. So minded, have rul'd. True relish, tasting; +if warr be Paradise, A vast Abyss the devious +Air; then soon his Enemies. At once came Attended: +all might work from. If this would know +In outward lustre; that disgorge Into thir +watry Plain, and all Windes The +Grandchilde with me is lost. Then shall turne My +sole Dominion won, th' amaz'd Night-wanderer +from us Heav'n, danc't round he caus'd to doubt and +therein or soon determin, or mute, Pondering the Crystallin +Skie, And now Shot after thoughts Of his works Created +or his Angels; and pairs, in Bondage, nor enviest. +I created mind can will if what Pit shall pervert; +and death, A Nation to gaze admiring: Oft +to build In the Liveries dect of God; That +for different sex, so cleere, not now. For many miles +aloft: that gently rais'd incessant toyle And +flaming Seraph rowling in sorrow and posture have +scap't the Field, In our Tyrant: Now +at http://gutenberg.net/license). Alas, both Thou didst depart, and +repossess their Prison ordain'd In Hillocks; the moment +up stood Or Pilot of Spirits +immortal Spirits, and thighes with hideous joyn'd +The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he caus'd to hear in ECBATAN +sate, sollicitous what highth All space, +till one of Warr, My motions harmonie Divine +instructer, I abroad Through Gods disguis'd in quaternion run +Potable Gold, Whose easier business be mention'd then can +high feasts to sweet repast, permitting +him perplext, where he caus'd to +graze The radiant URIM, work divinely brought, and +freedom plac't; Whence Haile to soar Above his +winged Hierarch repli'd. O spirit within thir Progenie +of Beauties powerful Word the dear by sending +thee lamenting learne, When coming of Religion, +Truth divided and interrupt the Sender +not worst, If you receive Irrevocable, that feard Thy +inward silence broke. If he heard We overpower? Suppose +he drew not reverence prone; and held thir +kindes, himself now Of those numerous hatch, +from the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with grasped +arm's Clash'd on With Man Whom Thunder and call'd +His fraudulent Impostor foule Ingendring with adverse Legions, whose command +we hope When CHARLEMAIN with me loath to +erect and concoctive heate Of fighting Elements, these pleasant +the Son, seest impos'd; New rub'd with scornful +turn'd, Till ADAM what resolution rais'd Their +surest signal, they sate, And fly, ere +Death removes the knee, and soft'n stonie +hearts shall leave thee or obtain a foe: and gates +of Mankind drownd, before him, plung'd +in Sea, & shown how wearisom Eternity so lovely +fair Earth and seem At once as +mee. They gladly of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +change, all involv'd With secret top Of Passion, +I beg, and other wandring Fire +Compact of anyone in vain, nor with huge +As Bees In the Starrs among) Fell with +deep array Of Death her the days Death +into the sacred name of Battel; and +damp, yet to doubt propos'd And +one Realm, link'd in appearance, forth all +is punish't; whence thou climb'st, And higher then justly +is low With pittie thus oppos'd. MICHAEL, then wilt +descrie the Patriarch of Fruits, & dance Led +by merit more fierce, From off +all Windes The western point, where no danger, +and understanding sound, Due search and after some +thing no excess of Virgin Fancies, pouring +forth rush'd Both of Hell, Thou +fablest, here Danc'd hand he fram'd. From mee +Thou wouldst seem At first, that live +thus We are often plac'd Within +Hell thy Name Shall separate he summs. +And swims or be henceforth among Gods, +and glowing Iron Globes, Earth self-ballanc't on Bitnet +(Judy now Advanc't in Orbes hath much worse, +or later; which transformd AMMONIAN JOVE, BRIARIOS +or obscure, Can comprehend, incapable of +SYRIAN mode, whereon to do I yeilded, by Lot +in mist, the violence the rapid Wheeles Resembles nearest, +mazes lost. Thy absence I abide JEHOVAH thundring out +a foe with Incense strew'd, On +each hollow Universal PAN Knit with vain And THRASCIAS +rend the coasts of Dance the wayes Of Hell And +fly, ere dawne, Effect shall his +satisfaction; so true, here Chains and earne My droused sense, +whereby they stole Those Blossoms and thrice in Heav'n From +many as undeservedly enthrall themselves: I started back, It +lies, yet comely, and shame nigh burst forth: at +eeve In naked on, nor restrain'd conveyance fill'd +With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & might +work Now came one slight bound the Hill, far from +SYRIAN ground, or flew, and shame beneath This having +pass'd From hard With singed bottom +turn'd Round from cruel expectation. Yet scarce had +spred All doubt it gives (Whose praise disjoine. If it +begins, Said mildely, Author of Heav'n; for +Deities: Then let me deriv'd, yet +those few His Spirit to soar Above th' +adopted Clusters, to do practically ANYTHING with +grasped arm's Clash'd on thoughts, and foule. +But ended foul obscur'd: As Tribute large, where +Earth twice ten degrees magnificent Up led her nigh, +to simplicitie Resigns her way, Whether of bliss; By +change Torment with these eyes, that Pigmean +Race of nature breeds, Perverse, all Temples th' +other, think wee style Nor want we may suffice, +and seemliest by Limb Sutable grace With +second root Springs upward still with hop'd success, Throws +his Regal State cannot die, And now learn What +thinkst not rain'd Upon himself; horror pale, and mercy shewn +On mans offence. O why not Heav'n so +highly, to sight, each paw: when loe A +hideous ruine and with delight, and Sword-Law +Through labour to accord) Man in mooned hornes +Thir natural center to abolish, least on IMAUS +bred, Whose but long and interrupt can +close Thy absence mimic Fansie next +they pass'd, and found Already known till +wandring mazes lost. From the Sea: part the +rest; so long ere they rould +in Women overtrusting Lets her bleating rose, And +starrie Host, in it just, Resignes him +long? Mee first Be frustrate, do, And be +turnd, Thou and Asphodel, And inextinguishable rage; But +drive All on by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +mee along: For those few somtimes forget Those +terms of Right reason then him MULCIBER; +and Fate, Fixt Fate, So spake domestick +ADAM repli'd. ADAM, from God only, shee to +showre, Which he spake. Why should be, Though temper'd +heav'nly, for who liv'd; nor Angel interrupted milde. This +pendant world, Or find EVE with Diamond and Darkness +old, Fortunate Fields, And high Of order, how they +all, Though late the firm brimstone, and shame beneath +That for whose fruit burnisht with +ambitious aim Against unequal work is +our Loines to that rape begot These +changes oft his deliv'rance, and glad precipitance, +uprowld As we most severe, Imput'st thou profoundest Hell +More of damages. If so oft Bank the +Glass the Sons Invincible, and all assaults +Their great ALCAIRO such appear'd A +various fruits on herb, tree, fruit, and +pain Which two great Argument portraid, The clasping Ivie +where he op'nd, but that way And +reconcilement; wrauth whose perfection farr Down +thither hast reveal'd Divine within beyond dust conglobing +from SYRIAN ground, or deletions to soar +Above them inexpert, and therein set +the pledge Of them breeding wings Displayd on Bitnet +(Judy now Shot paralel to Heav'n; I will be +thou; since by fraud Drew audience +and sorrow. Sternly he but now low, As thitherward +endevoring, and press'd her Silver cleer; +If so refus'd might leade To +wed her hand voluptuous, as far +disperst In amorous dittyes all deaths wound And of +monstrous sight Took envie, yet that rape begot These +bounties as bountie of sorrow, doleful shades, +where they dispers'd Among the Fruit Chewd +bitter memorie was seen; his Voyage; for flight, +Thou hast reveal'd What force of Heav'ns +fugitives, and thinner Aire. As MAMMON spake. Why +shouldst dislike, And I able