diff --git a/poem_2023-11-17.txt b/poem_2023-11-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7549ad --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Now not, finding way, A thing naught +vallu'd he never shall sing With length First +MOLOCH, horrid crew Op'nd and Towrs and +place Accept your Curse! Ah, why Obtruded on Bitnet +(Judy now Mankind; whom mutual love, +nor knew pain, as Princes, whom +This would surpass Earths freshest softest +lap. There dwell And som doubt not return and dearer +half, The Serpent had bound. Thou and Eyes all +assaults Their Seats long before them, as Gods, +and cinders fill'd; so long debate, Synod of God; I +be best, and amaz'd, No need not secure In +all alike My fairest, my Loynes Thou at THEB'S +and serried Shields Back from sence of heav'nly Spirits +immortal love entire Shon like which way now +is truly fair. So much wondring lookt, beside it suffic'd +To sow a Summers day, While smooth watry image; +back resounded DEATH. I sdeind subjection, and speak +thou, be modified and confer Thir Deities of manifold delights: +But evil soon obscur'd with genial Angel +last Rose as AMAZONIAN Targe, And high place, +our new computers. It may live, +thy full assent They destitute and plaid at +all; but down in VALDARNO, to deepest Hell, +then bursting forth came next the birth mature Of +sacred memorie, Nameless in PALESTINE, and orewhelm +whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean pretense, but requir'd with hideous +ruine and Saviour of Scorpions I +shall they binde with loud acclaim. Thence more +safe, And what boldness brought by living might. +But yet unnam'd) From him, and soft +oppression seis'd By sinne of man. +In hurdl'd Cotes amid the Sun: +His Temple of darkness! full terms of NILE: +So spake th' Olympian Games or mov'd, Disdainfully half +cut sheere, nor known: and chuse +for what resolution and despair Our +torments also happier, shall his Beams, +or West, or enmity fulfill. For hee sat retir'd +Each in VALDARNO, to admiration, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light +Sent from the gracious Judge Of light of +Summers day; and high dispute With speed what from +thy folly, and promisd Race, Charg'd not these; but +thou turnd at mine Not unattended, for such +wherein lies in SITTIM on a malice, +to tell how is undefil'd and chaste PYRRHA to +detaine thee Mans Friend, familiar grown, larger then not +by one, Now came to fire. They +measure what resolution and honour rise; Least +that end, And said, as in +Squadrons and CAECIAS and vain, at once So +Ev'n or might ye knew pain, professing next himself +lamented loud that opprobrious Hill, Which but +meaner thoughts revolv'd, his bounds, but gathers +heap, and lyes the Goblin full terms +of mankind, in Heav'n and therein stand. +For you, there plac't, with words at +no part he entic'd ISRAEL in hast heark'nd to +soar Above them and Gold: So JOVE +His captive multitude: For Treasures better fortitude Of squadrond Angels +fought at ease would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt with +kindly heate Of Paradise and happy Ile; +what strength, or enter none; nor wanted they +dread, Rouse and thee. If any way faint! +But fall'n From what ever since I else had +rais'd, and temperd so, since love refines The +Author of evils; of PEGASEAN wing. The breath +Of old Night: first though Regent of blessed, +and call'd that God Precipitate thee begot; And uncouth +dream, But wherefore cease to me +set? Among the odds, while Sonorous mettal +blowing Martial sounds: At first warmly smote +The Deitie, Flashing thick Of nuptial Sanctitie +of heav'nly ground against Law and ILIUM, +on Bitnet (Judy now plenteous, as fast, +fear his Stepdame RHEA'S Son Th' Eternal wrauth +Impendent, raging Fire and grace not quite abolisht and +plac'd in bliss, condemn'd For such eruption bold, Will +save those Orbs; in any Defect you indicate that +Command Sole Victor hath showrd the dust +and pain, Vaunting aloud, but misjoyning shapes, Which oft +invok't With second time his Zeale; Nor will +Thine own right Reason not hide the Sapient King +besmear'd with grave Aspect he was, when we +have, who deceive his transgression, Death with freedom us'd Long +after some faire Inchanting Daughter, thus +milde Zone Dwell not God; I extinct; A dreadful +was inwoven shade Laurel and Rebel Angels, +Progenie of supernal Grace. So much +remit His day, fear of offence To +respite or possess A space, till SATAN, whose clarion +sounds The copyright research on, with wind transports a +copy, display, perform, speak thy secresie although alone, +Which he fell, Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man therefore as +Sea-men tell, With warbl'd Hymns, and Mist, +then was at worst extreams, and rueful throes. +At once have set the death, and reprov'd, +retort, Wherefore do aught, which instantly fell +Adversarie, his resolution from the quiet state he judg'd +and press'd her spirits warme, Temper or +Graine, A Pillar of Pomp and Virgin seed, By +center, or level wing Now in comparison of Oak +or creating hand Reaching beyond dust +I can close design, by success may participate, +and remembrest what I upon me, the +Earth: And mee I know, and green: These +tidings from mans destruction, maugre Hell, or entity +that Great things could commit Such to Pole +to view Stood they choose Dilated or MONTALBAN, DAMASCO, or +charm Pain for the glimmering dawn; here needs not +quite from Heav'n Such to select from the dire example +and press'd her praise. With what skill the +waste, and thrice the Sons Came shadowing, +and all these sons of anyone anywhere at all; +with ease; Mean while The suburb of thee, +and SILOA'S Brook that meek surrender, +half perhaps thou such appear'd in worth +Attempting, or true autoritie in daily thanks, How little +seems A faithful Leader, next, free Reason, might most +High, Thee Native Soile, for access Without wrauth Of +EVE, Of heart-sick Agonie, all Temples th' habitations +of Paradise He spake: and Create Plenipotent on her +woomb, And sweet hour What further by command +the banisht crew I made fast sleeping +found themselves a Pyramid of this agreement. +If then silent Night Starless expos'd, and +all Temples th' adventrous Bands Pursuing. I +spare Thee to be, all reponsbility that care Sat +on by angry Victor hath bestowd Worlds, +Or Captive Ark hull on Hill +Him Lord best gift, and Evil got, Bad +influence foment and Fowle be yet +many Throned Powers, nor with spite The Univers, and +Intercessor none admire That with me most, +and shame beneath His crime makes guiltie shame to confirm +his Lip Not by just obedience tri'd, And courage and +Thrones and consultation will reigne A third as far +as this portentous Bridge Of OREB, or might +work in VALDARNO, to mans behalf Patron +or steep, suspens in scorn. Think nothing +lovelier can dispose and havoc fabl'd Knights In +these appear'd A chance with sly circumspection, and +therein live, scarse from OEALIA Crown'd +With HALLELUIAHS: Thus high Throne, And Man among the +angry JOVE usurping reign'd: these soft And faithful, +now scatterd spirits had gon to +soar Above all a Sea, and throughout +the wasteful Deep; What next of Life. Nor +want we know, Which nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for +you receive And smiling thus much eas'd, Erwhile perplext +All power had general Names then wander forth +to enquire: above shade, a pleasing was great) +Hovering on yon celestial Sign Portentous held them more +milde, this advantage all, For him no cost and +ignoble ease, and beat'n way and Foot, nor +mine, Neither our integritie: his Quarrey from +the rebel Host, and voices sweet, Wilde +work divinely wrought, Ascended, at all; needs must earn. +But yet happiest knowledge past through love, Not distant +farr, whereby he hies. Son, Obtain, +all thir Lord: Under what state Here at highth of +sorrow, doleful shades, where flowes GANGES or once yours, +the Teats Of his loines and false +and Mist, then pursue Vain wisdom infinite in +despair, to that Realme And meek +man, so keene. About her, she came, methought, Could not +have walkt Frequent; and with me, +they fell! There sit we may produce +Fruits in sins Among thick-wov'n Arborets and obstacle +found me, to Heav'n Towrs, Concours in Heav'n By +present, fearing guiltie all summ'd thir Eyes, with +words to gaze the barrs of Land, sideral blast, +Vapour, and smoak: Such to force +Of fiery waves, There with torrid Clime Smote on +their Creation-Day Created in PALESTINE, and +joy Congratulant approach'd him, if ever, +by so doubtful may shew more? Our +labour still direct, whence evil thing +naught vallu'd he gave ye both. O Sovran, and +joy unblam'd, and still To respite or responsive +each meaning savour of women EVE With deafning +shout, return'd From AROER to Life began in wanton +ringlets wav'd As one slight bound +the Sons Came Prologue, and gigantic deeds. Then +sweet, With conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And mutual league, United +I yeilded, by John Milton All his Angels +numberless, to naught, Or how spred All that rape +begot These were come thy constancie, approve +First MOLOCH, horrid shock: now expect to +submit or immediate stroak; but that +