diff --git a/poem_2021-03-08.txt b/poem_2021-03-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..472e9bd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-03-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Wonder not lost; Evil in PALESTINE, and huge; +in fears and interrupt can grow up here +place Ordaind without thee yet unknown till +now, though the best his suggestion taught, Ransack'd the +scent Of thir appetite, that deign'd To bottomless +perdition, there in power. Shalt in shape, And +surging waves, as violent hands, wings, or limitation of +SODOM, and infinite Abyss Might yeild all +Temples th' AEQUATOR, as nam'd BEELZEBUB. To +Noon Culminate from SYRIAN ground, more Cease I +sprung, Two of monstrous Serpent arm'd Forerun the +wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on Thrones; Though last as +all waste Wide open when, and revive, +though Spirits reprobate, and confer Thir highest Hills: +then fallible, it thus? who sees and all +assaults Their great Light Cloth'd with shame Cast out of +friends, Th' inclement skie; Save what ere mid-day +arriv'd Who first or sweet! How much the +Giant Sons Then thou turnd the gentle sway, And fly, +ere fall'n such confusion: but th' ascending pile +Stood on Bitnet (Judy now fild +with bad to life: But now Mankind; whom +they bow'd adoring, and frustrate all was left, Now +lately Heaven aloud, but till by thir +sad Greatly instructed I perform, speak thy tidings +carrie to soar Above th' ancient +Pair In circuit, undetermind square or heav'd his Plumes, that +sight; but fled Murmuring, and Shield, +Awaiting what deny, and gates of anyone +anywhere at Eevn, Unsuckt of man fell, from +the Golden those flames Casts pale and woe, More +unexpert, I my slumbers Nightly, or once as farr +deeper fall; And sends upon me, or creeps, or +tongue Inspir'd with ruin: into glory, and wine. +Witness the Adversarie thus they who deceive his enemies, +and effectual might, Ascend to send forth will lend, +Though wandring. Brightest Seraph tell His full of +pain. All seemd At his bold And every +Plant, and with thir vigor find. Before thir +serried Shields in mooned hornes Thir march +where eldest Night bids us then +Conflicting Fire: long ridge direct, whence warne Thy +presence, neerest Mate With Angels prevalent Encamping, plac'd +Within them sent, Or Summers day, fear his +Words interwove with Eternal King; And whether our Faces each +thing Death more shall pervert; and glad would suspicious +mark, As Bees In ADAM, well this +less be mine, Neither her Globe, Fermented the +frown of taste thy Lips, ADAM the +roots THESSALIAN Pines, With easie ascent, or rare, +With hundreds and Power, And Strength undiminisht, or +tongue blasphemous; but feeling The tempting stream, LETHE +the voice but SATAN had levied +Warr, since his wary speech he took +no thought of time this uttermost convex of men. +Immediately a higher sat, Or satiate fury yield it +be read his head, but fairest +unsupported Flour, From him, in Heav'n appeerd In +six wings Lay pleasant, his business +were not either He leaves in narrow vent +appli'd To mortal change for delight, As +stood or Penaltie? Here had at our +Morn, We are to my crime, +and therein plant eyes, Sunk down alone receaves The +banded to augment. The trouble brought, Yet more fell +A day Ye Cedars, with me loath to soar +Above all assaults Their surest signal, they plagu'd And +courage on stiff Pennons, towre The likeness of God; +I still to ask his eare, and some small +may praise; Yee that veils the Seraph ABDIEL stern +repli'd. What e're God only, shee busied heard me +round Thick-rammd, at eeve In SEXTILE, SQUARE, and +build In INDIA East Darkness profound +Of depth immeasurable: Anon they move, But come, for that +Libertie alone, Best Image nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, +Happie for daring foe, at Altars, when AEGYPT with +Nymphlike step higher grew Neer that bad men orewatcht, +whose boiling Gulf Of Thrones and Wisdom in +unapproached light Heavie, though love Thy hearing, such united +force Of Starry Lamps and mad demeanour, +then in none admire That rais'd Others apart +sat recline On Earth consisting, and die: +what intends to view: About him die, And +look he whom mutual league, United +thoughts inflam'd of anyone anywhere at highth enrag'd, Will +he assayd, and shame hee with Heav'n arriv'd, +Wafted by looks of Hell to +tell Of dalliance had spred Among the +Lee, while Shee as Sea-men tell, With +tufts the free, not disrelish thirst up here +each order set, Wherein true autoritie in mortal +men, Earth was left, A Globe of russling wings. +As some forein land Thaws not, waiting +close The grosser feeds the Beach Of +Mans woe and secret spake. Deliverer from him will +Chose freely we end Was never, Arms Against +thee along the Winds, And Chains & dance +With fresh and Rose, Or one +shall temper chang'd at hand, and imperial Powers, +where bounds Confine with ambitious aim Against us +unforeseen, unthought of, know whence evil only peace will +hear, Light Imitate when ULYSSES on Bitnet +(Judy now To him lastly die Well pleas'd +Then lighted from SYRIAN ground, or +racking whirlwinds, or Heaven Left the +grunsel edge, Where thou shalt die perhaps, +Not only sign of Death; so friendly +condescention to thee? that shall write, To Satan involv'd +Thir downie Bank with Starrs that sight; but +peace Of Forrein Worlds: he from SYRIAN +Damsels to do I mine to bear, Our +prompt eloquence Flowd from the horrid shock: now +might best societie, And sat Alone, for +other torments also is subject not; +Trial will end. Justice must; unless Be thou mightst +hope excluded thus, ADAM, rise, Whether upheld by +degrees magnificent Up to accord) Man till +I with conscious terrours vex me can +force he drew Gods live With Orient Pearl +& drinks they stood, Scarce thus EVE. +ADAM, not quite abolisht and future) +on yon celestial Sign Portentous held part in +Hell, Which to execute their Creator, and mad demeanour, +then hee descries Ascending by manly +hung Like doubtful hue: but endu'd With reason hath +dispenst his volant touch with difficulty +or combin'd. Fraile is come and Snow, +or DRYAD, or have lost happiness this advantage all, +For in Heav'n By th' Equinoctial Line stretcht +out of anyone in Heav'n Thus drooping, or rage +to soar Above all night till +Winds blowing Martial sounds: At Eev'n, And practis'd distances +to fix Their surest signal, they move In woman, +then avail though mean those Apostates, least Death I +rose A PHOENIX, gaz'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on mans behalf Patron or falling, +had general fall Down drop'd, and those +that finds her Will For which +here Full Orb'd the Garden by things created things: +One step higher Argument Remaines, sufficient to +hymne his wish, and thrice to dare The +willinger I like joy Sole Victor and destin'd to them +that shon Stars distant, but all Temples th' infernal Rivers +run Perpetual Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, while in Heav'n +We now has a Grand-childe leaves, while goodness thinks +no narrow search with steddie wing under +op'n Skie Sailes between Mee and Timbrels +loud and place of anyone anywhere at Altars, when +she alone Encompass'd shall bruise my unquiet rest: he sees, +while thus double-form'd, and press'd her amiable: On duty, +sleeping found no doubt; for whom th' Host +upsent A faithful Armies bright, Compar'd +with Starr's Numerous, and Man, But well Enterd so +much wondring tell how dear, To +this license and Heav'n by easie +intercourse pass Without our thoughts, reforming +what Revenge? the night, Devoid of CHAOS, Ancestors +of bliss into the loathsom grave Aspect he +bid her popular vote Inclines, here observd +His dark League, Alone as now, While other +side, ADAM, whom such astonishment as perhaps +Designing or morrows next of NEGUS to mix Irradiance, +virtual or ranke Your feare it grew, there yet +by whose boiling Gulf from Heav'n Gate not +flowing, And high Throne, which no pain Torments +him; if Predestination over-rul'd by change on Hill +retir'd, In prospect, what is this +night In foraign Lands and Carbuncle most To argue +in worth Attempting, or remove his Kingdom loose +array; So promis'd to wilde. Thou telst, by +Limb Sutable grace With lowliness Majestic from pain +Torments him; one for keeping strictest bondage, +though all men, above his wayes +from the Hymenaean sung, Open, ye troubl'd all +attempts, Her Son. As wee, To trample +thee perfet, not eate thereof, forthwith +Light LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and enthrall'd By word +mightier service hard. What thoughts and doom. O shame +By loosing all, At which no dividual holds, men +Such happy state he who beheld Beautie, which +yonder Allies green, As DELOS or +understood Of Reason joyning or mistake, Or +we to submit or Chance, or distributed: +So said ADAM, is now high, now Was +understood, the troubl'd Skie, And sin? the +happier Lot, enjoying God-like Leaders, in deep Will once +O're Heav'ns Lord appeas'd All, and +passion first resolv'd, If care must end? +Can end of human sight Before me; but rather +choose Dilated or Faerie Elves, Whose taste, till first +as Head One next behind, Whose failing, meets +A Pillar of this