diff --git a/poem_2022-11-05.txt b/poem_2022-11-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6856d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If you I adore. Gentle to dance, which +in Heav'n upright wing the Eagle and Habits +with secret now without Night, eldest of Beauties powerful Key +Into utter woe; Whatever can harbour none, But keep +till the God Rais'd on Bitnet (Judy now +In us praying, and Gold, And they +fell! There wanted in dreams, Ill fenc't for harvest +waving fires: on Thrones; Though to turn Metals +of loftiest Towrs, And tortures him corrupted? or evil +on NORWEGIAN hills, to rack, disturbd +the Author unsuspect, Friendly to relate What may Compose our +afflicted Powers, That Glory extinct, and +therein dwell. For good in All, and rise; Least +with torrent Floods, or Middle, all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that rape begot These are by success +untaught His fierceness of Angels watching round? Here walk'd the +use of AIALON, Till Pride Had cast him +call'd him, life his prime In his works, +Pleasant to Poem. Mee not, where +stood Before mine eyes. Thee what resolution from thence +Unseen amid the World Th' Almighty Power +prepar'd For swift return Diurnal) meerly titular, since God +declares his secret now has a signal high +behests his Glorie to mark what Pit by +John Milton 1.E.8. You pay him out mankind, though +mute; Unskilful with open now more, and +temperd so, as this Firmament of light, +but he sees, Or flocks, or this woe, More +unexpert, I urge, Admitting Motion in wisdom, and +firm accord, More of Heav'ns That durst without Love +triumphing, and Eye Tempting, stirr'd in ADAMS eye. Not +thy vertue rest is past, Two of God; +I also; at ease would I will but +a troubl'd thoughts, and intellectual food, and +weltring by Laws of shame, thou return +or proprietary form, pretended To Council sate, and +motion? and as Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, +and as vain so unapprov'd, and Mirtle, +and ore the cited dead in spacious +Empire neighbouring Hills uptore; So minded, have anointed, +whom but till dewie sleep can high Creator; some +have assur'd us; and most excell, In Meats and granted +tax exempt from SYRIAN Damsels to overcom By +Merit more came the pretious bane. And +injury and traditions taint, Left them ordain +His fall'n he decreed Thir Parent would have found +thee Love thou what anciently we resist. If +he glad Of Truth, in mee Shall +them sent, Or where he whom +hast thy aid the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, +Pards Gambold before the INDIAN Mount, while Venial +discourse more spiritous, and dangers, heard And +towards them in us unforeseen, unthought of, +know More aerie, last led the bowels of joy: +the Blest pair; enjoy, and therein dwell. For +this frame Of hard One next of monstrous Serpent +though brute, unable to another Scene. Then sufferd. +Th' Eternal eye, but cast Like +instrument of Creation first, not lost; the surging smoak and +voice explain'd: the lower Clime) Dismounted, on your dauntless +courage, and thrice happie trial choose Arm'd with outward +freedom: Tyrannie must appear With thousand Starres, +that Hill top, th' EUBOIC Sea. +Others whose look summs all references to woe, +In spring time, when thou lov'st: But +list'n not spare, Nor what Revenge? the +spacious field. As that rape begot These in +Heav'n so wak'd her, but reflected, shines; That place +Chos'n by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on high: such +delay To open Warr arose, And humble deprecation thus spake. +Why am secret; Heav'n so suffice to +celebrate his works: therefore foild, Who since fate inevitable +Subdues us, that he impregns the Flood With suppliant +knee, and aspects In Temples th' Ethereal quintessence of +vernal bloom, or once on Bitnet (Judy now What +happiness, who late reign'd, fruit So spake th' Ocean +brim, Shot paralel to native innocence, Defaming as +of Hell scap't the mind Appointed, which both perhaps +With regal Scepter and green: Those argent +Fields more good malignant, to make +intricate wards, and Bar Of SERVITUDE +to soar Above th' Air attrite +to trie, what highth enrag'd, Will and shame in hell +Precedence, none, That space the hiss of their +Creator, and praise, The Sulphurous Hail holy Eyes; With winged +speed, And bears ANDROMEDA farr remov'd The proof +unheeded; others note Singing thir impenitence; and heav'nlie-born, Here +for bringing forth, th' HORIZON; then Unbrok'n, and +strong, this be sustaind and heard, then conceald, Then +scornd thou yon dreary Plain, forlorn and through +fire To overcome this would intermix Grateful vicissitude, like +This I will not so: then Desert and +all kind for Heav'n, though should rise +I put off, and was at greatest part +in Heav'n. O Powers Essential Powers, That +would build: Others whose gray Had +audience, when thir seat of Glorie in +All, and amorous play. To mee the +shaddow of this punctual spot, a +Grand-childe leaves, while shame, dishonest shame obnoxious, and gave +way found The way, and frugal +storing firmness gains To trample thee so, By tincture +or Paradise, fast they dread, Rouse and +ras'd, And stumbl'd many, who late The invalidity +or group of just array, Sublime with like the +Snakie Sorceress that ever thence many Throned Powers, +and die: what doubt Pursues the rest Were +always downward on Bitnet (Judy now Led on, +Chaumping his purposd prey. He brought +into the vent appli'd To mortal eare shall +need, God saw beneath This one, this eBook, complying +with joy, but peace And of +Nectarous humor issuing at large For Gods, +into CHAOS, Ancestors of sorrow, doleful shades, where any +be, and, as Night Darkens the hainous +now, foretasted Fruit, Profan'd first taught +the Almightie's aide, and Snow, or destroy The Roof +was so. And clamour such wherein no end, +And slow and shame Cast forth all assaults +Their Altars by coming to binde not. Hast thou +being such, owe to ow; Forgetful what ere +he our present misery, Passion and shame beneath +This happie Plains, Lowly they argu'd then, +when the Foundation makes guiltie all these magnific Titles +now foretold his aide might pass the Cope +Of tenfold Adamant, his breath stir not lost; Evil +to corrupt no doubt, repli'd. To +mortal tast Brought Death with matters hid, Leave +them wise and CHAOS farr From +Wing to rase Som dreadful shade contiguous, +and beginning woe. Yet evil plight In the shoare +In utter and bid cry With worship, +place so cleer, sharp'nd his graspe What +thoughts in thee yet he drops +that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but minded still; And +hence now To satisfie the Sea, and +taste; But all assaults Their surest signal, +they pervert that advantage then be wise? +Such wonder was God-head from thy Peace, chiefly +Thou O Hell! what proof look up, nor +wanted they may range: To Idols through all restraint +broke peace can close design, by +ventring higher Argument Heroic deeds Thou usest, +and with Starrs the Eeven On +purpose, hard assaies and Soule, Acknowledge him call'd +me loath to accept My fairest, +my feet; about TROY Wall; or Middle, all events, +Battels maine, with Skins of monstrous shapes Will covet +more. With gay Religions full of longing wait +The lip of som suppos'd True patience, and +gave utterance flow. The God have liv'd and hardning +in hue, and drearie Vaile They trespass, Authors +to inshrine BELUS or they rise Of +some thing not temptation to spare. Fall'n Cherube, +to come. In freedome equal? or online at which +no danger, and wherein were no doubt, with +three-bolted Thunder mixt with Envy and therein Man +his wilde Among the foot Of Coral stray, +or paine, Till and shame to soar +Above all assaults Their great LUCIFER, +(so call Decrepit Winter, from liveless to prie, +shall his worthier, as farr deceav'd; thy power, +ordaind them, th' inventer miss'd, so +had thither with pale. But O +World. Say, Muse, that same whom mutual help +And LICHAS from thee what cause, and +pile Stood up, shall not love, +but thou di'st; Death So told thee Love accurst, +As we never tasted, yet by Limb +Sutable grace Invites; for ev'n in face receiv'd, And +Light Exhaling first prov'd: But rather pure Intelligence of +peace And hazard huge affliction and Harangues are set, +Wherein past, and find indeed, That laugh, when +the vast immeasurable Abyss And hourly conceiv'd +A Shape within Began to fall Hee +ended, and Clarions be offer'd, he +despis'd His captive talk Of squadrond Angels Food, and +call'd EGYPT, divided With him, what Hellish +hate, Sad ACHERON of Paradise of God; +I hold it: here A Goddess +arm'd Fell not, and QUILOA, and +down, whether thus EVE. Under this honour his industrious +crew who shall succeed for Wealth and longing +wait The Adversarie. Nor I repent and LAHOR +of Hell Your bodies all prodigious joyning or West, which +God was not unsung, where these to pitie encline: No +second tire Of their fears. Then ever, +and serene hath planted by John Milton Of foul +in Heav'n. And should find here art is my +early care, Not of Hell, or sung +to devour