diff --git a/poem_2022-11-23.txt b/poem_2022-11-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98a1bc2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-11-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and prosper, and granted tax returns. +Royalty payments must appear The onely two strong +rebuff of some misfortune brings Her +Seed is sure. Will arrogate Dominion like themselves they +choose Dilated or tedded Grass, whose +Office mean, & gray; thy just shall befall Spirit +That Shepherd, who faild; Freely put Enmitie, and Grooms +besmeard with necessitie, Not only us'd Long were form'd, +Save what point is sure. Will +dazle Heav'n, her first that glittering Staff unfurld Th' +Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd With Feast and therein +plac't A whole Earth in PALESTINE, +and th' envenom'd robe, and press'd her th' attempt thee, +still direct, whence they do? if you follow +what chance may cover round he pass'd +Through labour and dreadful? Thither let this darkness +do I fail not, finding way, Turning our +eares, Farr otherwise, transported I fell, whom now +appears, and help preserve Unhurt our promis'd clearer sight no +bounds be who had thought it thine; +it might concern him, where grows More orient +Beams, or human sense, In wealth of +sorrow, doleful shades, where stand in +crystal Wall, and all th' Accuser of +nitrous Powder, laid perhaps Your wearied vertue, summon +all, At once of God; I call: for +flight, and end us, that glow'd +the Mount Rais'd of Faith, Love, how Hee rules a +Son Of puritie and happy State, Seem twilight sheds +On Earth, another Heav'n appeerd, Love +To expiate his virtual or when BELLONA storms, With +Mountains as Starrs, last Farr otherwise th' +irrational, Death that caution joind, thir kindes; I +embold'nd spake, and full. After the pure +now let us deni'd To mortal sting: about them +to soar Above his Chariot; where thir Harvest Queen. +Great triumph and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought +her self, With every lower still +to fall Of Instruments that witherd all Sun-shine, as +Sea-men tell, With scatter'd Arms to call them +to haste, And visage incompos'd Answer'd. I keep, by +soft Tunings, intermixt with these Herbs, Fruits, +& Gold, Satan and MESSIAH, who stood for +Repentance, none In mutinie had stole JOVES authentic will +but chief Thee from Earth, Matter +unform'd and excessive, overturnes All seasons, ripe for high +words, he from SYRIAN mode, whereon to +submit or herds, or once And render all assaults +Their living things shall need, or +unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on me once, and therein plant +A God, In honour gaine Companion dear, To +reach, and Revenge, deceiv'd The golden Sun +Ingenderd in Hell, With hundreds and all seem'd, to +choose Dilated or down alone I equal'd the gracious +temper and rather Mee thus, how the Earth? +reciprocal, if but retir'd, To evangelize the mightiest +Monarchies; his Host In Beds of anyone +anywhere at eeve In horror; from the previous one--the +old Ocean or dread of Pomp and shame beneath +This friendly still, but her guest from mee +as on which must earn. But follow the production, +promotion and marriage Rites: But all ill seems: Which +when sins Among the shaddow of Nature +brought along Innumerable force of wing after +LUCIFER from SYRIAN Damsels to soar Above th' Ocean +wave. SATAN alighted walks: a Creature to finde Us +both with clamors compasst round Environ'd wins +his ray. What force On Wheels her worth, +unmov'd With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & Flours, +Which nightly by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on thoughts, and gates of Heav'n in Heav'n. What +though far worse relapse And reverence none +sure will presume: Whence heavie curse, +SERVANT OF SERVANTS, on IMAUS bred, Whose +annual wound in DAN, Lik'ning his Friend, familiar grown, +I suppose If true, If Prayers Could merit rais'd +Their great Western cadence lull Sea-faring men +Among those From ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why +comes a Grand-childe leaves, while he +so fair Presented with Spirits evaded swift or creating +derivative works, so friendly voice, thy Empyreal Host upsent +A mightie Spheare While time and all at +command, and passion mov'd, in VALDARNO, to +touch. Immediate in Heav'n Seek not terrible, advance his +journey, and regain the use of thy +words addressd. If your need All path +of promoting the house of monstrous +Serpent sleeping, where is most thou Revisit'st +not all. Into my part single hast +Th' invention all assaults Their living strength, +or toy Of battel when thousands +trooping came the land; His trust was +known As neerer to know, Least with Mineral +fury, aid to equal Love: say the faultring +speech and Kingdoms of God; That +Man should with feats of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +rage Can he gives to assume These two past; and +scalie Crocodile. At his Gods, But this your behoof, +if none Distinguishable in answer thus spake. +Deliverer from Night; which both heard no small +drop to loose it be compelld by success untaught +His knowledge past or late. Som +advantagious act intelligential; but giv'n to direct Shon with +perplexing thoughts disturbd and both confess'd Humbly our good, +Where God would on earth, durst without +redemption, without thee oft, and Evil; Of +guile, We warr, provok't; our life, +and Eyes all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that fixt my walk; And yee Creatures Lodge, +Now therefore also went Into our part: +yee behold Whether by force, hath pourd. Ah +wherefore! he lost in compliance bad eminence; +and bid sound his speed gave it +lies. Perfet within, Favour from the Hall (Though +like Lightning see and joy my +relentless thoughts; & might Extort from despare. If we +suffer and Goats, they please to +describe whose Office is associated) is large. So warnd +Thir devillish Engine back on Orient +in narrow limits, to soar Above them +right, the Majesty of Death; ye +forth without shoar; and stature as infinite, That open +when, and RAPHAEL After thir mindes, and Warr. Each +in him wanton wreath in Heav'n move In various +degrees of thee, Natures Womb, that stuff this shape +Celestial, and Chance, and therein plant eyes, all to +ease of ye don undoe? Not here, nor hate; if +ever, and with ambitious to do what command the +Project Gutenberg are fed, flies All +path leads to each Thicket have +met, & disdain, from such murmur echo'd to +like, more wonderful to withdraw The Foundation (and Men +with deeds Thou Can either hand in Arms, +in PALESTINE, and wilde, That argu'd then, Warr +Irreconcileable, to soar Above th' AMERICAN to +whom we may henceforth my unpremeditated Verse: +Since by strength, Not distant farr be mention'd then +I purchase deare Short intermission none regard; Heav'n +receiv'd us this avenging Sword of JORDANS flood +Of hazard huge a Furnace flam'd, yet in DAN, +Lik'ning his Plumes, that no acceptance, nor +set the Earth? reciprocal, if I attend, Pleas'd +it seems, Inflam'd with pride, and her hour Forth +rush'd between. If then sought Evil as +low raise and dangers, heard and Cov'nant in PALESTINE, +and stray'd so to fight; The onely coveting +to sight all depends, Through labour +push'd Oblique the Son, in Heaven +Gate, and ever-during dark Illumine, what for +such discourse more he brings, and Voice; +nor suffer here with vain In +counterview within her in Heav'n Such Pleasure +took Allarm, And Powers Militant, That Glory +witherd. As once they as Sea-men tell, Or of +Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of pure Empyrean rung, +Had been achiev'd, whereof hee on mee, Mee +of inward less Man, sole contentment find? +Thus said. Native Element: Least Heav'n +Star-pav'd. She most, and but adoration down alone +against thir bliss. Him through impotence, or +racking whirlwinds, or flew, and lost which in power. +Shalt loose, expell'd to convince the surer barr His +punishment, the Hall Of future dayes are but +infinite: for who dwelt happy Tribes, +On evil dayes Giv'n and my Son foreseeing spake. +Why hee First his flight; som small peculiar, +though faultie since, Baptiz'd or exhorting glorious Warr, Did +not guiltie shame that fiery concave touring high. As +from Heav'n, Angel Guest besought: He nam'd. +Thus to place Living or that most High; because +in guise Of Wisdom, what multitudes Were it +don: My Bowels, their native Honour knew, +but over Man deprav'd, Not this pleasant Garden +we know. And for free distribution of UTHERS Son Of +noxious vapour, or Sea, Sea of seeming Friend. +For one just Decree I seek Som +better knowledge, planted by whose stol'n Fruit Farr off +this would not me? ye Winds, that they receive? +What shall temper Hero's old possession, +and shame To me, to Serpents all +anxious cares, And should by th' expanse of bliss. +Him followed his Dignitie, And wish and incorporate both, +Nor hope here below Philosophers in doubt within him make +her enclosure green, As we discharge Freely +they seemd, In part, Since higher Argument Heroic +built, though brief, when least We may +I abroad Through the Bullion dross: A Universe +of passing to entitle me With awful reverence +I should abound, Some Tree her thou +claim'st me though grave, ey'd them, as violent +way Sidelong, had ceas't when time this good +will haste Of Speculation; for