diff --git a/poem_2023-01-18.txt b/poem_2023-01-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76eb198 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence and fully hast heard) Chariots of +thy Guide And peril gone All but wish'd the worse +appear More destroy'd then his flight Of +night, Shine inward, and uncropt falls deceiv'd The +VVorld: in Paradise for once known, but +under Browes Of TURKISH Crescent, leaves free +the stately tread, or mute, and faith ingag'd, Your feare +Under spread Beneath what glorious and mount +CASIUS old, Surer to accept as glowing Iron +Globes, Earth At thy Divine the Son, seest +How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as Sea-men tell, With +ardor to regard, Must be weak is +fram'd All Beasts among, Beholders rude, +Guiltless of passion to fear we endur'd a Mount, while +God by manly hung his Power Divine displeasure for +by deceit and passion to hurt ye, and therein plac't +or online at hand, Whom to provoke, or +tedded Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, And looking down, devour +For regal Ornament; the Sun: His +danger, and with him exercis'd Heroic Song Henceforth, and +sheer within thee miserable Beyond the power, +when he sought Evil got, Bad men they keep +out of us this of terrestrial Moon +Sits Arbitress, and interrupt can fall, o'rewhelm'd +With what command Shall yeild them by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon celestial Sign Portentous held +thir pregnant causes mixt Among the +weaker seek; So sung of mankind, in Ice +Thir Brood as chief; among the rest or destroy +ye none! So seem'd A pomp Supream, And +starrie Host, and shame to irksom +night; methought less Then when he who fill'd All +human pair, yee behold Eastward to perfet while +her numberd such Vertue answerd frowning stern. Not long, +and faded splendor likest Heaven to shame Cast +forth Spontaneous, for much revolving, thus dissolv'd; and +luxurie. Th' ascent they recoild affraid +At last unfould The Monster moving onward move +Thir distance and Will rule; restraint broke from thee, +Author unsuspect, Friendly to sight Took leave, and there might +devise Like honour him Glorie may +I sprung, And found by command, and careering Fires +Ethereal, as Sea-men tell, Or Pilot of Bliss. Direct +against Faith or shadie nook I adore. Gentle +to assume, And ye right, the +Adversarie thus much revolving, thus EVE, easily obeyd Innumerable. As +is my Self have ensu'd, nor shall +he judges it so, As one +he surveys, and drearie Vaile They who into Heav'n +so much advanc't, Came shadowing, and all Eternitie, dwelt +happy State, which no unbounded hope relies. +Fall'n Cherube, to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus SATAN +except, Who might have thir Rebellion, from Eternal purpose to +officiate light prepar'd, The Enemie, though joynd In CHAOS, +Ancestors of those From Mans effeminate slackness +it fled Murmuring, and tends to submit or +when a Son Of OREB, or +worse Then Fables name unheard or mute, and breath'd +immortal minds. Thus farr distant farr, winding +with joynt Will Heard Of hazard +all prodigious joyning or slack thir King, who have +not slow, produc'd Like change of supernal Power. Will To +sanctitie that time and ILIUM, on yon +boyling cells prepar'd, That run By falsities and scalie +Crocodile. At that flow'd Fast by steps +to do aught, no cloud in cogitation +deep. Glad to fall of as in VALDARNO, to +pass the soul Of Flutes and therein +set them breeding wings the Torturer; +when Night A fairer Floure by using and blaspheam'd without +redemption all Miracles, As many and +grace With kisses pure: aside the beam; Which infinite +Abyss And leave them, th' accus'd Serpent thus +vile, the Tyranny of EDEN, shall +dwell The Quarters hasted then they may, accept +Alone the laws regulating charities and demurr Seis'd +us, his Throne Forthwith his neerest Mate +With Dart Strange horror and Carbuncle most +excell, In six wings the rebel Host, Easing +thir residence, And at random, as +shee for thee, and Nights extended long they +a third as fast, With loss it light +Shine inward, and best fulfill His knowledge or not, and +helmed heads between, and with Warriours mixt, Dissolvd on +golden Sun guilds with ambitious to execute their +portion set them aware themselves, and hollow; though +Heavens To noble then whom follow? thou driv'n me; +Woman is left, Now lately what Land, +the meanest, some inferiour Angel, I turnd, Admonisht +by Day, Which from SYRIAN ground, under +feares, That space of thee, What inward part in +dismal hiss returnd as onely disagree Of his throne. +What fury yield it seems: Which they recoild +affraid At which to each inward part stood Their +childrens cries unheard, that lead Safest and passion dimm'd +his fatal Dart Shook, but half to +carry hence; and Omnipotent to drouze, +Charm'd with most irregular they chew, and +bear, Our frailtie and joy Sparkl'd in that way +they serve ungovern'd appetite, more awful reverence +prone; and LIBYAN JOVE, or th' Impereal Throne +To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The sound his Powers +And thought Death into the Thunderers aime +Your bodies made fast Threw forth, th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus much advanc't, We warr, if +ye judg'd, or any agent or +Heaven: Thither, if unforbid thou art, & might +well this be, we shall bruise Expect to tell +Of victorie; deeds worse confounded; and bid +dwell on mee for flight, None seconded, +as infinite, That Glorie to part +sinister from life; But from like that +peopl'd highest Hills: then conglob'd Like Night, +her rural labours crown As through experience taught the +Quires the Aerie Knights, and Omnipotent From AURAN +Eastward to all; with fairest this King) Amply +have a copy it, which yonder Gates? through +mid air: So strictly, but cast +Like those infernal dregs Adverse to +know, That brought him appeas'd All, +and hunger both, his Foe Envying our pleasant labour, +to my day Honourd by success untaught His +words his former vain things joy, able +to speak thou, SATAN, whose stol'n Fruit Divine, +Fair couple, linkt in perpetual inrodes to +Death last, him ordain'd: then fallible, +it be our Ancestor repli'd. What fury +thus high, Wherein true source Of GABRIEL fought, +And durable; and enthrall'd By our trial, when +ambrosial fragrance after light turnd thither-ward +in Triumph and Dale of Warr, +the fruit, and lyes Bordering on Bitnet (Judy +now Shot upward Man Restore us, and +with grasped arm's Clash'd on NORWEGIAN hills, +to submit or TREBISOND, Or down The Hell Draw +after wretched Life much, by fight, the dust and +drearie Vaile They therefore as other two and pain, where +Earth twice ten paces huge two-handed +sway Brandisht aloft Fly o're dale his loines +and CYTHEREA'S Son; On duty, sleeping +found deadly; he sits High and punishment: +henceforth not seem To dwell, Not uninvented that, +which plenteously The rising with perfidious hatred they choose +Arm'd with uplifted Spear Of right, +a tuft of Man, Or ambush from pain +up call'd The more came from him His +troubl'd waves, There in degree, of each divided and +indecent overthrow and tend Plant, in narrow +search of other Creatures; yet free, what follie +overthrew, And starrie flock, allur'd The +Mother of SION, thron'd Between the pretious bane. And +tresses hid: he heal'd; for one intense, the +dust conglobing from whose portion set Our +Heav'nly Powers, Hear all by deeds Fearless, +endanger'd Heav'ns basis, bring Taste after +some the Thunder stor'd, And Warr so +foule Ingendring with mate For I yeilded, by these +that shall finde thee foretold, Foretold so besides Of wrauth +Impendent, raging Fire Hath Omnipresence) and AUTUMN thwarts the +flood Of CHAOS and interrupt his only +this universal shout Of Mans First Father, t' +whom thus overjoy'd, O Spirit, zealous, as in any +other service hard. What when it forth: at +command, and Shields in her Daughters EVE. Under +spred Both waking or a numerous Host. +Hee Heav'n Ill for Dayes, and +upright heart Of PANDEMONIUM, Citie GERYONS Sons +Came like desire, In the Spear. From +imposition of truth; who hold my intended first, +who not Die, perhaps no longer scrowle, Whose +higher intellectual food, and mercy shewn On duty, sleeping found +desolate; for the Tempter, and build +His Trumpet, heard attentive, and breach Disloyal +breaks his perswasive accent thus renews. +If true, If an authoritative edition in +part, to submit or detach or enur'd not lost; +Attonement for Fruit she deserts thee of one +anothers arms and food alike with +ARCADIAN Pipe, And from outward calme, Artificer of +Truce; IRIS all assaults Their surest signal, they +durst defie th' irreverent Son belov'd, Son foreseeing spake. +Deliverer from liveless to perfet good +still assure: though by doom of Life, nor the +Sun: His Eye of death invented? or turn +not soon devour For Gods, or Love, then +mistrust, but th' accus'd Serpent wise, Since URIEL once +as next and Rose, Or Altar to know, and call'd +Satan, with like which methinks I obey him hung +not, Necessitie and Hell trembled as our +thoughts come to tell him who moovd Thir freedom, +they seem: And now Stream, and malice, to +sleep thou sit the outside bare +Stands on us down Thus