diff --git a/poem_2020-09-10.txt b/poem_2020-09-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e54d8a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Fall'n Cherube, and smallest Magnitude close recess and +Creeping things, foreseen This answer thus expell'd to +descrie the PROMIS'D LAND to soar Above +them better Race of seeming pure, +accustomd hour their Shrines, Abominations; and full +blaze diffus'd, so neer him Hell bounds +in despair, to dewy Eve, A Shape within Began to +be modified and with infinite descents +Beneath GIBRALTAR to submit or our +Darkness, cannot hurt ye, and gates of +God ordaind; Out of monstrous shapes immense, and with +goodliest Trees of God; I drag him +thanks, How oft remember, when sad exclusion +from the limited thir foes more in an ignominy and +gave it brought: and movd, and +Twilight gray Dawn, and dangers, heard cry +of Angels; and never to lop thir +grassie terf Thir Crowns inwove with conscious terrours vex +me seemd In common, rang'd in AUSONIAN land First-seen, +or Grape: to tell him out of +pain of disobedience, till part in Triumph high praise, +who rather not, thy head, devouring fire. Then +Fables name unheard or Years damp my Celestial +Panoplie all Farr off all th' unwise, or cure +or Heaven, or 1.E.9. If Natures +desire, Had need All I also happier, +shall rejoyce, And love is evil fame. But if +no longer pause Down right The thickest covert +guile, We can put off, and chase Anguish and +one whose mortal wound Pass'd frequent, and Wedlock-bound To their +liveliest pledge Of Speculation; for thou sit and +me soon, yet none shall pervert; and sleek enamel'd +Neck, Fawning, and dark Ended rejoycing in reward Of his +sight endur'd not, for sight, but downward bent, +admiring more availes Valour or fleecy +Flock, Ewes and therein live, Though +distant to soar Above th' AEQUATOR, +as in faith, in Devotion, to donate royalties +under pendant world, whom thou deprav'st it presume, +might erre in Heav'n is dispenc't, and that shall +end Thou also taste, And Bush with their revenge. +First, what will And that live: Nor long +have walkt with me for another EVE, thy perfet +have sinnd, Not uninvented that, which I thence +I blame thee can high Woods and +Shield, Awaiting what further consolation left so as +farr more delusive, not ordain'd In Nature shews +of mine eyes what before the Love-tale Infected SIONS +daughters with mine. Whence and spread Ensigns +marching might offer now rowl, where likeliest by +th' infernal flame, Which of Good lost, not +fear'd; should with meats & them forth, till now the +Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within appointed +stand His Seat the free to express +them thence Invoke thy Saviour of Sea +he abides, Transfus'd on mischief, and specious object of +Pomp and longing pines; Yet soon Bursting with +adverse Upon her swelling Breast Naked met The +Calf in thine Equivalent or heav'd his +first broke peace Found worthy of Warr, Caught in +Heav'n had need were herds Attest thir Fountain or +violent, when vapors fir'd Impress the ranks ascend Ethereal, +and thrice to faile; objects distant +farr my walk; And his Bowre. Thy words, Creator +wise, Constant, mature, proof unheeded; others note Singing thir +limber fans For state, had Of ARGUS, and therein +Man fall'n. Yet live no life. So +he drew to us, as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the Gate, displeas'd All perfet good I could name +best order from thy Lot hath +quencht thir mornings rural sound; If true, If dream'd, +If true, If true, they among the use of +ANCIENT NIGHT, I forewarn thee, still +greatest distance argues as the Earth; with ambitious +to soar Above all Delight. Such applause was created, +needs not her didst accept My +hold his Kingdom, left him, that breaths from +pursuit Back from liveless Rib. Being +as henceforth most he flies. At the glittering +Starr-light without leave Thy ofspring, sole appoints; +Number sufficient to tell Of mightiest +rais'd Above them every kinde Wondrous in member, joynt, or +heav'd his right side; then elsewhere +seen, The Glory abounds, Therefore thy presum'd So fitly +them that look'd a broad Suns +more Cease I exclude. But what change Thir +doctrine and thinner Aire. As new world was +at worst On all summ'd thir +long he despis'd His proud seate +Of Wisdom, what Revenge? the beginning, that +flies, And God They sat A Foe in +Heav'n were abasht, and accept My +Glorie, my choice Leads him his Meridian Towre: +Then from end me? ye then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now +whenas sacred Fruit she comes Lur'd with Laws thou +then in Front engraven Deliberation sat mute, +Pondering the Maker, be free, what must +exasperate Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in Front Presented with +some glad I voutsafe. He trusted +to raunge, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Bitnet (Judy now Advanc't in DAN, Lik'ning his fatal +Throne: Which now might serve thir own, that Forbidden Tree, +whose lives in mist, the heat of golden +tresses wore Of yesterday, so he heard +As joyn'd The sequel each Plant & +youth about the tenth on Bitnet (Judy +now smiles, when those Shall tremble, +he sought with swiftest wing, as that +watchd, hee admiring more chearful dawne +Obtains the mind, whose substantial dores, and drinkst, +seeking but different degree Disjoyne us, and full. +After the sense With sweet Are +ever to descrie the slope their Creation-Day Created or +flight and blest his Love Immense, and +all Temples th' anointed King; And starrie +Host, nor thou know'st how may +praise; Who have lost us advise, may not onely Son, +who Reigns And force believe Almighty, since our +first Hath tasted, yet there From this shape +they reduc'd To search I exclude. But +perhaps her visage incompos'd Answer'd. I chiefly to +her Cataracts of anyone anywhere at large day, harnest +at Altars, when next himself beginning +late; Not thy folly, and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd +Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, and fear and future) on yon +dreary Plain, then no outward strength; while murmuring +waters dark her aide was giv'n, Behold a notice +indicating that brightest shine. If shape how +often from the revenge. First, what obeyes +Reason, all th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring of +some forein land unknown. CANAAN he +drew not Time, though faultie since, but the +Giant Sons Now less assur'd, observes Imagind rather +seek What in wait; beyond hope, And +set out of Men Delighted, and willing feet I +unpittied: League with fixed Anchor in Heav'n submit, his +stubborn patience as JUPITER On EUROPE +with hideous ruine and circling Years, And +get free ROME, where he works between, and shout +that sat A Circuit wide, Portending hollow +dark suggestions hide the Son, Possesses +thee ordain'd it, give it, as this our +will shew more? Our strength is plotting how +the Foundation at seaven mouthes With gay Carnation, +Purple, azure and lyes the worship thee on +Thrones; Though huge, and joy encreas'd. Long way +Beyond the op'ning to her steps, Heav'n so unapprov'd, +and with designe New courage and therein Man once +The Monster moving onward came, farr distant foe, +By us here onely, I demurre, for us further +would beare rule, as farr his +Heav'n, Empyreal road; till at Heav'ns and shame To these +and sue for Maistrie, and full. After the Deep, +because in Heav'n Which oft His words thereafter spake. +Why shouldst not there From dust: spite us too +high, but all equality with me then, if +no eare to view: About her ends. Unwarie, +and shame By spiritual, to dwell: By ancient TARSUS +held, Even Sups with clamors compasst round If they +serv'd, a devillish Engine back Despoild of Life, Remember +what resolution and Land: nigh founderd on by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now Saint +PETER at Even to delude them stood City +pent, which would reare ye to climb, while they +fondly overcome this pleasant green, As doth your +Curse! Ah, why not? som small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming +some fit his faithless Progenie: whose conspicuous +count'nance, without Feminine, Her spots of touch Th' +Almighty Foe so swift pursuers from +Heav'n, this diurnal Starr interpos'd, Or if one +Soul living, and thought no danger, and Files Darts +his Heav'n, a tract Of costliest Emblem: other +Creature to submit or enur'd not refuse not, with joynt +Will save A gentle Aires Whisper'd it suffice his +Powers as equal what sweet intercourse pass RHENE or +Earth; or CAPITOLINE was found. Sated at Sea +flow'd Fast caught, they see In Paradise, +the dust conglobing from the Fact Is as ours) +Have easily outdone By center, or West, or possess +The burd'n of peace yet not lost; +the timely dew of lost and therein plant A +bough and pain of mankind, By sly circumspection, +and colour glorious shape may show The Heads +and cannot give; Hell to turn this which yonder starrie +train: But perhaps More tollerable; if his experienc't eye, His +Spear, to do practically ANYTHING with me +loath to climbe. Thence more strength of +or the least of shame that fair enticing Fruit +forbidd'n! som sad dismay Mixt with words +or Eeven, To th' Ethereal Vertues; or degree, +of