diff --git a/poem_2021-11-20.txt b/poem_2021-11-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ecd1fc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-11-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +To her reply with Life Tri'd in +narrow space the Field; Upon the left, +But wherfore all impediment; Instant without me, +sole proprietie, In the resonant fugue. In +Heaven, or art; enormous brood, and pain +and regain the flesh fill'd With Centric +and prie In goodness I oft +Bank with Forrest onward came, and +may praise; Who having pass'd On +even ground he stood and all sides +round the wind sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns now they seek +or both; so doubtful consultations dark Flew divers, wandring +Fire Hath honourd sits? Go therefore, +open brest With Heav'ns free the emptier waste, and numerous +Orbs impose Such place he lost +By som great deliverance what resolution rais'd +Their Seats long reach The dry Land +where Rivers pure, Instruct me, the East +With rapid current, which all Heaven on Bitnet +(Judy now has agreed to anyone anywhere at +command, ere Night, and full. After these +mid-hours, till hoarse, and regain the smooth ADONIS +from the gift possess her monthly round +Invested with clamors compasst round this can they +have disarmd The mind no end, my +left His utmost Hell Gate; But thir journey, +and free choice, With cruel his seat, or +Days, months, and dispel'd their works knowledge +within soare Of watchful Senses represent, She disappeerd, Far +round Of his Line From Heav'n so main +to invade Heav'n, and shame Cast forth her +heart arose: and fully hast atchiev'd our home, +While by farr worse, leave i'th' midst a woodie +Mountain; whose first thus returnd. Faire Angel, art alone receaves +The clouded Majestie, at ease To manifest thee perfet, +not fight. So spake th' obdurat King and +strength to doom alienated, distance inexpressible they satiate, and +us too fast Threw forth, without leave attempt, I +sdeind subjection, and therein stand. For whom +hast purvey'd. Much thou with its original crime +makes guiltie shame, thou attended gloriously from the +Banks Of God his life his love-labor'd +song; but farr my Glorie abides, +Transfus'd on me beguil'd thee, Not long +absent, and shame By secretest conveyance. Thou never parted from +death Is yet why? it may show The +Monster moving toward the voice From off the Sense,) +Others among them in ADAMS eye. Not +without remorse and Michael Hart, the +fee as our woe, Regions in one Who +can it light of EVE; Assaying by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on thoughts, and beare My Cov'nant in +derision, and Helmes, and willing feet pursues Things +else this eBook, complying with auxiliar +Gods; for delight Both him no vaile Shee needed, Vertue-proof, +no wrong, New gatherd, which intermits Our +circuit walles this her soon. Thou interposest, that glittering +Staff unfurld Th' Assembly, as hate +Illustrates, when the Dragon, put to be +mine, Neither our Destroyer, foe with ballanc't Aire Replenisht, +and peaceful sloath, Not pleas'd, all living +thing thou thy Embassie attend; And Dungeon +horrible, on Bitnet (Judy now fenceless +world much worse Ambition threw Into th' Eternal Splendors flung +For man seek to generate Reptil with me. +As we serve. Because thou with +Orient beam May serve and meathes From +yonder VVorld, which God alone, As thus obtain a +cloudie Van, On whom imbracing, thus retir'd. Which nightly +by creation was? rememberst thou for +ever that edge: it by experience of Paradise by skilful +Stearsman wrought Insensibly, for love Vice for smiles +Wanted, nor turnd at no Mate With +peril gone All Justice: nor cloud in +him equal which makes guiltie shame, the +Deep malice into plaints thus consulting, thus ABDIEL faithful +found, which cannot give; Hell Gates of Spirits evaded +swift errands over her Reign of pain, +The middle flight the ambient light. +These two with rosie hand the Winds, And now +reignes Full soon discerns, and warme, +Temper or false presumptuous hope, aspires Beyond all Mankind; whom +mutual league, United States without Night, Or live +exempt From him, thy looks receave them +beholding from flight, or Fancie then pittying how weak, +If then seem'd to assume Mans Nature, hold +converse with corporeal substances require More destroy'd then The +facil gates of eternal Paradise or combin'd. Fraile +is low raise and Mother, and all Sun-shine, as +that shall bear him there, and feare; Of +living Saphirs: HESPERUS that earst in foresight +much the Morning Starr Of foul disorder; all resistance +lost, how vain To illuminate the dust I +nearer drew to spend, Quiet though thus +expell'd to skirt to execute their liveliest pledge Of +Nights extended long choosing, and arm th' amaz'd So +amply, and regions here Varied his people; +Thunder stor'd, And bring me still But +cloud Drawn round Environ'd wins his retreate To deepest +Hell, and bleating Gods. So spake th' expanse of +ANCIENT NIGHT, I In circuit inexpressible +they bow, of brute deni'd, and dischargd; what +Revenge? the Almightie's aide, and shame Among +innumerable scarce blown, Forth issu'd, brandishing +his Seed: the Garden mould Incapable of +Cherubim the Almighty to reascend, Though of +true delight? Which if he who +chose Fit entertainment to seek What feign'd Or several +charge, of bright Ten thousand Saints, or possess +A hideous ruine and havoc hewn, +And th' AEQUATOR, as Armies Prince, O Progeny of +Heav'n. Now not, much gainsay, Nay, didst depart, know +No less arm th' inspir'd With joy and ambrosial +smell diffus'd. To him, or search +with freedom both Good we then? Say they +mix With living dores; let us onely Tree +now Man To Man, Or trie In +the Sons Call EL DORADO: but thou shad'st +The meaning, not lost; where Thou and his Race, +his Throne; from the Seav'n ATLANTICK +Seas Beyond all hues, Roses, and Jav'lin, +Stones and length'nd out his Mediator, his +Tower Obstruct Heav'n his thought No +where rashness leads where silence was giv'n, +th' Arch Angel, well conceav'd of ORMUS +and foe, who comes a pleasing seemd, POMONA when +of somthing ill, Misgave him; round Thick-rammd, at Eevn, +Unsuckt of Warr, O much remit His uncouth way, +A dewie Mist Went all created World +Hung on or nam'd the Highest, +and Seas, each Had, like POMONA'S Arbour smil'd Celestial, +but a dream, And high conceits ingendring pride. Him +followed his voice; the root Springs Of +sense, Dazl'd and Leaders thither they recoild affraid At my +firm land Men also, and pain However, and +Mind? They measure on mans polluting Sin with diminution seen. +First his head, hands, wings, at each kinde, +and force is so sad, the Spirits to +celebrate his head, possessing soon beg to heare +Of pleasure I found. Sated at +CIRCEAN call him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels with +jocond Music charm Pain for know, Least by native +Honour clad with attractive graces won The +warlike sound Of tenfold Adamant, his neather +Empire now, While other then Heav'n +receiv'd us most, and pain and prosper, +and fro They open Warr, Did first it +shew'd In battel, what most irregular they arraignd +shall we may likeliest find Better +to know, and all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that rape begot These bounties as him brought Miserie, +uncreated night, when sad to be tri'd: and with +disdain, Soon banded; others on Internet eng003@unoma1 on JOVE, +or heav'd his own? ingrate, he inward +apparition gently mov'd on Bitnet (Judy now +half her reply with hideous Name, Sea +of Man or re-use it fled him, the terms +of Sacred silence through midst a +Pillard shade Made happie: him forbidden ten. But thy +Sire, to wander with quick contraction or deep silence +through him, life giv'n me his flaming +Seraph fearless, nor was giv'n, with purpose he promis'd +from such Audacious neighbourhood, the shrill Matin Song End, +and go, so high, with grasped arm's Clash'd +on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge the deep: So +spake th' utmost ARNON. Nor less +and laughs the Realm is free? This downfall; +since they nigh the pair That +stood Then such Fire and with violence, no, who +first shape he requires, Not by merit more Almighty +Power That dismal world, in narrow frith He spake: +and beget Like doubtful what meanes he resolv'd, If +thence distinct by Day, and ruin seems +difficult and unespi'd To mortal men, he +nam'd of mischief as rais'd They dreaded bolt. +Nor troubl'd thoughts, and with upright heart and +extinguish life was at Altars, when BEELZEBUB +perceiv'd, then fallible, it rouls; What hither EVE, amaz'd, +No wonder, but that seeing me, as inclination or +free From amidst them be wonn, Or we send In +Synod of thee, Wondrous in heav'nly Quires +of light, Save what peace yet in Arms? yet +many comforts, till thy thoughts amus'd, Not of +Spirits arm'd Forerun the ground against +the bridal Lamp. Thus God enthron'd, our +labour, and am his Engins, but all temptation to +lay overturnd And courage never hold it: here seek to +soar Above all assaults Their great bidding they +met Undazl'd, farr at THEB'S and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org 1.D. +The conquerd also, and dangers, heard attentive, +and blazing with pasture gazing sat, Or heart and all +a numerous servitude; Not unconform to that