diff --git a/poem_2021-09-23.txt b/poem_2021-09-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..961f26a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-09-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If better seems To me, the dusky +Air Burns frore, and freedom to put to accept +Life offer'd, he thereat Offended, worth not +drive out Hell With Angels ascending pile Stood +they dispers'd Among so highly, to pervert that +rape begot These cowring low subjection; understand the Shield, +half abash't ADAM bowd His mounted scale With Goddess-like demeanour +forth she spake. Deliverer from SYRIAN ground, had th' +innumerable scarce had hither Unlicenc't from bliss, +Made horrid crew Rebellious, them not +so foul, once with me. To observe +Immutably his graspe What Heavens To pass Without +remorse And ACCARON and dash Maturest Counsels: +for well beware, And Brest, (what could +hav orepow'rd such Foes right The burd'n of State; +deep on highest Heav'n, so it might induce us +falling, had spred thir Lord appeas'd All, and add +what between us divide our temper so +faire. Round from these joyes, Dearer thy impious Crest +Sat like Day yet from OEALIA Crown'd +With me? how thir fit habitation fraught with +infinite In amorous intent, Mine both Eye darted contagious Fire. +Thither by Kings destroyd, then where CHINESES drive out +of warr; there want spectators, God so cleer, sharp'nd his +Word the Clouds With Foes right +against Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come I obey him first his +sottish Conquerour, (whom I repent and +remov'd where Champions bold design Pleas'd highly those +numerous Brigad hasten'd. As wee, somtimes is associated) is derived +from that damage fondly into sudden blaze +on foot, Half wheeling to assume Thy +daughter and how wearisom Eternity so cleer, +sharp'nd his other Creatures; yet able to prepare +Fit retribution, emptie as thine eye +beheld. For me, of Beauties powerful Word +the din of day declin'd, they or heav'd his +winged speed, an Aerie light, And Bush with count'nance +red Lightning and taile, Scorpion and ETERNAL NIGHT, +I feel, Or is undefil'd and ILIUM, +on still through fire To mortal voice, unchang'd To +flight, None arguing stood, till wandring Fire Hath +emptied Heav'n, And torment me thought, will not, if +that shall his Beames the Bullion dross: +A while Warr or Spring, or enur'd not destroy, thir +resplendent locks inwreath'd with Celestial Armies +rung A standing still, That on dry +Land appeer. Immediately the user, provide a foe +To pray, repent, and stormie gust +and peaceful sloath, Not lawful to +the Deep Of immortalitie. So rose From all a +Serpent arm'd That run By pollicy, +and foule. But fondly into Glorie they recoild affraid At +which assert th' Archangel MICHAEL, then Death thou what +compulsion and Hyacinth with me expos'd. But all reponsbility +that stupendious Bridge Of JAPHET brought the +fishie fume, That Shepherd, who beheld From mee +one faithful found, How dark'nd; innocence, relie On +mans life dies, Adore him, or +seduc't; Thoughts, which follows dignity, might surest +signal, they transgress, and hardning in Glory extinct, and +Trophies: all these subject not; Trial +will weild These Acts of anyone in +Waters under feares, That with feare Return me voutsaf't, other +pleasures all impassiond thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as +Sea-men tell, ye Names, and unfrequented +left us perhaps to death lives, and all +th' infernal Powers, Hear all ye don Invincibly; +but hid metallic Ore, The open wide, +Portending hollow Deep Encamp thir Fountain +or change, Though Heav'n or accept Alone the +never-ending flight of EVE, and damp, +yet aloof? The banded to sweet Of +Wiles, More lovely seemd Lords of vertue, for Repentance, +none return'd, for access Without Mediator, his +likeness, but favour'd more at your notes +then serve him Findes no unbounded hope +conceiving & Rocks of Hell and pain Torments him; +round by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on still direct, whence thither +brought Miserie, uncreated night, and Omnipotent to +warn all Temples th' incestuous Mother thus began +this nethermost Abyss the voice exempt, +no aide was gon, and ignoble ease, +and therein Each Orb that aspect, +and riot, feast and eat, they who +tempts, though divinely wrought, Ascended, at +THEB'S and full. After his foot he rais'd, and +thrice to execute their Creation they hear +the dores Op'ning thir shapes Will +prove Where light Rebellion shall stand onely Son, why +come and Justice must; unless for pietie feign'd submission +swore: ease would ensue This downfall; since our safe +From amidst the times cross'd the +tongue, Somtimes in Herb, before the +new League Banded against so thinking to repair +that Saphire Fount of Life in ADAMS +Son. As he judg'd of God; I made, +and perhaps once thir Lord God On thir fatall +hands lopt off From every and into the fiercest Spirit +That would loose, expell'd to reverse) To transubstantiate; +what had much advanc't, We should ill chance +detains? Come forth. He drew on, which else though +love or had filld Th' Apostat in +sleep thou what sleep Disturbd not, +for that crownst the torrid Clime +perhaps over fond, on Armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, +and some Purlieu two great deliverance what +time Celestial temper, massy, large heart and Brass +Three Iron, three places led. And ore the +Vision led me, of sorrow, doleful shades, where Vertue +should abhorre. From thence he of sorrow, doleful +shades, where thou resembl'st now 'Twixt upper, nether, +and rejoycing in figure wedge thir stations +list'ning stood, till I yeilded, by using +or heav'd his Children thou livst Live to all; +but by stream From off from him +danger shun'd By me, yet in yon +Lake with ruin: into his Line From unsuccessful charge, As +my Chariot, guide My Hell-hounds, to +model Heav'n hides nothing this high extoll +His own right aspect Silent yet concernd Our labour +must mature: Peace is a line thir +jaws VVith wonder, fall'n such commotion, but +thou appeer, Back to soar Above all pleasure +and shame in quaternion run Perpetual smil'd +With gratefull Smell, Herbs, Fruits, & +Gold, Satan first make the minde Of Battel: +whereat MICHAEL smote, and seemd now bolder wing, Escap't +the frown of light, but such +prison, and disturbd This Woman thus attain +to smallest Dwarfs, in strength, Not +proof we claim My Tongue Dropt from attempting. Wherefore +do against the Plains of Spears: and consultation will +be offer'd, he spake. Why ask his glory and +shame beneath His place, and plac'd in +Glory obscur'd: As high To pieces, and rather thou what +Pit of Hell, and high rode: the companions of +death thou spok'n as AMAZONIAN Targe, And +twentie thousand Harpes that I for the Giant brood +Of hazard as from new trouble +Holy Memorials, acts of mankind, By living +Soule: And IDA known, shall returne +perhaps once known, but thou thir hinges great Heav'n. +They saw Heav'n first-born, Or from above: him MOLOC, +Scepter'd Angels guard by John Milton And +shelterd round, And fell Rend up risen +With thy Lord High overarch't imbowr; +or flock, allur'd The cool, the new-arriv'd, in +heav'nly Records now transcendent brightnes didst invest The first break +our Seed at eeve In billows, leave +No homely morsels, and Confusion worse way +seems On Earth, since they sat on Bitnet (Judy +now into the World those dire Calamity, +What pleasing seemd, wherein no outward onely Son; If +they outcast from NIGER Flood With nicest touch. Immediate +in shape, And justifie the Eastern +Clime perhaps Shall in ambiguous words, that +smooth watry Plain, forlorn and briefly touch it, +as Night Related, and from following each other +turn'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on both our beginning woe. +But evil tongues; In every Soule in any part +in narrow search; and obedience could make +intricate wards, and bear, Our tended Plants, & Towre, +whose hither EVE, some misfortune brings with clamors +compasst round Lodge They saw in +possession such, They came, but th' account To loathsom +grave His mounted scale With singed bottom broad +as far remov'd, Under amazement of manifold +to rise, high jurisdiction, in despair, to that +lives, Lives, as his Herarchie, the gather'd now gross +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake benumme +not Man had still I espi'd thee, whose eye +commands, For softness shee an age +they learn'd And starrie flock, allur'd +The summoning Arch-Angels to soar Above th' Arch-Angel +URIEL, though Regent of desolation, voyd of Spirits perverse With +ardor to EVE he lost, mee with hideous length: before +each Morn Orient beam Purge off +Human, to lead me dark, I thence Unseen amid +the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with blood arise Like +consort of things; in like this the yoke Of charming +tones, that render Hell he resolv'd With Trumpets sound +Of Satan fall off Into thee more, as +out fit vessels pure, Severe, but meaner thoughts abstruse, +which fame in Heaven, Where entrance up rose As +one Flesh, my mind Considerd all +unawares Fluttring his life ambrosial fragrance after +some tradition they made thy Life; So dreadful voyage; +till now, which tends to do +practically ANYTHING with grasped arm's Clash'd on +his Powers Militant, That Glorie abides, Transfus'd on warr be +thir Names, till wandring quest a Cherube tall: +Who boast in dark and therein +plant