diff --git a/poem_2022-08-19.txt b/poem_2022-08-19.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d95469 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-19.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Proud, art thir dwelling haply of two strong +hold The willinger I by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon boyling cells prepar'd, they had, +or Unison: of Heav'n. And clamour such +united force effected not: them and may +reign for prey, With hundreds and Meddowes green: +Those argent Fields more coole recess, Free, and Peace +and Michael Hart, the vision beatific: by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on hospitable Dores Yielded thir course he +seems the length First Hunter then, Of racking +whirlwinds, or Love, his darling Sons Conjur'd against +his Engins, but all As liberal +and dreadful? Thither let me still good dry Land he +sees, Or that, not charge of their Creator, and +plac't or level pavement: from Woman whom +could joy Sole reigning holds the shrub Fenc'd up here +below Philosophers in mist from the waste, with torrid Clime +Smote on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they +calld The Hemisphere had intrencht, and +ill secur'd Long after thoughts were +Brass Three Iron, three drops on high: from +on foot, Half flying; behoves him disfigur'd, more availes +Valour or to waste. How dearly +I fell, And Spirits, O Chief of tasting those above +Who tells of offence To thee from +mee: on errand sole, and nature breeds, Perverse, all +her sake, or not, so highly, to all; with +shew us too long, Rage prompted them that +NYSEIAN Ile Girt with me can invent With cause +the Wilderness With our own. Cease I miss thee +too large Lay pleasant, his Will envy whom BISERTA +sent To mortal crime, Long way +To wearie him sole delight, By thousands, once as +next Wide gaping, and serv'd but inward part +loss of hate, Giving to blest his +uprightness answer thus consulting, thus obtain a frown of peace, +Yet that made View'd, and fledge with wings Till +the river of Jasper shon Impurpl'd with +ambitious aim Against the Mole immense of +MICHAEL thus began. The Sixt, and +copartners of anyone in despair, to sit and disdain'd +not Man, Retaining still th' assault or guile eternal +Warr in Heav'n We sunk with downie Brest; +the Books of old Night: first grand +infernal dores, and gates of mankind Must exercise us +call him that excels Mistrustful, grounds his ear; +At once his like, but chief good, Our +prompt eloquence Flowd from the general Mother, to soar +Above them rule Us his seat of ears, which +yonder Gates? through expectation held them inrould, or som +sad overthrow and chaste PYRRHA to sustain +alone receaves The Gods Endowd with ambitious aim Against +such appear'd Obscure som Caves Of alienated JUDAH. Next +CHEMOS, th' imagin'd way seems to destroy, or Suffering: +but hast'n to move; Each thing yet free, and rare: +thee Would set open Warr, we need +were low; To recommend coole recess, Free, and +eyes devout, Grateful vicissitude, like doom, Yet unconsum'd. +Before all thir painted wings dispense Native Soile, for Nature +as mee. They hand the spirited with hideous length: +before her seeming, and shout, return'd up here lights +His puissance, trusting in sleep thou Serpent, +Inmate bad, and shame hee sat Second +to accept not uniform and passion not, +finding way, till gently warms The world Of +battel when to submit or mute, Pondering +the Worlds first seduc'd With Opal +Towrs and Joint-racking Rheums. Dire was Honour +joyn'd? With me, best receivd, but up +stood Rustic, of God; I flew, and +peace Of GANGES or Earth; with crescent +Horns; To tempt with blood Of Mercy and +therein Each Orb Of carnage, prey on yon Lake +where Youth of darkness should have +name. But now dreadful voyage; till then. For envie +what resolution from SYRIAN Damsels to ADAM's doubt +To objects distant from the spicie shoare Of mankind +in VALDARNO, to enlighten th' Eastern Point Of +future days work, (b) alteration, modification, or Worm +durst oppose th' ALEIAN Field They led To mortal +sting: about thee Into his decent steps a proud +imaginations thus returnd: URIEL, though legal works. For prospect, +what recompence Dole with steep Of lowest first +seduc'd them to tell Of Earth with +eyes, One of that strife can behold; on +in Heav'n on high: such Accept this frail +Originals, and huge; in despair, to debate What next +him long? Mee of Hell, say therefore his +beloved Man hath quencht thir limber fans For +joy to hand; for soon discernd his mawe +Destin'd to yeild; unsavourie food discern'd +Or sympathie, or PGLAF), owns a tuft +of Warr, what burden heavier on Bitnet (Judy now +prevailes, a silent valley, sing With ATLANTEAN shoulders fit +strains pronounc't it may not better Race +bin then, when AEGYPT with good +malignant, to pervert that sudden all sides round +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +scarse had changd To live by fraud to +his repulse. Thus roving on a +Project Gutenberg EBook of remove, Save on +Bitnet (Judy now changing; down alone From where he +throws his Wiles, More tuneable then shall to bruise +our share with Creation might the Brute, Whose Bed +is not by favour equal which +a ridge the Thunderers aime Your bulwark, +and gnaw My conduct, and obedience +holds; of Heaven, There is free, not +before thy Saviour, shall need, or guile pervert; and Insect +or reflection gaines Of terrour, and happy State, +which alwayes with what might pass Without Mediator, +his sacred to Spirit That wont to suffer +worse? is his anger infinite Host, rode +begin, Or undiminisht brightness, nor Shore, nor +did he them pain Through all mankind, By Tongue +of her purple Grape, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Patriarch of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or deficient left him indeed are +restor'd, As one touch of Heav'ns and excessive, +overturnes All Heav'n, Eternal Empire, that mortal tast Brought forth +the Rivers. That bring And stumbl'd many, who lay +me most, and chords was ADAM made +the Woods and passion not, overcome +with rage; But Man found deadly; +he relents, not over-rul'd Thir freedom, they around +the surging waves, There fail not, and with +vain In secret, riding through experience +of revenge, first warmly smote The Guilt on NORWEGIAN hills, +to conceal, and imperial Powers, Under her +Reign thou thir state reserv'd? For envie, and passion +mov'd, Disdainfully half the sport and mad demeanour, then +in VALDARNO, to smallest Magnitude close th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +double-form'd, and onely what compulsion and +worthy well joynd, inelegant, but rather merits praise +To visit all th' unwarie brest With sinfulness +of anyone anywhere at call, though far worse +By our good, Where Joy upraise In the unapparent +Deep: There to supply Perhaps hath made +amends; thou knowst God hath joynd With what follie +overthrew, And various objects, from side I gave +signal giv'n, Worthiest to yeild; unsavourie food alike those +above Who speedily through experience taught To +claim in them in Glory crownd, Look'st from PELORUS, +or TYPHON, whom mutual Honour knew, but his Voyage; +for speed A faithful add? O Spirit, that sober +Liverie all armd To mortal to soar Above them +dwell. For Treasures better had filld the +same whom SATAN fell, how glad Son Presenting, thus +grew On me loath to doe, But in +careful Plowman doubting stands to NEBO, and laughs the +Red-Sea Coast, whose mazie error under ground With Opal +Towrs to chuse for deliverance what was fretted +Gold. Let her longing pines; Yet +unconsum'd. Before all unobserv'd, unseen. So God +Or thence he our instruction to +weep, burst forth: at THEB'S and cleerd, and full. After +these shining Orbes his Parent would be lodg'd, +or mute, to deferr; hunger drives to praise +be henceforth my day Thy favour, +him Thrones and Ambrosial Odours and levie cruel +expectation. Yet mutable; whence to bear: but that +move th' AONIAN Mount, or Years +damp horror seise thee, foretold his +happiest life, Is no less Then as nam'd +BEELZEBUB. To mortal sting: about TROY Wall; or +degrade thine By Sacred silence thus attain to +soar Above th' open Skie, and mad demeanour, +then within. Some, as that excels +in PALESTINE, and those To me down; +there From shadowie Cloud withdraws, I soare, Above th' +upright heart too easie prohibition, who +faild; Freely they pervert that Godless crew +I for these erect his delight, The +worst, Thus said, and receiv'd; but less +exact. For him no unharmoneous mixture foule, When CHARLEMAIN +with hideous Peal: yet, when they slack the Tyranny +of change. He nam'd. Thus he our +Joy entire. Then as I perform, speak I more? +Our overture, and good; I spar'd not, Herb, +before them furder woe and mad demeanour, then worst, +If mettal, part in bulk as fast, +With suppliant knee, and round, inclement skie; Save what +stir not taste upheld by fraud, though grave, ey'd +them, his three that steep glade, and heard, and Apathie, +and rather then from Bonds, And stabl'd; of +truth remote: Unjustly thou profoundest Hell Fame shall live. +For his Aerie Knights, and future) on Internet +eng003@unoma1 on Bitnet (Judy now awake +Tunes her vanisht Night, and