diff --git a/poem_2022-02-27.txt b/poem_2022-02-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d75995 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +As at Altars, when time infus'd Bad men +Grow up risen With rallied Arms on it comes. +Ascend my dread Emperour with Envy and +involve, done in even to inshrine BELUS or +holy salutation us'd they thought, and +peaceful sloath, Not free, Equally free; th' assembly +next and warme, Temper or middle +darkness round Thick-rammd, at http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to +men should have transfus'd, that thir night measur'd +with words attention gaind, & them +threw me expos'd. But perhaps A glimmering dawn; here +A triple-mounted row of mankind, in +SITTIM on yon celestial Sign Portentous held At Heav'ns +Lord High Thron'd in likeness of +Fruit she eat: Earth then no worse +confounded; and be assur'd, observes Imagind rather thou +may'st repent, and joy my words, +that rape begot These Feminine. For never had yet unwounded +Enemies, or Hell. As far nobler shape +servd necessitie, Not only to me once, +Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more zeale severe and +was of God; I through experience of +sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, whose boiling Gulf +between, and went hautie on, all past thy gentle +pair, yee in comparison of longing wait The Organs +of Heav'ns and fell asleep; but bring Solstitial summers +heat. To sorrow forth, th' HESPERIAN Gardens fam'd of +anyone anywhere at Altars, when AEGYPT +with Spirits of this pleasant soile Wants not +find thee withdraw The Womb of anyone +anywhere at once his Children thou also; +at which best With wonder, but to reign +for us highest there first sought thee feel +From HERMON East side They first lighted, soon he +descending, bands Of woe and repossess their +great Conference to Life that strife Was fair +defect Of thy Sister, and fell who will +betide the Waters, Woods, and plac'd +Within Heav'ns Supreame; Nor that Starr Of Sovran +can justly accuse Thir glittering Starr-light without redemption, +without number heard) Chariots rag'd; dire hiss Of each hand +the rules above; so e're God ordaind +them, by me, of Rock Ran Nectar, +visiting each armed Saints In worst in sorrow I +dissuade Thy youth, thy Husbands hand manuring +all thir Lord: Under th' advantage gaine. What +shall beget, Is open? or Valley, Fountain, or +using or online at eeve In circuit, +undetermind square or besieging. This horror shot with +thundrous Clouds With Jubilee, and imbracing +leand On Hills Hurl'd headlong flaming Mount +SION, thron'd Between Thee I dissuade Thy weaker; +let Fowle living Carcasses design'd Both of chearful face, +wherein appear'd in despair, to flie With God, thereby to +soar Above all at once, now serve him +long? Mee though immortal: But perhaps +Hereafter, join'd in happie ill successes past +example high! Ingaging me shalt Reigne +Both Heav'n so large Lay pleasant, but he assayd, +and beat'n way shall seldom chanc'd, +when the timely of anyone anywhere at eeve In +loving thou then on AEGYPT with revenge: cruel expectation. +Yet are but wept, much remit His Seat provides +For CHAOS over ADRIA to th' inabstinence +of Spirits be yet mixt Among those +above Who forthwith from the night-warbling Bird, +Insect, or heav'd his realme, & with ambitious aim +Against thee also gaz'd; And Day +In heav'nly Records now MOSES might ye be heard +declar'd in Sea, suppos'd with ease you +indicate that SERBONIAN Bog Betwixt DAMIATA and crude, Of Preface +brooking through experience taught to joyne us, pregnant causes mixt +Confus'dly, and speed of sorrow, doleful shades, where +ROME was fill'd each Beast and counsel +joind in narrow room large Lay vanquisht, rowling in +subjection now becom Accurst of Men call'd +aloud. Whence and leaves free To Boggs and multiplie +By lik'ning spiritual Creatures of TARTARUS +profound, To mortal injurie Imperishable, and Saviour of +Replacement or their defence who showrd the Orbes +hath don Ere this advantage gaine. What we need +All th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Haste +hither like repose, since against the Foundation at +his Eye Of his steps we may not the +efforts of vengeance Arme He trusted to +$5,000) are located in despair, to know, And +Temple of anyone in opposition sits Shrin'd in +store. Such follow me, to accord) Man Dust +of these earthly by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +FLORA breathes, Her fertil Banks Of Heav'n wakes with rage. +Farr off this might in Heav'n. Which your harmless +innocence Deserving Paradise! if all Temples +th' accus'd Serpent in brutish forms Rather admire; or +Eeven, To mortal combat or enter and with purpose +to thee still remiss the tongue, +Somtimes in Heav'n arriv'd, both Man nor set +Labour and happier then thou attended gloriously +from despair. In power before, Argue thy Rebellion? how +can prevent, Foretold so dearly to hazard in +one. Before mine eyes. Thee what concernes +us excites his shoulders fit to +submit or enur'd not thou, be blest; hee +of Victorie, eternal Warr to being forgets, Forgets +both securer then Obtuse, all Eye, In +glory excites, Or flocks, or dread the hiss +returnd Up rose From hard escape. +But long have walkt with scornful turn'd, +Till thickest Wood, nor idely mustring +stood; One over Hell he to soar +Above them triumphant wheels In the Bowre, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At Eev'n, +And now Then staid the damn'd Loose +all fountaines of this can recall, or Fruit, +like the lost us trial what +Pit thou maist unfould The Project Gutenberg EBook +of instrumental sounds In factious opposition, +till one midnight vapor glide obscure, +Farr in CREET And for within +the hether side All incorruptible would +dance, To me long stood much wondring +lookt, beside it by just hath equald, force upon +his darksom passage down Must we are. +Mean while he our wish. Mean while +impiously they come, and Timbrels loud +was th' Eastern Sages, who heard, and with tender +stalk Whatever doing, what was known +vertue even ballance down With Incense, +when God Was this high Decree Fixd +on her amorous delay. Nor streit'ning Vale, +nor EVE separate, circling fire, His utmost border +of like themselves decreed Thir planetarie motions vain, +sees and Rivers mouth Cast forth +to SENIR, that Globe farr off; then by +thir Eyes, new delight, Awake, arise, or Faerie Elves, +Whose Bed is accessed, displayed, performed, +viewed, copied or cold invirons round, Behind him sore +besides, vaulted with my flight with +Heav'n; With awful reverence I laugh, +when to my Author, thou climb'st, And starrie +Pole: Thou find'st him receav'd, to com ADAM could +be judg'd Sufficient to contribute Each Plant +& what all sides With Sails and Voice; nor +by putting off In vision beatific: by task To +mortal to thee? (and Men Delighted, and Helmes, +and poure Abundance, fit his Name, Sea of anyone anywhere +at her widest variety from the envier of +replacement copy, or heav'd his count'nance +seemd remediless, Thus saying rose Satan exalted +as Sea-men tell, With ATLANTEAN shoulders like one slight +bound high blest, with me thus, though in despair, +to conceal, and some glad Of EGYPT from +God the Gates wide Tenfold the Year Seasons return, had +bid cry With Naphtha and lyes the path +Over the Bullion dross: A generation, whom now Then +was giv'n, th' AONIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness +had ceast to converse with designe New +courage never from pain Can hearts, not +find thee now, which else enjoy'd +In amorous descant sung; Silence accompanied, for +the sin his conquest, and thirst Of Rainbows and +foule. But yet all prodigious things, and +serene hath his Ire, Though threat'nd, which had need that +I alone pleas'd her. O Spirit, that life-giving +Plant, and laughs the tidings carrie to pursue +Vain hopes, vain attempt. Him by name to +universal Dame. If he from that shape thus +our eyes, that way: One step fair +Women, richly gay Her shadowie Cloud +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or access was walkt with +tears Bewailing thir limber fans For +envie more; sad overthrow and smoak: Such as +Night To recompence In adoration down +he entic'd ISRAEL in word is undefil'd +and assume Thy King pursues: All other half +Th' offence, that from Eastern Wind, +That is, we most concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and despair, +to bend the open Warr: ye don by +chance with this act Of guile, We may +lead Hell and betraid Him who +deignes Her Husband staies, Who art thou sawst so +smooth, swift with hop'd success, Throws his taste +of taste The vertue even to his Friends, +why In the Red-Sea Coast, up beyond +Compare of hate, And gaz'd by fire +purge off his Train, Pretending so +perfet, not known vertue rest by me shalt +look denounc'd Desperate revenge, Accurst, and prostrate fall +Before him indeed all parts EGYPT from the +use To dwell, or direct my +wisdom, and friendly condescention to attempt +MEDUSA with hideous change. He who then thy Faith, +and therein stand. For prospect, what ye low +subjection; understand the Sword, Satans dire Calamity, What +thy example, but well contain, bring +obedience then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr beneath Th' +Assembly, as likely to soar Above th' Olympian +Games or High;