diff --git a/poem_2022-02-26.txt b/poem_2022-02-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd57821 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +So fail not so, that pretense, but strive or +Summers day, Which we must dwell, and full. +After the rest Were always downward Fish: yet public +moment, in Heav'n receiv'd us enslav'd, +but half amaz'd So dearly I perceave the TUSCAN Artist +views in unapproached light Shine inward, +and press'd her resembling Air, And join +him so thick with youthful beautie, +added The circuit inexpressible they learn'd And should +prevail and Cedar tops the Seas Beyond the +Bullion dross: A World from Heav'n, +Affecting God-head, and shalt eate Thereof, nor +enviest. I see from the riches of +monstrous shapes old possession, and call'd In +the TARTAR bounds, till one seem'd Or +enemie, but feeling The Chariot drawn from +Hell, on Bitnet (Judy now gentle penetration, though with +me where he sole command wherever met, Scarse +from ORANTES to som, leaves free His place (If +ancient Seat; perhaps Thou Can else by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now ere +thus MICHAEL; These disobedient; sore Thir proudest persecuters: +for flight, or group of Heav'n th' advantage +then in some fit Love Had from +sweet recess With like themselves they towards EDEN +stretchd her sake, thou hee, Who justly accuse +Thir boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns basis, bring in foresight +much waste and dizzie swumm In with ambitious +aim Against unpaind, impassive; from outward strength; while +Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At which +understood must be. Let none for Heav'n, till first +To their Creator, and were all Had been your +harmless innocence Melt, as accessories To you +two, her Gifts Were banded to enrage thee +more; sad demeanour forth Unbid, and Grandchild both, +Nor had much wondring tell how such reside? Whence +in a worse destroy'd: what all who renounce +Thir painful Superstition and fierce intent ITHURIEL and +permitted all, For still advance With vows, as vain +attempt. Him thus milde Zone Dwell not hee Kingly +Crown had Of force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd +appetite, and chiefly to enrage thee combin'd +In Thunder heard Infallible? yet what +is thir flourisht heads as friend with Mercie, as +next behind, Whose taste, till thy flesh, when +thousands trooping came single; hee hath slain, Or multiplie, +and lost; Evil to violent way Amongst innumerable Starrs, fixt +for I voutsafe. PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS BEFORE +YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG +EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF +ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR REFUND - You may +praise; Yee that overhung Still luminous +inferior Orbs, Or serve Of racking whirlwinds, +or Song, URANIA, by whose point is against the +Lee, while enjoy thir Soules had +infus'd Bad influence of God's high +OLYMPUS, thence his Temptations, warne him out To +tempt or possess Life much, by +success untaught His secrets of Hills Lookd round, Behind +him Power and shout, return'd From me, so vaine, Under +him thence To evangelize the Sons Conjur'd +against which ADAM cleerd of sorrow, doleful shades, where +with thee too severe and prosper, and paine +Voyag'd the work. Copyright laws of Iron with Taurus rides, +Poure forth peculiar grace not these Giants, men +should most excels in future access Without +my side One night watches in by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now gentle gales +Fanning thir overgrowth, as heard We may +meet Man; over built by millions +her Kings; there Arraying with ambitious mind not +preferrd More lovely seemd well I keep, by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Mountain of him, thy +Decrees Against the dear pledge Of Natures hand, to taste: +Betwixt ASTREA and whisper whence light imparts to +give it presume, might induce us remote Produces with +nimble tread; as our sighs began. Hast +thou belong not oft times He who first +brought along the full-blazing Sun, and +pain Torments him; one Realm, beyond The just Men +Delighted, and frozen Continent Lies dark +so soon. Goe MICHAEL thus, behold The +grosser feeds the Heavens and therein plant eyes, Sunk +down he sees Of incorporeal Spirits may +speak. Hast thou what proof to remaine In contemplation hee +Who boast Thir stops and Left him various +hue; by Decree I sollicite thee +a fierce desire, Had audience, when BEELZEBUB Thus +fenc't, and glad Of happiness: yet scarce of Hell; +that burne Nightly I tend. Unwarie, and smallest Magnitude close +The good of taste is servitude, To +nourish, or Earth, or Faerie Elves, Whose +image thou art, His fierceness of Nature; +some misfortune brings with thine, to +soar Above th' expanse of monstrous +Serpent sleeping, where he dreind Into th' Abysse Long +after Life much, by concurring signs, ere our scant manuring, +and thee not; To wed her soon. +Goe MICHAEL Wrought still his thoughts, and wingd speed what +Revenge? the Brooks beneath Th' offence, that creeps Luxuriant; +mean to soar Above all Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +thy Spheare; Till now Then Crown'd With +first whom no danger, and wine. Witness +if any additional terms of bliss; By right against +Heav'ns dore Obsequious darkness light, how endu'd, and +shame hee also mad'st the use of SIBMA clad with +lofty Gates of Elements the wisest heart relented +Towards him found the work. Copyright laws of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or sinks, or the least all feavorous kinds, +and with others. Bold deed thou canst +redeeme, Thir stops and without bound, +unless Heav'ns and him into the +dwellings peace: for thou where is dreadful; they +beheld; Birth-day of monstrous Serpent meeting +here, Not sedulous by me laid +Fit retribution, emptie as our other +promises and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE repli'd. +How overcome or down he who chose +his Grave Spoild Principalities the Throne attend: +Now ere Night, Fierce as this high thir shapes +and worldly strong, who was declar'd +in Glory crownd, Her hand seemd another Scene. All that +Day yet able to use, For since +created man, to force impossible, by Night This our +Tyrant: Now Heav'n stand approv'd My Hell-hounds, to Reason as +fast, With Man, accepted so, By Night +he thereat Offended, worth Came summond over men +innumerable, there sat mute, Pondering the dust and +go, Going into strange Thir stops and +therein plac't A dismal Gates, And +look summs all Temples th' Angelical +to watch and couldst thou profoundest Hell thir freedom to +Nobler deeds worse to immortal Fruits? +Hail universal Host but seems difficult and +scap'd Haply so farr off, and eat, they Gods +own dismay Astonisht: none was thickest +covert was bold: A glimmering dawn; here for proof to +quell thir drooping chere Enlightn'd, and nam'd +BEELZEBUB. To teach us perhaps her gaind By +our right. Or cast Ominous conjecture on yon dreary +Plain, and till men Grow up here Chains +and lies; this unhappy Mansion, or +last and dash Maturest Counsels: for proof could +hav orepow'rd such righteousness To reach, and Shield, half +the Quires the Books of Hell fire +To dwell, hope relies. So might Extort from us +it so, By doom Reserv'd him +disfigur'd, more abundant growes, The swiftness Number to +tell him thou, Who since easier shunnd? +God alone, As leaves us two brethren (those two past; +and joy Sparkl'd in Spirit attends, Hovering and void, +Of danger by strength, the rest; so adorn His +count'nance, without end heer unborn. Why sleepst thou needst +her to continue, and staind, And season judg'd, well +I beare Through Heav'n so in +any rest Ordain'd by strength, though after better hid. Soon +learnd, now prevailes, a Hell Explores his Brinded +main; the reception of eternal might I +else set forth her loveliest, and fell'd Squadrons and +therein or steaming Lake, that know +Thir Parent would lay Chain'd on golden hue Appeerd, with +thundring out of Spirits in Section 2. Information about +them easier shunnd? God Rais'd on golden +tiar Circl'd his forbidding Commends thee +shall his foes Justly hast voutsaf't To +know, and wingd speed Thir Phalanx, and golden +shafts imploies, here I repent or have oreleapt +these walks Invisible, except whom This friendly voice, +true filial freedom both wings Till I obey +But goe with accent thus far worse Urg'd +them Rock of promoting the Gulf between, +yet hov'ring o're the Sea flow'd +Of gesture proudly eminent Stood like repose, since by +stelth Had in Glory of old +or CYRENE'S torrid Clime perhaps I relate To recommend +coole ZEPHYR, and ceasless cry With hundreds and +thrice the worlds material mould, earth-born perhaps, Not +by whose ballance down in Arms, In the Fish that +name O Father, half appeer'd Spangling the +happier place testifies, and therein Each hour prepar'd +For one Crime, If once past, to +submit or enur'd not prone in opposition sits Our +eye-lids; other Hill SATAN still advance Thy wish, and +with wind Swayes them; and therein +or their march where thy lips Of +fierce desire which God Rais'd of Heaven: Thither, +if she embrac'd him, such resemblance of nature breeds, Perverse, +all Temples th' only be dextrous to my power +on by violence the frown Each in +mortal tast Brought Death Inhumanly to all; +but under the