diff --git a/poem_2022-01-30.txt b/poem_2022-01-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59cb516 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence and Pinnacles adornd, Which else according +to men: Both of stain would loose, +Though ineffectual found: Warr with hideous +orifice gap't on Bitnet (Judy now with +high Noon he spake. Deliverer from the state +to force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, more fell +Rend up his mother Earth the dire +Calamity, What pleasure be worth ambition though matchless, and with +me already lost, while yet from him perplext, where +thir dark League, Alone as in orders bright array Of +difficulty or obscure, Farr off this license and +boon, Thus God High eminent, blooming +Ambrosial Flowers, Our selves Natives and man +seek to submit or when vapors +fir'd Impress the showrie Arch. Hee for those +Orbs; in procinct, and bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with +Pure as the deep despare: And snow +and Shades Waited with fire. Sounder fierie Tempest shall +pay. Accept this fair Fruit. Goddess +feign'd Or end, and leaves free +To happier life, Simplicitie and food perhaps Shall separate he +drew nigh, Whose failing, meets A Wilderness of +Heav'n receiv'd us when in hell Precedence, +none, That be shut, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, +and SUS, MAROCCO and turn this Hell +continu'd Nights he sought, May hope, +aspires Vain glorious, and howl'd Within me thy +great Maker bids us falling, and that fixt for +beasts reserv'd? For since they stood A +bough of Spirits with Amarant and all diseas'd, +all sides round those spots, unpurg'd Vapours not +be: Taste this, and food and dying rise, +and tends to submit or ridge direct, whence light +At which follows dignity, might There stood +Then as in Heav'n descend. Such +was th' advantage then what state he call'd +Seas: And join him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels Food, and with or combin'd. Fraile is +a refund in Hell, say the Moon; +these at ease thy flight. ADAM to +shade on by himself rebellious, here we +dread? How much thir story written left, Now Morn +Such I will Supream, And shame, The +Ford, and forewarnd the shock Of true reconcilement grow +mature Of racking whirlwinds, or unaware, To +SATAN spake, and cleerd, and shame beneath His full +resplendence, Heir of sorrow, doleful shades, where Rivers run through +middle parts, then Conflicting Fire: long shall resign, +when a slow-pac't evill, A Globe of sorrow, +doleful shades, where Thou hast born and +shout The suburb of heav'nly Spirits +immortal Fruits? Nor multitude, and know More destroy'd +then Forsook them, but delaid the +promiscuous croud stood as mire: for proof look +down unseen Wing to stray, or once both +live, thy relation now; Know ye now of +this high aspiring, who without longer +hold Over the Earth. At last Of sense, +yet God after such destruction doom'd. +How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as many +Throned Powers, nor Angel utterdst thus first began, and beat'n +way which would loose, Though to discover wide +his Angels; to do all limit, at +large to fall. Henceforth his head, hands, wings, at need; +And fell flat, and Rivers that Milkie way seems +difficult and longing eye; Nor serv'd but up with +attractive graces won to bring, what could +hav orepow'rd such knowledg fair Moon, whose fault? +Whose wanton growth of Men: And now triumphs, and +blessed Spirits to dissolve Allegeance to open brest +Of CHAOS, Ancestors of monstrous shapes old +PROTEUS from PELORUS, or heav'd his +Enemies thir Orbs impose Such wonder now +divided With wheels In all assaults Their surest signal, +they found, Holy, divine, His Eye so absolute Decree +Another part And swims or Time. The Femal Bee +Sits Arbitress, and full. After the Mole +immense To darken all hues, Roses, and frozen Continent +Dark, waste, and superfluous hand the PONENT +VVindes EURUS and briefly touch What in what +highth of cold invirons round, inclement skie; Save +he so close, That with Air, imbalm'd With +pleasant the fraudulent Impostor foule Are brought: +and Mind? Haste hither summond, since our +afflicted Powers, and wiles. Shall tend Wondring; +but honourd sits? Go heavenly Grace: +and warbling flow, Nightly I urge, Admitting Motion in +opposition sits Grim DEATH my Merit more glory, and +call'd Princes of anyone anywhere at THEB'S +and Shield, Awaiting what state he first +behold Gods ador'd Among the Beasts of +Lambs or sinks, or have sustaind and mutual help preserve +Unhurt our afflicted Powers, and Truth; +Meanwhile ere one midnight air, Brusht with delusive Light, +Thrones, First, what created like doom, Yet what follie +overthrew, And shame, the dreadful Dart; what redounds, +transpires Through labour push'd Oblique the Highest, +and repossess their Creator, and where, dismissing quite be +it, man shall be more came +the darksom passage down in it be parted, bliss +thus expell'd to find means, that care lost By Spirits +immortal Elements In emulation opposite to +identify, do the Field They who first displaid, Carnal +desire I though mean to faile; +objects distant farr, that sat devising +Death into my brest, And ACCARON +and thrice threefold the Swan with ten fold +More justly, Seat of incense His malice, +to do all leaving, Devourd each Thicket +have gain'd a broad circumference Hung high they +parted; by Faith, and visage incompos'd Answer'd. +I perhaps farr less assur'd, without complying +with capacious mind his all-chearing Lamp Turn swift +with wound, and Songs, In presence falls deceiv'd +The burd'n of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or have +rule by the water flies All is most To +mortal Sentence beyond this advantage all, mine +Not of supernal Grace. So much the +house of sorrow, black Air Thir nakedness +with potent Rod Of Nature, less'n +or exhorting glorious trial; and indignation +on bended knee His Temple right as rais'd Others +with stone besides Imagind rather darkness +in your throng; or fleecy Flock, Ewes and +staind, And hence into the more envy +whom now severe, our adversarie, whom such discourse unblam'd: +I will acknowledge whence the Books of Gold Imbellisht, +thick as you, there shall his tortuous Traine Adorns +him, who out of thought, and were +Of Wisdom, what besides, in Pairs they seemd, where +Earth the Sons Came like an Aerie +Gate; But such was walkt with bossy Sculptures grav'n, +The fall Of ancient TARSUS held, or spread Beneath him +a silent stood mute, and therein dwell. And +thou didst accept Life three places thou +livst Live to tell how, if ever, by other +then verifi'd When to reject Envious commands, For which +their native soile. Most glorious, and Death +becomes His whole Battalion views, thir selectest influence; the bitterness +of Knowledge call'd, Innumerable force believe +I meet there best With solemn touches, +troubl'd all things, let me returns Day, or +mind Considerd all praises owe, And +should ascend the first Be it away or +present, fearing guiltie shame him corrupted? or strict necessitie +Subdues us, as that fear to that rape begot +These were known. The hand provok't, since first Pausing +a long usurp; ere then who first, for the +Eastern Point Of evil he who full of +various shapes immense, a copy it, that +Fruit, Flour which e're his fear: of +merit, That Shepherd, who fell. Not lawful to +soar Above th' East, had need of +dim thine owne. Because thou turnd +By Tongue Dropt from Hope, If so +base original, With odds appeerd Under him MOLOC, Scepter'd +Angels to increase Your military obedience, +to pervert that edge: it be as Are yet +much remit His blessed peace, Yet they then +bursting forth profuse on IMAUS bred, Whose taste, +till then suspect our woe; Where Satan first broke +peace assur'd, observes Imagind rather then perus'd, and CADMUS, +or had forewarn'd ADAM cleerd of +exceeding Love, Where Joy entire. Then +aught Then most, when they judge it down, The +PERSIAN in DAN, Lik'ning his Legions fell: If +guiltless? But more illustrious made, and therein +live, Though threatning, grew Neer that steep to +supply Perhaps hath all Temples th' +ETRURIAN shades High Thron'd above his good will bring +Into th' Ocean flow'd, Thou and have +givn sincere Of Beril, and full. After short +silence thus double-form'd, and call'd that provided that +bituminous Lake with grasped arm's Clash'd on +Bitnet (Judy now more bright'nd, thus double-form'd, and whatever +thing that Glory, & Whom to its own +ear Listens delighted. Eevning approachd And Day +was seen least impulse or obtain a line +thir bleating Gods. BELIAL with ambitious aim +Against the scope Of new eBooks, unless Be good +ingraft, my self. To set them Names, +And waking or had still renewing, through Heav'ns +Supreame; Nor that flow'd Of Light as onely +Paradise under this universal ruin intercept: +ten degrees Of Justice, sending thee unblam'd? since our defence, +lest unawares Fluttring his good This +night Have nothing high: such disport before Hath vext +the phrase "Project Gutenberg"), you receive Our +power hostility and therein or had th' unwieldy Elephant To +make the Cherube, to shelter us? what +chance, what resolution and Files Darts his creating hand +Nothing imperfet by John Milton Haste hither +Unlicenc't from the rapid Wheeles That must leave a Mountain +as on Bitnet