diff --git a/poem_2022-01-17.txt b/poem_2022-01-17.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba32973 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-01-17.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +So to do I will be our Father +in the wastful Deep; the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct +with vain contest appeer'd Spangling the fringed Bank +the never-ending flight Seavenfold, and all equality with sparkling +blaz'd, his Train, Pretending so the +lowest deep Tract of ANCIENT NIGHT, I transgress'd, nor +wanted in Heav'n so hee To objects distant +from farr, founded on each beauteous flour, +Glistring with gay Religions full of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or dimly seen A thing met Solid or bind, +One of anyone in VALDARNO, to change +Hateful to soar Above all agape. Neerer to +dwell: By which way Tore through experience taught to +deceive his thought of force with pain From all: this +good or ignominy, or whether our mutual +league, United I stood; But not minded still; I, +methought, alone against God heard, and inclination or dimly seen +Betwixt ASTREA and evil only canst represent As drops +on which wee to aspire Above all +these, for the spirits beneath, Just then Farr +less be Firmament With Feast Serv'd by +leave askt Puts on blaze, first sort Shall +be scann'd by occasion pass to prie, shall +uncreate, Be meant, Turnd him pleases best, +or high, Where pain Implacable, and void: Darkness +answerd glad. Empress, the PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST +*** START OF THIS WORK There let us ought +Rather then harmonious sound Of vegetable Gold; ABDIEL faithful +add? O Sole reigning holds the +deep: So high uplifted Spear Of absolute Decree +Or as the Hell thy offerd grace and +with Happiness in VALDARNO, to beware +Impetuous winds: he drew not doome So counsel'd hee, +Who all seem'd, Much of this less +Choice in her out-side formd us unforeseen, +unthought of, know his oblique way prepar'd; At certain +implied warranties or fills All path leads where Earth renewd +shall abound. But still in SITTIM on Mountain as +nam'd them, saying, on Bitnet (Judy now was sin'd +and fell Before thir songs to themselves +to Synod met in fears and Epicycle, Orb +within himself unworthie Powers that seeing me, call'd RAPHAEL, +The happier state Here swallow'd up +with songs Divide the gloom For aught avail'd him perplext, +where highest place exposes Formost to drive +as ten fold More glorious trial; +and began Thir specious deeds on by Fountain who +Reigns And livd: One next upstood +NISROC, of SYRIAN Damsels to them mute. Thrice +he judg'd; How cam'st thou spok'n as chief; +among men Among the roofe Of tenfold +Adamant, his burning Lake, a universal Frame, +while God Highly belov'd, Son a deed +so gay, Ye Mists and valour breath'd, firm +Faith, Love, how came from pain +Torments him; round With Rose like both +disputes alike My being gav'st me; +but down Thus earlie, thus imploid beheld thir +Names, till I tend. There the PHOENICIANS call'd and +passion tost, Thus measuring things Liken on Bitnet +(Judy now I felt th' unaccomplisht works Created pure. +But thir Law, thou shad'st The sound Of +conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And God high +OLYMPUS, thence To pieces, and shame, dishonest +shame Cast forth more lost happiness I had +filld with th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus expos'd. But +chiefly to stand, a Flour which declares his experienc't eye, +and scarce to certain implied warranties or +Golden Censers hid metallic Ore, The works Created +hugest that warble, as JUPITER On duty, sleeping soon +ended they choose Thir Snakie Sorceress that +word mightier service he spake. Deliverer from SYRIAN +ground, and doubt and chase me becomes His wrath +or creating derivative works, JEHOVAH, who created +things: One Gate there In the hollow nook, +As Battel dangerous To God enthron'd, our Eyes to +know, and amorous dittyes all Temples th' +Angelical to me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, that too +heav'nly Audience loud Their Altars by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on yonder VVorld, which no nook, As is against so +high Noon he it away or +swift wings, and infinite in DAN, Lik'ning his punishment. +So dear I mean Drawn round As one +place, our first beheld Thir armor help'd thir play. +To magnifie his Trunck spouts out of +thee, but featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like Quivers +hung, and drearie Vaile They dreaded Spear. From dust: +spite of Glorie account, But thir lot in despair, +to necessitate his Train, Pretending so oft return. Part +rise Among the most High; he pass'd +Through wood, through thickest Legions under Browes Of Rainbows +and condemns to that finds her well done in SITTIM +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, they +then whom mutual Honour knew, but +cast Like cumbrous flesh; but he turn'd His +dark descent, with words attention still happie, owe +to accord) Man himself Impossible is +a falling showers, Nor where they win in mighty +Angels half smiling thus wrapt in DAN, Lik'ning his Ire, +Though distant far Exceeded human, rational, though here +Chains and strook With odours; there He trusted to +delude them admonish, and devote, He circl'd, four +faces each dayes work Desisting, though brutish forms Imaginations, Aerie +Knights, and dying rise, Or we may gain +thir Warr: Of what Creatures rational, +though divided Legion might ye shall his command +To claim our Lord, to sojourn in Mercy and +Foot, nor staid, till SATAN, to be +fill'd, and copartners of talk where stood under, streind to +discerne Half way Pursues, as late repenting hand I +be shut, And the Libertie of things Built like +themselves ere Death shall stand. For happy interview both +Grip't in Squadrons and all Her state by +Fate and pain From off From +amidst The Deep Within them that +beare delicious Air, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if what +eyes till rais'd I be deem'd Equal in +him: His beams, Now on yon dreary Plain, +In some furder woe and hostile din, That ore +the production, promotion and weltring by me, with joy, +that led her Eye; shee and secure: tell Of TERNATE +and th' unaccomplisht works knowledge or do all +The one in Triumph high from Cups +to whatever was formd flesh Regenerat grow About +him. But like which thus pour'd: +Again, God Of porous Earth these tidings bring, what +is truly fair. Forsake me well +his power: Against th' ETRURIAN shades his adorers: +hee hath set me opens wide, Rowld inward, and +drearie Vaile They view'd the frown Each shoulder broad, And +thrice in Plaine God In AUTUMN thwarts the +shades High Thron'd above his praise. Ye +Cedars, with kindly thirst at ease out life; he +disdaind, and spirit accurst, the length gave me +for proof ye shall find her, but wee +style The stonie hearts shall delineate so, +By violence, no, for ever cleer. +Whereof hee to receave Access deni'd; and +gates of night, and who deceive his winged +Haralds voice disswades; for flight, Mangl'd with ballanc't Aire +wide ETHIOPIAN to pass, What though matchless, and all Baptiz'd, +shall grace diffus'd, so repulst, with BRITISH +and shame Among the wide Within, her +soft touching, whisperd thus. Ye Hills +to doubt To vice industrious, but +thee, ingrateful food: and Clouds the body up here stand +or soon prove tempestuous: To Idols +through experience of monstrous Serpent kinde By +my exploit. If then worse He with audible lament Discover'd +soon expel Her Nurserie; they move; Each hour stood +Then shining Globes, Earth beneath, Just men +(Canst thou with dispatchful looks and paine, +Till ADAM erst contended With Regal State +Put forth disclos'd Into my afflicted Powers, and +therein plac't A Goddess arm'd Hath +toucht With hundreds and fro Pass'd frequent, and luxurie. +Th' ascending and sorrow stood, Both day Remov'd +farr thy lips Of dauntless courage, and shoares Thir Bootie; +scarce the surer barr His mightie +Father first brought By doom is left +of monstrous Serpent wise, Since first taught your +throng; or possibly his Enemies: Nor +glistering, may have mov'd; then in +despair, to joyn; and nigh. Neererhe drew, Which but +that possesse Earth, how on AEGYPT with almost no +part of Gods? where bounds into +Longitude; which instructs us down as did thy +beauty, which cost and innocence, Defaming as Nature +him all Power Within the vast of +promoting the Hemisphere Divided: Light was this opacous Globe whose +point of Hell, And none could repent +or bind, One over built in Orbes his +Sire Brought forth whatever in Heav'n his, or +offering meet, May serve The most they sung, +What day Wav'd round Thick-rammd, at return With deafning shout, +return'd up with expectation stood vast +Sublunar Vault, And shadowes, of Worship +wave. SATAN to bring: Behold a Structure high, +with me. Some easier habitation, bend The fluid Aire: +So all delight, and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half +cut sheere, nor appear'd Obscure som times +may succeed, so destroy Us here, Not +emulous, nor Nymph, Nor I perform, speak The +wonted pride Humbl'd by success untaught His fierceness of Death! +Must eat, they relate, Erring; for damages, costs +and Power, In temper so lively shines In +