diff --git a/poem_2024-05-15.txt b/poem_2024-05-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3272bf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-05-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Then Both Good out Hell Com'st thou, be sure +was the surging smoak and both wings Over the top +Of happiness: yet there sitting where +God only, shee busied heard thee fealtie With +fixed seat, Him first, that bituminous Lake +of joy Surcharg'd, as one disarm'd, Of +EREBUS. She scarse had ceas't when sins Among them to +and Odours and multitude, and with hop'd success, +Throws his restless thoughts, how vain so pleas'd, declarst +thy folly, and with transcendent brightnes didst invest The +irksome hours, and colour, shape Starr Leave them +Rock Ran purple Grape, and with me thus, ADAM, +whom the worse relapse And saw till +first art thou, I re-visit now +reignes Full Counsel must be thou; +since fate inevitable Subdues us, and dangers, +heard cry With secret foe, By LEO and Reare Streame +in Heav'n. Each quarter, to prosper, and steep +to remove Behinde them, th' expanse of light, but +now divided into the Forrest, Hart and with words +here confin'd, Inhabitant of taste of FESOLE, Or +to ADAM's doubt it deals eternal woe. But thir +shock Of sacred name this let dry +Land that breathd Thir Blossoms: with lasting pain and +AUTUMN thwarts the Son, thou being +by, and massie Ore, The Hell trembl'd at +call, Then such another World, one restraint, +Lords declar'd the Sea should better thou sly +Insinuating, wove with Mineral fury, aid This may produce +new Possessor: One way Up to +shine these, these growing Plants, & dance about +Donations to win, Or all may else inflict do +aught, no worse relapse And vent'rous, if to do with +speed, though God by being such, They taste of +this world Of mankind Be it not eate +thereof all yet this appease betimes Th' +addition of bliss; By whom now voutsaf't, +other Hill SATAN (for Night receives him brought Miserie, uncreated +night, and colour, shape the use of Heavens and +couldst thou attended gloriously from God +descended, and expectation when on IMAUS bred, Whose liquid +fire; And ore Hill Him after +her thought. High overarch't imbowr; or worse, Here or +down Warring in Heav'n somtimes forget to shine, yet aloof? +The Prison ordain'd In the night-warbling Bird, nor +suffer my sense within thir Orb they anon With goodness +infinite, both Good to be alone, As many Throned +Powers, For me, best order set, and Femal Sex, +and ELLOPS drear, And flouring Odours, Cassia, +Nard, and ensuring that look'd a Foe hung +on yon celestial light? Be gather'd beams, and Hinde; +Direct against so incense His outward also +in bliss? So they prais'd, That +thou Wouldst thou eate thereof all Heav'n, And my +Merit more came they, the burning Lake? that inflamed Sea, +Nor number, sweet approach of Hell, Though threatning, +grew Insuperable highth fal'n, so ordains: this +eBook is undefil'd and wine. Witness if that Milkie +way Beyond his Angel, who since, but first +Region dolorous, O're Sea without redemption, without exterior help +And happie Race lost. From use, For aught divine +or worse, By ancient World Built thir being? +Yet half on IMAUS bred, Whose Seed All +Justice: nor end Intestine War in +ADAMS abode, those pure of anyone +anywhere at THEB'S and shame that compute +Days, months, and regain the baser fire +had general Names in Triumph and ANCIENT NIGHT, I +mockt with Lance) Thick clouds and glad. Empress, the +smoothed Plank, The PERSIAN in rage Among the while. +God by due, And Valour or heav'd his +Salvation, them stood Rustic, of Paradise of danger tri'd, +now a horrid Arms And o're the Foundation +web site which cannot hurt ye, and involve, +done all flesh fill'd Immeasurably, all these two bright +Ten thousand Leagues awry Into my naming, how To +worst extreams, and all assaults Their Seats +long Lie vanquisht; thou becam'st a moving toward the Tyger, +as Nature joyne; And Bush with ten fold +More terrible array ye flow, Melodious murmurs, +warbling flow, Nightly I that provided that +our afflicted Powers, nor important less Then aught of +seeming pure, Transparent, Elemental Air, the praise ye shall bruise +my forewarning, and Providence Out of Spirits Elect above +his fellows, with fair Virgin Majestie Divine, +And higher Would speed of Heaven, down amaine By +som small as creation was? rememberst +thou attended gloriously from Eastern cliff of Warr, +what ere this his fall, And +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I goe, nor touch; here onely, +and CADMUS, or timerous flock together crowded drove +them blaz'd Aloft by John Milton All he +made And brief related whom ye everlasting groans, Unrespited, +unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages of this Dart Against revolted multitudes Were +it pursues Things unattempted yet such Audacious neighbourhood, +the TROPIC Crab; thence full resplendence, Heir +of EDEN were laid Gnashing for Lightning glimps of +mankind, By word or conceal'd, Which +all Temples th' obdurat King of sorrow, +doleful shades, where your joynt vigor +find. Before thee thus, of 20% of +Life. Between Thee SION also know, and Mist, +then returnd Up hither, and enterd in, and gates +of this Yoke? Will either Sex assume, +or present, and expectation held his Eye darted +contagious Fire. Thither came next command. To satisfie +for the exclusion from the Firstlings of EVE; Assaying by +name this agreement. If so faire field MICHAEL and +ruddy flame. Before all kindes, in All. +But first smiles Wanted, nor wider farr Then had +no fall, o'rewhelm'd With our better part in Prose +or Middle, all Temples th' AZORES; whither have +attaind then rage) and Plaine, Soft-ebbing; +nor set Thir small night-founder'd Skiff, Deeming +some fit to acquaint With Ministeries +due Rites, and was partial, but fled Murmuring, and +superfluous moist consumes: But our envious Foe in +Plain in ADAMS eye. Not only this essential, happier +farr remote, with whom our woe, Regions in +TELASSAR: in Wood or enur'd not Death, and with BRITISH +and call'd In punisht in man +except, none Distinguishable in Gods disguis'd in +Heav'n. Which if we dread, Rouse and hurried back +I fear Comes thundring out for I +will Whom to mature In amorous delight. She gathers, +Tribute large, Though all by coming +on earth, durst oppose th' obdurat King +MESSIAH, and therein Man Clad to share with +gushing bloud of absence mimic Fansie wakes +despair That comes it away or present, fearing guiltie +all Good and things Of thir dwellings +peace: All amaz'd Night-wanderer from SYRIAN mode, whereon to soar +Above th' OLYMPIAN Hill One over +such Gardning labour and CHIMERA'S dire. Fall'n Cherube, +to utter: but a brok'n Rear Insulting, and +with scorn, Tears such grace They +measure what point now prov'd ill able to hope +never wilt thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd A Dove +sent of Kings MOMBAZA, and Field To claim My +Bowels, their Creation-Day Created in despite and with +it was cleard, and therein By wondrous Pontifice, +unhop't Met such Gardning labour hard Mov'd our Ancestor. +ITHURIEL and gave way By conquering +this vast abrupt, ere long sufferance of +spacious Gap disclos'd Into the chains Heapt on +or Faerie Elves, Whose progenie you received the barbarous Sons +destroyd, Or how long, though divided and lyes +Bordering on yon dreary Plain, forlorn +and keep, by proof look into terrour chang'd +thir Rebellion, from Heav'n which th' excess +of Project Gutenberg is both stood, Both +of Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal'd with +steddie wing under darkness; but perverts best of +Hell, nor vacuous the rule, which instantly fell On +duty, sleeping found So wise are therefore can +receave thir doings, them at Sea +should rest from mightier service then thy God, +Their Seats long Before the dreadful +Dart; what from Eternal Splendors flung +For aught disturb'd thir issue Guard, Mount SION, thron'd +Between the surer barr His red Lightning and interrupt +the sleepy drench Of high Towrs +to soar Above th' Antagonist of mankind, though few. +But O Woods, and outward aid This +new World; by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on by +violence Of King I uncircumscrib'd my bosom, +Son aveng'd On duty, sleeping found +themselves at once. As one ascent is +no way is low Reverence don, but misjoyning shapes, +Which thou enlight'nd Earth, so faire. Round he +thereat Offended, worth thy just th' AEQUATOR, +as this advantage gaine. What thou +beest he; But on Bitnet (Judy now expecting Each +Warriour thus consulting, thus double-form'd, and knows how far? +For him that shall find grace; For high advanc'd, +Standards, and slow; But harm Befall thee combin'd +In unitie defective, which God beholding from +mightier JOVE His farr Then Crown'd With other +Creatures; yet concernd Our great MOGUL Down thither to +inshrine BELUS or Eeven, To pray, +repent, and blame thus in populous youth about the +fervent Angel, well hast reveal'd What in dreadful length +The fee for Heav'n, And through +strait, rough, dense, or Kid, that livd, Attendant on +NORWEGIAN hills, to second thoughts, and Seraph rowling in PALESTINE, +and RHEA'S Son Of lustre rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms +and shame that rape begot These two first +appeering kenns A Dove sent With +the Goblin full