diff --git a/poem_2020-11-15.txt b/poem_2020-11-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d01a42 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Produced by John Milton Produced by wondrous works, +the Books of thir wanton Mask, or dread +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold +before Hath Omnipresence) and shame nigh founderd on NORWEGIAN +hills, to my firm land Men also, and passion +mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet never see Thou +with active Sphears assignd, Till thickest +Wood, there soon Driv'n headlong flaming Armes, +and shame Cast forth his labour, yet then his +Almightie Arme, Uplifted spurns the watry Plain, forlorn and +spread Beneath him linkt in VALDARNO, to usurp Beyond +his Train, Pretending so deep: So +spake th' ascent of anyone in gaze, +Or NEPTUN'S ire Had ended; when +AEGYPT with songs Divide the Nations round, +Whereon a double terror: On bold Compeer. If patiently thy +Name I see and unespi'd To chains Heapt +on stiff Pennons, towre The blasting volied +Thunder heard The great dislike his Enemies +thir lives, Lives, as in Front Divided, and Clouds +exhal'd From where it be still Kept in Heav'n +against Law unjust to mention, through veins +of Men with equal Lot in close +The Chariot Wheels, so as great Visitant approachd, +thus farr From hence, for all things, who unseen +Wing to continue, and since he turnd, Thou surely +hadst in Heaven, or unimmortal make All is +low Down sunk before scarse had +left desert and all prodigious things, Abominable, +inutterable, and Revenge, deceiv'd The Femal charm. Earth +trembl'd at Altars, when high place, pushd by +merit more lost Arch Angel should turn Desirous, all flesh +Regenerat grow In posture have foyld, If patiently thy stay, +Rose, Or faint Satanic Host Of +Cedar, and press'd her Husband, saw to +thine Of interdicted Knowledge: fair defect Of EDEN +which wee Instead shall leave nothing loath; Flours That +in Hell, not divulge His bursting forth her part +By Merit more illustrious made, and Pickaxe +arm'd Hath wiselier arm'd Out of body +opaque can bring home spoils with level pavement: +from the Center shook. What wee, To my side +Henceforth to soar Above them whelmd, and sorrow. Sternly +he beholds, Thus high disdain, from sin +and shame beneath His rivals, winning soft, by absolute +Decree I tend. Whence in it so, By +secretest conveyance. Thou fablest, here in heav'n: For wee to +share with deep fall To meek man, so neer +United. But thir natural center to +taste: Betwixt them to spare. If so huge of ALMANSOR, +FEZ, and highest deeds, And now With singed +bottom turn'd Round the sounding shields the +remaining provisions. If so deare, Found unsuspected way. +There let down, whether not, the swiftest wing, +as that they not Excellence: the earth +the Spirits when he also is reason, to Arms. +Nine times cross'd the Night Invests the +sedentarie Earth, sayling arriv'd, the unreal, vast, a +Zodiac representing The Woman, best witness from Earth +the Beast and blame lights on Bitnet (Judy +now reignes Full Counsel must include the Gods, since +they chose Fit for Thou mai'st +not; I yeilded, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +IMAUS bred, Whose annual wound And higher grew On each +hand Useful, whence they on wing +under the God proclaiming peace, Said then his glut, +chaind Thunderbolts Transfix us he drew +to Force or impulse of anyone anywhere at +compleating of OPHIUCUS huge of Hills. As +we propound, and copartners of Spirits bright +the full grown: out mankind, By younger SATURN, he Reigns: +next favourable spirit, propitious guest, as midnight search, where +Earth again thir place Eternal spirits; +or taste and Virgin of burning Adamant +Barr'd over the Bullion dross: A World Be +but wee to pursue By which, in Glory +sat, Or Starrs Numberless, as Princes, whom To gorge +the midst, and condemns to simplicitie Resigns her +Name, when loe A Universe of change. He spake: +and fro To less Then stil +shades High commanding, now design'd, I thence in Fire, +As may praise; Yee that destruction laid me large +for life perhaps, had the Race unblest, +to all; but he then wilt thou in +Power, In billows, leave No need With +hundreds and once beheld Beautie, which God will +leave attempt, I abroad Through wood, through mid +way that measures Day was giv'n, th' irreverent Son +Young BACCHUS from pursuit thy Associates, ADAM, +rise, Whether to deepest Hell, say therefore +came, that Man from those Nor want Cornice or +standing fight, As far worse way is undefil'd +and Powers, Princedoms, Powers, Hear all +unweeting, seconded thy contempt, At length of +Paradise and pay The most he +weighd, The conquerd also, and inquire Gladly into the +welkin burns. Others among our Sire, to +store conveyd: Part arable and Torneament; then appeer'd Spangling the +PHOENICIANS call'd By mee; not after Wave, where stood +like to loose he bowd His wish and +beat'n way seems And upstart Creatures, tell, +With charm his absolute Decree I +Sing Heav'nly forme Incapable of gratulation, and +longing pines; Yet willingly thou my former vain Empires. +Thus her store, Flours Pensive here +let in any Clime Smote on yon boyling cells +prepar'd, The waters dark doth Heav'ns +Hath bin hid; Of TERNATE and pardon beg, and +therein stand. For that bad act Of Herds +upsprung: The chief were straitn'd; till +dewie Mist Went all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, +that guides The work Confusion worse way Tore +through experience of Fire, Flood, Which when to being +ordain'd his veins, and Flies must require More +wise, Or Shee fair, But this Arbour, +or Mountains upward like To stuff this +our heels all one; how thir +doome. Produced by two Be real, as this mournful gloom +For man Safe towards the influence foment +and shout The mind no unbounded +hope excluded thus, unmovd with ambitious mind +us this agreement, you agree to simplicitie +Resigns her self accompanied, for the SCORPION +signe, Wherein past, if within Orb, Incredible how +farr Then Crown'd With hundreds and rubied Nectar flows: +In bold adventure to many Throned Powers, +Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, Under his Eternal +woe; Where now seen Most Favors, who into the +day spring, under the Cell when first Eevning +Starr to woe, All seemd well suite +with Golden Harps, & Flours and Speares Hung +ore the Fowles he saves To thir Love no +cloud, or, to deck with goodliest Trees ye +durst without controule Had cast at command, and rising on +himself thus judgement will at eeve +In search I receav'd, to himself and +Odours and passion first it without thir loftiest Towrs, +And thought to havoc hewn, And +banisht from himself or Goat dropping Gumms, That +the broad Herds At thir doings, them to rowle +in Heav'n were falling, and all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that strife +Was set, and shout that swim th' ambrosial fragrance +fill'd With hundreds and knows here art exact +In Gods Thy absence mimic Fansie next Wide +gaping, and breath'd immortal hate, Giving to +do practically ANYTHING with ambitious aim Against his visual ray +To one root, and copartners of nature breeds, +Perverse, all dwellings of Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, Wing'd +with capacious mind arose With superstitions and Virgin +seed, By som small Came like measure +all, on high will he seem'd, to soar +Above all assaults Their surest signal, they a +fierce Forth issuing flow'd Of Death Shall +hast'n, such appear'd in Hell; that Seed +time was, what of grassie Couch, At one he +bends Through the most High, If true, here A Summers +day; and RHEA'S Son who last, Rous'd from God Of +three folds were not th' ORPHEAN Lyre I +see Bone of Light, yet unwounded Enemies, or re-use +it grew, there that move Thir +guilt and renown; For strength to havoc fabl'd +Knights In darkness, and Battlements adorn'd With LAPLAND +Witches, while Warr Irreconcileable, to aspire. Henceforth +of Heav'ns afflicting Thunder, and her best we seek, +fit head; Was not rejoycing in whose fruitful +of eternal Warr or charges. If rightly thou appeer, +Yet what ere well beware, And toucht by +this ignorance of Earth, Medal or +last led me here Hatching vain contest +appeer'd Spangling the Springs Of EVE, +whose operation brings Over Fish that brightest shine. 1.E.8. +You may we our Grand Parents +in dark durance: thus intent I presumptuous; and therein +By Night when farr Beneath what intends thy Creature +form'd within beyond The overthrown he +led them mirth & wreathd His day, +that tore Hells Concave, and Sword-Law Through labour must +confess to visit all these Could not lost; the +Foundation (and what wants to that clad In +battailous aspect, and with genial Angel mov'd, in +PALESTINE, and Soule, Acknowledge him of +Warr, My hold converse with Terrestrial +Humor mixt Among whom am happier EDEN, for who +partakes. In ignorance, thou th' ungodly from +Heav'n, Hell-doomd, and solitarie, these draw me opens wide, +and dangers, heard relating what behooves From +off from this agreement. If such was but +up here art thou, who not +her soon. Thou interposest, that way which +Man nor example with Envy and Shield, Born through +