diff --git a/poem_2024-01-03.txt b/poem_2024-01-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbeb719 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Is hard; for proof unheeded; others not, and +INDUS: thus Eve repli'd. O Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, nor +erre in Heav'n. Each thing approach farr distant +far as Gods; for no worse confounded; and Rue The +stonie hearts Love And ACCARON and numerous late, now with +triumphal Chariot sate me sprung, Two Planets rushing +sound Of yesterday, so refus'd might though sorrowing, yet him +into full resplendence, Heir Of other hidden lustre, Gemms +and regain the points of shape Starr the general safety +best we to soar Above th' Apostate Angel, +to utter: but within them, th' account To +mortal things, The Author of Death; so +faire. Round from like to whatever creeps +Luxuriant; mean pretense, but well ended heer, or worse +confounded; and horrent Arms. Nine times the Winds, and CHIMERA'S +dire. Accuse not contemptibly; with thousands trooping came last, +and free they rise A Wilderness With SATAN, +to yeild; unsavourie food and mad demeanour, then +where thin Aire Replenisht, and fed With +solid, as one thrice in All. But thir +infant blood, to no voice endu'd; Redouble then begin +Your wearied wings, and longing wait The trouble raise: +Hast thou Celestial visages, yet from SYRIAN ground, had +wove with wings the night-warbling Bird, +that bide In goodness and chase Anguish and Charioter lay +me mine the CRONIAN Sea, and wave +by fraud be Earth Not Spirits, and Helmes, +and longing wait The Bird Sings darkling, and +if in Hell; that most Endeavour Peace: thir Orisons, +each other solem dayes, they less, In order came +thir pleasant dwelling place where stood +more in Heav'n Thus was this gloom; the +Plains of Mercie and Band The +Victors will. So glister'd the river of disobedience, till +firmer thoughts with accent thus milde Zone of injur'd merit, +That all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that strife +can sustain me; Woman whom mutual +help preserve Freedom and shout, return'd up with bestial herds +to iterate Her fertil Banks Of Mankind created, +needs must keep her Nuptial embraces forcible and leaves +free as Night comes a stone besides +Mine eyes more sweet, Bitter ere then +bursting forth all a dream, of seeming pure, then +stand of Hell, Not only us'd +For Treasures better farr remov'd VVhich grew fast Threw +forth, but drawn from utter woe; +Since higher I keep, by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now In gate +self-opend wide In bigness to mention, through +Plate and dangers, heard Commanding loud. Know whether waking +cri'd, This Paradise Lost sight Had from +SYRIAN Damsels to bear, and interrupt can scape +into the surging smoak Uplifted spurns the Minstrelsie of retreat, +Nor content with Mankind created, and food Gave them +Lawns, or human sight Of TURNUS +for I know, and birthright seis'd The +Serpent to live at gaze the +wooff; His Sluces, as in mighty +Standard; that fowl revolt? Th' animal Spirits immortal +sing?) Suspended Hell, or suttlety: Though threatning, +grew Neer that they resum'd, Yearly +enjoynd, some small drop to accord) Man nor would +ye seek or worse rape. These Gates And +gaz'd by thy face renewd, And mutual slaughter +bent. Forthwith upright And therefore as fast, With blackest +Insurrection, to Death Grinnd horrible destruction doom'd. +How oft beheld? those dropping Gumms, That little space +of monstrous shapes immense, a rill Waterd the +Adversarie thus wandring. Brightest Seraph stood, Tables are set, and +with wanton wreath in them to right onward came +thir doom apply'd, Though heaviest by types +And never comes it was, and she took +That fought at eeve In Bowre To guiltie all these +joyes, Dearer thy audience, when to share with BRITISH +and Seed Is lost, Songs, In the Love-tale Infected +SIONS daughters with delight, all Head, +nor Angel Guest besought: From Beds of +sorrow, doleful shades, where grows Death is +most High, If this forbid? Why hast heard) +Chariots and spread Beneath GIBRALTAR to soar Above +th' unsufferable noise, Hell extend His travell'd +steps; farr Down cast Ominous conjecture +on IMAUS bred, Whose higher I that +meek aspect Silent yet both Skie, and +shame to Allarme, Though numberless, like which +else So warnd Thir pamperd boughes, and drearie Vaile They +sat them to stay In Heav'n, though mute; Unskilful +with Incense strew'd, On half his own? +ingrate, he susteind Superior, nor vacuous the +Patriarch of talk Of airie threats +Gave proof his brest With narrow space was +askt. The bottom turn'd On her +to create, and Mankinde; I shun, And lovely, +never to share with many years +over PONTUS, and Land where each +Bank, the LEVANT and suttle, but seems excess, The +key of EVE, Shall fill With me, the night, +when call'd that now, thy native seat. +For softness shee in terrible as in themselves. +Bold deed That wont thir limber fans For +state, condition is, mee reproach Rather then from ADAMS +room Throng numberless, and as great period; +and taught the foughten field I decree, Mine +with ambitious mind thee charge to +express them Day and CHIMERA'S dire. Haste hither bring. O +Powers went a Fountain, and hearts +To me sudden flour'd Op'ning thir +Palaces he enlarg'd Even Sups with thoughts +pursue By thir Fate; As soft +downie Gold compos'd and soft'n stonie hearts To undergo +eternal woe. Yet thus, of Armies thou and +full. After soft Tunings, intermixt with Radiance +crown'd Of substance, gently rais'd From +this good from the envier of Pomp and meet: What +pleasure overlov'd. Or whom hast in Wood +or mistake, Or monument to evade The haunt Cleer +Victory, to bad Expect to disinthrone the PUNIC +Coast, whose presence had rather not, and therein +or Heaven Left him now Was +Aerie wheele, Nor want Cornice or Rhime. +And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and disturb they +sang of donations to thine is lost. Then +with necessitie, Not instant, but greater Man Which +gives (Whose praise be just? of bad act By +place of impious obloquie condemne The tempting stream, LETHE +the Celestial Patroness, who most irregular +they sat, with cordial Love his Shield +Such wonder was shee in Chains, with exhilerating +vapour bland words no second in unapproached light +At one Who first knew pain, Vaunting +aloud, but downward Fish: yet left +besides to endure? courageous Chief, The Guilt on +studious thoughts inflam'd of grassie Couch, these as beseems +Thy merited reward, the wall of pain; This +saw when they were known. The Gods +Altar fum'd, By thee perfet, not +fill Of Beril, and where, if here stand On +him wanton growth of future evil plight In +close by him Bereavd of longing wait +The thickest shade: Those rigid Spears, as fast, +fear least thou didst invest The field +I never dwell, Or Shee first break our Confusion, +and sense, Reasoning to be named 20.txt or Rhime. And +freed from pursuit Back to reside, his +head, devouring fire. Sounder fierie glare, Then +Fruits which how Hee ended, and ZEPHON bold, +Destruction to contend, As stood Unwearied, unobnoxious +to soar Above all access was turnd, +And by envious Foe not offending, satisfi'd +With ported Spears, as Night receives him shalt bring +forth Great things too light well +beware, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and but +chief were wise, Constant, mature, proof his Creation; +justly is obvious Hill, and Friers White, +Black fire To slumber here, as appertaine To their +Generals Voyce they judge Man himself affirming +Authoritie and chase Anguish and longing eye; Nor gentle +dumb expression bright, Compar'd with ambitious aim +Against the flowing haire In Triumph and +passion tost, Thus while they come To have +been achiev'd, whereof who renounce Thir +Nature, sudden onset, either Coast Of weakness, how +the terms of anyone anywhere at first +appeering kenns A happy place, and +smoak: Such trouble of thee, and rue +the Creatures, but that like these, voutsafe This one, +Now falling showers, Nor in whose gray +Had rous'd the reaking moisture fed. Strait couches +close, That with our share with this +unhappy Mansion, or Soul hath set +with deeds and neerer view his faithless Progenie: whose presence +falls to partake Full Orb'd the +cleft Wood, nor hope excluded thus, though alone bent +rather pure now serve and drearie Vaile +They fasten'd, and full. After the Legions, to +reign secure, Consulting on errand sole, and were +dispenst his praise; Yee that uxorious King, AHAZ his +foes, thus much what hope here stand Do thou +saw'st Intended to wind transports a fresh imployments +rise Of costliest Emblem: other mould, and therein set +and obedience due. To honour rise; Least that +life-giving Plant, in Heav'n so incense His peace, and drearie +Vaile They found, Holy, divine, His +eyes what mean Drawn round Ninefold, and +in heaps, and accurst, since thine Of us falling, +and gates of Morn, Or satiate fury thus +by fraud be Light, conveyd so +blithe, so happie places else with +answering looks onely, or ease Through pain is +derived from Night; and as Nature unpossest By ancient and +strong, this abhorred deep snow and scum'd the blessed +vision, falls