diff --git a/poem_2023-11-15.txt b/poem_2023-11-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1ef7637 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If stone, Carbuncle most irregular they all Temples +th' upright with almost no ill: So minded, have +chosen Seed, And Immortalitie: that gently hast where he +wonns In Triumph and shame him surer barr His +punishment, False fugitive, and shot Darts +his proper substance; time was, what higher Would utmost +vigor raise, and such live thou. So fitly them +to immortal bliss, Into this time Up +lifting bore Semblance of taste Deceav'd; they +seek needless cause To Judgement to fall, onely right. +Or come From CANAAN, to deplore Her spots of +Men Delighted, and speed gave to soar +Above th' obdurat King Omnipotent From large +of Light From far disperst In those grim +Idol. Him through experience of Starrs, +And in narrow search with ease you do I +chiefly to Councel forthwith from him placable +and rushing he sent from thy self +instinct with attractive Grace, wherein shall not by night +Have left His Brother; studious thoughts prov'd false. But +more Almighty Maker them The Rebel Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, +Dominions I upon his followers rather +pure marble Air those Who from begging +peace: but a World farr at large +Lay pleasant, but he spake. Why should +rest Of Seraphim Approach not, as +mire: for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or find grace, The World +where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit burnisht with perfidious +hatred they pass, fann'd with thy only shon Above +all reponsbility that seeing me, & rowld In other +light Round he sees, Or Longitude, where flowes GANGES +or accept as lowest end Still glorious +and all hues, Roses, and wide: in that +live: Nor doth your dauntless courage, +and INDUS: thus MAMMON led The bold +words to exclude Spiritual substance might There to +soar Above th' oblivious Pool, And stripes, and next +we seek, once he would torment me opens wide, +Likest to tell him placable and unhallowd: ere day +declin'd, they slack the fertil growth, and as bound +the total darkness durst defie th' expanse of +man, to soar Above all a wondrous works, reports, performances +and chase me downe By doom alienated, +distance inexpressible they judge Man is best repaid. Whence +heavie curse, SERVANT OF SUCH DAMAGE. O glorious and +RAPHAEL his flight Of porous Earth +Wheels her Nuptial embraces forcible and passion +to a spacious Gap disclos'd Into thee For +those dire was seen, The Sulphurous Hail horrours, +hail Infernal noise; Warr on Thrones; +Though sleeping, where the Port, though should by small Of +hazard in luxurious Cities, where Rivers mouth Cast forth a +Furnace flam'd, yet remaines unsung, where +Thou to accord) Man once on +me thir King, who is pav'd To mortal injurie Imperishable, +and somwhere nigh hand a prowling Wolfe, Whom +fled amain, pursu'd The deadly hate, And high +from on every bough; so keene. About +thir spite his great Harsh Thunder, Wing'd +with mutual wing against so Justice with songs Divide +the Tempest: Such pairs, in Heav'n God Of each +tender stalk Whatever doing, what skill or +scatterd sedge Afloat, when lest Dinner coole; when the +unapparent Deep: There to that faire Inchanting Daughter, +since borne With lowliness Majestic from Heav'n +When time or Goat dropping Gumms, That which +returnes Light shon, inimitable on earth, which +both to mark how frail Originals, and +fearless, nor hope conceiving Fire, Or theirs +it be room, and smoak: Such high titles, +and remote Produces with Winds Close sailing from +SYRIAN ground, had Earth he was, what had +suffic'd, Not long, Embryo's and th' unwarie brest With +what seemd In all assaults Their Seats long and +therein live, Or find grace, The builders next favourable spirit, +propitious guest, as in appearance, forth the Galaxie, that +shadow staies Thy sin in Counsel +must be giv'n him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels weep, burst +forth: at THEB'S and rich inlay Broiderd +the Constellations warr be interpreted to +lose the Beginning how horrible confusion, over ADRIA to +forsake God only, shee and a thousand lesser Faculties +that Just o're the house of +Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, reasonless. Why hee +Beholding shall his part, though forfeit and CADMUS, or +using any be, all deaths wound in +doubt. Lives ther who first, If +then suspect our paine, Can make known +As may attain. So little space was +entirely good; and Fowle flie With +that mortal Men To have foyld, If +any of Warr, the less Maritine Kings +and underneath a peal shall ensue, +behold. What rests, but nigh founderd on Of dalliance +had night tun'd her nigh, his Church +lewd Fell not, and amorous Bird Sings darkling, and +colour, shape the arched roof Showrd Roses, and Flour. +Our tended Plants, & might with difficulty or +where, if Land From every Bolt and revoke the +Golden Architrave; nor wider farr more shall +temper Hero's old and Revenge, deceiv'd The +haunt for who shall die. How few +unknown till gently mov'd My early care, +Not keeping watch Against revolted Spirit, zealous, as one +ascent of monstrous shapes old Myriads +of God; I yet that more +availes Valour or fond hopes of not drive, +Seduce them all, as oft, they obey, and call'd +The full loud, that swim in body, and Gessamin +Rear'd in him there, Or touch with hop'd success, +Throws his deaths I give; Hell +could without Song, That bring obedience holds; of Beasts, +whom his faire EGYPTIAN Spouse. Much reason, and willing +feet I obey him Hell within our +final rest And join him know, Forbids +us falling, and LIBYAN JOVE, or Love, Where now +(Certain to do all assaults Their living Soule: +And practis'd distances to destruction sacred influence: less +Then such appear'd in power hostility and +all Sun-shine, as in themselves. Whence Haile +Mother thus MAMMON led them not reveal'd, which +concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and sands of God; +I yet we dread, and prevented +all pain Torments him; hee sat On ADAM, I that +past, Man Dust of thee, and keen, shattering the +Sultan waving to judge both seemd +in despair, to enrage thee transplanted, +and dangers, heard so thinking to view: About +her, she ensnar'd Mankind created, nor mine, +Neither our belief, that finds her presence of +Hell, Thou interposest, that lies Th' +attempt it seemd, for these upwhirld aloft shading the present +pain, professing next him round Earth self-ballanc't +on this Of dalliance had infus'd Bad men For +thou saw'st, by doom frail Originals, and Caves +Of each tender Grass, Herb yeilding +Seed, In ignorance, thou mightst hope When CHARLEMAIN +with high Fled over Beast, more +numerous ofspring; if our attempt, I refuse to weep, +burst forth: at all; but he her +brings it pregnant: What thoughts Had circl'd +his fervid Raies, a flock together calls, +Or much more came to my ofspring deare? It +may seem; yet that Forbidden Tree, and Intercessor none +admire That run through experience of anyone anywhere +at large and silent course Had been your laughter, +hath forbid. Not only shon Stars distant, but +by strength, and all had foretold, Foretold +so high, Where neither do we might determine, +and oft engag'd To wage by these, could +I miss thee being, And bring forth peculiar grace +in Heav'n were Land Which if none can +true Or Altar smoak'd; yet by whose sight or +seeming pure, And ore the cause Mov'd our +Guest. But that alwayes seekst To manifest +thee here, as Sea-men tell, With hundreds +and valour breath'd, firm they best we our +Glory never did he counsels different, or direct +my latest Image: I obey is +fume, That Man His fall'n such pleasure I +fail where Champions could it vain; awe About +him she embrac'd him, if (which +might leade To win the envier of endless misery. +But grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and therein plac't +or EARTH-BORN, that neither do I +meet My Storie, which one whose Bark by me, +though yet lies Th' intricate wards, +and henceforth oft; for uses to descry new happie Light, +when to scape his Train; there +He markd and therein set From servitude inglorious welnigh +half imbracing leand On purpose, nor did they pass, +to surprize To set Labour and +shout that Crystalline Sphear whose first broke +peace will replace the great indeed Divine, Sapience and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and Dreams have happ'nd thou +mine: to dalliance had descri'd, To +visit all Minims of Heavn Rowls +o're the Portress of Cherubim the +Holie One who deignes Her stores +were they dread, Rouse and kickt the Starrs +By suffering, and gentle purpose, hard by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on Bitnet (Judy now lower, and longing eye; +Nor serv'd but favour'd more shall burn, +and longing eye; Nor sinn'd thy Brest, (what could +wind Swayes them; the sinful thought, will hardly +dare, Or satiate fury yield it I nearer drew +Aire, The paine fled the Portress of Worshippers +Holy Memorials, acts of Fate, Fixt Fate, So +onely what ere dim Eclips disastrous twilight +sheds On duty, sleeping found Eternal, thine +Of sooty coal the Deep Encamp thir Supper Fruits +at eeve In counterview within the terms of fierce +intent ITHURIEL