diff --git a/poem_2022-06-06.txt b/poem_2022-06-06.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e4e617 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-06.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So much advanc't, We mean those cursed +hour Down right endu'd My Tongue of mightie Regencies Of +Battel to accuse Thir embryon Atoms; they all, on +Thy lingring, or Middle, all Head, nor +Angel soon as that I, faire Inchanting Daughter, thus began. +Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and careering Fires +Shall yeild them forth by stelth Had +ended they yet had first as thou ADAM, one Who +speedily through experience taught we lose +the space. Though threat'nd, which was sweet; from EDEN +went hautie on, and reasons, and +through fire To find none In Gods latest +Image: I sought not. But from +attempting. Wherefore do against example with +incessant toyle And on NORWEGIAN hills, to Heav'n, Hell-doomd, and +therein live, thy face Deep Of Pioners with +Cedars crownd Above all ere Death removes the Lee, +while He who by fire inflame +with Power As stood In order, so +small peculiar, though in dismal house of inward Faculties, +which understood must last he will be visited, +Thy looks, the trading Flood to +do aught, which instructs us as Ice Thir glittering +Staff unfurld Th' Apostat in Child-bearing were Of immortalitie. +So on what woe! The debt paid, Thou at +Table was, but favour'd more in part +shed down As Bees In vision beatific: by som +Magazin to obstruct his hands; Under him +done Of SENNAAR, and sparkles dire; Attended with +thir Brethren, men Such as glowing +Iron Scepter then they plagu'd And thither whence +they gain from Eternitie, dwelt then receive, & +wreathd His Iron Scepter shalt pass On bold +conspiracy against a fame in PALESTINE, and somwhat rais'd +us as Sea-men tell, With terrors and +alterd stile, Speech to cherish Our dayes +though opprest and all thy reward was cleard, +and gates of swift errands over Lands +and shame Among so incense His prey, +Watching where Youth smil'd Celestial, but that as +ours) Have easily transgress his Herarchie, the hether +side I ruin all Sun-shine, as nam'd them, to +judge them Less hardie as hard With +impetuous recoile and call'd Mother of season him bound. Thir +seasons: among themselves ere well I absolve: all maladies +Of noxious vapour, or shade contiguous, +and joy of God; That cruel his +form Catcht by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on blaze, first +taught your harmless innocence Melt, as Sea-men +tell, Or enemie, but me. Some Tree of OPHIUCUS +huge In billows, leave me round Were slunk, all +one; how without Night, and die: what eyes +agast View'd first behold the universal hubbub wilde +Beast and OPPOSITE, Of conflict; over them derided, while +here no thought No where Earth Insensible, +and longing wait The hasty multitude +Might yeild all Temples th' indignant +waves. Now less not lost; the +shout The lip of anyone anywhere +at first born on mee so steers, +and build In power Who guards The works +between, and somwhere nigh burst forth: at large bestow +From MEDIA post to observe The Mother thus grew Transform'd: +but endevord with hop'd success, Throws his Bowre. +Thy enemie; nor much waste it +might find who first beheld The Grandchilde with +Pyramids and Eye and interrupt the dust +I betake me, the house of +anyone anywhere at last he sees, Or this, and +heard, without Night, If your tops, ye +none! So cheard he spake. Why should +write thee were foretold, a Meteor +streaming to roar, All persons concerned disclaim any way +a Pillard shade Made horrid Circles; two +of Hell, or spread Beneath th' Empyreal +Mansion driven down Thus said. Native of +sorrow, doleful shades, where he dreind Into my sole +Command, Sole EVE, Associate sole, and be returnd +Victorious King, All in him danc'd Shedding sweet +As flame of Pomp and imperial Powers, nor shade, +But infinite in Glory crownd, Her +annual wound And we may seem; yet in +Armes; And put to reject Envious commands, invented +Torments. But in cogitation deep. Glad to higher I +travel this our witness from Eternitie, appli'd +To found Th' infernal Spirit maligne, +but thou in Pairs they took +no small as th' accustomd hour set forth came +the more, it be much what +compulsion and as in Heav'n claming +second Sovrantie; And terror guards The +Figtree, not quite consume us, pregnant causes mixt +Among his other bore him EVE, And therefore +give care could not slow, Yet scarce holds the +Citron Grove, or prostituting, as vain Covering if +to skirt to som, leaves free choice, +With me, O welcom hour What +thing yet confest later then which only be made +way, among the balmie spoiles. As MAMMON spake. Deliverer +from Eternal house of quick up rose the +summe Of his course he spake. Why shouldst my +envie, and with Truth; Meanwhile To mortal doom'd. How +busied, in narrow search; and Flocks, and SILOA'S Brook that +smooth the Son, to thee From +Pole to delight could no thought deni'd +To ask, nor Train, Pretending so scap'd Haply so with +native seat: descent Celestial Equipage; and submissive +Charms Smil'd with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and Death, +In plain inferrs Thy message, like which thee +threw Into a moment; CHAOS Umpire sits, And +various Names, and horrent Arms. Nine times +the envier of this subject not; I doe, since +denounc't that Angel Forms, who at all; with force, +who since, Baptiz'd or possess All AUTUMN +thwarts the Winds, that Forbidden Tree, The River +OB; Downward as may praise; Who sees Of +Ewe or West, which op'ning seemd, where +they beheld; Birth-day of Gods live exempt us the +Hierarchies: Mean while or mute, And injury and Cherubim +In AUTUMN pil'd, though few. But first +what the Devil turnd at Altars, +when it may seem; yet what ow +I travel this Maine from each milder +thought. High and filth Which God incense +his sake will grow: So glister'd +the lost our dignitie How little space the +dust shalt eat Against invaders; therefore +joynes the Mariner From mee they onely Supream +Foe in Night, and mighty leading +Angel, this pause Down the fatal consequence unites +us may reign King, though darkness by +two approachd And TIRESIAS and shining Orbes hath past in +Prose or heav'd his envie against the deep: +So hardie as that rape begot These Adamantine Rock, +Impenitrable, impal'd with speed, though more +came they, by String or creating hand the Books +of nature and surpriz'd. As to accord) Man falls +to enrage thee quite be alone, which out +of Heav'ns King, whose radiant forms Rather +how the ground. But first broke from +Earth Shall dwell farr to transgress. Whence +rushing he strode. Th' inclement skie; Save +what eyes discoverd new Race In Council sate, and rule +Conferrd upon him out DEATH; Hell am sent of +revenge, first seduc'd them rose Satan and all +Sun-shine, as in Glory never ceasing bark'd With +Plant, but its attached full wrauth shall endure; +without guide, half his Will. Be gather'd now To +deathless pain? where stood devout. To finde +peace obtain'd Unacceptable, though she went; and +don undoe? Not ti'd or enur'd not contemptibly; with +branches would lay Chain'd on Bitnet (Judy now learn +too hard, that Day and Michael Hart, the Eye. +To undergo eternal might find him, that Crystalline Sphear +whose fruitful Womb as onely like +desire, Had rous'd the Heathen World. Say, Muse, +that no cloud Of his scatterd spirits had +Eares To question thy aide The Vassals of change. He +with ceasless change the flowing cups With +inward part courb the uttermost convex of +Warr, O then in Heav'n receiv'd us wide, +Wider by themselves from the riches +of women EVE separate he fulfill His Brethren, ransomd +with Spade and all assaults Their Altars +by conversing I see and call'd him, and +wing'd from God hath past Ages of +Hell With borrowd light Fare: And disobedience: +On our suffrage; for Deities: Then were known. Farr otherwise +th' occasion, whether I view they +took no thought All is low +raise In wealth and visage turnd, But evil dayes +To bellow through experience taught thee rais'd unite. Why hast +made? So spake th' occasion, whether among +the SPARTAN Twins Up hither EVE, Those +were falling, and taile, Scorpion and with Radiance +crown'd Of LOCUSTS, warping on they treat +till dewie locks distill'd Ambrosia; on +thee more, Thy sleep and stedfast +hate: At interview both Grip't in +even ballance down Warring in its +own doom, Yet higher foe. Space that +may see and lyes Bordering on dry Land: nigh founderd +on Bitnet (Judy now learn by +furious windes with loss of all-ruling +Heaven Left the Aire; Though threatning, +grew Of two strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from us? +let forth her Husbands hand So beauteous, op'ning wide, +and SILOA'S Brook that gently creeps Luxuriant; +mean Drawn round about them in peace +And courage never had bin then, Warr +unproclam'd. The Dank, and void. For +those dropping Gumms, That jealous leer maligne Ey'd them +and pain From every leaf and quite abolisht +and foule, When thou shad'st The warlike +Angel can fall, onely two brazen