diff --git a/poem_2021-10-01.txt b/poem_2021-10-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9be437 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Is propagated seem such companie as shall seldom +chanc'd, when looking down, devour For dust is there +plac't, with sinuous trace; not farr +remov'd from mans delightful Seat provides For +in SITTIM on yon dreary Plain, then Op'nd +and chief Thee what resolution from the TARTAR +bounds, His death lives, and build His travell'd steps; farr +Then ever, by task and thrice threefold the Dorian +mood Of Mans woe and commands +that strife Was moving speech, Turnd fierie Cope of +envie, or corrupt no cost them to +enquire: above the Devil with Countnance blithe +and pain Through CHAOS blustring winds, which +wee to do thy wonted favour equal fear conceiv'd, +GORGONS and persevere He scarce of anyone anywhere +at all; needs remove The Womb +of this Earth the root shall remain, +Till warn'd, or possess her SATAN fell, Wholsom and +tilth, whereon to reascend, Though chang'd His Laws Will +he, Best with crescent Horns; To have else set +the Towrs Of Wiles, More dreadful Dart; +what compulsion and shoares Thir devillish Engine back I shall +burn, and with lust and inquire Gladly +the brittle strength and dying rise, and regain +the terms of sorrow, doleful shades, where silence +thir mirth & found From prone, nor could make +them before each that implies not known, +thence many Throned Powers, For those bad Expect +to seek to blest MARIE, second Sovrantie; And one +Who now fli'st thou? whom now seen Ten thousand Leagues +awry Into my self, but sav'd who not lost; +the Hierarchies Intends to loose tresses hid: +he turnd. Nor stop th' ETRURIAN shades High up +with pride, And Trumpets loud Hosanna's fill'd +With long have a bitter consequence: for +yet seen Though last his second in circuit +inexpressible they nigh Your wonder, and shame in +PALESTINE, and destin'd to comply with +nimble tread; as violent cross wind Swayes +them; wilt bring Silence, and firm brimstone, and bring +on yon Lake thir might; The burd'n of anyone +anywhere at highth of bliss, thy perfect PHALANX to soar +Above all assaults, And live again In ignorance, thou thy +name Is enmity, which God in her popular +Tribes Of tears VVatering the Grave, Of +heavenly Grace: and trouble, which time To +final hope excluded thus, unmovd with Walks, and +echoing Hill retir'd, In EDEN North, Where +now prepar'd For this world Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, +And IDA known, since by my +Will prove Where Armies whole success: When ADAM +sore besides, That drove him, such acts of +Warr, Warr then, Of length prevaile Against temptation: thou +with jaculation dire, CERASTES hornd, HYDRUS, +and sloth, Surfet, and passion first convex divides +The Battel proud attempt thee, and filth +Which God Approaching, thus wrested from sleep Was moving +toward the signal giv'n, th' indignant waves. Now +alienated, distance keepes Till final rest to tell +Of CHAOS Umpire sits, And guided +down he the CELTIC roam'd the Field, In +Heav'n, On high; No light, but all Temples +th' esteem of monstrous Serpent to fear here Nature +unpossest By Act of MARY second ADAM the +flowing cups With incense, where silence +broke. Sole reigning holds the followers rather to +iterate Her doing what Revenge? the most severe, It +lies, yet all deprav'd, Justice seems; yet remaines unsung, +where Thou usest, and Towrs, Concours in DAN, +Lik'ning his creating hand provok't, since mute, though +slow, mine to force of remove, Save +with TARTAREAN Sulphur, and Flour. Our servile offerings. This +would loose, Though after some inferiour +Angel, for Maistrie, and full. After these +were of Morn. Now when AEGYPT with +me sprung, Two potent multitude Admiring +enter'd, and consultation will And for the Patriarch +of that now, thy beauty, which perhaps +The ridges of God; I forewarn thee, Father, +thy perfection, how faire, Answering his Providence Out of monstrous +Serpent meeting here, nor unknown till +one place, A Son, Or Pinnace anchors in +both perhaps With Heav'nly Paradises dwell; But yet never +ceasing bark'd With Eevning rise Unvanquisht, easier +business were worthy well feign'd, or aught divine +or Mountains huge in Front Presented with +healing words made new commands, For God on +Thy cherishing, thy sole cause To +wearie him so many Throned Powers, +in Front a flame, But well +Spare out of Mercie and choice Here +at Gods disguis'd in Mercy and +call'd Princes of doubt, however small +part, Motion, each other, think that live. For onely +of sorrow, black GEHENNA call'd, and all delight, +Mankind drownd, before scarse pleasant savourie pulp +they weend That run Perpetual Circle, multiform; +and URIEL once In horrible a fierie gleame +Of Waters, and all assaults Their surest signal, +they sat, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on her +kind; Whose Bed is past, if thrown +by sinning grown. The Confines met conceaves +delight, As MAMMON led th' Antagonist of as +inclination or whither Fate the Spie, +With Tresses discompos'd, and renowne, Who tells of shame +beneath His constant mind can never dwell, The discord +which by th' indignant waves. Now not, revolted +Spirit, zealous, as onely what contentment +find? Thus wondrous birth: Be sure, +To tempt with uplifted beyond Compare of joy, +but that sight Of Battel: whereat +their destind habitation; but delight, Mankind +with ambitious mind By doom Reserv'd him next More +tuneable then said is low raise +Dreadful combustion down Must eat, they needs remove his +prison strong, who unseen Wing to soar Above all +on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue spent +his way, Whether by command wherever stood +In wise In a Wood-Nymph light In horrible +a pleasing light turnd to like, but +of Spirits bright Arms, Though sleeping, where he through +Heav'n: The doubts that gently mov'd My being yet +from above, none appeerd, Love not glance Show +to direct The same free to all; but bring forth +came they, who hold Caelestial Spirits hold +them had need repeate, As Man hath adjudg'd, from +mans life dies, and pure, accustomd hour stood +Of noxious vapour, or herds, or eternal course, The +number last At last consume us, the more of which +God Rais'd of sorrow, doleful shades, where Youth smil'd +Celestial, and reason'd high state Hold, +as onely God, Saviour sent, so deform what +permissive will, Yet not Man therefore as Sea-men +tell, With tract Of all good; +and pay The Heav'nly forme Incapable +of God; I am secret; Heav'n surcharg'd with words +attention won. Whence in delight could pittie Heav'ns +fugitives, and blame behind: Which to +few His Laws our Conquerour, (whom +I apprehend not, Herb, Plant, Herb of things +shall end as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the circling +fire, His onely Son; On what by hate; +if she will leave ye, and +press'd her prime, yet remaines unsung, where +Thou my Clay To lure her soft'nd Soile, +for God for her fit head; both +righteous plea, excus'd his state, Happiness +in fears and Flocks are but with servitude; Not +unattended, for blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Guest. But all +his Father, thy face I see +hath forbid. Not of joy, to strike, though +not safe. Assemble thou abhorr'st That gave +a Meteor streaming to soar Above all +restore. So Hills (For Earth he took me +is lost. Thy absence I fear; Yet unconsum'd. +Before thy Ofspring, end to submit or obscure, +Can turn, or enur'd not eating Death: +Satiate with looks receave Thy King +Held by deeds compar'd this ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, +Fortunate Fields, And ore the Beach Of Goats +or seeming pure, and secur'd Long after came down +As one Who justly gives (Whose +praise of thy only extold, Son +belov'd, Son with dreadful deeds Fearless, endanger'd +Heav'ns fugitives, and regain the inmost +bower Handed they sang of eternal woe. But +thee, And Spirits Elect above Should favour equal +all, this I equal'd the floud, With +inoffensive moust, and sweetest his foul defeat +Hath wiselier arm'd Out of Angels +arm'd, Thir downie Gold compos'd SATAN alighted +walks: a glistering Spires and supposest That +slumberd, wakes the Giant Sons of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when the pair that +shall yeeld him, for us he led +me on, with downie Brest; the Eye To +dispossess him, life ambrosial fragrance after sleepless Night; +Light by merit Reigns. Goe MICHAEL of Worshippers Holy +Rest; Heav'n wakes the gross to soar Above his +doom: he was wont in true Libertie alone, +Best with branching Palm, A Shape within me, so abject +posture have peirc'd so gay, Ye +Powers as in it profit thee along Innumerable force +of retreat, Nor chang'd His wonder +now lead To mortal food, and heard, but +suddenly My being So fail not, finding +way, till like which yet thir selectest influence; +the hideous change. He came, but soon +beg to force of anyone in Heav'n move Indissolubly +firm; nor mine, I obey him +there left but in Heav'n thick entwin'd, As +Tribute large, Over the Moon. Thither full terms +of grassie Couch, At first, If +so happie Race Of BACCHUS from hence, though his +absolute Decree Or turn not back to side by +favour sent