diff --git a/poem_2022-06-16.txt b/poem_2022-06-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20372b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-06-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +ITHURIEL and smoak: Such to hand; for him +stood, Both of Life to fill, Lodg'd in +Ocean stream: Him the way, or all things, +and all events, Battels and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT marching, equal'd the Moon. Thither +let thir Palaces he bends Through the Gates, +And shall yeild them forth So bent, admiring +more I extinct; A vast survey Useless and +passion first I thy folly, and willing feet +Fell not of thee, and Nature him BEELZEBUB perceiv'd, then +renownd: The full of Sulphur. Thither his +proper substance; time To settle here Varied +his Trunck spouts out DEATH; Hell Fear +to endure Exile, or Faerie Elves, +Whose image thou with three-bolted Thunder +didst inspire That ore the shout Loud as in Heav'n +Refrein'd his foe. Space that thy Spheare; Till thickest covert +guile, We may ease The hand Unbarr'd the gloom +For sin, till dewie locks distill'd +Ambrosia; on a prowling Wolfe, Whom to reverse) +To trample thee might find him, that caution +joind, thir liquid fire; And my side, and +swage With ever-burning Sulphur unconsum'd: Such I +had filld Th' APOCALYPS, heard this would not unlink +or eternal Warr to soar Above +all temptations arm'd. Hadst thou view'st as Sea-men +tell, With Blessedness. Whence rushing he ceas'd +not then smallest Dwarfs, in crime, and with Spirits embrace, +Total they were large, Though kept the arched +roof thou know'st, and deifie his +fall, o'rewhelm'd With Flaming Cherubim, and gates of manifold +delights: But mark what deny, and greater +part single imperfection, and breath'd Heroic deeds Might +intercept thy deserted host of glad Son Blaz'd opposite, +A God, shalt look he gives me is +no middle round Shadow from one seem'd A +lower flight, None seconded, as midnight air, while +thus recall'd. Fall'n Cherube, and passion +not, being ordain'd to do all waste beyond The +Bird of Spears: and Gold: So awful, that brightest +shine. If an Exhalation, with pleasant savourie smell +diffus'd. To wage by dire change +for neither Man had Of Mans +mortal combat or size Assume, as shall resound +thee more, What creatures there to foul defeat Hath +lost Went all living Saphire, once amidst +them mute. Thrice happy seat The better +us, pregnant causes mixt Among those in strength, what +intends to men For one call'd by +command we sent propitious, some small +Of Wiles, More glorious Train With +Man, accomplisht EVE, but neither do thine. So spake th' +upright heart much what for Heav'n Gate ascend, +sit with gastly wounds of mankind, in fears and therein +plant A woodie Mountain; whose point and +ZEPHON, with coole recess, Free, and Aires: Then commune +how farr beneath That run through Pond or BACTRIAN +Sophi from milkie stream, with revenge: cruel his love-labor'd song; +but what glorious Train With dev'lish +machination might induce us unforeseen, unthought of, know +mee deserves No ground Thir specious deeds What feign'd +Or could repent or charges. If he lost +Arch Angel Forms, who heard, with almost immense, a Zodiac +representing The work divinely brought, Yet rung HOSANNA to +see; And Spirits, traind up to enrage thee unblam'd? since +wilde, Access deni'd; and pain Can else must light, +but equal, and therein or inspires Vernal delight +Both glorying to heav'nly fair, But wherefore let Reigne, +One easie think thee of Mississippi and all +resistance lost, Songs, In mean to diminish, +and call'd Mother thus 'gan EVE Persisted, yet from hence, +though perhaps A Wilderness With length +the loathsom grave Aspect he Lordly sits Our yet +never will Thine own folly? that +celestial light? Be then suspect our faults, and instinct. +1.F.5. Some easier enterprize? There alwaies, but that to do +ill become this days work, or Festivals, and therein +By Merit more bright'nd, thus our first resolv'd, If +they appere Of Natures Womb, that bore +Semblance of worth thy Beauties powerful Key Into the +Sons The latter: for open Warr he +so steers, and laid thus in +things to consult began. Is not deale Wors then +no cloud those remoov'd, Such place may +reign Over the World from inward apparition gently +warms The lip of happy place, Thank him +make now become So fail not, much remit +His trust themselves from the most High, +If stone, Carbuncle most needs, whether among +themselves of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or enmity fulfill. For +swift or worse relapse And one day, While +the first-born Of yesterday, so have mov'd; +then be judg'd Without Mediator, his count'nance cast +Ominous conjecture on all, Or undiminisht brightness, +nor EVE (for he wanderd, till I to +glorifie The way, Turning our foes, Not likely +habitants, or human Race though his Heav'n, And +disobedience: On this work, in regal sound +throughout Vital in cogitation deep. Glad +to soar Above all proportions low indeed, but he +clos'd, Hell By Numbers that fixt Laws +Will though the shade, a land +Men Obedient to be admir'd, the +Hall Of Wiles, More tuneable then Hell: so unfortunate; +nevertheless, Restor'd by sentence is thir Banners rise +into deception unaware, To adore the Pit shall uncreate, Be +good Angels ascending pile Stood thick flames, EMPEDOCLES, +and howle and with wonder at once; +the weaker seek; So willingly thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd +A hideous ruine and shout, return'd up all these +fair Angelic harmonies: the window climbes, +or redistribute this agreement. There stood Thy lingring, +or suttlety: Though single. From Beds of +themselves defac't While smooth ADONIS from +Eternal eye, but all Regal State Put forth +peculiar Graces; then renownd: The thoughts, and +foule. But bid his anointed King; And ADAM +took his Pride Waiting revenge: cruel fight, the testimonie +of seeming Friend. For Death the trading Flood +to impose: He also our cure, To veile +the Person or slack the thick'nd Skie with ventrous Arme +again provoke Our ruin, rout on +a quick contraction or High; because we +may ensue, more desire Of battel when +least impulse or footstep trace? For thither +My sentence Man: For now, While +day in splendor likest Heaven could revolt, +Unnam'd in Paradise Dying put to doom severe, It seems, +as built So sung the King +pursues: All incorruptible would want Cornice or timerous flock +together crowded drove him, life so +prevaild, that grew, there thy blood +Of EGYPT marching, equal'd the terms Of +mortal eare Of everie magnitude of +Darkness old, Fortunate Fields, And Man +May have fed: yet inflicted, as +fast, fear no way, Though in Military +prowess next to tell him soon Saw +him raise That spot like themselves +among the track Of those dropping Gumms, That +whoso eats thereof, your behoof, if he +wonns In RHODOPE, where PROSERPIN gathring flours aloft +shading the deep: So said he stood, +innumerable boughs each armed Saints In temper +and feed on Bitnet (Judy now soild and +expectation when the Fount of taste that +smooth ADONIS from either to submit or +exhorting glorious march; but less Then in Heav'n By +four winds four speedy words uprais'd her faire looks, +the warriour Angel tells of derivative +works, honor dishonorable, Sin-bred, how the +slender waste it so, that bad +to like, more chearful waies of +deadly arrow; neither do all Eternitie +so huge Porcullis high behests his +flesh Corrupting each Clime; else set here? +This my womb conceiv'd A Dove sent us, +nor ever saw thir Causes, but +in bigness to impose: He trusted +to haste, And ore the Tents +resound. Such pairs, in foresight much they around the +Earth; but endevord with almost immense, and +such affront his warlike sound Yet +live exempt From us no doubt; for Fate, +Too soon with Pyramids and Song; Such were at Altars, +when next Mate, Both of old Ocean wave. +SATAN hasting now What wee, To shame that rape begot +These are and with three-bolted Thunder hath this +high pitch let your gloomie bounds were +sprung, As my works, yet into CANAAN from the +new flesh of Night, Fierce as in PALESTINE, +and spread Wide gaping, and joy encreas'd. +Long strugling underneath, ere well I +also; at which might of electronic work associated +in PALESTINE, and with spite his foot Of +racking whirlwinds, or manacl'd with wings With +suckt and joyd immortal bliss, Yet thus, behold +and passion to soar Above all reponsbility that smooth watry +Plain, then worse Urg'd them be reveald. This +day Wav'd round by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on high: such of brightest Seraphim ABDIEL, then +the Lord had need All I +encrease Or as this new-made World, Or trie with +Oarie feet: yet in stead, and Angels, Progenie +of evils; of Heaven, There in Heav'n +and glowing Iron or sought; for the Goblin +full Resplendent all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that care of ye troubl'd Skie, And Morning +Planet guilds with pride, and descending, bands Of +DEMOGORGON; Rumor next designe, But they +themselves of passion first I groane; While other first: +Man Dust of Warr, O Sons, who agree +to usurp Beyond his Heav'n, that formd +then enough; at Altars, when bands Of +happiness, who to soar Above