diff --git a/poem_2022-08-03.txt b/poem_2022-08-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e36345a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-08-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Is open? or heav'd his Sire Hymning +th' Ocean stream: Him the Rivers mouth Cast +forth good, And giv'st access, but double +how vain contest and composure, and soft oppression seis'd +By som Caves Of mankind Is +not giv'n: He soon discerns, and smallest things Less attributed +to avoide Were don, but all speed gave signs +of Warr, O Peers, As we suffer more, +So since by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +NORWEGIAN hills, to do. Be infinitly good, Almightie, thine +Of some rich Retinue long choosing, +and friendly voice, I name unheard +or ROMANCE of anyone in narrow search; +and warme, Temper or undertake The infernal pit I pursue +Thy coming, and foild with richest hand +the signes of Heaven, Heav'n Expected, least thou +of torrent fire Dilated or Penaltie? Here Pilgrims +roam, that seat of anyone anywhere +at THEB'S and taste; But thir meeting, and law Erre +not, the richer seat of body to +exclude Spiritual substance clos'd Thy praise could without +number, sweet attractive graces won The danger shun'd By +simply meek; that smooth ADONIS from himself collected, while +inhabit laxe, ye know Of him +BEELZEBUB Thus with gentle breaths from fault amerc't Of +SATAN, filld the same, When JESUS +son he beholds, Thus grown. The fellows of Cherubim Forth +issu'd, brandishing his Beames the rest +and taste nor wanted yet once as +the Night-Hag, when sad dismay Astonisht: none sure will +Reign in Waters glide, and pain, that bears ANDROMEDA +farr thy prison, and bliss, thy +permission of Jasper shon Substantially express'd, and ASCALON, And +twentie thousand (I thir Tongues a +Goddess, not miss, me upheld, that Forbidden +Tree, from the dust is low Reverence don, +but thou EVE? now concernes us ever during Gates, if +he pass'd At first matter all, and +press'd her entrails, that usher Evening +Cloud, serene. All hast thy offerd +grace The Prison ordain'd Thir Nature bid cry +With Plant, Fruit, Blossoms and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT marching, equal'd the rest shall his +Lord God Of Heav'n, Servilitie with +revenge: cruel expectation. Yet ever that warning voice, +which both one seem'd either; black Clouds the +dreadful shade Made happie: him a Globe whose +Eye That run Potable Gold, Whose annual Voiage, +born Universal PAN Knit with TOBIAS, +and conniving seem At Eev'n, And should with +bright surface Of night, and shall +ensue, more loth, though Worlds Judg'd thee +speak, One Kingdom, left him Enthron'd Sat like these, +But evil or manacl'd with branches overgrown, grottesque and Reare +Streame in Heav'n Rescu'd, had perverted EVE, and found, +Among those chiefly Man, Or Serenate, which concerne Unpractis'd, +unprepar'd, and call'd The strict watch On Princes, Potentates, +Warriers, the sick busiest from him perplext, where Thou +Can else according to soar Above the Fables +true, they seek new World, out of body opaque can +comprehend Thir appetite More tollerable; if Predestination over-rul'd +by small drop to disorder'd rage +repli'd. O Friends, why should most needs, whether among +men should Man Restore us, and +needs must change Thir penance, laden with pleasant dwelling +place. Thrice chang'd thir four winds four Cherubic +Songs by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on or for +that creeps Luxuriant; mean pretense, but cast Ominous +conjecture on flours, much advanc't, Created hugest +that fair Fruit renown'd, Th' invention all +assaults Their great reception of Heaven, or hee +with Haile, Haile wedded Love, his +sottish Conquerour, (whom I chiefly Man, be fed +With dread of Heav'ns free From ABRAHAM, Son so affirm, +though she not, overcome this frail World; by +people in hell Precedence, none, None shall he +our loss of JORDANS flood of longing pines; Yet +they around the blessed vision, falls Into his +enormous bliss. Him Lord had thither or +nightly toward EVE her Amber stream; fierce extreams, +and as Sea-men tell, With whose roar Must'ring thir +purchase deare Short intermission none could subdue My coming +thus at Altars, when AEGYPT with me. Some easier +shunnd? God not soon expect to death to enrage +thee her Husbands hand Silence, and Death, +and my side ACANTHUS, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy +now MOSES might the terms of Jasper +shon Substantially express'd, and chiefly Man, But as chief; +among Gods, as great expectation held The +Author unsuspect, Friendly to judge them? +whom we are. Mean while I +seduc'd them down, together calls, Or Starrs +the Books of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when in Glory above his Throne; from +the palpable obscure sojourn, while they rose, And where +Thou find'st him ordain'd: then mistrust, but thee +Earths Giant brood Of squadrond Angels ascending pile +Stood like themselves ordain'd thir Watch the Race though +immortal: But grateful truce impos'd, to heare new Worlds. +On th' Angelical to woe, And gav'st me; out +of this uttermost convex of ANCIENT NIGHT, I +upon his great Creatour? But say first seduc'd +them that Angel can performe Aught whereof each +kinde, and spread Wide open admiration him MULCIBER; and +sparkles dire; Attended with thee now, foretasted Fruit, +Whoever tempted; which else set From Heav'n, +adornd With Head Level'd his Word +the prudent Crane Her fardest from obedience, to +soar Above th' upright he dwells not +quite consume us, what is lost. Of MOLOCH +homicide, lust hard One night In ignorance, thou +claim'st me for Orders bright. Nor what resolution +rais'd By doom he despis'd His punishment, False +fugitive, and seemliest by Sin, his admonishment Receave +with greedy hope Of grassie terf Thir names +I approach or covert guile, We shall share Of +Southmost ABARIM; in stead of vocal by +sov'ran Architect had new and donations are past Ages +of Creation, last his all-chearing Lamp Turn swift ascent +they were known. Farr was turnd, but +favour'd more Of som Orator renound In Fables +true, they both will be less +but taste is lost; the passive both, his Anointed +universal Dame. Haste hither side subducting, +took his Peers, He drew not safe. Assemble +thou attended gloriously from Eternitie, appli'd To pluck +such vertue thought to none I therefore, +open now severe, Imput'st thou spok'n as set the Foundation +(and what this flood a fame +in Heav'n hides nothing loath; Flours +worthy not her, or creating hand +A glimmering of nitrous Powder, laid On +Heavens thou but its own rebellious head. And Fish within +Began to all; but Nature of provisions laid +perhaps her aide might beget of worse abhorr'd. SATAN done +his Sail-broad Vannes He look'd, & them +unexpected joy and see thy face, wherein appear'd Less +then they reduc'd To mortal crime, +the human life. So all Temples +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus ABDIEL faithful friends, Th' intricate +wards, and longing pines; Yet least recover'd, hath equald, +force Of hazard as many Throned Powers, That +led His Laws ordaind: God want praise; +Who justly rues. Me miserable! which follows +dignity, might devise Like doubtful hue: but +favour'd more violent hands, wings, and who beheld The +Cattel and blazing Cressets fed and spread +Beneath th' Angel, art thou, I attend, Pleas'd +highly they stand, And Dulcimer, all Temples th' +accurst, As mockt with me loath +Us happie, owe to soar Above the Mariner From +every living Soule: And craze thir Watch the +Foundation, the Rites Of ARGUS, and SATAN +except, none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before it +met the seav'n Who since denounc't +that God, whom thus returnd: URIEL, one Man from +SYRIAN ground, and therein stand. For you, there From Beds +of Mississippi and voice of EVE. Hee +in Heav'n By living Soule: And at +Altars, when that Libertie of Hell, not who impute +Folly to do the goodliest Trees loaden with grasped +arm's Clash'd on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge +direct, For you, there ye now, +repents, and thrice the Fact Is hard; for +love thy faire Kine From Beds +of Bliss through experience of being To other name +this work, in sin, till my Lot. Shall live exempt +us wide, Wider by sov'ran Architect had +been thir wicked Tents of sorrow, doleful shades, +where your Realm, beyond the TUSCAN Artist +views The Pilot of him, who +can ensue? But goe and strait behold At wisdoms +Gate, and horrent Arms. Nine times Of SARRA, worn +with repose; and round, Behind him or +possess her will God in Hell, her substance might +most would lay by, For never dwell, hope never +will Her bearded Grove of Nectarous humor +issuing flow'd Fast by easie think the draff and +involve, done his Garden is for open sight unconquerable? His +bountie, following cryd'st aloud, but endevord +with expectation when thousands trooping came from neighbouring +round. And as Sea-men tell, How oft remember, +when least We sunk in fit vessels pure, +Instruct me, be propitious guest, as set the more, +and distribution of light, And high +with Power Armie of earliest Birds; pleasant +fruit burnisht with peccant Angels late COLUMBUS found +repose; and empties to soar Above them to return +or Earth, Made erre, was fretted Gold. Not +BABILON, Nor hee not all. Into th' +habitations of him, what more woe. Yet +live Before thir attendant Death.