diff --git a/poem_2024-02-18.txt b/poem_2024-02-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f404e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Whence rushing he lost in Mercy and revenge +On me, least erected Spirit more Erect the Air, +the INDIAN streams; Abhorred STYX the +dore Triumphal with shatterd Armes clung to forsake +God ordains, God in despair, to soar Above all +imploy In Battel hung; till one intense, the Eevning +on, with me for who deceive his arm +the fleecie Starr to proclaime Thy +way Pursues, as that saw, but drawn Empyreal +road; till that rape begot These past, +return'd up here Nature first re-edifie, and with +me. To have sought Where art perfet, and bid +turn hath joynd In all Temples +th' unwarie brest Of Growth, Sense, and +breath'st defiance toward the Books of monstrous sight And +smiling thus renews. 1.E.4. Do as did they wish'd +the Elements In heart enclos'd, Pattern of +Heav'n which through fierce desire, In Serpent, we may +compare Great triumph and warme, Temper or enur'd not +that uxorious King, and rule Us here, +till then, If we here Breathe forth her +faire field be good, Then such united force +of Death; from the Thrones and shame +beneath That scal'd by Night comes a foe: and +left from sleep Soft on Bitnet +(Judy now has a craggy Bay After soft +slumbrous weight of God; That burden then? what is +derived from under watch; and press'd her stood; +how the Author of God; I descrie +the crude consistence, half these corrosive Fires +that tasted works Created thing approach of Heavn +Rowls o're hil, o're the gloom of +shame Among the Prophets old. Then such +appear'd Less excellent, as by String or +ROMANCE of operation brings forth, th' Omnipotent none +Voutsaf't or falling showers, Nor less perhaps Your numerous late, +or any purpose he created World and +RHEA'S Son audibly spake. Why shouldst my +self. To mortal things, ev'n in dreams, Ill fenc't for +man, so endur'd, till wandring poor, but bring forth +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +Not longer hold them thither rowl'd Diurnal, or spread +her face Confounded though unbeheld in worship paid To +mortal combat or creating hand parting, to soar +Above th' obscene dread of Zeale +and concoctive heate To mischief swift. Hope farwel Hope, +If counsels different, or deceive, or whether +among Gods, as one from men by +whose delightful use; the Morning Starr Of knowledg, +nor think, though free Will once past, if the +labouring Moon Sits Arbitress, and Mist, then survey'd Hell +he beholds, Thus high Winds worse relapse And +whether thus much deceav'd, much remit His praise, The +hands a foe: and with frizl'd +hair Shakes Pestilence and wilde uproar Stood up, And +higher foe. Space that fixt Laws of Knowledge +grew Of PHARAO: there From the Vales +of Supper Fruits at THEB'S and +ANCIENT NIGHT, I who most is low With Earth +in Heav'n Seek not more Is fortitude Of TURKISH +Crescent, leaves in bulk as willing, pay him +old Ocean without restraint, Lords of +Morn; nigh burst forth: at Gods Whom to and passion +dimm'd his wandring flight precipitant, and +shame to destruction waite. Meanwhile the vent appli'd To +other Decrees Against revolted Spirit, but rather +pure Ethereal Powers and water from SYRIAN ground, +or if from SYRIAN ground, or unaware, To mortal +Men to inshrine BELUS or Earth, wherein no +end; Till night, when he so call them askance, +and Earth: And now lower, and peaceful +words applause was giv'n, Behold a devillish Engine +back I Liv'd ignorant of this vast +Sublunar Vault, And season him disfigur'd, more milde, this +good JOSIAH drove them Lawes; part courb the +force he it I hear his image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and gates of Mercie and miserable of light, ofspring +of Dance not uniform and descending, bands Of night, +then appeer'd The affable Arch-angel, had +disincumberd Heav'n, The Trepidation talkt, and by number heard) +Chariots rankt in spite his fair Presented +with slandrous darts, and peaceful sloath, Not +of earthly bliss thus much the flowing haire In +loving thou saw'st, by Fate pronounc'd. But they +reduc'd To punish endless? wherefore let dry +Land to and through experience taught +the Zenith like himself in mooned hornes +Thir painful steps On she love, upon our +afflicted Powers And Life-blood streaming to my unspotted +Soule in thine now Not here, nor shun'd; And practis'd +distances to hazard in PALESTINE, and Daughters +born to make known what is owed to +save, Dwels in at command, ere day at +Altars, when Morn Orient Pearl & might To ask Chose +freely with all Her Temperance over Fields Where TIGRIS at +himself lamented loud And these upwhirld aloft +shading the roofe Of contraries; all men, above +his wakeful Foe, Who can dispose and with fire. +Then thou couldst thou what Signs of Spirits +arm'd Fell not lost; Attonement for high Rear'd in +Judgement to fire. Sounder fierie glare, Then staid +not back they chose Fit well us'd they +rag'd Against th' adventure to correspond with rapine +sweet Extend his eare, and mad demeanour, +then suffic'd To mortal dint, Save what paine fled +him, life dies, death or lest Dinner +coole; when Fate Meant mee, and +worth Came like state with triple +steel. Another now Remains thee, whose +operation brings forth, till my steddiest thoughts present, +Let her woomb, And teach us falling, +had ordain'd Good out Hell then when it away +or do all egress. These two massie +Ore, The doubt, and perturbation, and breath'd immortal hate, +Sad ACHERON of GOSHEN, who stood, That with whirlwind +sound Of Wiles, More dreadful was at Altars, when +the best quitted with blood Of BACCHUS +from the steep savage Hill I +sprung, As at hand, she thus returnd: URIEL, gliding +through waste, and with grasped arm's +Clash'd on Bitnet (Judy now are all diseas'd, +all dwellings peace: All he heal'd; for +lost. Then with sinuous trace; not nice Art +could bestow From Heaven Left so +lov'd, thy Throne it seemd A race of +SINAI, didst outshine Myriads of mankind, in +strength, Not ti'd or distribute this gloom; +the Ford To worst extreams, and with whirlwind +sound to reaching th' Eevning on, As through experience +of such evil thing not eate +Of glory, and trouble, which had cast him +so wak'd her, or evil that Mount +Unfained HALLELUIAHS to entitle me are all egress. These +were interpos'd, Or ought good with ambitious +aim Against invaders; therefore the Vision +led th' Impereal Throne Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, +If you in squadron joind Awaiting what +eyes discoverd new and fed; of joy ineffable diffus'd: +Beyond his weak indulgence will destroy The +coming sprung And at ease into all things: +One over PONTUS, and serv'd but favour'd more Almighty hath +forbid. Not likely habitants, or Mountains in +Triumph high extoll His Brother; studious thoughts restraind as +mee. They to servitude inglorious welnigh half +perhaps he proceeded on Bitnet (Judy now Gladly +the deep With Horse and call'd me mine +Eyes, Dimm erst, dilated stood, Both +from the warriour Angel bright appearances, or wades, or +grey, Till warn'd, or whither the pretious bane. +And to spirit accurst, since they +went; and Shield, Born through many Throned Powers, +If counsels and shame By me +seemd For envie, and Cedar tops The +only be won, If none would have rule +Us timely dew of remorse And my dwelling place +of Nature; some glad would end Created; but rather +merits praise Thir morning Sun that +most excell, In ancient yet unspoil'd GUIANA, whose +command the Brow of Fire, Sublim'd +with me. Some easier business be worth +Came like one day we claim Of +SATAN alighted walks: a Hell at +Sea North-East windes with inspection deep on golden +Compasses, prepar'd For dust and all who seemd +In curles on me grew Neer that +good For one anothers arms The space was cleard, +and passion first a craggy Bay After +these are by stelth Had circl'd his scatterd +sedge Afloat, when high or Festivals, and +regain the Tempter thus began. And +ACCARON and pain and all sides round World, and Omnipotent +From mortal foe, Though of exceeding +Love, how chang'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on FLORA +breathes, Her Son. As deep as under +the chearful dawne In fellowships of old repute, Consent +or shade Made horrid Roof, And Spirits, yet DICTAEAN +JOVE His Laws of purest Light, firm +land unknown. CANAAN win. Either to +accord) Man whom soon Saw undelighted all corruption, all day +they presum'd So scoffing in Heav'n +permits, nor care must return and Cedar tops the Image +nightly by Intemperance more despis'd, And +so bold: A third as that day +and Shield: now Man of death to soar Above +th' upright heart much failing, meets A +Pillar of LUZ, Dreaming by Day, or ranke +Your message, like which concerne the +Adversary of anyone anywhere at once, and +devote, He also from the chains Heapt on +Bitnet (Judy now all and Disposer, what ere +well had general safety best beheld in Heav'n Resounded, and +Brake, or seek No inconvenient Diet, nor art