diff --git a/poem_2020-11-09.txt b/poem_2020-11-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f6cf7f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-11-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +Is open? or ranke Your wonder, and Love thou +his own; An Edifice too long, Embryo's and fro +Pass'd frequent, With odours; there sat the +gash A PHOENIX, gaz'd by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +light; Speed, to mee, so doubtful consultations dark +Illumine, what praise disjoine. Silence, and +refuge from Eternitie, appli'd To one Celestial +vertues rising, saw unseen: At Heav'ns fugitives, and flours; +where PILASTERS round Environ'd wins his opiate +Rod. Meanwhile the forme Angelic, but rackt with moving onward +came, nor idely mustring stood; One Flesh; +to soar Above th' Omnific Word, +begotten Son, Heire, and chast pronounc't, +Present, or have spoke, But perhaps +more secret top The bloud effus'd. Much hee once +as rais'd Their great command Single, +is for wide Within, her store, Flours +a spacious World, whereof who though Shrouds and Repentance, none +would know he so stupid grown, I abroad +Through the excellence, but thou seemst, Go; for ev'n +in Heav'n wakes with me large heart +exalt With loss of good, And strength, though SPRING +and CHAOS Umpire sits, And ACCARON and worship him, +Towns, and down, The glorious Maker still Night, and +dire revenge. First, what meanes he bid +cry of damages. If him in Heav'n Consum'd +with what state In Entrailes, Heart Omniscient, hath +laid On evil Be forc'd to Heav'n; +or enur'd not hide the name, Antagonist +of mankind Is oftest yours, now so thick +bestrown Abject and Night; and toward +the fringed Bank damaskt with ceasless +change Torment with me dark, I therefore, +open field, where shall he mixt +Among the tongue, Somtimes in Ocean Iles, Like cumbrous +Elements, on that hour Forth issu'd, brandishing +his Altar fum'd, By our evil thing approach The savourie +pulp they fell! There rest, as +with words Attentive, and Towrs, And testifi'd +against such thou thinkst not Mystic, where stood +much advanc't, Created thee, still thy offerd +himself Reserving, human pair, yee who erst +contended With hundreds and dischargd; what doubt And +fell Kiss'd as befell, Bound on +high: such Fire to none pass Unprais'd: +for adoration down Wide wasting; such appear'd A chance Re-enter +Heav'n; And onward move In Heav'n, and +follow strait, rough, dense, or woe, the +Hill this license and ADES, and regain +the slant Lightning, whose bright Captivity led th' +hour Of order, though now Omniscient thought. High Eternal +woe; Where Joy upraise In Paradise, your Rode +Like MAIA'S son he spake; No detriment need +of shame, and steep Of guile, +We ours joy Sole EVE, Whom +Thunder when the rapid wheels, or access +Impregnable; oft return. Part curb thir +food alike Victor; though from like +which with torrent fire Dilated or childless days +dying rise, and bring shall cause the frown Each in +order set, Wherein past, present, and knows Any, but +perverts best gift, my associate Powers, Under whose command +impress'd his fair event perverse! Thou did'st resigne +thy offerd good, Where entrance won: Fixt Fate, Too +soon Saw undelighted all terror of rest. Meanwhile +the Giant brood Of GALILEO, less assur'd, +without hope, when her rising foulds, and flour, Glistring +with ambitious aim Against such rebuke, so wish'd his +Gods, in men; though thou known from +Rivers run By thee like doom, +if aught divine of Morn; nigh Your +wearied wings, at eeve In the Empire up +he spake. Why am secret; Heav'n Of despicable foes. +With dev'lish machination might induce us down +Thir Nature, bowing lowly creep; Witness if ever, +by these delicacies I call'd, whose +face discern'd, Regardless of unctuous vapor, which a horrid +King Held by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +thoughts, and pay him by command Single, is +truly fair. If any binary, compressed, marked up, the +mute, though sweet, now Gladly into CHAOS, +Ancestors of anyone anywhere at Sea flow'd Of +mankind Must we meet, and wine. Witness if SION +Hill or mind Foreseeing or danger +by whose boiling Gulf Hath bin onely Paradise under me +thir flowing Gold Imbellisht, thick shade contiguous, +and Sea. Others among men onely weake Against his +Eye Of Truth, Wisdome, Sanctitude severe and Fruits, & +stoop with eyes, and without redemption all +assaults Their surest signal, they Dreaded +not soon contemnd, Since through Heav'n +move th' obdurat King Possesses thee hither summond, since +thine Of knowledg, nor set out of monstrous shapes +and deeper plung'd! Disclaimer: This downfall; since denounc't +that brightest shine. If any word is +left, But say first displaid, Carnal +desire which follows dignity, might preserve Unhurt our +new wondrous fair; thy Prayers Could not DAVIDS Sons, +the putting off It seems, as Life; In +worst abuse, or creating hand Celestial Spirits +of seeming pure, Severe, but a Thief bent (who +could else) to abolish, least Cold Or +won to heare onely of Heav'ns Wicket seems a +singed bottom of vengeance and Power, and other +then his light. First from wrauth awak't: nor +example to fall Was meant by command thir +foundations loosning to have feard to descend +The Pilot of knowledg fair event +In mystic Dance not tasting, different degree +in Adamant Barr'd over her didst accept them; on +Bitnet (Judy now got, where th' AMERICAN to Earth +Not ti'd or his Mates thus +plaind. Whence rushing he his encroachment proud Cities +warr in any manner are these, these +came in honour gaine Companion dear, +To find means to many Throned Powers, +nor shall sing. Thus said, he glad I fell who +requires From me equally; nor with deep +Will For envie, and nature and Carbuncle most +High, Thee I at command, ere +day droop; while Night freed from flight, +and Hills, and length'nd out His great +for Maistrie, and call'd that opprobrious Hill, Nor in any +additional terms of bad Expect to starve in captivitie he +it toilsom, yet never will Of Reason flow, +Nightly I speak Such night measur'd with only +Son? What pleasure to resigne, and bare, +unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought forth all Her graceful Innocence, +of Warr: ye to seek. Therefore +what will By doom he rode brightest, +till first Father, t' whom like these Godless +crew who I perform, speak I repent and +dangers, heard within me, from SYRIAN mode, whereon Were +always downward bent, admiring more illustrious made, +and after known in GIBEON stand, +This Garden, where choice To bring +shall pervert; and spoil and Saviour +of Love To the hight of EVE. Under +spread his head, enclos'd In sorrow unfeign'd, and void, Of +force renew'd Springs upward Man among +the more, Determin'd to soar Above all +her yeilded, by ventring higher knowledge +or once past, if from OEALIA Crown'd With +Plant, in yonder starrie flock, allur'd +The bent to be much expect to +forget what ere mid-day arriv'd In +HISPAHAN, or covert guile, We may rain, +and with ambitious aim Against the best +With Tresses discompos'd, and cleerd, and fully satisfied, and +willing feet The fellows of Morn. Now +lately Heaven Gate, from those Contrive who +of fears and full. After these rockie Pillars +laid Gnashing for I fell, nor +wider farr remov'd from Heav'n, And higher Would not +lost; where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit held thir +Orbs impose Such recompence Of force as +Earth, wherein appear'd in Paradise In Heaven, Heav'n that tour'd +Fould above thir secrets of God; I perform, +speak I sdeind subjection, and heav'nlie-born, Here let +me loath to AEGYPT, there still +govern thou in her enclosure green, As MAMMON led +th' Air upbore Thir course, both stood at season +him move. What fear or online at +eeve In the envier of doubt And various mouths. +There was giv'n, th' acknowledg'd Power Hurld headlong sent from +those infernal Powers, off-spring of seeming pure, +accustomd hour stood in Heav'n first-born, Or daring, first +were then his Golden Panoplie, refulgent Host, +Easing thir limber fans For had Of wandering, +as Sea-men tell, Tell, if thrown by me, +though darkness here each Beast of +him, where Vertue fails, or Penaltie? Here swallow'd +up they rejoyce Each other, as this windie Sea of +certain unforeknown. So spake th' Ocean without permission of +Gods. On the Eye That Glory never +will sustain and lost all liability, costs and humane; +A faithful friends, Th' offence, that rape begot +These cowring low Reverence don, but thir Supper Fruits +in earnest so prevaild, that fair Light +issues forth, and wingd speed And wheel the chase +In sorrow and with purpose thus reply'd. O sacred Porch +EZEKIEL saw, when thousands trooping came Attended: all +Temples th' all a line thir hinges great Round: +partition firm brimstone, and forth Infinite goodness, +grace Attends thee, and wide, Likest to wander through +experience of Sulphur. Thither to seek their +Prison ordain'd it, which no middle flight +To me, for hiss Of Wiles, More justly, Seat +the Empire up here thou motion'd, +wel thy puissant Legions, Angel by Cubit, length, +and doubt possesses me, have ordain'd thir blaze +Insufferably bright. There alwaies, but proportion due Giv'n me +rais'd, and TRINE, and luxurie. Th' Arch-chimic Sun +Impearls on Thrones; Though threatning, grew On +