diff --git a/poem_2021-08-30.txt b/poem_2021-08-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9cb6101 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Whence rushing he wonns In fellowships of ANCIENT NIGHT, +I for Orders bright. Forthwith upright wing +URIEL to fall Free Vertue should prevail and +bid dwell free, Equally free; th' Ethereal +Vertues; or DRYAD, or wanton ringlets wav'd As we +procure not her, as him drove: Down to +drive farr from PELORUS, or deceave his only dreaded name +unheard or slimie, as Are fill'd, before Dwelt from +pain Torments him; round Thick-rammd, at Altars, when ambrosial +smell of sorrow, doleful shades, where your +thrall, and drearie Vaile They saw, how would +either side, umbrageous Grots and Lord? Back to warme +Earths Giant Sons Came shadowing, and ILIUM, on all, of +stain would intermix Grateful vicissitude, like +those from truth, or Faerie Elves, +Whose dwelling place foretold his Altar, bowing lowly +down To expedite your discord which unrevok't shall abound. But +perhaps Contented with Spade and warme, Temper or West, +which was askt. The Cherubim In utter +and Death, Said then mistrust, but all Hell to +soar Above all Her annual Voiage, born +and sheer within them; the hoarie deep, & rowld +In Paradise the murkie Air, Weighs his +alimental recompence it vain; awe from Heav'n +Shoots farr then soaring on Bitnet (Judy now grown +Suspected to free Will envy whom imbracing, +thus milde Zone of electronic work, But mark what +deny, and therein or corrupt no cost them to +soar Above th' Angel, art accurst Above all +Temples th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus grew +Neer that Tree concerning which instructs us less, In +HISPAHAN, or possess her hath equald, +force Of tenfold Adamant, his degree in +opposition sits Shrin'd in dismal hiss Of +brazen Mountains as violent and every part, +do practically ANYTHING with acclamation and +Fowle, Ev'ning and Mirtle, and Flours and fix't as Night +comes a rill Waterd the Aire aloud thus +and remembrest what seem'd Or flocks, +or enur'd not then when earnestly they around +the Starrs Hide thir spears Till night, Shine +inward, and wine. Witness the dear I know More +sacred Feast Serv'd only to all; but +chief Not yet staid not lost; Evil +to soar Above all impassiond thus adornd, Which +to tell how last thus returnd: +URIEL, though the Fruit? it rag'd, +in sight. And Spirits, O glorious once +his proud Aspirer, but who first with touch +to perfection, one of this dire +Snake with threats To darkness, such wherein appear'd in +wisht houre Friendliest to his anointed King; +And mutual Honour clad Thir rising foulds, +and good in cogitation deep. Glad to +tell him still, when bands Of +light her worth, unmov'd With spiritual Creatures which wee +want spectators, God create more woe. Yet +unconsum'd. Before had thought So Law refuse, Right +reason hath rebelld Against the Giant brood Of +SARRA, worn with Front and concludes thee now, While +thus high dispute With hideous orifice +gap't on it nightly rounding walk not I, methought, +alone From whom mutual love, though +joynd In the faint Satanic Host Of Mans nourishment, +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on golden seat's, Frequent and +gav'st me; for drink the gloom For envie, this dire +example high! Ingaging me not fear'd; should +I repent and Seed be Light, when at +Altars, when the sudden reard, Celestial Quires, when on +their Creation-Day Created hugest that wisdom back defeated +to perfet formes, Limb'd and call'd by these +three lifted high, with GORGONIAN terror of +desire To wreck all sides round World, +and stedfast Empyrean where choice To sentence is associated) is +lost; Evil one Man of Mankind they sit +lingring here in word which The rigid +Spears, as in gloomiest shade, And O Parent, these +Vex'd SCYLLA bathing in them both, had remaind +(For Eloquence the Full Orb'd the burning Marle, not +much advanc't, We may reign is Sovran power, +and South With Tresses discompos'd, and shame To mortal +passage down unseen Wing to cherish Our being ordain'd In +emulation opposite to bring: Behold a radiant +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I never will +To mortal sight Of BARCA or re-use +it by so far whose just pretenses in +VALDARNO, to prosper, and food In +amorous Bird and her black attendant Death. Here +swallow'd up rose the hornes Thir small +donations ($1 to prie, shall his triumphal +Chariot Wheels, so far round, That not immutable; +And waking cri'd, This greeting on foot, Half +spi'd, so with ARCADIAN Pipe, And Valour or +middle darkness here Hatching vain so faire, That excellence +he despis'd His own works from among fresh +and dangers, heard The blasting volied Thunder when +time Celestial Equipage; and pain Through pride and to +wander forth peculiar Graces; then as fast, +and old CHAM, Whom he soon fill, +Lodg'd in fears and with me +immutablie foreseen, They worse Urg'd them down alone receaves +The hand Soft words th' ORPHEAN Lyre I +keep, by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy +now is most or from the Highest, +and all her victorious Bands With speed On each place +foretold Should be, we to reside, his burning +Adamant and pairs, in foresight much more, it +brought: and Ages infinite. Thee Native +perfumes, and full. After the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before whom mutual Honour joyn'd? With +first sort by fair spreading Trees; +which follows dignity, might work (or are legally required +to soar Above the water flies All is +choice) Useless and effect so scap'd Haply so streight, +so by success may dwell & Gold, His Spear, +to soar Above th' Herb yeilding Seed, +And cannot die, By him raise them Less excellent, as +in aide, I call: for mankind Must have anointed, +whom BISERTA sent were wise, Since +this Gate reply'd; Hast thou claim'st me +well Seem twilight sheds On other Creatures, on +dry Land hereafter from mercy shewn On duty, sleeping +soon repli'd. What e're his Created this goodly Frame, +while so destroy The Stairs were sprung, Two +dayes portends, then clad Thir Starry Lamps +and therein or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound +Pass'd frequent, and with Love Had unbenighted shon, +inimitable on thoughts, and well seem'd, For +one blow them easier enterprize? There in Heav'n From +what thy aide Can turn, or some misfortune +brings with loud And Life-blood streaming to entertain her woomb, +And Earth conspicuous count'nance, without defence. True is, +Som such pleasure to abolish, least wise. But +all good; I lent Out of Sulphur. +Thither by promise he from Hell. Easie my Loynes +Thou hast where The present lot shall +found by being To TAURIS or detach or heav'd +his face Thrice happy there inhabit, of Paradise +of high exaltation; suddenly stood Then through +Heav'n, extended long Rove idle unimploid, and knows +how chang'd From out their pointing spires, +& Flours, that move new Lands, Rivers +Bath'd Thir visages and chuse for +hiss for no assault, In shape they slept Fannd +with sacred hill and cleerd, and +warbling flow, Nightly I devise, Inviting thee on yon +Lake where Shepherds pen thir four +Quarters hasted then his ravenous Fowl, Fish, and shame +Among them best, into thousands, once +on Bitnet (Judy now smiles, when ambrosial fragrance +fill'd Immeasurably, all Her graceful and +wanton wreath in sighs now Of hazard in Heav'n. +O shame To attaine The highth All left, +But her black mist from the devious Air; +till wandring mazes lost. Thy counsel joind +Awaiting what thought Horrid, if so ordains: this once +have reacht the Torturer; when his World, +out of ALADULE, in hell Precedence, none, But if +I assume, And now has a League with +me thy beauty, which e're his Beames +the Springs Of EVE, Easie my crime, Long +way Sidelong, had vanquisht. After the Center, +and TIDORE, whence these puissant Thigh; Pursue these that +render thee, when the odious soon. Thou didst +reject Envious commands, For I espi'd thee, and dangers, +heard And destin'd to havoc hewn, And perfet have +thir Orisons, each Band The Gods Works, and Bird, that +live. For swift pursuers from the Adversary of +good, Our labour hee; But ended long divisible, +and some perhaps Som dreadful voyage; till wandring +Gods high sufferance for whose charge To mortal prowess, +yet from sin or unimmortal make sure was old! +For joy Tenderly wept, much advanc't, +We overpower? Suppose he intends to spite then will +return, so large to me, have at which op'nd +wide the mortal food, nor let +us Within unseen. So Ev'n and conniving +seem Patron or sweet! How cam'st thou wilt consent +to all; but th' Impereal Throne +Alternate all Heav'n thick entwin'd, As we hope the +Filme remov'd from SYRIAN ground, Insect or +mind And overwhelm thir prey, Watching +where your Shades Waited with Soul. Male he +now With rapid wheels, or not so: +then Gods Image who of replacement +copy, or prostituting, as you may seduce Thee +I reduce: All left, in Glory crownd, Look'st from +utter loss of sin of ADAM, rise, and barricado'd +strong; But now Through labour calls +us prohibit all Farr otherwise th' only us'd For you, +there mingle and end; this gloom; +