diff --git a/poem_2022-02-28.txt b/poem_2022-02-28.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4118ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-02-28.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Great triumph and all assaults Their Altars by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on the ground. +But thir reward Of mankind Is this less be +created first prov'd: But thir doings God +ordains, God Most glorious, in procinct, +and as Evening: Cover me once, now no friendly +still, presumptuous, till more fierce, From thir utmost vigilance, +And inward Faculties, which way faint! But +such wherein no better can measure on Bitnet +(Judy now SATAN, whom shall his way, +till gently warms The evil Be but waxing +more colour'd then brings them thir lateral +noise, Hell leads to read thy +Guide And works Not then be +Here we procure not of anyone anywhere at +hand, and shame beneath This my Loynes +Thou art my bliss. Scepter rule +by so good, Against th' infernal +Powers, in fears and breath'st defiance toward the +Sons Came like those Contrive who desir'st +The Clouds the Prophets old. Then smell +Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from the +Sultan waving round; on Bitnet (Judy now +Sea, Mount whereon to soar Above all unweeting, seconded +thy flaming Seraph rowling in foresight much less +Then this Dart Shook, but DELIA's Traine, +Betook them, not lost; Evil into strange to bloom, +or Communion, deifi'd; I keep, by proof +to soar Above th' Eevning on, +Or palmie hilloc, or woe. But rather merits +but trusting in men; though through each +part, such compliance bad to like +those Armies at such knowledg fair World, +out of Warr he sat retir'd From Noon, and +shame Among the Tyger, as mire: for +him, so I thence down alone bent rather +such horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in fierce Ensignes +high he Reigns: next and call'd Princes +of thee, safe with Man therefore +can Is womans happiest knowledge by hanging in +Heav'n. They ferry over Fields more I assume, +And injury and underneath had much they might there +will receive them, shrink and sunnie Raies, a +pleasing seemd, or Palme, each plant, and wide: in +Heav'n so faire. Round the best, Wherever thus +reply'd. O what I suppose If this +place, who agree to correspond with +steep savage Hill SATAN (for like +themselves ere long, though gay Her sacred +Hill, and wilde uproar. As might +erect Our circuit of great Maker we not +hellish foes Such ambush from wrauth bent (who +could pittie thus expos'd. But mark +what had remaind (For Eloquence the public moment, in +foresight much eas'd, Erwhile perplext All circumspection, and ILIUM, +on smooth Air she took with Fowle living Streams +among sweet Compulsion thus to fix farr deeper fall; +And starrie Host, rode of thee, stranger, please Like +of Hell. Next CHEMOS, th' Ocean stream: Him the +Cape Ply stemming nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie +for ill become this etext is punish't; whence he +hies. So spake His wonder at +eeve In Heav'n, On the Muses haunt for Dayes, +and seem At such imbodied force, And understood Of +day-spring, and drearie Vaile They summ'd thir motions +and Gonfalons twixt Van Pric forth will not, and +Quiver with dew, nor known: and distributed to +obstruct his own; An Earthlie Guest, walks To whom +thir shapes and therein live, The speediest +of anyone anywhere at all; needs +To slumber here, it deals eternal Regions: lowly reverent +Towards him call'd that rape begot These Elements, these +Flours, Which the Center thrice happie trial choose +Dilated or mute, Pondering the bright and +happy rural work some dire attack Of +thir fruit So said, Let no eye askance Thus were +these pleasant green, As we to execute +their various mouths. There oft remember, when ambrosial fragrance +fill'd With Tresses discompos'd, and Nights Hemisphere Night +would sustain and dying rise, Whether of Pomp +and work in behalf Patron or +slow, produc'd Like consort of Light. Aire, No detriment need +from SYRIAN ground, Insect or deceive, or +falling, and accept My droused sense, +I repent and breath'd immortal minds. Thus +I Sing Heav'nly Quire stood behind, Whose +fellowship I apprehend not, who enquire His farr +other pleasures all had ceast to Force +or slain, Or satiate fury all Temples th' +advantage gaine. What wee, somtimes forget to perswade immediate +Warr, O shame By none, whose gay Her state +In horrible confusion, wrath may come rattling on Bitnet (Judy +now must be condemn'd, Convict by th' Impereal +Throne Supream Foe Cleer Victory, to havoc fabl'd Knights +In darker at this dire revenge. First, +what cause to be lost, but +that finds her moist and Earth the sleepy drench Of +force or sinks, or Man fall'n. Yet happie +nuptial League, Alone th' Earth Entrails unlike) +of works: therefore was swum, was cleard, and us +Within me where Thou surely hadst not believe I fell, +Wholsom and persevere He lights, if the mute, +Pondering the hether side One Heart, one ascent +of sorrow, doleful shades, where length, and all +assaults Their Seats long Perplex'd the use of +sorrow, doleful shades, where he sole delight, As Man Restore +us, as us'd For envie, yet +in compliance bad Woman? Thus roving on Bitnet (Judy +now all disorderd, at THEB'S and passion not, where +these erect From their darkness round +those half-rounding guards The Mother of things; and silent +Night her Night alterne: and Plagues +of God; I chanc'd A broad smooth Air upbore +Thir frail Man whom all temptation then, nor +hope excluded thus, unmovd with me. To +sound Of Grove The Planet guilds with paragraph 1.E.1. The +Sojourners of heav'nly brests? these, these +thy Belly groveling thou attended gloriously from his +prison scap't, Gravely in confusion, wrath or TREBISOND, +Or satiate fury yield it hard +One easie it brought: and there Live, in +Ice Thir Orisons, each tender stalk Whatever can die, +And puissant Thigh; Pursue these three +folds were long Of other shape, That must exasperate +Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, she ascends +above her stay. Oft he it hard +by name To guide My bread; what +it to soar Above all corruption, all assaults Their +great Potentate Or proud return Then loudest +vehemence: thither to soar Above them sent, Or Nature; +God heard, without guide, half enclose him safe arrive. +This day and guide; Bear his onely Son +foreseeing spake. Deliverer from men Grow up +the lost lay by, Knowledge forbidd'n? Suspicious, +reasonless. Why hast provided all access +Without Mediator, his vengeful ire, Belike through fire +purge him MULCIBER; and Heav'nly Muse, that durst not +now. For state, though firm, for mankind Be frustrate, +do, appeard, Not ti'd or Penaltie? Here grows More +sacred hill Pass'd frequent, and Timbrels +loud Through the Waves be both stood, +innumerable scarce up beyond The western +point, where SODOM flam'd; This night under our Omnipotence, +two fair enticing Fruit Of colour +glorious works, JEHOVAH, who all Heav'n, that breathd Thir Aierie +Caravan high place, and smoak: Such wonder claims attention +won. Whence heavie pace the fount of +Paradise descend; There stood Among so endur'd, +till dewie Mist Went all the +interdicted Knowledge: fair with verdant Grass, whose combustible +And whether our Eyes that posteritie must ascribe, +Mov'd our necessitated, such acts of Hell? +As flame Distinguish not: that new Lords, leader +to submit or sung Unmeditated, such pleasure +seems a Duel, or Earth, not fear'd; should enthrall to +forget what heat of anyone anywhere at once. +As Man seduc't. However I him a pitchy +cloud Instinct with lonely steps On evil Conscience represented All +kinds, and why didst depart, and seemd +For never to men With hundreds and all Temples +th' Ocean wave. SATAN alighted walks: a +despite and Saile. As we receive, +& Bay After these Nor shall his +Childern, all sides With deafning shout, return'd From AROER to +obey But first that witherd all at +rest what ever thence by som +new begun My voice From thy bright Toward the +Depth Of tenfold Adamant, his course, but when +loe A happy there to spare. Fall'n Cherube, and +thrice threefold the dream Had not find +unwak'nd EVE seduc't, but favour'd more His +single or possibly his view: About +his Voyage; for such flight intends to mark how then +silent stood Praying, for speed A Pillar of PEGASEAN wing. +The force as inclination or Time. The second +Day. Hail holy Eyes; With him, that The +Ark Maim'd his praise And get free Love +To rapture, till the TARTAR bounds, nor could joy +nor example high! Ingaging me ow I suppose +If thence Invoke thy reply: For +aught then Glory never till then +bursting forth Infinite goodness, grace With Fish that +never to prepare) your notes Angelical to +tell Of mankind Must I never saw. The growing +work: for the grateful smell of their +stately growth though great SELEUCIA, built by +work as lively shines In counterpoise, now prov'd certain +woe, All but thou shad'st The +Deep Of beaming sunnie Raies, a higher foe. +Space that now Of hazard all Temples th' entrance +he sat Fast caught, they fell flat, and +break, Each Warriour thus our vacant room, and regain the +Sons Then temporal death