Short Assignment #4

BOOK I
129   man
130   passed through fire
131   His temple right against
132   The
133   black
134   realm, beyond
135   The flower
136   who, from the bordering flood
137   Dilated or condensed,
138   of love
139   left
140   star 


149   To him no
150   door
151   Exposed
152   the prime in order and in
153   rest
154   seized
155   By
156   measure found; 





 above the rest
183   Stood
184   All
185   : as when the sun
186   Looks through the horizontal
187   behind the moon,
188   eclipse
189   Archangel:
190   heaven's fire
191   From wing to wing, and
192   Words interwove with
193   mortal
194   Matchless, 


197   For who can yet believe
198   to re-ascend,
199   and re-possess
200   in close design,
201   At length from us
202   Space may produce new Worlds 


243   At once
244   to smallest forms
245   their shapes immense, and
246   far within,
247   in their own dimensions
248   silence 




BOOK II
19   Turning 
20   to meet the noise 
21   shall hear 
22   and, for lightning, see 
23   itself 
24   strange fire, 
25   invented 
26   The way seems difficult, 
27   upright against 
28   the sleepy drench 
29   not still, 
30   our proper motion 
31   pursued 
32   and laborious 
33   ascent 
34   The event 
35   unextinguishable 
36   without hope of end 
37   Inexorably, 


54   What if the breath
55   Awaked, should
56   plunge us in the flames; or from above
57   if all
58   were opened,
59   One day upon our heads;
60   Each on his rock transfixed,
61   all things at one view?
62   then, live
63   at the spear
64   in time 


75   We can create,
76   out of pain
77   Of darkness
78   an
79   unobscured
80   round
81   lustre 


92   attention still as night
93   we
94   build up
95   dream,
96   This place
97   Beyond
98   highth or depth, still first and last
99   sit we then projecting
100   ---another World,
101   called Man 


117   The weight of all 
118   transcendent 
119   silence 
120   out of 
121   this huge convex of fire, 
122   Ninefold
123   unknown 
124   in the shape 
125   as of 
126   above the 
127   rose 
128   through 
129   rose 
130   rising 


175   life dies, death lives,
176   on swift wings 


204 "O father, 
205   O son, 
206   head? 
207   and thy words so strange 
208   double-formed, and 
209   phantasm 
210   Surprised 
211   In darkness, 
212   Out of thy head I sprung.

Twice A Year Joys (Archive Assignment #3)

Let me tell you a tale of joy and woe

Where dreams and desires yours sit like a doe.

In fields without cover, they wait exposed

With calm and fear, their praise of God now closed.

Which Gods, you ask?  The Gods of ACES, man!

Class picking time has come once more, and ban

From your mind hope!  The morn is approaching

When down you’ll sit, with nerves  strong enchroaching

Awaiting the tick of seven o’clock.

On time, one queue, and your schedule’s a lock!

If you click last, late! Joy slips out like sands

The desperate grasping of clammy hands, 

Searching for weeks without  math or four labs

Fleeing from horrors like Gross Chem!  Or the jab

Of an eight thirty Monday Friday morn,

Or a teaching assistant from land foiregn.

Alas, one fights with one third of the peers

Attempting to win the War of Next Year.