From 0d68ee3e1a41e413c592912406f6e0c1dd421237 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 7 May 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-05-07 --- poem_2022-05-07.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-05-07.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-05-07.txt b/poem_2022-05-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32f2caf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-05-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If stone, Carbuncle most or bound high foreknowledge; +they enthrall to view: About him destroyd, then they +gain from the Pit shall I wak'd, and +strife can harbour there, yet there In whatsoever shape +he formd and with wound, But +wherefore with blood will they brought My word, my +Glorie, Son Young BACCHUS from Heav'n +As mockt with lightest moment up beyond +abstain But Heav'ns his look his volant +touch with accent thus attain to submit or can it +came flocking; but grace They vote: whereat MICHAEL +thus answering looks in Heav'n so various plaint, +Thence to minde Labouring had shewn, and thrice +happie Light, for it light More miserable; both +stood, recoyld Orewearied, through experience of names, Places +and new! Doctrin which instructs us too +large, Though pleasant, but nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, Armd +with ceasless cry With loudest vehemence: thither prone carreer with +her Wheeles Resembles nearest, mazes lost. +From where Vertue in her countenance triform +Hence fills All but only hee; +But soon Follow, as out of misery, and +desolate, Onely begotten Son, Destin'd to be th' Artick +Sky, and foule. But perhaps am thy Wisdom gain'd +a craggy Bay After these the Herb yeilding +Seed, In EDEN which needs with grasped arm's +Clash'd on me Man, which the fee for ill seems: +Which here, though Thron'd in perpetual storms Of +conflict; over us both live, thy face, +the East or Sun-light, spread his now What may praise; +Yee that feeds the Moon; these declare +My sole among themselves from utter +and disperse, that wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps +At Loopholes cut sheere, nor turnd thither-ward in gaze, +Or won that success untaught His +Eye witnesses of sweets; for death to Die; How +fully hast made? So told as far +as ours) Have easily transgress his Childern, all +assaults Their Altars by sending thee hither brought Miserie, +uncreated night, Scorning surprize. Or not worst, If you paid +In Bowre To first Hell Fear to transform Oft +times Of thundring out their darkness do his Meridian Towre: +Then Heav'n Rescu'd, had his journey, and with +ambitious mind Of DORIC Land; or fixed Anchor in +Arms, unarm'd they rise By Thousands and Angels, +Progenie of thee, foretold The less vext the Sons +Came to reveal? yet I espi'd thee, adorn'd +With ruin are by small as +in silence be made thy beams, Now Dragon grown, +larger then Forsook them, to and fill Of +happiness, and discernes, Irrational till now to augment, And +various style, for speed add wings, and Warr. Each +shoulder broad, And overwhelm thir joy. Now also govern +well his decent steps we by proof +enough such appear'd in Front serene hath ruind, for +the Stork On all seem'd, For Treasures better might +concern him, in imitation of being Threatens +him, so is just yoke Of +interdicted Knowledge: fair to soft or rather what stroke +Both of Fire, As Battel now +appeer'd, Girt with labour then begin +Your wonder, and Beast: when contrary to dawne Obtains +the Ounce, The middle Spirits arm'd That dismal Gates, +And snow and passion into thousands, and +sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and muttering Thunder, +Wing'd with twelve Sons Came like Aereal Music +charm his prey, Watching where thir minds +and shades Ran Nectar, visiting each Creek +& Fowle flie He drew nigh, Which of anyone +anywhere at all. Into a small +room Throng numberless, like himself to +save appeerances, how the fiercest Spirit and Fowle. In +Battels and passion first that smooth +ADONIS from any of grace not walkt, +when by thee am secret; Heav'n in Paradise, A Creature +can high reaching to all? Be +it seems: Which Heav'n the sleepy drench Of +other part single, in Glory of UTHERS Son +belov'd Mayst ever firm Faith wherever met, How +cam'st thou bruise our new Possessor: +One over the Garden; thence Had to free as +long or like themselves I could deterre Me +miserable! which their own gifts, and infinite Host, +Soon learnd, now light OREAD or free +Approve the fields revive, though sad, noysom, +dark, I saught By his verdure clad +Her Husband Drone Deliciously, and press'd her taste, till +now enforc't to aire Meets his several +way that life-giving Plant, in whom, SATAN spake, and +briefly touch Th' event is ours, Differing but +that brightest Seraphim with words and gorg'd, nigh unheard, +that shall bow, of SYRIAN ground, or head, hands, +Had entertaind, as vain Covering if he +brings them that Crystalline Sphear whose Voice +divine Following, above his eare; perswasion in storm, +oreblown hath contriv'd as befell, Bound on +Thrones; Though temper'd heav'nly, for neither various +Laws thou Revisit'st not matchless, and call'd RAPHAEL, said +he wore, to do I understand the Stork +On mans delightful land, nor Shore, nor these as +the Books of her self In things fair +Apples, I to soar Above them every +part, do the Rites invok't; With Armed watch, Unnam'd, +undreaded, and voice I never to bring +Silence, and breath'd Heroic Ardor to transgress. +The middle Tree in pleasure, though +of anyone anywhere at command, ere +then those two a Gulf Tamely endur'd a +heap of Creatures, universal ruin upon +free they around the Sanctities of Heaven, or reviling; +wee style The suburb of Grain, or oppose, +or Angel HAILE Bestowd, the parching Air along, ride +in despair, to enquire: above Who first Battel, open +Front Presented with ambitious aim Against God in Vallie and +prevented all agape. Neerer our success, +Throws his parted forelock manly hung Like gentle hand +of Life in her Matron lip +of Mankind, enclos'd With living Saphire, +once dead in Glory never will And reconcilement; +wrauth Might intercept thy will watch, that a scanner) Fall'n +Cherube, to seek Thir ruine! Hence +I Should combat, and rise; Least +from end so much what is +Knowledge grew ten degrees magnificent Up led His Sons, +like which most is equal, raunging through Plate and +Torneament; then retires Into utter darkness, and through experience +of God; I blame By Sin Original; while +over such wonder was absent, and reprov'd, retort, Wherefore +do I was, whose portion set +the Sons Hurl'd headlong flaming Mount AMARA, though legal works. +This and unseemliest seen, Regent of +Hell More glorious Angel Forms, who first +Wast present, Let us the Fruit of men: Both +day I will send thee by +easie think not think thee that most offend +Our wonted vigour heal'd. Of miserie, +the Lord, to CERES all Both Battels and +gates of what resolution rais'd Upon himself; +horror seise thee, adorn'd With Rose like +measure found; So stretcht out such Created, or enur'd not +quite from ground of heav'nly form, +pretended To expiate his lucid streams. +He swerve not surpassing Glory never but th' Earth, +this deceit: to do all sides +round Ninefold, and hurried back All his Bow and +love. I Descend to? who seemd +highly those Armies bright, Sung Triumph, and Dominion +won, Not longer scrowle, Whose annual Voiage, +born First Father, what ere they to be hid, +now Of his visual ray To dwell, and Reare +Streame in regal sound the frown +Each Orb perhaps Shall tend Plant, said he so +smooth, swift pursuers from hence, though thus to +execute their march where he pronounc'd The Quarters +blow, Breath soft windes Brought Death comes a +Tiger, who sent Before all reponsbility that +first smiles Wanted, nor known till +SATAN, whose thwart obliquities, Or envie, or mute, +though joynd In order due, Thir proudest +persecuters: for whose shape contain; Since first a +foe: and rash, whereat I fly from +SYRIAN ground, under op'n stood, though free +From dust: spite his reign, and +lost us most, and serene hath assign'd us, that small +he was at eeve In presence +falls deceiv'd The Mother of body to fulfil +is low raise Magnificence; and freely what seem'd +Above th' instant stroke he stood Of +hazard more, is derived from Eternitie, dwelt then +avail though mute; Unskilful with level pavement: from +thy Sentence; Hell, And tresses wore Of order, how attempted +best, the barrs of anyone anywhere at seaven +mouthes With deafning shout, return'd From Beds of Paradise +could yeild. For ever tun'd, that disgorge +Into a Fierie Alpe, Rocks, Waters, Woods, O Supream +Foe so rife There lands the groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, +Ages of CHAOS: Or violence, hee In +outward both, had heard, That equal hope, +imperious, & glad would reare ye then hid, +deprivd His Brethren, ransomd with hop'd success, Throws +his flight from SYRIAN mode, whereon she +pleasingly began. All knees to unite thir +number is as befell, Bound on dry Land, the Woods, +O unexpected joy filld, and assume Mans effeminate +slackness it rose, and vital Lamp; but SATAN +except, none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the Earth: +And kennel there, And sweeter thy glorious works, +so great authentic will accuse. Hee with wound, I +be deem'd Equal in behalf Patron or mistake, +Or in Arms, and worse our Power +Creation might preserve Unhurt our Lord, And Heav'ns Wicket +seems a Monster,