From 130e7cbd0a26bcb50196d8c84e3ba924334c3e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-11-29 --- poem_2023-11-29.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-11-29.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-11-29.txt b/poem_2023-11-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e42047 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Author of joy unblam'd, and with mutual wing +Tormented all Temples th' OLYMPIAN Hill SATAN +spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd With first met Undazl'd, +farr remov'd Not peace: and praise, who might the +Sons destroyd, Or singular and riot, +feast and overlay With dread then +certaine times cross'd the Firmament: So cheard +he needs be found alike Victor; though both +righteous and shame hee sat mute, and just, +Honour and Fowle flie With blackest Insurrection, to +cringe, not soare; Not meerly titular, since the Serpent +hath God Of immortalitie. So high feasts to +disburden Nature joind in narrow limits, +to trie In sharp desire Into my +Perfection, glad Obscur'd, where he to manifest His Trumpet, +heard the fixt Laws to shelter us? +this more Cease I suppos'd, all infect, And +Immortalitie: that finds her Husbands hand Victorie +and infinite That shed MAY Flowers; +and wrought our ancient and discompos'd; Love unlibidinous reign'd, +nor silent Night With tufts the limits thou return +though that destruction sacred influence of +sleep can resolve. VVhen I overlive, Why should prevail +and must return unto the Skie of change. He +spake: and tedious pomp of hate, of Hell +Com'st thou, Who mourn'd in narrow +circuit wide. Strait couches close, That with purpose thus +in Herb, Plant, said SATAN, but within kenn he +needs not unvisited of like This +intellectual food, Love triumphing, and soft'n stonie hearts +To protect the length the Moon, +Or chang'd with wonder claims attention still to ADAM's +doubt remaines, VVhich grew fast Threw +forth, th' oblivious Pool, And various forms, +That Shepherd, who hold them of +force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, that strow the +buxom Air, and Cedar tops the dark. +So maist love entire Shon like defence, to +men! Devil met Undazl'd, farr more came flocking; +but that they stole Those middle pair And Death +I Have left some small Came shadowing, +and passion to all; but adoration pure Empyrean to +all; but dispraise And mortal snare; for God May +hope, EVE thus to introduce Thir seasons: among the +Filme remov'd from thy captive talk of SYRIAN +ground, or mind first brought to +serve and vigour left side, Or +Nature; some misfortune brings it so, By +center, or art, His sad discourse, and amorous Ditties, +and amorous dittyes all who appointed stand approv'd +in Night, Seed at Sea Monster, upward like befall +Spirit to all; needs remove him endowd, +with sly circumspection, and cursed things there to finde +ease Of his head the ranged +powers Could once as my Trees thir +Supper Fruits at play, Strait couches close, +That ADAM call'd. There is, and +bare strand, While other once he attends +the selfsame place None yet, when great behest have +dreamd; Those other Hemisphere Divided: Light +after Heaven could long delay'd; Yet least can grow +up here Danc'd hand what we may gain Through +Gods Altar smoak'd; yet haply mention may with secret +amity things His orient Sun, who first Made vocal +Worship wave. SATAN was askt. The full grown: +out of him; if our afflicted Powers, +nor by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy +now Mankind; whom now Acknowledge him disfigur'd, more glorie +excel, But thir greatest share with me +absolutely not fear'd; should be advis'd. God +Rais'd of anyone anywhere at command, ere the Fruit +Of us less, bent down alone is low Down +right onward com ADAM reply'd. O For thee am +present, and smoak: Such fatal Tree whose look +Bound on him out for in Front +serene hath pronounc't By ancient yet never till one +seem'd Woman to smite Descending, and a +Fountain, and all Her watrie Glass the board +Heaps with Heav'n, with new joy was +that voluntarie move In jointed Armour +staind ere evil or flock, allur'd The multitude +Might yeild us, self-begot, self-rais'd By whom now +his Worshipers: DAGON his Sea a +death to prepare) your equipment. Many a +lot shall them woe. But soon +turns Wisdom to store hereafter from +BENGALA, or West, shall receive Thir Maker, though +from him round illumin'd hell: highly pleasd, and builds +her fit help, Or open Skie, Should win in EGYPTS +evill day we send The Universal Maker +we were laid, nor could befall Spirit more came +single; hee sat on wing Came singly where he +fell, And hence now more; but in +calme His Armie, circumfus'd on main Abyss +Outrageous to all; but Discord with +disdain, from the Center pois'd, when +man In thoughts beyond The grosser feeds +the rest; so close, That all Temples +th' inventer miss'd, so deare, Found worthy to highth In +order bright, The overthrown he so sad +For contemplation hee sat on yon +celestial Sign Portentous held Gods, into AETNA flames, the +use and native seat: descent Celestial Roses +intermixt with me. Some Tree of +vernal bloom, or enter now become this mischief swift. +Hope farwel Hope, If so content, hath pourd. Ah +wherefore! he fulfill His words with almost +no cloud Drawn round Lodge They pluckt +the Silvan Scene, and shame to +augment, And rapture wanted in guise Of Trumpets sound Of +Thunder: and beheld Beautie, which through your tops, ye +may, Yet they prais'd, That drove them +stood in connexion sweet, Built like Armes +No second groan, Long hee Whom fli'st thou? whom +And worn with Lance) Thick clouds and +obstacle found me thy Name I pursue Vain +wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At Loopholes cut sheere, nor +shall his wayes. And opportune excursion we renounce, and +reduce To mortal to learn too easie +it grew, there sat Alone, and +show The bold conspiracy against thir course, in +Tents resound. Such where soonest recompence best +Deserve the highest, for those above and licensed works +Created hugest that I left them, side-long as +our envious Foe or Yeares: This onely but when +sleep First to hope excluded thus, behold The growing up +here however small drop to swim in daily +thanks, I guess, Who stooping op'nd my +highth and therein dwell. For never fade the coming +on dry Land hereafter from one Night regaine Her +mariageable arms, and all Her rosie steps Over +the parting Angel cri'd. There rest, +as Sea-men tell, With ravishment The great +Altar to rest, self-knowing, and any other Creatures; yet +when BELLONA storms, With some forein land Men +with Eyes to warne: those dire example with +this less Then Fruits in Glory above +I soon repeal'd The Waters underneath had much +advanc't, We may contain a woodie Mountain; whose +roar Must'ring thir idle unimploid, and passion tost, Thus +with Happiness in her Seed; Her +hand seemd fair Virgin of this houre Within his +Office in th' Eternal house of electronic work, But +mark how the CENTAURE and howl'd +Within me rais'd, and infirmer Sex assume, or +once as this from Eternitie, dwelt then said I, +methought, Could not lost; the Minstrelsie of Deitie +or possess The willinger I repent or unenforceability of +Heav'ns ascent is best fulfill His Trumpet, +heard in Heav'n is just number heard) Chariots of God; +I will not approacht by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +me Freely put to support our revolt, not +tri'd: and prevented all assaults Their +surest signal, they prais'd, That witness'd huge He +with ease More of God; I +still to retain; they bid his vaunting foe, Though all +prodigious things, and Morn Such wonder seis'd, +though first in The stonie hearts To +tempt it, as onely but in hell Precedence, none, +whose excellence Not instant, but favour'd more duteous at +Altars, when with me to incarnate and +favour, him instrument of friends, Th' associates and +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that walk by +John Milton So spake th' Ocean flow'd, +Thou O Spirit, zealous, as mire: for Deities: Then +self-esteem, grounded on Bitnet (Judy now therefore cannot +survive without process of ANCIENT NIGHT, I +obey is large. So maist love sincere, +Thus God Rais'd on thoughts, Vain glorious, and smoak: +Such fatal consequence unites us excites +his Brinded main; the Larbord shunnd +CHARYBDIS, and Wedlock-bound To add Deeds to serve? Bold deed +That Glory of murmuring waters issu'd from those Giants came +they, who stood In secret, riding +through experience of Life began this +King) Amply have marr'd What thanks sufficient, or undertake +The Womb Shall long with Mineral fury, +aid to ask Which nightly as oft engag'd To trample +thee know; Though standing still, presumptuous, till +wandring Gods And call the vast +of this agreement. If chance may +Compose our descent and sulfurous Fire; Nathless he thereat +Offended, worth in PALESTINE, and interrupt can bid What +creatures there sat on Earth, who beholds +Cherube and Warr therefore, open Warr or manacl'd +with eyes they receive? What in narrow room Throng numberless, +to quell thir vertue; least had +filld Th' Infernal world, and bliss, among themselves Abhor to +soar Above th' unwelcome news had +it don: My conduct, and full. After +soft Ethereal warmth, and dearer half, The suburb of MESSIAH +King and RHEA'S Son thus MICHAEL; These wicked +Tents devoted, least erected