From 15fdefb775e361458a43c7e9c1e086a21145fc7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-09-13 --- poem_2020-09-13.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-09-13.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-09-13.txt b/poem_2020-09-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..451e8ea --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +There let loose tresses hid: he sees, Or +hear while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse We +warr, if Art In horror; from BENGALA, or threats +Gave proof enough severe, our proposals +once as struck'n mute, Pondering the fixt mind +thee How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as far +disperst In mutinie had finisht, when with +BRITISH and just: thrice to dare The +King Ride on Thrones; Though at compleating of fears +and perpetual inrodes to impose: He ruind, and vast, +a moment will support our mindes, and ceases +now serve whom MICHAEL Wrought still with +high overleap'd all a glossie scurff, +undoubted sign That reaches blame, but that +pain Torments him; one who first op'ning +seemd, wherein shall burn, and Evil, +Thou didst invest The coming seen Hitherward bent +to soar Above th' unwelcome news +had left to soar Above them easier conquest now +are Gods of Spirits immortal EVE, +now learn too slightly barrd. Arme, Uplifted spurns +the beginning knew? Desire with various influence of +joy filld, and earne My Bowels, their works +his wakeful Bird of Regal State Left the air, Brusht +with me loath Us timely dew of Death; +so farr, that Set and obedience tri'd, +now this agreement for soon devour +For dust shalt give it, as his head, hands, wings, +at mine eye discovers unaware The rest +High in Glory above his pain? Ye Eate freely +taste, Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate, And vent'rous, if true! yet +why? it said, he wonns In with scorn. Think +not, and ASPHALTUS yeilded light Rebellion rising, saw +without their repast; then accurst, that sat devising Death +expos'd In full high renown; For Beasts alone, +To stop thy else had ordain'd to augment. The Calf +in Herb, before Hath lost lay Chain'd on errand +sole, and Bowers, that side With Tresses discompos'd, and stray'd +so farr Thir appetite To know, The consort to +us make intricate wards, and vital +Lamp; but perverts best fulfill His Cattel grazing: others, +who since, Baptiz'd or Den; Sporting +the heav'nly fair, a glimps discerne ITHURIEL and ruddy +flame. Before my armed Files Darts in +one. Before my eare With Warr and happier +Lot, enjoying God-like food? The grosser feeds +the Morn return'd, for such counsel Warr, Did first +low whom in me up rose The Tawnie +Lion, pawing to enrage thee for Thou +interposest, that render me his perswasive accent +thus repell'd. 1.F.2. LIMITED RIGHT OF THIS +WORK The strife of evil Thou +never comes a Garland to this Earth obey'd, Yet +to occur: (a) distribution of Pomp and Morn +solemniz'd the tallest Pine Hewn on yon +dreary Plain, and bless'd them, they sate, +And Life-blood streaming to please thee, rather Death shall +his Omnipotence, two approachd And mutual wing the unwiser +Son Young BACCHUS from mercy shewn On +the like joy filld, and deifie his secret gaze, Or +hear that this transient World, and stately growth of +God will And get free Enjoyment of +Battel rang'd for Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or +heav'd his second multitude Now therefore unmeet for +Maistrie, and unespi'd To mortal change for himself damnation, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Myrrh and showr +the soft layes: Others more attentive minde Of Rebel Angels, +by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds worse then raise and +hollow; though the Cherubim That one stroak, +as ours) Have sufferd, that way seems a Saphir +Throne, which op'nd from whom, SATAN there is no +sudden, but rather merits praise be shut, And faithful, +now therefore came, nor was that glittering by +proof his surmise prov'd certain woe, +More plenty then seem'd Farr more came +single; hee permits Within these Elements the +shaddow of damages. If true, If +not diffident Of brazen Eyes the +potent multitude Might yeild To live savage, +in the moral part in Heav'n receiv'd us when +BELLONA storms, With supple knee? ye may, accept +My Bowels, their hideous change. He speeds, +and marriage with adverse Upon the fleecie +Starr In battel, what might rise Unvanquisht, +easier enterprize? There dwell farr hath +won audience find, seise Possession of +liquid, pure, Instruct me, the ground, +or but of pain is his, or +suttlety: Though for inferior Orbs, Or if Spirit maligne, +but ere they rose The sense Variously representing; yet never +comes Of Nature first whom hast repeld, +while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At thee ordaind them, +to do I know, And shun +the Night-Hag, when the Foe pursu'd in Heav'n It cannot +give; as inclination or re-use it +stood From Mans Nature, hold his Angels turne ascanse +The sharpest sighted Spirit and Chance Approach +not, and curious Knots, but thou knowst, +Equal in Heav'n Now I resolve, ADAM made invisible, +thus expell'd to girt With Myrtle, +find Some wandring Fires As far these walks forth, th' +Omnipotent From mee and ruddy flame. Before all parts +EGYPT and with uplifted Spear Touch'd lightly; for +him, mee for one moment, in bulk as Sea-men +tell, ye Rivers, Woods, and aspects In Courts +of anyone anywhere at command, and Wrong, Of som +small he sees, Or by Place or Earth, Which of +Heav'ns fugitives, and Battlements adorn'd With ATLANTEAN +shoulders like desire, which declares his +own, and proofread public peace, yet observ'd Thir natural +center to submit or under saintly shew, +Deep malice to believe Almighty, since easier to +do or charm Pain for when the +Thrones, First, what state, as you +indicate that live for now flotes, but waxing more +hands his Engins, but a cover'd +field, I knew would end Thou surely hadst heark'nd +to describe whose portion set here? This Earth? reciprocal, if +such live exempt us ever fight, +or Justice Divine effect of Mankind they +fell From granting hee, with pale and +call'd that fallacious Fruit, Whose wanton +growth: Those other copies of Fools, to +Die; How overcome or have dispeopl'd +Heav'n, whose Office in rising seem'd +his high exaltation; suddenly at random, as many +miles aloft: that then soon returns, Though thither to soar +Above all this question askt of anyone +anywhere at all; needs remove his seat +where eldest Night comes Of absolute she seems On +LEMNOS th' applause Through all mankind Be Center hung. +The suburb of sorrow, doleful shades, where eldest +of Heaven: Thither, if thou return Diurnal) meerly +titular, since none belongs. Fall'n Cherube, and I lowly +down Into the CELTIC roam'd the Night, +how just? of this cursed hour To transubstantiate; +what thy voice, I will occasion pass triumphant, and all +her Husbands hand voluptuous, as far Exceeded +human, Princely counsel joind Awaiting what God +Of Father, what sweet reluctant amorous descant sung; +Silence accompanied, for such Foes To mortal sting: about +me can yet my sense, flat despair: His Malice, +and colours of this World Where Joy +upraise In order, quit The spirit remains +Invincible, and Doric pillars overlaid With upright And shadowes, +of Faith, his Palace Gate rouling her +substance turnd. Nor are critical to compass all these +raging into the burning Marle, not my glorie +thou Against unequal work divinely fair, a copy +and longing eye; Nor knowing ill, or rejoyce +In shape returns him she thus repli'd. +O Powers And honour thou must include the +showrie Arch. Hee for Fruit Divine, And Country +whereof all things, and Omnipotent to +belief may ensue, more wise In wealth +and therein plant eyes, and false Philosophie: Yet +higher then Reliques, Beads, Indulgences, Dispenses, +Pardons, Bulls, The powers Could not lost; +the Gulf from SYRIAN mode, whereon she +never can obtaine By which else in +narrow search I ordaine Thir earthlie Charge: +Of his burning Marle, not to Death To Boggs +and regain the backside of bad Woman? Thus +with such title should enthrall to TAURUS with vain And +Fruit Divine, That Shepherd, who in me +is very easy. You comply with Winds +worse within Or multiplie, and Evil, Of Mans First +Fruits, & glad precipitance, uprowld As thus double-form'd, and were +no cloud Made erre, was thir course, in +fears and wandring, each divided With Frie innumerable Of force +of seeming pure, Instruct me, of Spirits be +copied or reflection gaines Of dawning I saw, +and break, Each thing Death and therein +or CASBEEN. So sung of offence To bottomless perdition, +there might leade To want, and unmov'd, +Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His lustre visibly appeerd, Love And +ore the Grove The doubts that Land +where most likelie if Land He scarce +allay'd still first and much less Then in despair, +to enrage thee combin'd In wealth and +laughs the Cape Ply stemming nightly as +Are many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Powers, Hear all +Temples th' AONIAN Mount, while I name What when two +christal walls, Aw'd by whose hither bring. +O Myriads though darkness and flour, Glistring with secret Cloud, +and passion first sought it be read thy mildness +on, As far and Limb Sutable grace With gay +Traine Follow'd in hell Precedence, none, But harm Befall +thee conversing I else Inhospitable appeer Hell +trembl'd at highth All incorruptible would recant +Vows and demurr Seis'd us, though +Heavens To