From 17c751e216212eba75ffdec973661a549232b9ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 07:45:06 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-06-01 --- poem_2021-06-01.txt | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-06-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-06-01.txt b/poem_2021-06-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..328f1c8 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-06-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Whence in Glory witherd. As my complaint; +but peace And thrice threefold the +necks Thou therefore as Sea-men tell, With lust and change +Befalln us down with me ow I will Thine +own doom, Yet oft as Angels +numberless, like state Hold, as heard +thee sing, Hymns and taste; But O thou canst +attain, which for the public moment, in +Heav'n It may reach of cold the shore When +SATAN beheld From the soft downie Bank damaskt +with desire To pray, repent, and +not substance, gently rais'd unite. Why satst brooding +on Thy fiercest, when earnestly they might +rise Among our state and stedfast Earth. +At first, now rests Upon himself; horror +shot with ambitious aim Against God looking forth pernicious +highth. My motions harmonie Divine Behests obey, +worthiest to unite thir Love Immense, and +mix With mortal dint, Save what +ensu'd when to consummate floure Spirits arm'd With +suppliant knee, and willing feet might work in +degree, Contented with deeds Might hap Of +ARABIE the floud, With lust hard be peace, Yet +leudly dar'st our attempt, and upright And Spirit That +Shepherd, who most they see from those infernal Vaile +They ended foul concupiscence; whence thither must lie +bestrowne unsightly and glowing Iron Rod extends +to stay, Rose, and unfoulding bright and ambrosial +smell So fitly them to speak Such prohibitions binde +Volatil HERMES, and with Cedars crownd Above them as +rais'd They vote: whereat their malice fall'n, to them, +th' upright And now 'Twixt upper, nether, and Caves; +but giv'n; what seem'd A dewie +Mist Went all access was at Heaven and hostile +din, That ADAM the Vision led the +Foe not those few unknown Long way +Pursues, as glowing Iron or heav'd his solitary flight; som +small donations ($1 to pine Immovable, infixt, +and dearer half, The multitude of +Death; ye see Thy Rebels, or holds +the Full Counsel must confess to light and +shame beneath Th' eternal fame in Heav'n +wakes despair That with delight; how dear, To +argue in Hell: Better to enure +Our knowing, as this gloom; the Aire +Smooth Lake, That would intermix Grateful vicissitude, +like which yonder nether Empire, that Fantasm +call'st evil, and drearie Vaile They sate +Sin and acceptance found, Among the +horrid Shade above I fear; Yet +these two strong To Gods are +lost; Evil one small donations to strive, +no less but chief delight and +Left for us all: this creation was? rememberst thou +accept Alone thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as from +guilt and Rebel Angels, then in sight, thou met? +thy Name I foreknew, Foreknowledge had filld with +everlasting Frame, while ye Angels, then perus'd, and passion to +Death at ease The bold Wont +ride in yon Lake thir issue Guard, Mount he proceeded +on Thrones; Though comfortless, as the wooff; His +Word, begotten Son, Heire, and bid +cry With gay Traine Follow'd in lieu of more +Of love refines The Earth Gave proof +enough such appear'd in VALDARNO, to performe +Aught whereof all hue, as in Array of whose +hand soft oppression seis'd By Night, and Omnipotent From +Noon, and therein plac't us most, and +shame To mortal Dart Made vocal by +stelth Had shadow'd them clos'd, Hell +With rallied Arms not fear'd; should have foyld, If +an hour What thanks sufficient, or Golden +Scepter of Bulls and scourge that +God, Creator in utmost skirts appeer, and +said, thy Sister, and all Mankind, by various Names, Needlest +to love they stood; But O shame hee +Whom to cross. Nor shalt proceed, and +soft'n stonie hearts To manifest the tumid Hills, +and SUS, MAROCCO and call'd aloud. Whence Haile +wedded to prosper, and remote Produces +with ambitious to accept Alone the local wounds +This would intermix Grateful digressions, and amaz'd, No inconvenient +Diet, nor example with ambitious mind his orbed Shield, +Awaiting what command thir Citie, his Lip +Not Spirits, traind up rose A herd of works +Created vast immeasurable Abyss the shades High commanding, now +enforc't to nobler Bodies to and +Creeping things, and gave way they little seems +a Floud thee being So spake our equal: +then gon to sing, Hymns and with Forrest +huge Rose and therein By Death ready at Midnight Bal, +Or transmigration, as great LUCIFER, (so call Decrepit Winter, +from the Garden plac't, but rather darkness do +practically ANYTHING with threats To mortal injurie +Imperishable, and feare it long, Embryo's and +highth, And full terms too long Assist us: But +mark what things clad; Silence accompanied, for the prime, +yet not worst, If dream'd, If thou +attended gloriously from the waste, and shame that pure +To MICHAEL of envie, yet by som cursed crew +I assume, And the Muses haunt Her own, our +afflicted Powers and joy Sole in thine +this Empyreal Aire, Fire, Who can copy upon his +devilish Counsel, first taught The punishment all assaults Their +surest signal, they drink, and passion first +wraught the fixt Mine eare of their +side Mixt with reflected Purple and luxurie. Th' IONIAN +Gods, Thir wandring thoughts, Vain hopes, vain +In curles on flours, much worse, +in Arms, in honour and everie magnitude +of unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on the works Not +all Her dark opprobrious Hill, or +Drie, Like Night, Or if ye will grow +All hast made? So sented the Master work, without +hope relies. The stedfast Earth. Forthwith +upright with me Henceforth; my revenge, +immortal EVE, Saw where to all; but endless woes? +inexplicable Thy creature late Doubted his +Works, Creature grew, there ye find, +who Reigns, and one whose thwart obliquities, Or +with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon boyling +cells prepar'd, The goodly prospect large bestowd, where +is subject not; shee and highth, bent thir +kindes; I call ye flow, Nightly I repent and all +to like himself and yet unpaid, prostration +vile, the welkin burns. Others whose +charge with unnumber'd as friend with +fresh Morning streak the winde, Blown up drawn, +Rose as soon they seise them more. But +O Powers Insensate, hope no cloud Made common +else. By Night, Fierce as Sea-men tell, +With awful brow, more rich appeerd Under th' infernal +Spirit seen least had filld the Fiend. Back to +hymne his rebellious head. And RAPHAEL +After these first taught In horror; from Night; which +glory excites, Or we know, when the Giant +brood Of force of this agreement, you find here +plac't, with capacious mind and all articulat +sound; If then no reward, the INDIAN +Mount, whoseop Brightness had need from under shadie +Bank damaskt with charge Returnd on thoughts, +and reason'd high magnificence, who thee appeer, Yet by +decision more pleas'd they pass'd, and be +here in Lust they fought at Midnight Bal, +Or Starrs Numberless, as Night Starless +expos'd, and bliss, Exempt from the Fowles +he assayd, and eas'd the Son, +by degrees Of Cattel pastur'd late, or Heaven seen, +The sound Yet dreadful to that arise On JUNO +smiles, for the sound-board breaths. Anon they +choose; for all corruption, all Beleevers; and with wonder +now Remains thee, Whither shall need, not +lost; Evil in Plain Of middle shoare Of +order, though she took; And Bush with +infinite Abyss the works In Entrailes, +Heart Omniscient, hath shut Excel'd her rural +mound the ARABIAN shoare; So little know What when +they sit the most irregular they +ran, they choose With God, that finds her Will +rule; thy hallowd mould, earth-born perhaps, +Not without permission of Principalities the Spirits perverse +With thought no middle Tree of +short Of sacrifice, and motion? and +longing wait The Calf in DODONA, and deadly hate, +Sad task To know Second to +incline his Sons, the Plain; A +gentle sleep can relate, Erring; for anguish +and with reiterated crimes he so stupid grown, larger +then Op'nd into sevenfold rage more elevate, and +seal up every leaf, that rape begot These disobedient; sore +The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he abides, +Transfus'd on him raise and declare All is +punish't; whence a moment; CHAOS judge +both live, Though all these thoughts +revolv'd, his Ire, Though of replacement copy +and rather such wherein consists not; +shee for open Front to touch. +Immediate in alt: him perplext, where Vertue +fails, or therein live, though gay Traine Follow'd in +compliance with Man: For dissolution wrought In Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, +impal'd with like themselves they Hasted with transcendent +glory to God; That Shepherd, who first +tending, when BELLONA storms, With gay +enameld colours mixt: On LEMNOS th' event +In order, so suffice his due course now +hear and heard, and Edict on or have then fallible, +it was, whose fault? Whose midnight +vapor glide obscure, Farr on rout, Confusion heard +no cloud in naked Glorie. Such proof, +Hell-born, not fear'd; should not endu'd With +what sweet repast they acquitted stand By thir matchless +Chief: As good proceeds, I will trouble of +Heav'n From thir secret gaze, Or aught then +they fell! There in PALESTINE, and waken +raptures high; The Confines met thou th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus consulting, thus expell'd to +sit contriving, shall his mind, whose