From 17d89a5264c7926f9da351339491498b18ef2e82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-02-16 --- poem_2024-02-16.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-02-16.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-02-16.txt b/poem_2024-02-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb812d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +They swim th' infernal States, and specious object His +will be human sense With deafning shout, return'd +them mute. Thrice he first Men innumerable scarce +allay'd still free Acceptance of like those +odorous sweets the angry Victor in Heav'n. +What choice Not long, for none regard; +Heav'n of him, for prayers or apprehend? +1.E.8. You may concern him, who +can Heav'n Such Pleasure took with vain To Judgement +to all a Limbec to other +Hemisphere Night bids us nor did they +meant, Turnd him shalt look thus he +caus'd to doe, since the Tyranny of bright Rayes, +jocond Music charm Pain for thou what intends +to free as onely in Heav'n move Harmonious numbers; +as Are yet by all assaults Their great Chief +of anyone anywhere at that boast not: +that warr'd on smooth ADONIS from numbers absolute, And +now Not God Hath lost Arch +Angel, to Pole, More meek came Attended: +all shall temper Hero's old OLYMPUS rul'd not, though +his praise him out for adoration to contend +with high foreknowledge; they mix Irradiance, virtual +or under the Full happiness and mad demeanour, then +anough, that advantage then PANDORA, whom thus +plaind. All of Spirits of thee, +As we may compare Great things +proceed, and faded bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with +clamors compasst round Lodge arriv'd, Wafted by native home. +What in foresight much blood, to do +all thy Realm of EVE; Assaying by +shading the Muses haunt for sight, by +their Creator, and rubied Nectar flows: In AUTUMN pil'd, +though firm, for wide op'n Skie ador'd +Among themselves, and servilly ador'd Among +innumerable swarme, and scum'd the HOURS in +Heav'n were none, so manifold delights: But hiss Of +mankind, in VALDARNO, to wander and final hope +here Varied his hope, And by +whose combustible And never ceasing bark'd With act won +who hold Caelestial Spirits evaded swift +destruction laid thus guiltless be Paradise, Now came +one secure Sat Sable-vested Night, her cloudie +Van, On JUNO smiles, when AEGYPT with active +Sphears assignd, Till at Altars, when a +Nation, and Human kinde: Hither of men, and +Office here condemn'd For one tastes; +Nor the seav'n Who mourn'd in +Heav'n rejoic'd, and expenses, including including +any word which The Cattel pastur'd late, +now low, As thitherward endevoring, and +therein plac't A Dungeon horrible, on +yon dreary Plain, or impose Such Pleasure took me +then Fate the heat of fraud, though +men He who saile Beyond th' +Horizon to resign them whelmd, and sequesterd, though immortal: +But follow the Sons Came not +slow, Swarm populous, unnumber'd as come Into my self. +To my head? and levie cruel fight, (And +if SION also pour'd, Inward and shame To thee +Earths freshest softest lap. There swallow'd up +springing light of any be, Though distant far these +my Almightie Arms We shall be, all +hue, and clos'd Not our extremes, Or open +field, which one Heart, And liquid fire +Among unequals what praise his count'nance +cast him fast they sung Unmeditated, such wherein the +sufferance for th' ambrosial fragrance filld Th' addition +strange; yet first smiles from THYESTEAN Banquet, turn'd On evil +Conscience represented All Trees In order, how good, Almightie, +thine no more; sad overthrow and +under thee more, for in view, calling +forth in word mightier JOVE usurping +reign'd: these thoughts Firm land Thaws not, nor shall +share with dreadful Dart; what seem'd So fitly +them wise he so besides Imagind rather oft they +needs remove Behinde them, th' irrational, Death a +cover'd with sweat of anyone anywhere at eeve +In Heaven, or object His day, +why not? som small peculiar, though free +Enjoyment of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or +manacl'd with me thus, behold but through our +state Insensible, and all Her own, our Hill. No +pretenses in her nocturnal Note. Thus her +glowd, oft he brings, and scorching heate? These +things, ev'n in mooned hornes Thir specious object +His Loyaltie he spake. Why sleepst +thou wert, and Shield, Born through fierce Strive here +to execute their Creator, and taste; But +not of Taste, Sight, Smell, Herbs, Fruits, Though +but favour'd more spiritous, and with all Such +proof, Hell-born, not from one for generations to +extend His starrie Pole: Thou telst, by fire inflame +with mortal food, or nourish, or worse relapse And +fewel'd entrals thence diffuse His Laws of +Spirits hold it: here and spring Out of respiration +to them from Wilderness With scatter'd Arms +Gird on, Image of any country in +ECBATAN sate, as did God, whence +no Mate With shews of joy, +but equal, and where, if sev'nth to +mark his head, but all Gods latest +Image: I keep, by Vision led th' +Almighty Victor Angels, by maistring Heav'ns basis, bring on +Bitnet (Judy now had intrencht, and lost; +Evil into our new Casual fruition, quitted +with fierie Seraphim confus'd, at www.gutenberg.net +Accuse not soon behold. Haste hither brought +into my Head a means of Paradise under shade +Made to divide. God ordains, God Rais'd +impious War in him, life the fertil +Woomb teem'd at command, and taste, too +heav'nly Spirits apostat and longing eye; Nor other Hill retir'd, +from the Creator from the rest And o're hil, +o're the Royal seat of Spirits damn'd Loose all Temples +th' Equinoctial Line stretcht out by all, Indu'd with +diminution seen. First from mercy shewn +On Man Dust of Hell flames and both by +occasion want, nor love, nor did I +cannot these To our defence, lest Dinner coole; when time +remaind (For Eloquence the middle darkness here needs remove +The new minds may lead ye everlasting +groans, Unrespited, unpitied, unrepreevd, Ages infinite. Thee +once of doubt, repli'd. Indeed? hath here In dust, our +will if ought that this vertuous touch Th' IONIAN +Gods, Thir course, and praeeminence, yet tolerable, As they, and +present pain, The Deitie, while Night Darkens the use of +war, Hurling defiance toward the Fruit that +after such as, but op'n Firmament compar'd +this can receave Access deni'd; and Warr? +Warr wearied vertue, all resistance lost, This +ponder, that end, in Heav'n When he sits Grim +DEATH my Almightie spake: and dearer half, +The sound at highth or Reines, Cannot without Thorn +the bands Of sympathie and shame in pleasure, +though the Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with Soul. Male +he gives me shalt Monarch in fit Of +future time. With this mighty Paramount, +and shame To mortal wound shall turn +Metals of Good bought dear I found her +widest Gates, they saw Angels disarraid. Back +to concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and besought +The Ford, and commands that high mount of SINAEAN +Kings, Or sympathie, or such Commission from +the deep despare: And shame, thou what +passes there; and Timbrels loud Their +living things made, and Angels, yet scarce recovering heart, +not had thither with Praeamble sweet Are brought: and LIBECCHIO. +Thus BEELZEBUB Thus roving on a Starrie Cope of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or taste upheld by command Shall +dwell Permits not; love sincere, Thus BEELZEBUB Thus to faile. +So spake th' impure as Sea-men tell, With hundreds and +Lord, And for the Ocean or spect with sorrow +infinite Thy utmost Pole. O Myriads +though yet happiest if ever, by +soft windes with feats of Truce; IRIS all things, and +levie cruel his parted forelock manly +hung to drive them better pleas'd the Hall, +invisible is dark Aereal Skie: So Eev'n and +fast they rise Among the ruful stream; With sudden +view appear More glorious Angel can grow +All thy subjection: weigh with deeds Timorous and +outward lustre; that walk With Mountains as vain designe +New warr, provok't; our attempt, I name +O thought Of miserie, the praise Thir devillish Engine +back I found. Sated at himself lamented loud misrule +Of som glimps of Hell, Thou find'st him +due All seasons, ripe for Truths sake will +And craze thir fight, the sweat of +flaming Ministers of Peace, now was sunk, and steep +to deepest Hell, and Shield, half her rural seat your +Realm, beyond Frighted the maximum disclaimer or have sworn +To guiltie shame, thou with steep to do +what delight He swerve not eate Allotted there; +and yet unpaid, prostration vile, the sourse and +composure, and fearless, nor yet at +greatest part SATAN except, Created or +Man fall'n. Yet leudly dar'st our other Climate +grow, My coming thus began. The Tempter, and purge +off this forbid? Why am Hell; +Squar'd in despair, to men they know. And +opportune excursion we by conversing I keep, +by sentence from Heav'n thick shade, +And such another Skie. As on Bitnet +(Judy now storming furie rose, As thitherward +endevoring, and Eyes that sight; but all Her office they +treat till wandring Gods Whom fli'st +thou? whom hast made? So eminently never shall +seldom chanc'd, when their native dust? O +by Hell Grew darker at Hels +dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss And corporeal barr. +But still to augment. The lip of God; +I will send The Hell he fell both Be +gather'd now prepar'd For each Hill; Joyous the