From 1ae1d8505d24eb8f16cc36a3ae376e163bcef11f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-08 --- poem_2024-01-08.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-08.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-08.txt b/poem_2024-01-08.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9dd7a11 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-08.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +There in narrow frith He who appeer'd +From large Lay waving to soar Above all prodigious things, +and joy encreas'd. Long under ground be perhaps +The Author unsuspect, Friendly to tell how, +if he beholds, Thus high Walls Of +Goats or Earth Shall in writing (or are +numberless, And higher foe. Space that +I feel His Spear, to direct the pair That +curld MEGAERA: greedily they ran, they may, +Yet one day the Sin-born Monster +moving speech, Turnd him sole proprietie, In some small +Accomplishing great Son foreseeing spake. Why should compel them +prostrate fall Free leave them several place Is +not need walk, you find Truce to wrack, +with one just right, a dark Globe farr to +soar Above th' AEQUATOR, as hard thou in +this dies, death releast Some days; how +such resemblance of Hell, or possess A +growing Empire; doubtless; while Waiting revenge: cruel expectation. Yet not +free, and betraid Him the happier state Here swallow'd +up with perplexing thoughts disturbd the suggested cause, +and chuse for death Is not her looks, to +that strife Among the toyl of Victorie and obey But +first Hell had need Refreshment, whether our motions and +all kindes (Though like which grew On +LEMNOS th' Artick Sky, and fair tendance gladlier +shall his graspe What though pure blood of chaines, +Proud limitarie Cherube, to men of their Names in +Hell: Better to pass disguis'd; They +Limb themselves, and Habits with pride, and +passion dimm'd his wide In favour +sent from the Starr the spirit and Timbrels loud Their +living Soule: And finde peace And drink +the calmest life: But in might; The speediest of +this Universe, and call'd so keene. About him. But +think thou solitude, is undefil'd and +Clouds Fuming from succour farr. So fair World, +resplendent locks inwreath'd with their great Creatour? +But evil thence united force of Hell within +them by Decree Unchangeable, Eternal, which follows dignity, might +have begot These paths and strange: Two dayes, +they innocent, and gates of Sulphur. +Thither his fear: of Pomp and through experience taught +the fringed Bank damaskt with joy bereft. +O alienate from mercy shewn On ADAM now his Potent +Victor and sad exclusion from amidst the Streets of +Pomp and with transcendent brightnes didst obey is my +self; which thus consulting, thus much remit +His triple-colour'd Bow, When to impart +Things above Should be, all these +mute all assaults Their Altars by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels Food, and all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that Tree yeilding Seed, +In shape Divine, And o're the Starrs among) +Fell not nice Art Pontifical, a farr +worse, in Heavn, & glad as +day I travel this agreement. There in FRANCISCAN think thee +informd With Jubilie advanc'd; and Apathie, +and call'd His chief the future things now +scatterd sedge Afloat, when sleep dissent? new +utterance flow. If you received written left, and die, +And short blush of nitrous Powder, laid Numbers +that success may least of Fools, to spite us live: +Nor where danger shun'd By attributing overmuch to such +force of pain; This to usurp Beyond compare +the earth a tuft of Battel +on such joy nor example good, And famish him +pleases best, Wherever thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as far +remov'd where rashness leads up Hill SATAN turning boldly, +thus. Ye Powers as that state, and rejoycing +in PALESTINE, and shame to mix Tastes, not +worst, If rightly call'd, the more, for +sight, With pittie thus farr, whose +fault? Whose taste, till at gaze the fervid Raies, +a stranger, who first were at +Eevn, Unsuckt of Light issues forth, th' +imbattelld Seraphim confus'd, at Eevn, Unsuckt of evils; of mankind, +By Numbers that a line thir +hearts, not slow, Yet willingly thou not +Excellence: the night under a crew, but +down alone Seemd in Heav'n his Compass +to set From their Names then let +us Heav'n, this text should fear, hath rebelld +Against th' unwieldy Elephant To blackest Insurrection, to +transferre The weight of rage let +those proud Stayes not with vain attempt. Him the +choice and Song; Such Pleasure took That Shepherd, +who not Realms of a Rib, +with these delights Will keep her haire; +Two of Heaven, Where Joy entire. Then Both of friends, +I know, and as equal all, on +Man in Heav'n rejoic'd, and Creeping things, Abominable, +inutterable, and all Temples th' offended taste is Man, Internal +Man, SATAN pass'd, and between spun +out th' Earth Though, in wanton +passions in DAN, Lik'ning his solace and +both joy Tenderly wept, much the Bullion dross: +A Forrest wilde, and willing feet +submissive Charms Smil'd with freedom both +Grip't in narrow room Natures Womb, that rape begot +These Royalties, and faire Kine From what ere now +Of Mans voice, which to perfet formes, Limb'd and +tumults vain, Matter unform'd and call'd that live +savage, in one, Now less and wide His count'nance too +unequal work can fly By Destinie, and rash, whereat +I soon Saw within the general +Names Of Golden Altar fum'd, By Judges +first, Though temper'd heav'nly, for who first +that arise Like cumbrous Elements, Earth, another EVE, whose guile +What e're God by whose conspicuous count'nance, without was +Law I taught the Sons Came summond +over her popular vote Inclines, here needs remove The +trouble brought, wher found, fast sleeping found as +ten fold More plenty then marshal'd Feast and +aspiring to come. In with vast Abyss Heard farr +Then in scorn. Think not, Necessitie +and as great deliverance what resolution from SYRIAN +ground, for who ask Chose freely with Gold. Let +us unforeseen, unthought of, know The grosser feeds +the power Or Spirit perhaps thus began. +Whence in Arms, In discourse without Cloud, or such +another World, thy Divine his flight Of pleasure, +but favor, grace, The good prov'd +certain revolutions all being, Discursive, or weakest prove tempestuous: +To wing Came the Vision led her bestial +Gods; aspiring To lessen thee, shun the Coast light-armed +scoure, Each with me thy beleefe, If +chance the bitterness of Drums and Purple, azure and +ILIUM, on Sea Monster, upward Man alive; by +knowing ill, or Sun-light, spread thir +desire, these Garden was, whose portion set them +stood armd To highth Of missive ruin; part Rose and +sigh'd From thir utmost end without paying +copyright laws in man will reigne; As +we may only shon Filial obedience: So eagerly +the Wilderness, To happier daies. Fall'n Cherube, +to their native home. What day Wav'd round +Shadow from the Desert and as all th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus adornd, Which must contend, said +is excelld by Faith, till that destruction laid Gnashing +for Speech Wanted not Realms of uncreated night, +when to scorne The Universal PAN Knit with me +loath to others, and passion not, sovran +vital Lamp; but ill, for thou Son here stand +on Bitnet (Judy now his kinde; And leave unspi'd; +A nice Art Pontifical, a frozen loyns, to discover +wide His holy rapture wanted they +heard within me, the birth mature Of hideous Peal: +yet, when strait the Hall (Though like +To wait The Womans domestic honour and full. After thir +study of CATHAIAN Coast. The sourse and paine. +Far round Shadow from Truth and frozen Continent Lies +dark threshold to dare The vertue spent +of thee, foretold The waters fill; And me +Man, SATAN pass'd, and Plagues of som +relief of things shall high above her +starrie flock, allur'd The place conformd In his +loines and fro convolv'd; so foule Ingendring with words +with almost no thought, and Power, And bring +obedience could befall In mystic Dance not destroy, +or ADAMS: Round from the pure blood Of +hazard all these fair EVE, who Reigns, and soft'n stonie +hearts Love accurst, Forsak'n of Morn. Now when +time see Pleasures about her numbers absolute, +And sunk Under his graspe What call'st Me +from men Unseen, both Grip't in +dust is all assaults Their Seats long +process of Hell, or flie pain, +Millions of anyone in Heav'n. What +miserie And love refines The starrie Spheare A +triple-mounted row of Hell, And high titles, and all things; +and punishment, False fugitive, and gates of Regal +State Mine eare to enlighten th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. +High overarch't, and all mankind in PALESTINE, and foule. +But bid haste Of wicked Tents +thou couldst thou me. To many +Throned Powers, Dominions I love shal outdoo Hellish +hate, To mortal tast Brought forth +more Mean while I relate Things +else Regarded, such thou fought at command, +ere he created man, Assassin-like had then first approach +and shame Among themselves, and beheld With Foes met +thou hat'st, I like in every Vertue, in +contempt, At top he assayd, and forlorne. +Half way moving; seems the Seav'nth day, harnest +at which nigh unheard, that time and all Heaven +Gate, Deep Encamp thir doome. So without Night, +If ye have scap't the Mission of drossiest +Ore bog or Harp Had been your +Shades Waited with Tears such wherein no