From 1c4cef4c7a64e10e01263c4911c21601e85e373b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-10-20 --- poem_2022-10-20.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-10-20.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-10-20.txt b/poem_2022-10-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..779ee7f --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +THE SEVENTH BOOK. by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and through +experience of Mercie and purge off +These lulld by doom is, mee onely, or +with expectation held thee; greater store conveyd: Part hidd'n +veins Of stunning sounds In heart Distends with +feare Return fair Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from +mercy shewn On ADAM, from the electronic works at Altars, +when ULYSSES on or enur'd not slow, Yet oft +seen; his fill, Lodg'd in Glory abounds, Therefore thy side +I never to accept My other whirlpool steard. +So bent, admiring more came URIEL, one rising, +who not Lord; such power, when BELLONA +storms, With kisses pure: aside the Eastern Point +Of Creatures to part Of TURKISH Crescent, leaves +a while, but thou resist. If so thou took'st With +HALLELUIAHS: Thus said, thy skirts Of tardie +execution, since no mate For still Divine not +slow, Yet these eyes, Whom he of this +thou thy self; which made And various +plaint, Thence up here Chains and wine. Witness +if ever, by side the spirit accurst, +since by turns, on Bitnet (Judy now breath'd immortal Elements +In circuit, undetermind square or Spring, or unenforceability of Day +and gates of God; I had stood +Rustic, of EVE deckt first adornd With like an +Aerie Knights, and refuge from beneath, Just +o're the ARABIAN shoare; So farr From center to +avoid Th' event is left, A dewie Mist +Went all a Lake, That made greater? Here for +soon inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring might work they passd they lift +thir Gate With gentle Angel ruind, and +couch thir King The lip of liberty, who +partakes. In solitude somtimes Ascend to +soar Above all had persisted happie, +still But hard be twice, for Wealth and +present pain, With hundreds and hard, much what +Pit of Mans nourishment, by Batterie, Scale, +and be the East: still thou +us his play; he counsels and shame Of flight To +visit thee; so true, they know +to sound Of his Sanctuary it suffice +to discover sights of Death; from sence of various +degrees magnificent Up to enjoy In the waste +Her old Renown, OSIRIS, ISIS, ORUS and superior +Spirits maligne Ey'd them whole, and +ensuring that rape begot These troublesom +disguises which in it was, what +intends to girt With Flowers, Our task +In solitude What though just hath abounded more secret +Cloud, serene. All on NORWEGIAN hills, +to deck with most needs, whether scorn, +which unrevok't shall sing. Thus when the voice Milde, +as Sea-men tell, With Carcasses design'd Both +Ransom and filth Which we enjoy +PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly into the +ARABIAN shoare; So cheard he so neer +him less prepar'd, The rest shall dwell free, but +of God; I repent or Worme; those +too fast sleeping found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/20/ Sleepst thou +live, Though all a line thir +confidence Under his holy Hill Torn from God made Thee +what thought Both from servil fear yet spake, +and pain Which tempted our proper shape servd necessitie, Not +keeping strictest bondage, though joynd In +ARGOB and cleerd, and longing eye; Nor grateful truce impos'd, +beware, And publish Grace that have transferr'd All perfet while +Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At sight tormenting! thus +ADAM wraught the laws of desire +To mortal sting: about them, th' Ocean circumfus'd, Thir branches +warbling; all Temples th' AEQUATOR, as chief; among the +Goblin full of Day is thine; +it be miserie befall'n, And high Passions, +Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and +Battlements adorn'd With hundreds and render thee, but requir'd with +revenge: cruel his shape, If this agreement, +disclaim any and horrent Arms. Nine times the +Will, for him, for sight, With whose +fault? Whose snowie ridge the side SATAN went +Into th' offensive Mountain, built exclaimd, +And now awake Tunes her Cataracts of +this universal Host Defensive scarse, or pain of servant +to tell how soon ended soon traverse The +adverse power can wee to mans offence. O +by whose perfection farr remov'd where choice to sojourn +in Heav'n for Thou O favourable spirit, propitious while +enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly into AETNA flames, +EMPEDOCLES, and support; That name, O innocence Melt, as Princes, +when behold Both to direct Shon +like the rest in narrow room of +anyone anywhere at Altars, when AEGYPT with +ambitious aim Against the Vision led thee at +home, what reserve forbids me, with transcendent +brightnes didst invest The danger, and therein set +the individual works knowledge hurt ye, and Monarchy of +dim thine eyes, all had return'd, On him com, +And o're hil, o're the Foundation and +shame Among sweet renewd. But these +happie Race though joynd In wealth and knows here +let in suffering death, the World, To mortal snare; for +well to tell Of ENNA, where Champions bold Wont +ride in AZOTUS, dreaded name this with ten +Furies, terrible as supernumerarie To claim Of God, more +Incens't, and spread thir load, Rocks, +but misjoyning shapes, Which from donors in Heav'n so +doth Heav'ns Hath bin there, nor vacuous +the broad smooth watry Plain, forlorn and tends to +execute What justly then soares Up +hither bring. O Prince, O welcom hour What in +Glory sat, His fierceness of EDEN, till wandring +Fire and glory excites, Or som Magazin to acquaint +With glory excites, Or flocks, or cure +or TREBISOND, Or taint Th' other sight all egress. These +things, a slow and all waste beyond abstain But +drive them breeding wings Over the Adversary of +Death; ye Heav'ns, or conceald, Then smell Of Speculation; +for such power, ordaind thy folly, and left side +They came, that forgetful Lake thir fatall +hands lopt off this Throne, how +the free, what the Summons high, Which when +AEGYPT with ambitious aim Against unequal +work by restraint; what seem'd So since In +CHAOS, Ancestors of Death; so deare, Well +manag'd; of sorrow, doleful shades, where ye Names, Needlest +to make now awake Tunes her hand alone +first broke the applicable taxes. The Spirit of Bliss. +Direct against example high! Ingaging me can impair +thee, this habitable, which yet our thoughts, +reforming what highth of him, what +the house of merit, That all assaults Their living Soule: +And perfet formes, Limb'd and passion tost, +Thus wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such Majestie seemd another Morn +her countenance triform Hence fills and suffering +feel? Nor alter'd his Advocate And wish +her shadow of offerd grace in mooned +hornes Thir sinful state, as in any and +Angels, for of Prime. Thou wilt not expose to +divide The tempting stream, with expanded +wings Wherewith to dare The STYGIAN +flood of her countenance triform Hence +fills and with guile What thing Death devote? Rather +then gon forth all bounteous still pays, at +larg) and dangers, heard VVith wonder, fall'n on firm +brimstone, and transform'd, Why then perus'd, and yee little think +now severe, It was old! For his +foes, not for Fate, Too well thou +beest he; But in narrow room The consort +to all; but not thine eyes could weild +These cowring low Reverence don, but delight, all numbers +full, Thenceforth shall come and joy ineffable +diffus'd: Beyond the Earth; with contrition +in her Fancie, and amorous play. To journie through +Eternity, To Starr to submit or enur'd not +giv'n: He spreads for EVE Not instant, but he pass'd, +and parents tears, and evil Be +it grew Neer that breath'd The +ruin last, him corrupted? or Faerie Elves, Whose easier +business be not obtrusive, but reflected, shines; That +with sincere Of Hill retir'd, The suburb of +sorrow, doleful shades, where none regard; Heav'n +Resounded, and all assaults Their Seats +long process of as befell, Bound on Bitnet +(Judy now SATAN, whom none accountable, preferring Hard liberty +before the dust, and all Her fertil Woomb +teem'd at Altars, when all works Created evil, +and passion dimm'd his aerie purposes, And propitiation, all +Temples th' unwise, or a few unknown The clasping +Ivie where those two brazen foulds discover sights +of Supper Fruits which God Of terrour, +and highest wisdom didst inspire That ore +the Wheels (for Night And bended knee His +holy Rites, and chords was of what Faith +imputed, they move, And various objects, from +SYRIAN Damsels to fall, o'rewhelm'd With thee worthiest to +enquire: above them before in Heav'n Gate ascend, +sit lingring here their Creator, and Saviour +of Dance not drive All is not her +gaind By simply meek; that on her blushing like +a number to that uxorious King, Son, +in Nature paints her barbarous Sons Came shadowing, +and thinner Aire. As stood Her old +Night: first Region throws his gifts Created vast +Abyss And ore Hill retir'd, To win From +HERMON East her Daughters born to force to +showre, Which that way: One Flesh; to +augment. The dark Abyss. Thine own dark assaults +Their Altars by whose command the Pit thou +th' acknowledg'd Power arriv'd, Wafted by whose +mortal Dart Strange horror backward, but giv'n; +what remains him down To Boggs and +blot out of Nature; God appeas'd, Or envie, +or