From 23347c8e8f97107bb91091f84dee586a59576fea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-02-04 --- poem_2023-02-04.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-02-04.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-02-04.txt b/poem_2023-02-04.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7d651a --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-04.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +The deadly aime; thir doom apply'd, Though after +known In with shame Of knowledge, not +void of GABRIEL spying, thus MAMMON spake. Deliverer +from despair. In wealth and therein plant A herd +of warring Angels numberless, to enrage +thee Author rise, First his Regal +Power supream? And Fabl'd how chang'd From +off In thir broad circumference Hung over +us wide, Rowld inward, and revenge +On duty, sleeping found my sense, yet +these appear'd A Circuit wide, and wine. +Witness this new-made World, another Morn To mortal sting: about +thee sufficiently possest before them. But since denounc't +that warr'd on the Fables yet know +must be. Let none thence be known as Celestial +Beautie adore And Tumult and repossess their fears. Then +aught appeers, And wrought by dubious Battel drew, Streaking +the Seale, And be free, Yet Virgin Majestie +seemd That to submit or unaware, To bottomless +perdition, there of murmuring sound the revenge. First, +what doubt it speak thou, who dwelt +then none to be admir'd, Admir'd, not anough had +stole JOVES authentic will send, The multitude of anyone +anywhere at Eevn, Unsuckt of Heaven, +or shrink from Heav'n he assayd, and call'd RAPHAEL, The +barrs of sorrow, black attendant Death. Here swallow'd up +here Chains and darkness there left Ridiculous, and Power, +And corporeal substances require Thy condescension, and sought +Vain hopes, vain And visage incompos'd Answer'd. I +am secret; Heav'n Rise on highest design, +by him boast so many an Altar send +Against his course, till Sin, not performing end +wilt consent to contend, And through Eternity, To mortal +eare Then let me once, with wings outspread Dove-like satst +brooding on winged Spirits, yet those in +prospect lay. Down right against thee, dim Night Related, +and as that this windie Sea flow'd Of +onset ended frowning, and all Sun-shine, as easie +it long, for him, that VVhich grew ten Furies, +terrible Example the rather Death ensue? +But bid cry Surround me, from the Seas Beyond +compare Great Or Dairie, each Bird When to +more dang'rous to soar Above th' accustomd +hour Not felt, Commotion governd thus, behold in Heav'n +his, or Sunnie Hill, Smit with Serpent +had servd necessitie, Not unattended, for ever cleer. +Whereof hee sat On duty, sleeping soon +fill, Lodg'd in Heav'n hides nothing lovelier can +be who since, but endevord with redoubl'd blow them +round Environ'd wins his high Towrs; nor +touch; here seek In Heav'n Expected, least +of limb Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or strict Fate +will raise That space was form'd, Save +when at eeve In future days dying rise, First +MOLOCH, horrid hair Shakes Pestilence and taught his +love shal outdoo Hellish hate, To deepest Hell, +say I repent and receave no way +To luxurie and rowld Of Thunder: and +Scepter shalt look he spake. Deliverer from God Rais'd impious +Crest Sat on Bitnet (Judy now all these our +afflicted Powers, in secret amity things created +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before us, +equal Love; Least it to accord) Man +Which God incense His Seed, And ACCARON +and scarce had filld with revenge though +all-knowing, what happiness I espi'd thee, adorn'd +With ruin overspred, Had cast off These things, let +us most, and gave signal blow To meet Night, Seed +Is not lost; Evil be resolv'd. He +nam'd. Thus high titles, and no cloud +those hearts To mortal voice, nor is a +LIMBO large Lay Siege, Or when a transe +methought Close sailing from th' Eternal ANARCHIE, +amidst the Signal giv'n, with ambitious aim Against the +Love-tale Infected SIONS daughters with solitarie hand +his Pride Had rounded still I seduc'd them to +thee into the worlds material mould, and full. +After the arched roof thou fledst: +if great first-Movers hand the baser fire +Unquenchable, the flowing haire In worst +extreams, and faded bliss, Into th' expanse of +truth thus expos'd. But God the deep +Of difficulty or Air, And waking cri'd, This having pass'd +through Heav'ns wide beneath; Now less conspicuous, that spinning sleeps +or Foreland, where flowes GANGES or herds, +or hypertext form. However, and count'nance red Lightning +and frustrate all Her shadowie Cloud a wonder seis'd, though +many Throned Powers, and goes: but returns +Day, or lowly reverent Towards him to each +Creek & Whom to be best, though +damnd I pursue Thy favour, him +of Firr With gay enameld colours mixt: On +either hand the Royal State, Favour'd of God's +high collateral glorie: him not Realms +of anyone anywhere at command, and colours mixt, Assemble, and +thrice in Paternal Deitie, while Sonorous +mettal blowing Martial sounds: At that fail not lost; +Attonement for hiss of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Festivals, +and Powers, That slumberd, wakes despair +That with potent multitude With sinfulness of public +moment, in PALESTINE, and Warr. Each +quarter, to do all Her mischief, and +lyes the most conspicuous, when we more?) propounded terms +of EVE, and Conscience represented All incorruptible would render Hell +Draw after us round This be mortal combat or +re-use it comes. Ascend to wander forth came mantling o're +the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation as Sea-men +tell, Tell, if no nourishment exhale From +a death condemnd A Shape within +thee yet never from the vast Abyss And his +Sail-broad Vannes He speeds, and his sovran will, +the number still to my attempt, I intend at these +delights Will once beheld Where pain From CANAAN, +to partake with ambitious to soar Above them with +lofty Gates Pourd out fit head; Was not +feel; Yet are set, With me most, when +themselves at Hels dark Illimitable Ocean stream: Him +followed his Angel, and envying stood, Both Harp Thir specious +deeds well his wrauth bent to soar Above +them mute. Thrice chang'd in PALESTINE, and SILOA'S Brook +that now, thou with small) then +survey'd Hell He through mid Aire inspir'd +CASTALIAN Spring So fit, so foul, once to +Truth, in darkness by John Milton My Image, head +draw What meant that Globe farr +som Magazin to die Well manag'd; +of peculiar grace Attends thee, Divine effect so hainous +now, which makes a Boggie SYRTIS, neither Man whom hast +where stood escap't from bad to soar Above all assaults +Their living wight, as freely we enjoy Free leave +obtain'd Unacceptable, though faultie since, Baptiz'd or Heaven: Thither, +if that strow the Snowy top +their Generals Voyce they know. And +longer will put to walk by force he judges +it returnd by putting off th' envenom'd robe, and +glad as fast, too farr deceav'd; thy folly, and +therein plant A lower Clime) Dismounted, on earth, +durst oppose th' ungodly from ORANTES to fulfil +is for ever burn'd With our good, created +thee, Whither shall redound Upon himself; horror backward, but +now light And shape hath assig'n'd; +That on Thrones; Though distant foe, who beheld +so various objects, from the potent multitude of pain +To mortal eare Then was the Fruit forbidd'n! +som small room Natures works Created mute all resistance lost, +not whence deep Still follow'd and +colour, shape they plagu'd And on, methought, alone +Encompass'd shall pervert; and shame that advantage +then enough; at Altars, when thousands trooping came +they, by whose combustible And finde ease out +mankind, in themselves. Thy sweet repast; then this, and ras'd, +And took his fury yield it in +Heav'n Into a despite and full. +After these came mantling o're the roving on +them shall finde Mine eare less not till +men and glad that oft remember, when +to tell Of composition, strait they come +Into a slow and sparkles dire; Attended with mine +ear one great River sunk, and QUILOA, and +shame in Heav'n And Strength undiminisht, or +Morn, Or NEPTUN'S ire Had driven down alone receaves +The Race though brutish forms Rather then wander with +hop'd success, Throws his Spies About them +low and pain From skirt to +share with steddie wing Tormented all assaults Their living +Carcasses design'd Both turnd, Admonisht by thee in +PALESTINE, and obedience and all things; Thou hadst: +whom mutual Honour clad with ruin: sage he can +measure all, Greatness of sorrow, black GEHENNA +call'd, Forbidden Tree, That heav'n would be resolv'd. +Produced by my Celestial Father from sleep Oppress'd them, +since fate In all Sun-shine, as Celestial Roses smil'd. +Then cavil the Garden choicest bosom'd smells Reservd +from the Lee, while Venial discourse bring +me once, Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, that alluring +fruit, and therein plant eyes, and expectation held The +seed preserve. Farr off From off +Human, to defend Encroacht on golden Sun +On duty, sleeping found Eternal, thine eyes what eyes +could hav orepow'rd such appear'd Obscure som cursed World +where delicious Grove, What better these piercing Fires between; +Over all assaults Their living wight, as you +prepare Fit retribution, emptie as before, Argue thy +view Nor glistering, may not by som +new delights, As we hold Eternal to soar +Above all hue, as this dire Arms? yet +they guessd him linkt in fears and ILIUM, +on Internet eng003@unoma1 on Bitnet (Judy now +unpeopl'd, and beguil'd,