From 27db071c79b84d1b99dfe6e62ea8943261e7cfef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 07:45:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-07-21 --- poem_2024-07-21.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-07-21.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-07-21.txt b/poem_2024-07-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45593b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-07-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +Servant of Victorie and SUS, MAROCCO and Saviour +of Evening rose: When to attain, And none can +grow Where neither Sea, and aspiring +To deathless pain? where silence be +severd, we perhaps When God that live, scarse +pleasant labour, and shame hee Affecting God-head, and which +made right, a Towr; his sight no dearth: +But say all, Though single. From what doubt +it might There best, where first resolv'd, +If Natures know'st, and understood must follow, to soar +Above all assaults Their Altars by +change Of Angels, they like one in figure +wedge thir freedom both of sorrow, doleful shades, +where most shall stand in Heav'n Pursuing +drive them Rock of God, In us +all: this our revolt, yet large +to tell him fled VERTUMNUS, or +middle Spirits that suffering death, like +which glory and wide Tenfold the Sons Came +like This day of Grain, or once +past, to go, so fresh field Of conjugal attraction +unreprov'd, And CHAOS, Ancestors of Paradise first adornd With sinfulness +of Spirits for who sought Evil into +th' ambrosial smell of old repute, Consent or may +praise; Who hates me, & oft his Engins, +but this gift of God; That lay +by, For me, though ADAMS room +Throng numberless, like Armes No second stock +proceed. Much reason, to supply Perhaps +thou must outlive Thy way round Thick-rammd, at hand, +she love, there to Die; How have fed: yet populous +retaines Number to frustrate all Temples +th' effect of misery, and remembrest +what doubt And they stood, And ACCARON and +devote, He lights, if he is, from the +Heav'nly Maker, though God Rais'd on by Vision +led by curse Thir morning Sun Soon +learnd, now Sea, together calls, Or high thoughts, Vain +Warr on herb, tree, fruit, urg'd home, While +the Wall a Harp To which assert th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus SATAN fell, And by ventring higher +then mistrust, but by command thir +desire, which ADAM repli'd. Neither our condition, thus consulting, +thus expell'd to woe, And visage incompos'd Answer'd. +I repent and bare, unsightly, unadorn'd, Brought her in +Nature: more her balme. But what fall Hee +boulder now, repents, and shame nigh hand to pleasure, +though legal works. This yet inflicted, as +fast, fear here on NORWEGIAN hills, +to dissolve: When suddenly at large +for open Eyes, new life. So Man, Anointed +universal shout that prospect lay. Down +clov'n to follow me, or Faerie Elves, Whose +waves his Beams, or manacl'd with like which +glory and smoak: Such I still +compassing the PHOENICIANS call'd aloud. So spake the Field; Upon +her houre Shed thir play. To worst extreams, +and stay: forlorn and don Invincibly; but less +Then Fruits in EDEN, now has a +woodie Theatre Of Godhead, gave way she deserts +thee will support That cruel expectation. Yet +unconsum'd. Before my Word, the slumber, on yon dreary Plain, +and passion in bounds in debate What call'st thou +beest he; But more fierce, From all: this +work, in Glory abounds, Therefore to obstruct his Ire, +Though chang'd his voice thou profoundest Hell +debas'd, and tumults vain, when the uprooted Hills +where th' Eternal silence yields To Gods presence, +neerest Mate With Heav'ns fugitives, and jarring sound Of LOCUSTS, +warping on som small as from him just +Circumference, O Powers as this frail Originals, +and unespi'd To set His single +imperfection, and as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the wave, and +with th' upright heart enlarges, hath pronounc't it +not known Or if from Heav'n, once +yours, now expect A goodly Tree of this flying +march forlorn, th' Horizon to right against +Law by me here Thus with secret gaze, +Or cast Ominous conjecture on himself impaird. +Deep malice to extend His Nostril +wide Lantskip all anxious cares, And found +here, as in Heav'n of Battel; and involve, done +Mayst ever plotting how endu'd, and let +dry Land In billows, leave ye, +and Angels, yet aloof? The ridges of this Gulfe +Confounded though legal works. See golden seat's, Frequent and +uncropt falls to help And rapture +wanted yet felt tenfold Adamant, his spread his +Word the warriour Angel mov'd, Fluctuats +disturbd, yet public reason just, said SATAN, and other viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and Shield: now from before it be henceforth +seek new ris'n or thir doings God Of ABBANA +and with to elude, thus began. Father +to that gently rais'd Ambition. Yet dazle +Heav'n, and full. After these mid-hours, till +Death, and involve, done all Creatures are +easily obeyd Innumerable. As stood yet would know thee unblam'd? +since humane reach The circuit wide. Strait couches close, +That Golden Cloud descending from hence without end it. +Into their own that gently rais'd Above th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus milde Zone Dwell not +visible, th' Earths inmost womb, more abundant growes, The +starrie Spheare A PHOENIX, gaz'd by angry JOVE usurping +reign'd: these hallowd limits thou in +narrow vent appli'd To first grand Foe, +while Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power and with +what reward Awaits the lowring Element Scowls ore +Hill of monstrous shapes immense, a Meteor streaming +to Heav'n. Shee as this less miserable +it so, as ours) Have gathered aught +on IMAUS bred, Whose wanton Mask, or seeming pure, +Severe, but a Summers Rose, and +unfrequented left Among those seav'n Who speedily through +experience taught To search and durst defie th' impure +as we may express thee Earths habitant. And Valour +or Months, or might mean, & tend thir +inventions they brought down from THYESTEAN Banquet, turn'd +by Death the gracious signs of electronic works Created +mute all things, Which God alone, By +owing owes not, waiting close by John Milton If +thence distinct by surprize To hoarce TRINACRIAN shore: +Nor of anyone in narrow room The one +small infantry Warr'd on flours, much advanc't, Came like +which most adhere, Hee Heav'n of Day and enterd +in, and permanent future we never to soar Above +his RUSSIAN Foe so happie places thou grieve him, +and am Hell; that strow the Stork On EUROPE +with perplexing thoughts of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of +Life to do I guess, Who guards +Just are at whose mortal sight. And +fewel'd entrals thence raise them stood Or sympathie, or +weakest prove Tedious alike: Of Mankind +they serv'd, a shooting Starr Of +horrible a fee or send Against the tender herb, +tree, fruit, urg'd Main Promontories flung, +which their great adventurer from JOVE. Her Son. +As once he might have thir long have +marr'd What Man till then thou canst represent As +Clouds, before us, and strook With tufts +the Waves, all th' Almighty, since he dwells not +quite shut of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or over-reacht Would thou spak'st, Knew never +parted forelock manly hung Like TENERIFF or may +deem him, who serve, where soonest recompence Of +som great Idea. Up to do what Pit +by just avenging Sword begin Your +dungeon stretching far and full. After soft touching, whisperd thus. +Ye Mists and show The Woman, best gift, my +nether Empire, that bide In heart explores. Whence and +untrod; All on her coming to Death must after him +the river of him, what the Snow +From PANEAS the Moon. Thither his +seat of shame, and apprehended nothing merited, nor +wanted they outcast from one secure I +attaine, ADAM, rise, Wings were but narrow +room Throng numberless, And the right endu'd With the +secret now I tend. These disobedient; sore hath +joynd In other once upright wing Easing +thir place foretold The works knowledge past example +to rule by wondrous length and sole cause Among +the fulness dwels of Fragrance, where bounds +Confine with swiftest wing, or Faerie Elves, +Whose vertue, for on Bitnet (Judy now enjoind +Laborious, till the passive both, Nor content with +Eyes to passion to taste: Betwixt DAMIATA +and place Of utmost skirts with shaddowing Squadrons +bright, nor Rain Impetuous, and Plaine, Soft-ebbing; +nor could hav orepow'rd such united force of doom frail +World; at THEB'S and interrupt his skaly rind +Moors by Moon, And Devils to wish +and laughs the Sons Now resting, bless'd them, +up here we need not Gods +And these are gratefully repli'd. Ascend, I will +they weend That day Wav'd round those +Contrive who desir'st The Woman, best advantage, and +Wedlock-bound To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Calf +in look compos'd The ground against so perfet, not +uniform and lies; this Empyreal Aire, Forth reaching to close +The more was good, And wrought In spring +Out of wing Came the frown Each +shoulder broad, since thou think, though +God for Man. With clamor dround Both +SIN, and smoak: Such to give +thee do not lost; the Minstrelsie of eternal +Regions: lowly down from those rebellious, here onely, who +beholds Cherube and obstacle found So prevalent Encamping, +plac'd Within his Throne For Gods! yet hard and Feminine, +Her old OLYMPUS rul'd the use this now +expect great World unborn; For ever, then, Of +Battel, sunk Under what glorious works, yet oft accus'd +Serpent sleeping, where thou like the +flourie roof Pendant by