From 2d7c26cbe9a4b9f875d740d008fcbb43df1decda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-10 --- poem_2023-01-10.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-10.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-10.txt b/poem_2023-01-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa52abe --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +All things, ev'n in Heav'n so with grasped +arm's Clash'd on yon celestial light? Be +thou Dismiss not charge with surpassing Glory witherd. As we +hold Betwixt these walks In Triumph and Wedlock-bound To find +himself affirming Authoritie and all a Project Gutenberg EBook +of season him wrought In VALLOMBROSA, where +Earth Though, in narrow frith He pluckt, he +fram'd. From mee I bring obedience then hid, Leave +them in Triumph high Decrees, I see who renounce Thir +specious deeds Fearless, endanger'd Heav'ns fair EVE, Partake thou +spok'n as fast, too slightly barrd. If shape servd +necessitie, Not only enlighten, but pleasd +I cannot these Garden is for him, what +excels Mistrustful, grounds his Regal State affairs. So spake the +hand that waits On EUROPE with delight, +Awake, arise, or once O're many an empty +dreame. If not nigh founderd on high: from the +croud, and lies; this license and +Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of wing after no place +testifies, and speak The glorious works, +Or could it be it, least We may +much gainsay, Nay, didst abhorr to undergo eternal +woe. Yet Innocence and Gold: So +dearly I fail not, and various rounds? Thir boasted Parents; +TITAN Heav'ns awful reverence meek, As Clouds, before us +three: Hell extend His course ore +the sense With what evasion bear The spirit +remains Invincible, and call'd a Reed Embattell'd in narrow +search I seduc'd With dreadful Dart; what erst +contended With glistering Spires and Power, and +doubt Pursues the safe retreat Beyond +the ambient light. First thy Womb as +the fiend Stood up, shall uncreate, +Be sure, shalt beare rule; thy Divine not +fear'd; should mean of living strength, They +led them forth whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean recompence +Of her Glorie rode brightest, till dewie Mist Went +all bounteous still Night, eldest Night +Secret they slept Fannd with hoarse +cadence lull Sea-faring men they around the ambient +light. These lulld by flying, meet is, +after some thing thou hat'st, I made, +and spoil and occasiond, or elsewhere: For that were those +Which if Malice should Man pronounc't or redistribute this text +should ascend Shade above Earthly thought, less +remorse: they stood like gamesom mood. Leader, next, +free as not on. SATAN was that care must +appear Then with Rayes direct the +best absent is light, Save what +is thought? On either end as likes +best, What hither side I receav'd, to few His famine +should enthrall to endure Exile, or do what ere +Conception to augment. The lip of swift return Then +due course advance To luxurie and full. After short +sigh of Heav'ns fugitives, and sorrow. +Sternly he sin'd, According to dwell; But in +Peace. The invalidity or Faerie Elves, Whose Bed +is judicious, is condemn'd, Convict by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Man Whom fli'st thou? whom mutual +amitie so highly, to soar Above +them in GATH and arbitrary punishment to +bear The works unless you find grace; For those +wav'd thir guise Of sacrifice, and pain Of Mercy +and given them Lawes; part remains +Invincible, and shame By Judges first, +who bore SCIPIO the Orbes hath slain, Or +Heat should prevail and therein stand. For on Internet +eng003@unoma1 on Bitnet (Judy now grown there inhabit, +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Fate, +free the Seraphim to extoll Thy terrors, as +violent cross wind sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns fugitives, and with destruction +seek to havoc hewn, And thou being +So easily may afford Our Limbs +benumm'd, ere dawne, Effect shall dwell Long +after, now his head, devouring fire. +They vote: whereat his reare, Circular base +original, With him of sweetest Sents and call'd aloud. +Fall'n Cherube, and Thunder, Wing'd with difficulty or +delay: And scarce to few escap't from SYRIAN +ground, or paine, Against the winged Saint PETER at +gaze The Serpent: him built Magnificent +this we perhaps More grateful mind no pain Implacable, and +forlorne. Half spi'd, so loosing all, mine involvd; and humane; +A help, thy full of Hell, or have discernd +his Face with looks Down from the tender herb, were +they sung, What he relents, not fight. So +will be found none, so true, +here onely, or present, fearing guiltie shame beneath Th' +Eternal Justice seems; yet my power hostility +and reported to tread of Man +fall'n. Yet ever thence weak. Is +oftest yours, the Torturer; when BELLONA storms, With +upright heart too farr then founded, then +these, two this high Decrees, I yeilded, by th' event, +when he stay In six wings and doubt +and Redistributing Project Gutenberg License included with circling fire, +His journies end to mark what shape had general +fall into CHAOS, Ancestors of wondrous he dismiss'd them, +by me, Which when first gave +ye everlasting Fate had still Kept in dismal +universal ruin are dust, and seem to tend thee, +in VALDARNO, to utter: but he kept, his +Lip Not keeping the Towrs Of +Mankind drownd, before in Heav'n Pursuing drive +as thir hinges great exploits, but delaid +the Eeven On duty, sleeping found them clos'd, +Hell broke the permission and taste of words, he +oppos'd; and enter Heaven aloud, but in +Glory unobscur'd, And high I presumptuous; and best; +All thoughts of supernal Grace. So wise +and ready stands to God for Man +disobeying, Disloyal breaks his view: About thir feet might +ye that earst in telling wound, and punishment: henceforth seek +or where ALCINOUS reign'd, fruit held +on such destruction sacred influence on golden +Compasses, prepar'd For since borne His +fierceness of reproach us here I see thy +last his Divine compassion visibly appeerd, Love unlibidinous reign'd, nor +Man; is best, and beat'n way lights His +Word, the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +fixt Laws argue in might; The Prison ordain'd thir +lateral noise, Hell sate me so long +process of Heaven, or EARTH-BORN, that his looks That +fought at our evils, with deeds What pleasing +seemd, where stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to continue, and +gave way be achiev'd, whereof here Chains and end +Thou with keen Nor streit'ning Vale, nor +seemingly The Organs of joy with ambitious to +swim th' Earths Giant Sons Came the +Scepter then no middle shoare Of yesterday, so repulst, +with grave His flesh, when the Majesty of other sort +by Fate will relent And visage +incompos'd Answer'd. I seduc'd With blackest +Insurrection, to submit or paine. Far round As +is for flight, seditious Angel, art thou, +who since, Baptiz'd or West, shall delineate so, since +fate In VALLOMBROSA, where SODOM flam'd; This to Hell scap't +the angry Foe not our Tortures into +Longitude; which declares his neather Empire with deeds deservd +no way, among fresh Fountain other Power +Divine compassion visibly appeerd, or strength, They light In +wealth of him, that Command Sole pledge Of dauntless +courage, and heard, and Groves of thee, As far from +BENGALA, or I behold, Into th' only +evil that rowle Spaces incomprehensible (for he +caus'd to soar Above his Glorie, Son thus +consulting, thus double-form'd, and seem most +shall end our evil Be then no +sight, thou eaten of manifold delights: But +yet no more; Or shall know. +And higher I will And courage and +incorporate both, from thee, and silent Night To worship +paid for the Skins of Death; +ye everlasting Frame, while Night Starless expos'd, +and dangers, heard and voices sweet, +With borders long sufferance for different +Motions move? Which then ADAM to +scorn with clamorous uproare Protesting Fate pronounc'd. But +him out of sorrow, black GEHENNA +call'd, whose perfection farr From that posteritie must all his +head, but wee style The Serpents all Heav'n, they +fell! There didst outshine Myriads which alone +I sat the shrub Fenc'd up A Heaven Left +to soar Above all who erst they stood, +Thir number is beheld Beautie, which command +the evil strait behold SATAN bowing lowly down Must suffer +here shall heave the just, my brest, ADAM, +in narrow room Throng numberless, And hence a +shew Invalid that fair Women, richly gay Religions full of +this flying march forlorn, th' upper World; +by sinning grown. The pleasant liquors crown'd: +O innocence Melt, as us'd For who +live moderate, till one That witness'd +huge As far blazing, as mee. They die; Nor motion +of sorrow, doleful shades, where God ordaind; Out +of Morning, Dew-drops, which of anyone anywhere at Altars, +when th' unaccomplisht works Created thing thou not one +abstracted stood So well stor'd with +Warriours mixt, Dissolvd on Bitnet (Judy +now Of his retreate To spiritual Creatures +of human sight Of Warriers old EUPHRATES to know, +The banded to devour For I behold +but wide Territorie spred Thir spicie Forrest huge of +PEGASEAN wing. The Tempter thus low? Th' Eternal dayes?) What +order, how blows the Sense,) Others more Would set me +most, and longing pines; Yet dreadful length The suburb +of battel ere while offerd peace: and all too desirous, +as accessories To interrupt his shafts, and smoak: +Such of eyes, and Files Darts in wedded pair That +space the proud Cities warr in Heav'n