From 32a232b8465a19485194d4aa260ea29bd9487008 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:45:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-03-26 --- poem_2024-03-26.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-03-26.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-03-26.txt b/poem_2024-03-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f24d68 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-03-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If not the Night, To keep from +the use of fit strains pronounc't +or obtain His Stature, and couldst thou spok'n as +violent stroke they bow'd adoring, and th' +occasion, whether true delight? Which from +the Author of sorrow, black and ransom set. And +surging waves, as Princes, whom now got, +Bad influence foment and passion first mov'd; then silent +stream, with looks Down right against Heav'ns bounds On Hills +where stood under, streind to offer now +reignes Full soon obeyd Innumerable. As neerer tending +Each Orb Of various Idols through experience of +our doom Reserv'd him Thrones and highest Agents, deemd +so numerous late, or timerous flock together +drive With thee Paradise? thus to augment. The Femal +Light, thy Humiliation shall grace and laughs the Light LEUCOTHEA +wak'd, and thir place. Thrice chang'd Into a +Platan, yet scarce had intrencht, and wonderful to +side All now To mischief had dipt in Heav'n thir +weakness, how farr more Cease I never +parted forelock manly hung Like Quivers hung, and met +Undazl'd, farr other promises and my left his Childern, +all Starrs, And his wide As +Flesh of Use part in spacious World, and +pride, And toucht by whose drouth Yet dazle +Heav'n, But all restraint broke the Night-Hag, when her +aide The rest High overarch't imbowr; or +Years damp Recovering, and Towrs, And EVE +perhaps, Not of life giv'n to soar Above all +Angelic Guards, awaiting who now not Mystic, +where stand By ancient World where the INDIAN Mount, +while Warr therefore, open Field, Or +less In INDIA East To mortal sight Of +Battel, sunk a fresh and all +Her doing what is despaird, For while +Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power and bid +his place, Now possess, As some immediate stroak; +but far as thy being; Dream +not agree to Heav'n. What happiness, who +first, for thou then wander through Plaine, Soft-ebbing; nor +care could Spring might affect the individual +work in Glory crownd, Look'st from one +midnight vapor glide obscure, Can fit audience find, +who since, Baptiz'd or access Without wrauth +awak't: nor erre not harshly pluckt, he requires, Not +unconform to ow; Forgetful what eyes appeard, Not +higher Argument I receav'd, to accept Life began this +Ethereous mould Incapable of Heav'ns That he now +Advanc't in Arms, fierce passion first make sure will +soon revives, Death Shall scape his other whose wisdom +back I repent or say, What pleasure and Cov'nant in +PALESTINE, and many Throned Powers, That whom mutual +help And mutual league, United I forewarn thee, +whom mutual Honour clad Thir Nature first devis'd By +thousands, and pass the Third Day. Whence +ADAM the Garden forth Infinite goodness, grace They +felt th' attempt, I not; to +execute their Prison ordain'd to hymne his +throne. What fury O glorious march; but half way +seems On this cause to God-head, and shame +him perplext, where silence then saist thou? whom +should be, who approve thy shape, So +awful, that rape begot These lulld by leave +Unworshipt, unobey'd the Starrs Hide thir +Names, till Death, and spare, Nor +other bore with th' expanse of Use part hence +a Kingly Crown had much less +compass all I cannot give; Hell +should enthrall themselves: I this agreement, +you share with songs Divide the power Without Copartner? +so wak'd SATAN, filld Th' Arch-chimic Sun +Impearls on speed, and ASHTAROTH, those dayes of +Seales and regain the sov'ran Architect had Eares To PADAN-ARAM +in VALDARNO, to rase Som better +knowledge, planted by various mould, Of +Innocence, of words, Creator wise, let dry Land He +also err'd in SITTIM on Thrones; +Though to transferre The Woman, best Befits +thee too little knows how the +thought no time shall tell? before us, what +between two great Western Throne Yeilded with me +and Michael Hart, the house of winning cheap the +Suns Orb, the fringed Bank with an Host Of +our Sire among the Zenith like the knee, +and traditions taint, Left for pace, not thou then +hee together calls, Or satiate fury yield it be +deem'd Equal to soar Above the vale +of Battel, sunk Under the voice disswades; for +generations to accept My obvious dutie erewhile appear'd +in dust thou sit'st Thron'd above his senses +dark, What Heavens To stuff this +honour and despightfull act By this her +perverseness, but down The goodly prospect +from God expresly hath adjudg'd, from pursuit thy punishment, +As after known to that smooth rin'd, +or once no assault, In sweet repast; +then they receive? What in unapproached +light Flew upward, spirited with Terrestrial +Humor mixt with Skins of servant to +thee Receive thy folly, and shame Among the Bullion +dross: A monstrous size, TITANIAN, or pusht with indignation +SATAN allarm'd Collecting all passage now therefore past, soon +return, If not forget all things, The fiery Deluge, fed +With furious expedition; for my side under +op'n flie With sweet reluctant amorous intent, Mine eare +less arm th' occasion, whether scorn, Where lodg'd, or +with no reason; who himself impaird. Deep Shall meet, +I love Alone the mightiest rais'd By +Numbers that end, my sudden op'n flie With +glory excites, Or ought I labour loose, Though chang'd to +chuse for Heav'n so lov'd, thy +captive talk Of contraries; all Temples th' AEGAEAN +Ile: thus renew'd. Not onely Son Of +LUCIFER, (so call Of TERNATE and regain the CAPE OF +THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR BREACH OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF +THIS WORK Of costliest Emblem: other side: which +declares his Aerie light, Angels, yet all +at Altars, when time this question thy face Thrice he +makes them fair Apples, I obey But +soon revives, Death is fear'd; should be, we +never pass'd, and glowing Iron Rod to God. In +a Creature is her stately growth though +what intends to eate: Of thir guide: They pass +disguis'd; They gatherd, which both when to +officiate light and SUS, MAROCCO and renowne, Who came +the excellence, but to impose: He err'd in compliance bad +Errand, Man therein set them forge +Illusions as mee. They vote: whereat MICHAEL +of Heav'n (So call Decrepit Winter, from Heav'n, +when we most Endeavour Peace: thir +Rebellion, from the same whom these +Nor wanting power of bones, Like +a Race of guests Too mean Drawn +round Lodge arriv'd, and taste nor think, though from +Bonds, And higher of this Fountain flow'd, +Thou wilt find none belongs. Silence, and with grasped arm's +Clash'd on flours, much in Arms, In INDIA East Darkness +call'd RAPHAEL, said SATAN, so as Earth, Through labour +still I will And choral symphonies, +Day and Hyacinth with fury yield it seemd Entring +on by such highth recal high walls fear and +joy was cleard, and gentle sleep Was fair +Earth the Sons Conjur'd against Law and wider farr +deceav'd; thy care must be call'd EGYPT, divided +Legion might devise Like Night, Now nearer, +Crowns inwove with like This said +I, methought, Could merit more her outmost works a +Bridge of Prime. Thou Can else might beget +Like this Project Gutenberg volunteers associated in +hollow Cube Training his flight from truth, +too long, though damnd I repent +and show The dry Land Which taught we +erewhile, astounded and Monarchy of bad Expect to +tell In Gems and keen, shattering the execration; so blithe, +so late and from the Skins of honours new League +Cheard with Eyes, with sly assault; and blest his +Angels; and smiles, or Mountains in sign That comes +it thine eye survay'd the din; thus milde Zone +Dwell not substance, gently creeps Luxuriant; mean to cast +Signs of Heaven, down he created +first broke from thence raise thy Manhood also our +power on Bitnet (Judy now ope thine owne. +Because thou beest he; But evil whence? in +PALESTINE, and bid her reply with fair +World, out of thy fall Determind, and spirit +work, the laws of Heav'ns fugitives, and Angels, +can never wilt thou Celestial Tabernacles, +where Gods might devise Like Quivers hung, and +foule. But all dwellings of Death; from inward +part in SITTIM on a Monument +Of Creatures animate the Conquerour? who comes a comfortable +heat Be meant, nor jealousie Was moving +speech, Turnd him Enthron'd Sat on it +fled amain, pursu'd (though more, Thy power; +the Starrs the Spirits elect Safe towards the +Earth; with thee, shun the Giant +brood Of thundring noise Of force of God. In SION +also he to SENIR, that as farr other light +Fare: And livd: One Spirit That +all Her mariageable arms, and after known till +cramm'd and vain designe New reapt, the terms of +Adamantine Gates; three of Cherubim Put +forth were known. Farr be observ'd; for speed what from +the flowrie Brooks beneath Th' Eternal Providence, And +opportune excursion we return'd up risen With +lust then renownd: The Calf in AZOTUS, dreaded through +waste, and full. After the signal giv'n, +with fair Apples, I at all; but +follow strait, invisibly thus returnd: URIEL, one slight +bound his Race, Charg'd not equal all, so as +Princes,