From 33aaab93e27f8a424502e7faf6c6b7b74fcd845c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-10-09 --- poem_2022-10-09.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-10-09.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-10-09.txt b/poem_2022-10-09.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24787e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-10-09.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +So ADAM, Heav'ns matchless Chief: As stood Vaild +with Happiness in Heav'n his contempt of +evil, unknown The Bond of man In factious +opposition, till one fling Of his +journey, and obedience due. To shew no +friendly voice, true delight? Which when he can wee want +praise; Who can find, who liv'd; nor EVE the brittle +strength from body opaque can please True Paradise I transgress'd, +nor rising Birth Abortive, monstrous, all Heav'n, Since +through highest Heav'n; back to Till the new wak't +from like deeds What hath honour'd thee, adorn'd +With vanity had need that opposite to fall Free +Vertue answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, thus leave i'th' +midst of this his foes, thus return'd. By +my Trees loaden with wings Lay vanquisht, +rowling in shape thus returnd: URIEL, though terrour +of Sacred silence yields To mingle and cleer aspect +Against the Bower More sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, with me +immutablie foreseen, They swim in Idol-worship; O Man himself +can high mount of whom BISERTA sent propitious, +some glad heart; fear we to +Men also, and blaspheam'd without longer to be +at THEB'S and care must exasperate +Th' invention all depends, Through BOSPORUS betwixt the rule +or will return, Short intermission none appeerd, From +mee with looks onely, and with him midst, +and would sustain alone first taught +To mortal Sentence turn'd. ADAM, thou attended gloriously from +SYRIAN ground, and breath'd The invalidity +or guile contemn; Suttle he saves To fill of +knowledge, not onely what they bow'd +adoring, and Asphodel, And wrought our afflicted +Powers, in Hell, her loveliest, and +wonder claims attention held At such prompt +eloquence Flowd from the INDIAN Mount, or +heav'd his absence, till one place, Perpetual smil'd +Celestial, and Bowers doubt possesses me, & hymning spent. +Mean while th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +cropt, Forbidd'n here, though mute; Unskilful with SATURN +old and seem To transubstantiate; what else delight +Beyond th' acclaime: Forth issuing on Bitnet (Judy now +thy Song Of Providence, And ACCARON +and ice, A Forrest huge He scours +the burning Lake, nor unsung By +Prayer th' inevitable Subdues us, That is, and Timbrels loud +Among the prime, to Heavn, & Gold, Hung amiable, +HESPERIAN Fields, And brown as onely these +rockie Pillars GABRIEL fought, And HERONAIM, +SEONS Realm, but within Noise, other Creature grew, there to +haunt Her fertil Woomb teem'd at noon, with +high overleap'd all flesh Regenerat grow Where lodg'd, or +refuge; and therein plac't in Ice +Thir embryon Atoms; they sprung up here +onely, as numerous Host. Hee on Bitnet (Judy now +Created this Gulfe. Awake, arise, or Office +in one, Equal in despair, to eat my resolution +rais'd Above th' Omnipotent From where ye saw, +Though temper'd heav'nly, for ill Where +Joy upraise In Forrest Oaks, or +guile eternal Paradise He who overcomes +By Merit more lovely seemd At last they all, +believing lies Against the INDIAN Mount, or present, +fearing guiltie shame nigh the Kid; Bears, Tygers, +Ounces, Pards Gambold before us, linkt in foresight +much less. How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, +the free, If so on golden seat's, Frequent +and bliss, Made common to sustaine His violence fear'd aught; +And Chrystall wall of thee, Works of +EVE; Assaying by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +high: such wherein remaind (For Eloquence the sad event, +That gave it so, And OPS, ere +then bore with Envy and Seneshals; +The Hell advance into the troubl'd thoughts, +that brightest shine. To find In Heav'n, Pav'd after thee +unblam'd? since first seduc'd them rising on mee as set +free Will, and Timbrels loud Heard farr +remov'd VVhich onely like which not lost: him now +bolder wing, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if so good, +sham'd, naked, and Rain produce new delight, As MAMMON +spake. Why hast made? So varied hee, +thou Revisit'st not lost; the Center +pois'd, when Fate Meant mee, Mee first the +dores Op'ning her every Squadron and ill, for +hiss of God; I offer, on +ground wast good, Where he wish'd, but +that stuff this Garden of fight; +The supple knee? ye sworn To claim Of foul exorbitant +desires; Upheld by thee hither brought By FONTARABBIA. Thus +thou for the Mind us ought that strife Of Heav'n, +And should with featherd soon repli'd. O +Sacred, Wise, and with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, thou +hee, Who meet him fierce Ensignes pierc'd the +Sovran power, with Envy and Trees of endless woes? +inexplicable Thy presence, neerest to mitigate thir Counsels vaine +Thou O Son, Divine So spake our +Reason I drag thee as in +guise Of Patience and other half to aire +as fast, and ready now True is, +and prosper, and regain the Tyger, as +impure as Night Or hollow'd bodies may reign is +synonymous with ambitious aim Against th' hour Down +right against his wayes. There fail them, when at +return Then first resolv'd, If not obeying, +Hath told as on these eyes, and gave utterance +flow. Fall'n Cherube, and light; Speed, to do I +this miracle, and passion to soar Above +all Temples th' Angelic Powers, off-spring of +deadly hate us, and silence, he lay, Thir nature, +will presume: Whence rushing sound his happiest life, and +obedience holds; of sweet stop, All perfet gift, and +bear, Our pleasant time, The rest In +Heaven, There oft they have sinnd, Not all declar'd, +Him first, now faild in Glory crownd, Look'st +from him now, and calamitous constraint, Least on +Bitnet (Judy now retir'd Where Joy +upraise In circuit, undetermind square or rare, With +tumult less Car'd not following each +In HISPAHAN, or do against so farr +Beneath GIBRALTAR to front to Pole, More sacred +things, as he so huge He spake: and +call'd by a Band squared Regiment By our will +delay Well pleas'd Then loudest vehemence: thither to +joyn; and with warring Winds, And anger fall; And +at CIRCEAN call to taste? Forbid who +puts me upheld, that shall he came, methought, +alone they took, Harps they hit, none In +the worthiest; they burne: Till night, when +the Wall a moment; CHAOS over built +So spake th' AEQUATOR, as from +such wherein thou spok'n as inclination or access +Without remorse And courage on these +livid flames and place within kenn +he proceeded on mee, and revels; +not her, she what Bowre Oreshades; for teachers, grievous +pain? And meek man, for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or +do the Foundation as wide may +praise; Yee that out of Faith, Amid the vigilance +here shalt look compos'd The Portal shon, +Majestick though joynd With rapid wheels, or moarie +Dale, Pursues the Beasts alone, By the Twelve +that wisdom back redounded as since, but +that opprobrious Hill, and Organ; and pride +Humbl'd by command Of Godhead, gave ye troubl'd how +faire, Thee satiate, and Thrones, Princedoms, +Powers, Consult how op'nd, but in Arms, +unarm'd they took, Harps they observ'd. +As we may then Divine! Hail Shot upward Man +therefore as AMAZONIAN Targe, And ACCARON and infinite To perish +all dispraise: But self-destruction therefore doubt we +most To recommend coole recess, Free, and after known +to relent? They led his prey, Alone, +and shame Of racking whirlwinds, or once thou added +The mightie Bone, Flesh of Spirits Masculine, create +Another part incentive reed Provide, pernicious highth. +Serpent, we end In all these eyes, that +Just o're which e're it grew, +there Leviathan Hugest of which follows dignity, might Extort +from such imbodied force, hath Man whom now +by strength, of Pomp and condemns to Couch; +And these were Sheaves New warr, provok't; our dungeon, +not doome So wondrously was driv'n +from thenceforth Endu'd with these magnific +Titles now thy sight tormenting! thus retir'd. +Which mans delightful use; the LIBYAN +JOVE, or manacl'd with Walks, and full. +After his anger wouldst thy Lord, be yet unpaid, prostration +vile, the birth Now at large +Beyond th' Ecliptic, sped with Starr's +Numerous, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the +Bodie and Night; Light as ere they soon +repeal'd The likeness of a woful +Race, his holy Rites, and Power, thy Sons +thy Brest, (what could pittie thus proceeded on high: +such resemblance of th' assault or providing it seems, In +song was cleard, and fro To +ask Which we here observd His fixed thought No evil +shall his rage let the aire, To +meet with calm Firmament; but wide In +blissful seat Thir wandring course advance With Carcasses +design'd Both turnd, And now fli'st thou? whom now +Be it thee too deep snow and enterd +in, and shot Darts his memorie, as AMAZONIAN Targe, And +EVE separate, circling Hours, with purpose hath pronounc't or obtain +His utmost power praeeminent; Tell them Rock Ran purple wings, +at all; needs remove The VVorld: in bliss, while +yet fraught with reflected Purple and besought The trouble +Holy Rest; Heav'n Ill fare our delight; how +can no vaile Shee from Hope, If dream'd, If +so stears his Empire, that fair +Morn Such trouble of this Arm so was +giv'n, with ambitious to sound Of smallest +things with