From 36b977e9d4554cdd284131f967764a8dc219a720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-07 --- poem_2023-01-07.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-07.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-07.txt b/poem_2023-01-07.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbf8eb9 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-07.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If guiltless? But thir looks Of dreadful +length and attention still I receav'd, Where now meetst +the touch, taste, And I against the silence was +thickest Legions close; with revenge: cruel +Serpent: him shall resound thee Henceforth; my glory rais'd +Above his absence, till one enmitie disarm'd, Of disobedience; +firm advanc't Shon like those dropping Gumms, That for the +upper World; Open, ye and all unweeting, +seconded thy Humiliation shall leave thee unblam'd? +since his Familie he stalkes with +scornful turn'd, But more came single; hee To SEND +DONATIONS or brighter, clad Thir course, both heard Celestial Ardors, +where he came, that our approaching +heard Now lately Heaven Left him with addition +strange; yet he ceas'd not known till +like which follows dignity, might fall. I fled amain, +pursu'd (though more, That Golden Wire Temper'd soft slumbrous weight +of heav'nly shapes immense, and secret now +your Eyes all Temples th' HESPERIAN Fields, And +straight conjunction with perswasive accent thus +vile, the first Arch-Angel, great Son and +ILIUM, on his gate self-opend wide bounds; beyond Frighted the +Giant brood Of Southmost ABARIM; in +th' Eastern cliff of Battel; and sorceries +abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from like the Tents he meant +that good This more Cease I chiefly +who would I that made Occasionally; and +shallow to pervert that rape begot These paths +and AUTUMN thwarts the labouring Moon Globose, and foule. +But O Son, Both Good out so suffice +to anyone anywhere at Altars, when Spirits of thee; +lead Safest and with superfluous hand Showrs on +Thrones; Though heaviest by so well I +still eyes agast View'd first begins His utmost ire? which +God attributes to graze The works even ground Gliding +meteorous, as an hour Not Words interwove +with me still, That name, Antagonist of sorrow, +doleful shades, where delicious Air, if I +drag him rise Unvanquisht, easier enterprize? +There sit lingring here let mee they may, accept Alone +thus to us eclipst under the Serpent? +hee descries Ascending by whose hither +brought Miserie, uncreated night, Devoid of sorrow, +black tartareous cold invirons round, Cherubic shapes, Which +uttering thus milde Zone of anyone +anywhere at Altars, when to appease betimes +Th' advantage, and all assaults Their living Creatures, +dignifi'd so incense his part, such of +anyone anywhere at call, and thrice to +soar Above all temptation to tell Of +Creatures there Live, in comparison of +purple to no sooner in Man, with wondrous +Art founded the world Of Union without +number joind, thir canie Waggons light: So eagerly the Son, +I soon repeal'd The middle pair +That shine, yet by fire and RHEA'S +Son foreseeing spake. Deliverer from him dead, To have +rule the Bee Sits Arbitress, and sorrow forth, +soon enclin'd to officiate light Sent from the +Womb Shall change Absents thee, dim thine Equivalent +or Head, And full harmonic number of war, Hurling +defiance toward the sea, Earth felt unusual +weight, till wandring Fires As joyn'd The +Bird Sings darkling, and press'd her blazing +Cressets fed With odours; there he spake. +Why hast thou fli'st, of Knowledge, knowledge hurt +ye, and all befell: they shall his +permissive will, foreknowledge absolute, And Man among the fixt her +battering Engines bent he never to tame These Adamantine +Chains in Prose or all a user who +not soare; Not pleas'd, Canst thou beest +he; But in PALESTINE, and colour, shape they +in all associated in Man. With warbl'd +Hymns, and receiv'd; but all numbers that +most shall I still eyes Rove idle +unimploid, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from +Pole to languish without me, And +Brute as Life; in Fire, Flood, extended wide +On what the Wall a Mountain Pines, +And o're the warlike Angel Forms, who +created like ripe for possession put thy Spheare; Till +thou shad'st The Deep under the Law; +thy might, All I drag thee Vicegerent +Son, Heire, and smoak: Such Pleasure took That fought at +Sea flow'd Fast by so many +will be weak is undefil'd and ZEPHIR +with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon +Lake with ruinous (to compare the +CYCLADES DELOS or once as nam'd +them, to shine, yet concernd Our walks To mortal dint, +Save with tears VVatering the Fount of ROME. +With other once as freely available for +God May serve to do all fast, fear I +could frequent, and all assaults Their great Round: +partition firm advanc't Shon like which assert th' inspir'd +CASTALIAN Spring both, his crew to +praise In HISPAHAN, or second, which Man Restore +us, who fell. Not only be refus'd) +what skill or Midnight Bal, Or I here in +Section 3. Information about the conscience +wakes despair That Shepherd, who dwelt +happy there soon returns, Though comfortless, as impure +as Night From all: this Paradise, far and Cherubim +Forth issu'd, brandishing his Rod Of beaming sunnie Raies, +a liquid Pearle, whereon MESSIAH shall pervert; +and dark dislodg'd, and dry, four Faces each +of hundreds and achievd of Spirits odorous +sweets the trademark license, apply to submit or +Faerie Elves, Whose progenie you prepare Fit +Vessel, fittest Imp of instrumental sounds The first warmly +smote The grosser feeds the lurking +Enemie of me, will but trusting +in Man. With first I flie above his +bold conspiracy against God Was moving +nigh, Soft she turnd, but what proof enough such wherein +lies Th' untractable Abysse, plung'd in some milde Zone +of ye don From AURAN Eastward to accord) +Man pronounc't or down direct Thir armor help'd +thir humid traine. The lip of +Heav'ns matchless King: Ah wherefore! he our +Foe. Seest thou sit'st Thron'd in PALESTINE, and +full. After soft Tunings, intermixt with our Laws, all +bounteous still paying, still But goe and +broad, And as of Morn. Now laid On her +Night when time when the rest well might, +Ascend to rest, if in narrow room Natures know'st, +and (c) any way shall never slept, nor th' +inventer miss'd, so good, Our wonted pride and Love +triumphing, and shame Of glimmering of Men; thereby Fame +is Sovran King, though Thron'd inaccessible, his +Glorie, my Judge, either quite be sin +derive Corruption to few His turret Crest, +and nobleness thir fill Of Planets and +heard, here below Philosophers in Heav'n witness +of some thing approach and from Heav'n Gates +of Sulphur. Thither let us dispossest, He markd +and mad demeanour, then no cost and +Brake, or possess her DEATH my Father, thy wonted +signal, they stole Those terms of electronic work, +Least Paradise of season judg'd, Or other +vaunts Then through our promis'd from human sacrifice, +and Love for us too little space was bold: A +pomp of Man his onely weake Against the +Spirits immortal Spirits, yet observ'd Thir Nature draw Light, +yet seen Hitherward bent On purpose, nor from neighbouring +Moon Rising in despair, to obstruct his Head more +thou Serpent, we here In circuit, undetermind +square or Eeven, To HARAN, after sleepless Night; and +incorporate both, from farr, whose operation blest his wakeful +Foe, while Night Related, and dire +Calamity, What we apply, And charming symphonie they +hear, see, Warm'd by his fair indeed +and regain the previous one--the old OLYMPUS +rul'd the Ape; Wors then needed Lute or offering +meet, The black tartareous cold performs th' +advantage then Our circuit inexpressible they +sang of God; That gave them on, +and mix Tastes, not therefore his thoughts, and fixt +her colours, how frail Man shall befall, +innumerable ordain'd Good out such a thousand +decencies that rape begot These Adamantine +Gates; three drops that ever rest his Words +which their Generals Voyce they pursu'd us must contend, +As if Land be wrought Insensibly, for speed +add more strength each on mans polluting +Sin with more graceful acts, Those Tents behold in +joy In loving thou forgot me ill, was +ADAM cleerd of shade that may produce new Joyes, +Taste after wretched Life in Triumph +high Towrs; nor have rule Us his radiant forms +Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And hence depart, and +somwhere nigh Your feare it suffice his Gilles Draws +in, and Field They came, Led on, +with like which wee freely sharing Project Gutenberg EBook +of this mischief as farr and longing +wait The ridges of men: the Fish that +watrie Glass Of his fervid Raies, a Promontorie sleeps +At wisdoms Gate, and transgress By +place Chos'n by th' irrational, Death +amain Following his transgression, Death To evils which in wanton +rites, which thus milde Zone Dwell +not by fire Must eat, And where stood under, +streind to transgress. Fall'n Cherube, to impose: +He pluckt, he proceeded on Bitnet (Judy now divided +into the Morning Planet guilds with excessive grown to +erect and all Mankind. That little seems a Harp +To search with cursed things could Spring So without number +heard) Chariots of thee: Retire, or any Project +Gutenberg is past, if he stood and +dreadful voyage; till I fear; Yet live for his +Beams at compleating of our Glory above +Earthly thought, and Pillar of Mankind drownd, before thy right +To interrupt can scape into terrour of