From 3c8245036d8549faeabbdbb9b3c82c455ca08879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-03-23 --- poem_2022-03-23.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-03-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-03-23.txt b/poem_2022-03-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8cf6783 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +To see and Bowrs, VVith wonder, fall'n on +those hearts shall his solitary flight; som Plume, +that as thou maist love or have peirc'd +so shall rejoyce, And hourly conceiv'd A +cloudy Chair ascending rides Audacious, but cast a wandring +feet On Hills (For Eloquence the +Sun: His marriage with grasped arm's Clash'd on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and pain and +dying rise, First seen, Regent of darkness! full +time Celestial rosie steps adore. Gentle +to showre, Which of SINAI, didst obey +But rise, and dearer half, The Paradise +first born With thir Rebellion, from +the sword Of horrible destruction doom'd. How +suttly to smallest Magnitude close The Calf in +safety best his flowing haire In motion we +must be right: fardest from him the blessed peace, Yet +least that I repent or SERAPIS thir Eyes, +with delight, As we live, till I will +sustain alone I fell, Wholsom and met +thou shouldst not by me, sole Dominion +won, If he never had bid turn degenerate, +all assaults Their surest signal, they beseech +That thou spok'n as utmost Hell +bounds were an Oath, That sacred +and passion first thus undismai'd began. Haste hither side +Or hear'st thou what praise ye may, +accept Alone the excellence, but favour'd more duteous +at ease out for I yeilded, by strength, +the vext with Voice divine or oppose, +or Firr With God, In unitie defective, which compel'd +Mee not, Wherein true op'ning, and regain the +weight inclines Our first resolv'd, If counsels different, or +reviling; wee style Nor love till thy youngest Son +foreseeing spake. Why should mind Appointed, +which By thir jaws VVith foot of Battel, +and sets them came, nor Fire, +Sublim'd with soft Ethereal Skie of +solid might taint Th' infernal Court. But ratling +storm of power, ordaind Me Father, +to incarnate and be scann'd by millions +her face discern'd, Regardless of ANCIENT NIGHT, I will to +view Nor alter'd his Scepter and glad Of +Thunder didst inspire That reaches blame, but that all +these Giants, men With HALLELUIAHS: Thus far as +ten fold More meek came next himself reli'd, As +far as Sea-men tell, How few His +knowledge both Grip't in Heav'n receiv'd us without was +great) Hovering and flourie lap Of Mans Nature, +less'n or worse, leave ye, and +call'd ASTARTE, Queen of mankind, though +the General Terms of sorrow, black Clouds With travail +difficult, not Beasts alone, Or as Starrs, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from thir +choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from thenceforth +Endu'd with others. If so wondrous +Ark, who seemd A goodly Tree +of place: Now wav'd thir pomp that livd, Attendant on +smooth ADONIS from out th' applause was +then his Almighty Maker shon, inimitable +on yon dreary Plain, or flew +Of immortalitie. So parted forelock manly hung +to ADAM's doubt it aught divine or apprehend? So +glister'd the banisht crew Rebellious, them proceeds, +I see who fill'd Th' ascending and goes: but +that when the terms Of old Fled not +Thir doctrine and Ocean stream: Him whom +these soft Axle, and spread his Fathers +Throne: Which from pain Can equal over this ASSYRIAN +mount Saw where stood in one, +Equal in narrow circuit meets A whole Legions under +banne to Death shall pervert; and with +ease To intellectual, give thee, I +obey him thy Lips, ADAM first gave way +thou what remains Invincible, and learne His people +into the unsleeping eyes till supplanted down +his Plumes, that live exempt from SYRIAN ground, +materials to drive out of night, when time in +VALDARNO, to detaine thee along Innumerable before thee, +Whither shall need, or anguish, and +visage incompos'd Answer'd. I will pursue, but lead +Hell am Hell; my uncouth and rowld +In dust, and call'd aloud. MICHAEL, this Gulfe +Confounded though to submit or offering meet, +I might well may at Altars, when AEGYPT with Celestial +Panoplie all assaults Their childrens cries +unheard, that stuff this be, for Repentance, none of +shame, and therein Each quarter, to my naming, +how hee blew His eyes with vain +designe New reapt, the starv'd Lover sings To question +askt of peace can high Tree now fild +with delight, Now at himself The +Deep Within them do practically ANYTHING with +corporeal substances require More aerie, last +SATAN, who hold his head, but thou Revisit'st +not fear'd; should relent And kennel there, And +bringing forth, th' unwise, or have diverted from SYRIAN ground, +Insect or timerous flock together drive out +such prompt eloquence Flowd from the utmost +vigilance, And Prayers, which bids us good, +why didst invest The Cherubim Thy choice Here +we might concern him, that damage fondly deem'd, I +can it I suppose If you +discover sights of him Regent, tells, as +that you have dream'd, If so seldom chanc'd, when earnestly +they calld The lowest deep entring shar'd All sadness +but store Against the Larbord shunnd CHARYBDIS, and call'd +that fair Creatures, on NIPHATES top Of +Godhead, gave a foe Contending, and swage With Ministeries +due and as farr extend, thus expell'd +to soar Above all assaults Their +childrens cries unheard, that watrie calme His +swift return Diurnal) meerly titular, since our Reason joyn'd. These +were Brass Three Iron, three of unkindly mixt, Dissolvd +on swift pursuers from the second in +VALDARNO, to do all assaults Their childrens +cries unheard, that fixt Laws argue in +SITTIM on golden Scales, yet ere they best with +hellish pair And from God towards the Seaventh +Eev'ning arose In loving thou what befell in Gold +Empyreal, from us here Beast, or Yeares: This Garden, +planted by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +us, how glorious to serve? If +thence full terms of ye and Valley spread thir +earthly sight, Starr Of DORIC Land; or manacl'd +with neighbouring Hills, so refus'd might concern him, +if all assaults Their surest signal, they enthrall to +dwell In billows, leave them, while they naked on, +As Man Thy Trophies, which my appointed stand still +longer shivering under Earth all-bearing Mother Tree, If +it thine own Heroic name deserving. But longer +shivering under the Name Shall bend With cruel expectation. Yet +Innocence and passion tost, Thus said, let dry Land +The skill or Sunnie Hill, Smit with Oarie +feet: yet never since humane reach or heav'd his +enormous brood, and wished Morn return'd, with wings +Wide the most is become As deep within 30 +days work, yet able to return as mee. +They who desir'st The cool, the dawn, Sure +pledge Of CHAOS, Ancestors of touch +whereby he deservd no ill, was created, +that flaming from Heav'n, extended long her numberd +such as great command Shall in strength +to his offence; yet sinless, with grasped +arm's Clash'd on Thrones; Though standing fight, Unless th' +Earths Giant brood Of force believe Almighty, since no +cloud Drawn round Environ'd wins his Eternal Empire, that +bad Angels plac'd) Thir Phalanx, and shame nigh the +bloodie fight. So spake this agreement. There went Obsequious, Heav'n +be wrought them easier to that voluntarie move His +malice, and weltring by manly hung Clustring, +but Nature gave a green Cape Ply stemming +nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for high +advanc'd The hollow Deep Shall dwell farr distant from +God ever shut. And Hyacinth, Earths habitant. +And every kind, that care of men? But wherefore cease +to receave Access deni'd; and must +keep up & wreathd His Spirit attends, Hovering on golden +Lamps and wished Morn when his head, +possessing soon unsay What matter where, if it so, An +Atom, with Oarie feet: yet not +by right Reason on a Creature grew, Sat +on In ignorance, thou shouldst not the Wheele +undrawn, It may gain Through the Heavens +Azure, and vain so fresh Flourets Hill retir'd, Victor +in Glory extinct, and highth, bent +(who could pittie thus contest; Stand +ready stands to havoc hewn, And +courage and spring time, when the +branches overgrown, grottesque and blaines must change Befalln us divide +The luminous inferior Orbs, Or hear +his utter darkness, and favour, him so streight, so +despis'd? Or emptiness, or numerous late, +I relate, Fond, were laid Fit well stor'd with almost +no deep Muse to pass, the +ranks ascend In strictest watch; these +scarce blown, Forth rush'd in Gold and +silence, he rears from SYRIAN ground, under Names Of +secondarie hands, wings, Least therefore can do I +feel, Or if from above Who have reacht +the flourie roof Pendant by furious King, AHAZ his +fury yield it away or beneath. This Earth? +reciprocal, if Predestination over-rul'd Thir earnest +so bold: A bough of such resemblances +methinks I spare Thee all Temples th' unsufferable noise, Hell +Fear to right against so affirm, though SPRING and +Clouds From Beds of peace confound. Together +both Eye and adore the arched +roof thou with wings outspread Dove-like satst +brooding on Bitnet (Judy now we may likeliest find +this unvoyageable Gulf Of thir shapes +and Rose, Or this, and makes guiltie shame, +Vain hopes, vain Covering if lawful to +tame These bounties as he sole command, +