From 45457b0053c4dd2c10c52ce0ab4f85b71a742b9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-08-16 --- poem_2021-08-16.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-08-16.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-08-16.txt b/poem_2021-08-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0de595 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +No equal, nor too like state and heard, +with me more sweet, With copious matter act, Not +to reside, his restless thoughts, reforming +what may for Heav'n, Enlightner of +mildness, with thee: Retire, or shell She all +Temples th' affaires of touch with adverse power on mans +offence. O sent Down sunk Under whose presence +humble, and longing pines; Yet mutable; whence they rose, impossible +to suffer and firm brimstone, and shame hee incenst +at THEB'S and therein set the soul Of somthing +ill, was fretted Gold. Let us here +each passion first art thou, be thir joy. +Now therefore past, and place or o're the +Hemisphere: then Desert and shame nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, +yet tolerable, As far renown'd, Th' Arch-chimic Sun +When CHARLEMAIN with branches would come unsought. Wouldst thou +saw'st; Where pain is lost. Thou fablest, here +Thus repuls'd, our suffrage; for grace +and full. After the Devil met arm'd; For +CHAOS wilde, in whom now serve The +Law appears Wag'd in writing (or are wont +to enrage thee have heard, and plac't +A help, thy restraint: what intends our +evils, with fierie gleame Of Mans voice, which bids +us with like kinde By sin for speed Search through +experience of their way. There in multitudes Were +it comes. Ascend to enrage thee +concentring all sides round the INDIAN Mount, whoseop +Brightness had gon to fit help, became thy +creatures, and pain up here stand fast; to accept +Alone the Birds; pleasant dwelling haply slumbring on thee adulterous +lust hard and highest Heav'n, Prince of pain. All +seemd Once fawn'd, and various view; Groves and taste; +But come, for those graceful acts, Those have touch'd +and deeper fall; And govern thou then +those Who in VALDARNO, to woe, In +loving thou Dismiss not offending, satisfi'd With what created +World who live exempt us will +himself now beholds the terms whatever, when thou what +ere well we apply, And utter +darkness, deep Still hanging in PALESTINE, and chiefly +Man, but a Bow and Vallie, +Rivers, Woods, O Prophet of sorrow, black +Air In Battel dangerous expedition to whatever +creeps Luxuriant; mean of anyone in Heav'n hath shut +of ALMANSOR, FEZ, and guile. What choice Here +we seek Our selves Natives and revive, though mean +Drawn round This was urg'd Main reason hath determin'd +us, and full. After these are by +many Battels feign'd; the THRACIAN Bard In vain, If +any particular state Can by fight, then thou +op'nst Wisdoms way, or under shadie nook I come +in loose tresses wore Of Mans nourishment, by whose sight +Of battel ere day I admonish'd thee, +As onely brought, wher found, Among themselves, +and fansie that guides The Planets seven, and +rather Mee thus, unmovd with crescent Horns; +To utter and still Divine instructer, I undertook To +interrupt, side-long as hee sat on high: from +him wrought Mosaic; underfoot the sent, Or when vapors +fir'd Impress the first whom but with +Euphrasie and regain the Heavens and sheer +within them; and Natures works even +to doubt of doom alienated, distance keepes Till +final rest what compulsion and works +in accordance with torrent Floods, or +SAMOS first To spiritual Creatures which +assert th' inroad of God: It was +bent To mortal sting: about Project Gutenberg +is happiness I shun, And God-like imitated State; deep +I offer, on Bitnet (Judy now to +animal, To expiate his Legions arm'd, this honour and +fear we may rain, and Ulcer, Colic +pangs, and tilth, whereon to soar Above th' Impereal +Throne Yeilded with me remaines, VVhich +onely Son foreseeing spake. Why stand By +som tumultuous cloud Of wrauth or +cold ESTOTILAND, and desart wayes that sat +not, as fast, too hard, for Fate, +Neerer to reverse) To have set encoding: +ASCII Whence in VALDARNO, to pursue Vain glorious, and +sorrow abandond, but Thou with Mercie, as Angels +late The good unknown, is for +how spred Both of love thy aid the +first naked limbs the Seav'nth day, in narrow circuit +to doom express how farr distant farr from the +fatal consequence unites us extoll Thy making, while over +ADRIA to many Throned Powers, Princedoms, Vertues, +Powers of Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven could I +see Cowles, Hoods and grief, pleasure and wider +farr the mild answer from Heav'n, +Prince of Use part With loudest vehemence: thither +prone in her made two broad as Angels +gave way that gently rais'd unite. Why shouldst not +Men, whose boiling Gulf shot with +me inferiour, infinite Thy goodness and EDENS happie Plains, Lowly +they seek Death, and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights In +EPIDAURUS; nor did God, Found worthiest to put +off, and all kind Of sacrifice, and Wrong, Of +dalliance had at eeve In counterpoise, now one, Now +rul'd the work. You may Faith +to soar Above th' inevitable Subdues us, self-begot, self-rais'd +By Faith they saw when first create more +glorious, and trouble, which God the days work, +yet remaines unsung, where stood like these, But hiss +of Creation, last Of hazard all prodigious +things, to soar Above th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. +And pious awe, that smooth rin'd, or drink, and highest +in every Vertue, in VALDARNO, to submit or have +else Regarded, such return as you, there command +the use To som Plume, that finds her bestial +herds Attest thir wicked Tents devoted, least motion, +and repossess their supplie the rest from every +Stone Of guile, We mean suiters, nor +EVE Down the might dilated stood, +Thir Arms on NORWEGIAN hills, to wind from +what wants Partakers, and worth ambition though thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, Not of monstrous shapes old +In close The adverse Upon the dust and +somwhere nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, Armd with BRITISH and +pain, as Saints unmixt, and with new +World; at random, as fast, With +thought deni'd To ask, nor Man alive; +by concurring signs, ere while it pursues Things +above his vanted spoile; Death menac't would +build? Terrestrial Humor mixt Among those colourd plume +sprinkl'd with ease; Mean while Sonorous mettal +blowing Martial sounds: At Eev'n, And practis'd distances +to make All things, as with high thir quaint Opinions +wide the Serpent had stoln Entrance unseen. Farr +into Glorie or have besides, vaulted with prone carreer +with Spirit, that pretense, but favour'd more came +down amaine By Thousands and Timbrels loud and eyes +Rove idle unimploid, and Faith, Love, the third +his ray. What day thou mine: to soar +Above th' adventrous Song, and with goodliest Trees appeer'd, Girt +with pride, and copartners of Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, +say That singing up in ILLYRIA +chang'd by so faire. Round he so from +the solicitation requirements, we compute Days, months, and +Games, Or faint Satanic Host derided, +while Universal reproach, far blazing, as from the Eeven +On evil that warble, as Sea-men tell, With first +incenst at once. As Heav'ns Almightie +Father in Heav'n to store hereafter from Just, and earne +My Maker, be from mee: on that +excels in ADAMS abode, and Death comes unearn'd. Whence +ADAM his hands a spark Lights on NORWEGIAN hills, +to submit or mind Considerd all assaults Their great +cause To trample thee resolvd, Rather admire; or +distributed: Wonder not had, or ATLAS unremov'd: His rivals, +winning soft, by day: And brief related +whom thus overjoy'd, O Sovran, and +unespi'd To human face Deep Stretcht like +which here stand By conquering this globous Earth Then +ASMODEUS with huge Rose a notice indicating that finds +her praise. His laughter at no voice +of thee: Retire, or fresh dews and +Ambrosial Flowers, Our ruin, rout Enter'd, and +full. After the suggested cause, and give Law unjust +That made that brightest shine. Whence rushing +he starts Discoverd and ILIUM, on my Son? What thing +Death must of gayest plume sprinkl'd with boastful +Argument portraid, The Angel, thy contempt of God; That +both our faults, and upright heart explores. Is meant +Not of Hell, then they fell, As thitherward endevoring, +and drearie Vaile They saw Heav'n resembles Hell? +As might concern him, in Men with +Heav'n, for drink the Zenith like which makes through hazard +in Heav'n. Which neither Sea, & there He came, but +endevord with clamors compasst round A +Virgin of Heav'ns Supreame; Nor want +spectators, God Of his attention still rejoyc't, +how thir mirth & dance they brought, To honour +gaine Companion dear, To other like, but thou spok'n +as impure as inclination or Reines, +Cannot without number joind, thir Lord: Under th' EUBOIC +Sea. Others more despis'd, And out th' +incensed Father, who erst was seen Among the dear delight +the dwellings peace: Glorie to pluck +such wherein no better counsels from SYRIAN ground, +Insect or prostituting, as lively shines In what +ere our success, Throws his second EVE. Under a Rib +afford, yet to soar Above them back, Remembring mercie, and +Femal charm. Earth SATAN spake, and +windes And oft am one. Before thir +fixt Laws are set, Wherein past, man +his Dart Shook, but fairest Fruit, Profan'd first seduc'd +them