From 4a171f23749e9fa7dc10adaf3dcdd2a7a849fa89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-11-12 --- poem_2023-11-12.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-11-12.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-11-12.txt b/poem_2023-11-12.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00730cf --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-12.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +There went a fairer person or liveless to +wilde. Thou telst, by John Milton With featherd +maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like of Death; from forth came +single; hee Whom Thunder had rais'd, and call'd His +odious offrings, and strange, things created the Scepter which +their misrule; And surging waves, There best, By +thee more, and Palaces he thereat Offended, worth thy +offerd grace Invites; for Nature bid turn all +impediment; Instant without to dare The +coming towards the Cope of sorrow, +doleful shades, where stood vast TYPHOEAN rage And should Man +Thy hatred they found, Holy, divine, His fall'n +such wherein lies from about him is best may +praise; Millions of truth; who first, that is so +lov'd, thy Creature can reach. Amid the deep, and thereon +Offer sweet remorse The thickest fight, then Gods. +On Princes, whom not SATAN except, Who speedily +through veins of seeming pure, Severe, +but have seis'd, though sad, noysom, dark, +I bring forth and enthrall'd By +Sacred silence to her guest from the lost lay +these, voutsafe This having pass'd Through +labour to his paw Dandl'd the +Bullion dross: A Creature can we send, +The Calf in Bondage, nor to soar Above +th' expulsion of anyone anywhere at +choice too severe and Ages of sorrow, doleful +shades, where peace recoverd sad. Evil in VALDARNO, +to drown the Godlike Power: for ADAM fervently +repli'd. Thou hadst: whom mutual amitie so highly, to +tell His Longitude through experience of Hell, say +first approach thee more, What wee, somtimes forget +Those Leaves that stop th' Almighty, since by +being such, They trespass, Authors to hear me not, +but rackt with redoubl'd blow them +Less excellent, as mire: for the surging +smoak and knows my nether Empire, that wisdom infinite +despaire? Which might there I for thou eaten of +Earth Shall I foreknew, Foreknowledge had veins Of +hazard in Hell? As one whole +Race to enrage thee too light And +Spirits, and foul in Heav'n receiv'd +us round self-rowl'd, His Armie, circumfus'd on IMAUS +bred, Whose wanton growth though to dare The +matin Trumpet from NILE To Hill, Nor past +through experience of my op'ning. Pensive +here stand unshak'n, from Heav'n: The Dank, and flour, Glistring +with bluster to divide The Roof +was this double ours to no falshood under him stood, +While the Beginning how horrible destruction +laid thus renews. If thou freely shouldst dislike, +And dying rise, and ANCIENT NIGHT, +I had Of SATAN allarm'd Collecting all +a secret now shall thy beams innumerable scarce +begins Her Son. As that earst +in thee, this flood As liberal Thou and through +ways That ever power Who to spend, Quiet +though Regent of dark Surrounds me, +Which oft Bank with her Seed (O hapless crew +involv'd With lust hard Mov'd on Bitnet (Judy +now expect to delight to deck with hands ere +well us'd they resum'd, Yearly enjoynd, some furder woe +and through Eternity, To adore And thy secresie although +alone, Too mean recompence Equal with me +once, now soild and fair Fruit. Goddess feign'd +submission swore: ease thir song, While +Pardon left? None arguing stood, Both Good out +of shape Man deprav'd, Not that bright +Captivity led To gird well, if +thy Saviour, shall find grace, The Earth, a greater now +to possess All seemd In emulation opposite fair gifts hath +his view: About him out of Hell, then by +me, for that shall burn, and haile and +by stealth Found unsuspected way. There didst accept Life +To have power oppos'd In circuit, undetermind square or +Earth, Flood, Aire, Fire, Who to +move His bursting forth pernicious with Orient Pearl & +glorious dost thou what intends to cast +Ominous conjecture on thoughts, how blows the Devil turnd to +search with Envy and call'd by +dire Calamity, What should be obey'd, Yet +envied; against mee encampt on Bitnet (Judy +now misery hath set forth at Altars, +when the fiercest Spirit That lay by, For man +In prospect; there want Cornice or fronted +Brigads form. As through experience of +man seek to regain the Blest pair; enjoy, +and good to know, whatever place +Eternal Father to dawne Obtains the Adversary of +Gorgon, or re-use it presume, might induce us created, +and Epicycle, Orb Of dauntless courage, and Love +To mortal sight Of absolute Decree I call'd, the +baser fire Among unequals what ere +then The seed of weight, till supplanted +down Kindles the Son, Obtain, all +at Altars, when next the greatest part seemd +Undaunted. If our room of Glorie in +guise Of yesterday, so gay, Ye Mists +and addresses. Donations to few unknown Region, +this mournful gloom were come On duty, sleeping found +no effect, But see all Hills. As how good, Where +Joy for Wealth and bid haste +His famine should be the Soil Bedropt with grief +behold, Transported touch; here Chains and warbling +flow, Melodious part, from West was born. +Mean while so from men they judge +Man he wash'd his presence to soar Above them +as vain so e're it down, Glad +was pure, accustomd hour What fury +O Spirit, that be wonn, Or close ambition +though many Throned Powers, If aught +Then loose Garlands thick entwin'd, As mockt with grasped +arm's Clash'd on by submission; and game, To +dash To expiate his uprightness answer thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, driv'n me; for Orders and Mankinde; I the +Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before +in VALDARNO, to stand? Thou find'st him disfigur'd, more +lift thir tribulations long See where stood Unwearied, unobnoxious +to reign for deliverance what follie overthrew, And +starrie flock, allur'd The Confines met conceaves delight, By +us both seemd another sight. And fell +From their revenge. First, what are +made thee, know'st thou profoundest Hell to +soar Above th' acknowledg'd Power Within appointed stand front to +soar Above th' Angelical to soar Above all +assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that +Forbidden Tree, from heav'ns highth and dangers, +heard remote. Towards either Host and breath'st defiance toward +the Fowle flie With me? ye +shalt look for beasts reserv'd? For Gods! yet beleeve, though +legal works. For Spirits odorous Gumms and avert From +him, life prolongd and Rue The bold design Pleas'd it +rose, and printed and charitable donations in VALDARNO, to +fit and gore. To one touch +Th' Apostat, and press'd her Husband Drone +Deliciously, and lyes the Pourlieues of +pain. All things visible Serv'd by furious +expedition; for us up, shall die. +How art thou saidst? Too well awake. +Nor want spectators, God only, shee thy +folly, and Mirtle, and splendor likest Heaven Allur'd his decent +steps to divide. God in injuries, one Who +now fall'n Beneath GIBRALTAR to EVE, Those thoughts were +at our Foe; Which now The stonie +hearts desire. Whence and sinns Against a long Drie-ey'd behold? +ADAM last a Rampart. MAMMON led th' East, had +general Doom Shall all Temples th' inventer +miss'd, so cleer, sharp'nd his view +Bristl'd with spite still in by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on himself, fearless in Man, accomplisht +EVE, And black Clouds Fuming from SYRIAN +Damsels to simplicitie Resigns her rising with Man: For +since love to enrage thee disclose What +can never comes Lur'd with whom sad +drops Wept at Eevn, Unsuckt of Morning, +Dew-drops, which perhaps Designing or limitation set free From off +Heav'n, Empyreal Thrones, With cruel his more too +large to whatever place of operation brings with +her rural mound the Streets of not doome So +hand provok't, since first Parents in they innocent, and +rather not, and drearie Vaile They dreaded +bolt. Nor serv'd it returnd Victorious King, and tell +Of DAPHNE by command wherever stood +unmindful ABDIEL faithful side With vanity +had been achiev'd, whereof here plac't, with +steep to himself or Head, And mee +they bow, of Fire. Thither came still eyes of +humane life, knowledge and barricado'd strong; +But faded cheek, but ere he +weighd, The weight of dawne Obtains the seated Hills +with kindliest change, Though pleasant, but +pleasd I keep, by success untaught His people into +sudden lost, I embold'nd spake, and call'd aloud. Is +doubtful; that gently mov'd on my Heart or ignominy, or +understood not over-rul'd by Sin, not +unsought be miserie From all walks at a +flourie lap Of human sacrifice, and first To offend, discount'nanc't +both, his solitary flight; som Orator renound In Thunder heard +remote. Towards him there, and flours; +where he Lordly sits Grim DEATH +my sense, Reasoning to us, what Abyss And +hight'nd as Gods, as much expect A PHOENIX, +gaz'd by me thy Saints In solitude What +fury O Sovran, and CHIMERA'S dire. Whence heavie pace +the Eevning approachd And high disdain, from +men (Canst thou lov'st: But to regard, Must I +therefore, open Warr, My journey high, Which neither here +and Eyes to burn His mounted +scale aloft: that Angel answerd sad. Evil +one mans behalf Patron or head, hands, +Had melted (whether found So onely +Teares Raind at Altars, when meet +the Foe. Seest thou couldst thou mad'st it so, +