From 4e34799ef6699b9da2e25e85d108f6f3091a48e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-02-11 --- poem_2023-02-11.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-02-11.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-02-11.txt b/poem_2023-02-11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86a8221 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +If Earth fill'd With Myrtle, find His +marriage Rites: But yet unbegot. Childless thou disturb'd +thir various style, for life I +will presume: Whence and longing wait The brandisht Sword begin +Your bodies all kinds that houre Shed thir +public peace, Yet leudly dar'st our first began +in quaternion run Much pleasure situate in thee, +and am his fulgent head and +Fruits at least had then no more Would thou +hast, though faultie since, Baptiz'd or you +do we affirm or shrink and +PHINEUS Prophets old. Then who since, Baptiz'd or fresh and +Vanquisht: on Bitnet (Judy now one, +but half on Hill of Fate, Too facil +thus reduc't becomes, His wrath and anguish and shame +him not reveal'd, which e're God +himself to have dy'd, In unitie defective, which is +miserable to impose: He onward com ADAM saw the +goodliest Trees in Heav'n in naked left hand were +low; To slumber here, as an +authoritative edition in narrow room The overthrown he stood +Among the Ages infinite. Thee SION also +her being, Discursive, or appearing on high: such +Created, or oppose, or once as this we +never will greatly multiplie By suffering, and +spred All kinds, and shame Among his +bounties as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the Realme And my +food, or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue of anyone anywhere at +Even to stand On you paid their Creator, and +Omnipotent to dewy Eve, A hideous length: before +thy Bowre or tedded Grass, whose wisdom all, +advis'd: That led in darkness by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon boyling cells +prepar'd, they among Gods, Thir station, Heav'n +To mischief swift. Hope farwel Hope, If he paus'd +not, with tears VVatering the Day and forth +all these appear'd Less attributed to soothe Him +counterfet, if but a foe: and strange point +is held, or rage Can sort, +So as next command. To visit +all Temples th' incensed Deitie, while +Venial discourse they fell Into th' Earth, Flood, Famin, +long shall he assayd, and all +prodigious joyning or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd +on Bitnet (Judy now great Creatour thus created, and +Faith forgot; One man, By a cloud Of unoriginal NIGHT +and desolate, Onely Omniscient, hath rebelld Against us onely +to usurp Beyond thus retir'd. Which when thus retir'd. +Which they return as oft, as Sea-men tell, Tell, +if cause Mov'd on, with revenge: cruel Serpent: him +Findes no unbounded hope relies. Whence true Life much, by +Place or round, Whereon I turnd, +Admonisht by Day, Which mans delightful Seat Of +tasting those grim Feature, and shame To sorrow and +were dispenst his Trunck spouts out +this Heav'n in silence thir outward lustre; that bad +no man a League Banded against thee, and choice +Leads him out of night. That gave effect. Immediate in +DAN, Lik'ning his obedience could name +Is now without process of ears, +which makes guiltie all yet public moment, in DAN, +Lik'ning his Eternal dayes?) What rests, but that done, +to be the rather such wonder claims attention +held The Bird Sings darkling, and joy To objects +distant farr at Altars, when her stay. +Oft times the grim Idol. Him follow'd her, +but peace confound. Together both Skie, in Heav'n +Though single. From imposition of anyone anywhere +at command, ere long, and laughs the crude consistence, +half amaz'd Night-wanderer from Eastern Sages, who deceive +his taste No less Then both live, +Though others envie and with me down alone Encompass'd +shall arise Like Night, Or unknown dangers and +with me let Fowle be achiev'd, whereof in brief related +whom mutual league, United I seek, once lapst. +Thus when Night bids us ought +Rather your joynt or had need With God, +shalt die Well thou see and malice, to accord) Man +should all Her Husband, for EVE rightly call'd, Forbidden Tree, +from outward aid aspiring Dominations: thou +with delight; how gird the flourie +roof Pendant by whose Bark by fight, yet unfound +most irregular they seemd, wherein appear'd A space, +till on by morrow dawning light & juciest +Gourd will destroy The swiftness Number to dare +The STYGIAN Pool, And Warr Irreconcileable, to dewy Eve, A +race contend, And equal what befell in thee +claim in despair, to entitle me +most, when AEGYPT with matter new world, +if so hee and Blank, while thus to +soar Above them soft'nd Soile, for Fruit Tree +Of PALESTINE, and is as that bad no doubt, +And saw the Sands Of fierce desire To +manifest thee Earths Giant Sons With splendor, arm'd +Out of Life, So farr Then Hells Concave, +and wilde, in by whose fruit +surcharg'd, Deigns none I fell, from begging peace: but +honourd more? Our envied Sovran, and shame +nigh The Devil enterd, and spotless +innocence. So spake the careful Plowman doubting stands Least +with wanton Mask, or exhorting glorious +trial; and earne My Guide To bottomless perdition, there fast +at worst Of vegetable Gold; ABDIEL stern +regard Should combat, and Eyes the Hall +(Though like themselves a World; at sight +discernes Abstrusest thoughts, to which God at ease I know; +At certain implied warranties or ROMANCE of +warring Angels born, with Front unfould; That whoso eats +thereof, my way that like desire, Had +cast Thir will, dispos'd by various forms, various +hue; by command Transgrest, inevitably thou beest he; +But if but ill, Misgave him; if +all delight Beyond the Day is +low creeping, he ere then returnd Up from SYRIAN +Damsels to corporal nutriments perhaps will And sat Chief +returnd: URIEL, for you discover sights of Heavn Rowls o're +hil, o're the side which a River Horse and +th' infernal Serpent; he stay In whose worthy +to acquaint With singed bottom all +Temples th' Omnipotent to chuse for thou, +execrable shape, If so highly, to tell how farr +then can allow Omnipotence to soft +Tunings, intermixt with all Causes import your tops, ye +none! So well contain, bring on, And ACCARON and +whelmd Thy equal Lot in narrow frith He +led him lastly die a Covenant never +saw. The most High, If better hopes of som +connatural force urg'd Main reason to Earth, another Heav'n +Which hung Tempting affronts us now The Faith +forgot; One Gate With vain to soar Above +th' irreverent Son Fall circumvented thus MAMMON spake. +Why comes a higher grew Of terrour, and +solve high collateral glorie: him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels +Food, and longing eye; Nor are one, this nether Empire, +such compliance with Justice, bids, His +own: for ill successes past the +Crown had practisd falshood under shadie +Bowre Oreshades; for anguish and rare: thee fealtie With +suckt and with offers to dwell; But follow +thou My Umpire sits, And bring ye know, +and humiliation meek. Nor other once With +Regal Power Divine resemblance, and secret spake. Why sleepst +thou must appear The meaning, not quite +All these upwhirld aloft shading the highth +of Spirits immortal Spirits, O Woman, +best can never pass'd, and reprov'd, retort, Wherefore do all +imbroild, And thrice threefold the humble deprecation +thus grew fast Threw forth, th' abuse +Of hazard in ARIES rose: When the +Herd Of all egress. These lulld by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on they seek I, methought, alone The Ark +his taste The haunt Cleer Victory, +to aspire. Henceforth to som, leaves +free Enjoyment of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and knows +His malice, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I eate +Allotted there; and high he caus'd to doom +alienated, distance due, Thir frail Man himself lamented loud Their +living Saphirs: HESPERUS that bad were +who all works knowledge and obedience due, Though all +bounteous still serves His barren plaines Of Heav'n, +with linked Thunderbolts Transfix us down alone bent on +winged Saint PETER at ease More tuneable then they +transgress, and obstacle found not soare; Not uninvented +that, which no outward calme, Artificer of pure +Intelligential substances require Thy youth, thy presum'd So +Eev'n and Exhalation hot, cold, moist, +and willing feet On Man Whom thou what +our feet; about him call'd RAPHAEL, the +Land where soonest recompence it grew On half +his head, hands, wings, and pure blood of Hell scap't +the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards +Gambold before them. But somtimes Viewless, and worth ambition +though th' incestuous Mother thus alone; her enamour'd, and +breath'st defiance toward Heav'n with his donation; but +chiefly Thou at Altars, when he gives to +heav'nly Soules had they do? if our hazard, +labour will support uneasie steps adore. Gentle +to incur; but peace toward the wing, Escap't the +wisest heart though his Son? What when her +victorious Bands With Carcasses design'd Both Horse +and smoak: Such happy interview both Eye +Tempting, stirr'd in store. His presence had bid +sound Of ENNA, where thou what was bold: A +Nation to come flying, and void, Of torrent +fire To execute What pleasure be hid, Progressive, +retrograde, or allarme, To mortal Dart Strange horror +shot forth thir Power, In sight Of AMARANTIN Shade, +Fountain never ceasing bark'd With unexperienc't thought, and night +till one intense, the Tyrant thereby to +soar Above his prospect wide