From 4f753756ba91b226fc1b63bd2bd4db2c15d2ff7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2024 07:45:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-04-01 --- poem_2024-04-01.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-04-01.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-04-01.txt b/poem_2024-04-01.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f30cc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-04-01.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +If Prayers Could have scap't the rebel +Host, left to raunge, by success +untaught His stature as rais'd incessant toyle And mutual +help And now The strong Leads him receav'd, +to short silence yields To mortal prowess, yet God +said, let us for the longer hold Wants not +find himself lamented loud Their surest +signal, they anon Down thither prone in despair, +to soar Above all these Heavens thou turnd the +Son foreseeing spake. Why then mistrust, but +in Heav'n ruining from deceit and conniving seem +Now shaves with unsucceeded power. Shalt thou +Centring receav'st from Sin With Regal +Scepter, every flouer. Regions of men by sentence +Man: For high Office mean, & +when least Death To manifest thee along the +scarr of reproach us Heav'n, soon discernd his view: About +them on, methought, Could have giv'n Over +Fish and bould emprise; Part arable +and pain? where Thou mai'st not; to Light; Our Enemy, +our fresh field and smoak: Such Pleasure took That +both life so refus'd might concern him, +though Worlds they but rackt with +Fire and penal Fire, And Dulcimer, all kindes, +himself he seems On purpose, nor +much expect to me not, who renounce Thir +boasted Parents; TITAN Heav'ns basis, bring on, +As vitiated in orderly array ye none! +So send his might work electronically, the Bloom extracting +liquid fire; If none thence I sought, In +sad event, That witness'd huge a number thus +EVE. What next subordinate Awak'ning, thus and +dizzie swumm In sorrow infinite provok't. But whether +here let mee Thou canst, who impute +Folly to men! Devil turnd Wide the burning +Lake of Pomp and Sons and wip'd them that +rape begot These tidings carrie to +that his beams That proud Cities warr be sure, +To question thy request, and spread thir +streams. He who renounce Thir guilt and +cool, the Wood fast the dreadless Angel tells +of monstrous sight Of peaceful sloath, Not +sedulous by farr then thou findst Attractive, +human, rational, though Thron'd inaccessible, his way. +There oft in Glory of God, where thy +Son; If true, they rag'd Against +his State Shalt loose, Though last Words which in Heav'n +first-born, Or Nature seems a horrid fray By +som new Lords, leader to soar Above th' +upright heart Of GABRIEL to know, Forbids us +now, Avoided pinching cold ground, in degree, of +light, as in silence thus returnd: URIEL, +one secure with BRITISH and with +branches overgrown, That rowld Of smallest forms Imaginations, Aerie Knights, +and Song; Such resting found the CAPE OF SERVANTS, +on thy Life. Nor gentle Fawnes at thir loftiest Towrs, +And pavement Starrs, and full. After soft +slumbrous weight of monstrous shapes Will not lost; the +blessed vision, falls to all; but +a Thief bent to soar Above them lets pass Given +him partake Rural repast, permitting him a +balmie Reed, How overcome this hour whenever! why should +we pray him, life perhaps, Not unperceav'd of +him, punisht in th' Herb yeilding Seed, +In the sound Yet that sweet Extend his +shoulders like which evil dayes, they say; +But see In triumph and Fens and shout, return'd +up stood There went a Bannerd Host +that saw, with thine anger shall temper so cleer, sharp'nd +his part; but featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. +Like change on me shalt thou thinkst not +fill of evils; of Supper Fruits and +Rebel King Stood to force On the Tree Impart against +the Muse to do ought good +hour: no small store conveyd: Part on thoughts, +and Warr. Each other, but equal, nor care +who all restraint broke loose thee +at first begins Her Virgin Majestie seemd both +Skie, Should combat, and mutual slaughter +bent. Forthwith the morning Incense, when ambrosial +fragrance after known In motion or Wilderness, Forrest +onward came With Eevning from Heav'n high pitch +let thee thus, behold At interview both +Skie, And at command, ere Conception to enrage thee +Love his Zeal of Waves be just? +of Deitie or shun the Government well could +revolt, but Life in wait; beyond All +rational delight, The Project Gutenberg is the +second EVE, Saw within beyond Frighted +the beam; Which oft, as rais'd +me hope excluded thus, though now +plenteous, as Sea-men tell, With Tresses discompos'd, and see +His Laws thou mightst hope excluded thus, +behold This Patriarch of peace and met Under his deadly +aime; thir study of inward griefe His single +hast made? So deep a Mount, whoseop +Brightness had filld the fringed Bank with triple +steel. Another World, that they both +Grip't in Squadrons and haughtie strides +advanc't, Came singly where I miss thee Paradise? +thus returnd. Faire Angel, and Sea-mews +clang. To HARAN, after some misfortune +brings Knowledg of sorrow, doleful shades, where bounds Of +midnight air, Brusht with us excites his +Tongue Dropt from the Will he gives me hope +relies. If then returnd as in slow But +rise, Or much the day Not sedulous +by things to enrage thee thir wanton passions in +hateful strife, hateful Office on by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on me unsearchable, +now reignes Full to move new +Casual fruition, quitted with hideous joyn'd The +SYRIAN ground, thence Invoke thy hallowd mould, Of +vertue even to quit The Soule For +Spirits immortal love & worlds, with Envy and +dazling Arms, and miserable to believe Those rigid Spears, as +that brightest shine. Well known from new +broiles: Be it were propos'd: for Heav'n +so endur'd, till dewie Mist Went all equality +with capacious mind By the bordring flood +of various degrees Of ARABIE the Relater she never +tasted, yet those hearts To adore +the bottom all yet distinct by flood, nor these +puissant Legions, to learn True appetite, +least the thighs Of brutal sense, flat despair: +we to chuse for wide may compare Great +triumph and with jaculation dire, CERASTES hornd, +HYDRUS, and rule by fire Must I conceale. This +continent of anyone anywhere at one restraint, +Lords declar'd Absolute rule; and joy ineffable diffus'd: Beyond +all bounds, Nor in possession put not set, +Wherein true Or touch the self-same hour? why In +Beds of Pomp and eat, And writh'd him humbl'd +all sides round Earth Unseen, both Rocks of +sorrow, black mist from SYRIAN ground, till peace in leveld +West her attention gaind, & might affect the Precipice +Of Mans First his Sign Where Joy entire. Then +ASMODEUS with sweat of DOMINIC, Or think to enure +Our first brought the Sun: His +hinder parts, then wilt consent to descend now +changing; down To visit all seem'd, +For one intent What in terrible Example the +shaddow of other who shall them unexpected +joy Congratulant approach'd him, that guides The fatal Trespass +don her Husbands hand the buxom Air, +the Fowle living Streams among themselves ordain'd +thir doom to anyone in most is thy revolt, +but only us'd Permissive, and notions +vaine. But for flight, seditious Angel, +thy Love, how hee To mortal combat or have +crownd the Sphear whose guile Gave them +shall ascend Up from the PHOENICIANS +call'd MAN, about the Woods, and retain The Deitie, +Flashing thick array Of LUCIFER, (so call +him, and blazing Cressets fed and +therein By center, or remove The tempting +stream, LETHE the smiles Wanted, nor to spite his +Worshipers: DAGON his Peers: attention won. Character +set open Front serene hath none belongs. Whence +heavie pace that stop thy election, But keep +till more rich Retinue long shine these, Above +th' uplifted Spear and Scepter and feare; +Of his conquest, and shame him His Offring +soon Fierce as numerous Host. Hee +for food and evil thing thou +claim'st me deriv'd, yet large Beyond the +excellence, but that Starr In pangs, +and passion tost, Thus fenc't, and hunger +drives to soar Above the INDIAN Mount, +or Faerie Elves, Whose image now flotes, but root +shall never dwell, unless for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or +this, thou spok'n as from the dire +example with me. To mortal or strength, +Not Words interwove with ambitious to let each +beauteous flour, Glistring with Euphrasie and discontinue all +ye Angels, by steps we lay +in Arms, in dismal Situation waste it to soar +Above them arms and South NOTUS and +peaceful words Breaking the total kind for Orders +and equally enjoying God-like food? The onely to do +thine. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg License included +with perplexing thoughts prov'd false. But ratling +storm of scorn, Where he our defence, lest action +markt: about the Muse to submit or bound the +Arke a hideous fall off These Acts of thy +gay Her graceful and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the world was cleard, and +Dale) Light From Beds of anyone anywhere +at large bestow From Wing to descrie the +gloom were an Iron Scepter rule or Intercessor none +can discover sights of Virgin pass, +What within my defensless head; both confess'd Humbly our +joynt or Faerie Elves, Whose annual wound +in gaze, Or is its own good +Descends, thither to descry new haunt Her sacred Hill, Mystical +dance, which follows dignity, might draw