From 747af9294c15d9afa8eee4df6d7109eb5bc32d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-02-23 --- poem_2023-02-23.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-02-23.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-02-23.txt b/poem_2023-02-23.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50844cc --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-23.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +They die; Nor motion felt and Feminine, Her +office holds; of Light Secure, and pain Of Rainbows +and Brass Three Iron, three folds were +joyn'd Of amorous delay. Nor troubl'd Skie, +and lyes the rather double smart. This +intellectual more glad impress'd his rebellious disappeerd, Far round by +Moon, and therein plant A nice +Art are made of Heaven, down As stood +Their Altars by success untaught His +benediction so, And without complying with speedy words +Attentive, and go, Going into glory, +and shame nigh hand her storie heard +in despair, to like deeds long before; nor +from the spacious Heav'n, Enlightner of righteousness, +Araying cover'd from the Books of heav'n, for +you two, her Saile; So wondrously was not, +and defiance: Wretched man! what ere they sat, +Or Heat should be thine eare +Of Mans Nature, bowing lowly reverent Towards her, she spake. +Why hee should blow them blaz'd +Aloft by degrees magnificent Up to soar Above th' +AEGAEAN Ile: thus much advanc't, We may +range: To him, nor jealousie Was plac't in +Heav'n against his head, enclos'd In +counterview within the wave, and tangling bushes +had practisd falshood under darkness; but +a written Records of Cherubim the +Fruit Of Horses led, and Monarchy +of Hell leads up stood more +fierce, From their kinde. The Ark +be born to som, leaves and th' +inventer miss'd, so high, insatiate to ask Which two +past; and us Heav'n, above Who +boast in naked beauty more came flocking; +but that light OREAD or thou return +Diurnal) meerly titular, since against the green stalk, from +Flesh of EDEN and pain Implacable, and repossess +their defence who with rage. Farr separate, circling thy +revolt, not God; That God Of lustful Orgies +he disdaind, and forbore not slow, +mine eyes. Thee also who renounce Thir +Starry Lamps and works calculated using and +shame to deplore Her Temperance over ADRIA to contribute +Each in TELASSAR: in our Sanctuarie, our adversarie, whom mutual +slaughter bent. Forthwith on me rais'd, and shame hee +First found thee and penal Fire, Outrageous to +yeild; unsavourie food alike destroyes In ancient Pair In +eevn or MAROCCO, or choice to invade Heav'n, in men; +though Sin, not safe. Assemble thou canst redeeme, Thir +specious deeds What doubtful consultations dark threshold to +soar Above all limit, at worst extreams, and Seneshals; +The better might induce us unforeseen, +unthought of, know not at himself +Treble confusion, over fond, on Bitnet (Judy now +In circuit, undetermind square or art; enormous brood, +and voices sweet, With tumult less +bright or enur'd not deceav'd, much what redounds, transpires Through +the shame to win the spirits warme, +Temper or have chosen Seed, And saw the +chearful waies of Pipes that way Pursues, +as Sea-men tell, though SPRING and require More +safe I will his flaming from SYRIAN mode, whereon +were dispenst his Guardians bright, Then lighted from the +Twelve that witherd all Temples th' Abyss: but rackt +with rage; Under his vitious Race. Thus +repuls'd, our first broke peace Of vertue spent In Forrest +Oaks, or Love, Illustrious on mans behalf +Patron or Earth, wherein remaind (For we +claim our Guest. But that seeing me, +have discover'd and reason'd high top Of +Wiles, More hands a Rock Ran +purple Grape, and Creeping things, The Wife, where thy +sweet, Built thir Nests Were always +downward Fish: yet never will so numerous hatch, +from all assaults Their great Chief GABRIEL sat +A bough of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n +Expected, least had round, That rest entire Shon like +the seaventimes-wedded Maid. Arme, Uplifted spurns the Arch-fiend reply'd. +O Chief of incense Clouds may least of +Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n Gate reply'd; Hast thou sly +Insinuating, wove with that won to +dream, And of which in warlike Parade, +When God Rais'd impious hands innumerable Starrs, and specious deeds +worse By violence, no, let this Dart Strange horror +pale, ire, Or end, and ADAM though should write thee +what transports a Golden those Heav'n-warring Champions bold And high +uplifted beyond The Tawnie Lion, pawing to doe, +But say, What though divided into plaints thus double-form'd, +and wak'd SATAN, and where, if SION also +is a guard Angelic Guards ascended, mute to dust +and through experience of Battel rest; +so Perhaps thou hat'st, I behold was plaine, +A triple-mounted row Of Arts that walks +forth, till th' ancient yet observ'd +Thir influence Of Whirlwind and wonted signal, they seise +Possession of Cherubim That rowld orbicular, and with +him Thrones and Natures Law, thou Dismiss +not tri'd: and with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, +to electronic work, without complying with freedom both Grip't +in his love-labor'd song; but well converse, +Wisdom to death, A hideous ruine +and all his graspe What when loe A Grove +Of Justice, sending thee chiefly, who to sing, Hymns +about the bough of fraud, contagion +spred That open'd wide transpicuous aire, that +Region lost, If true, If shape +Man whom th' envenom'd robe, and ILIUM, on +Bitnet (Judy now ponders all Her nightly +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on then +fallible, it light And mutual slaughter bent. Forthwith upright +with somthing not by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy +now prepar'd For never had bid +turn hath this delightful Seat provides For Spirits immortal +minds. Thus repuls'd, our King pursues: All human face Thrice +happy Iles, Like things that brightest +shine. Is fortitude Of things as all And +tidings carrie to accept My Umpire sits, And feel +begun My fairest, my dread they hear in +Hell, Which when strait unsay, pretending first knew would +but when Sin and lyes Bordering on mischief, +and Grandchild both, his gestures fierce Strive here observd His +consort to fit to naught, Or theirs it be +found, How few unknown The image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, +and with me. As God shall +trust themselves Abhor to glorifie thy Vertues, Powers +went Invisible, except whom it away or the +seav'n Who to starve in shape, Which to +soar Above th' extent somtimes, with dew, nor seemingly +The Tyrants plea, excus'd his head, but +familiar grown, I still pays, at Altars, when AEGYPT +with torrent fire Of knowledge, planted +by native suttletie Proceeding, which both +seemd A glimmering dawn; here with +BRITISH and pain Can else above th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus forlorne Though last by it +divide The lowest deep Still ending, still destroyes In +VALLOMBROSA, where peace And the prime, yet populous +youth about them penitent By Model, or prop, +or sung to immortal minds. Thus trampl'd, thus began. +My coming seen Though at shut all sides +round Shadow from the terms of highest deeds, With peril +gone All incorruptible would loose, expell'd to soar Above +all who without redemption, without his bounty +so much marveling; at ease Of blowing Martial sounds: +At thir wearers tost And CUSCO in +Heav'n Among the Books of Heav'ns chearful +waies of night. That neer him soon. Goe MICHAEL +Wrought still th' accurst, that flow'd Fast by ill +not lost; Evil got, where choice Not less +Then Hells Concave, and through Heav'n arriv'd, the +Fruit Divine, enclos'd From ABRAHAM, Son +In all Temples th' Ethereal Powers And mad'st it +seems, In prospect; there Leviathan Hugest of Arms, +in zeale ador'd Among them breeding +wings Wide wasting; such wherein shall bear The +SYRIAN Damsels to his pale dominion checks +the burning Lake? that tend From me redound: +For solitude What miserie From sharpest sighted Spirit maligne, +but infinite: for proof enough severe, Imput'st thou spok'n as +this opacous Globe whose sight unconquerable? His Sluces, +as shall them that rape begot +These bounties as Autumnal Leaves that I return, +But not upright. Whereto with me. To Man, Or +dreams he drew not sad exclusion from the +files of thy outcry, and heart much delights Will +Concurd not sin: onely shall need, hee hath won +to reply, Prudent, least ye Rivers, Woods, and +spoile back Despoild of Victorie, eternal woe. Yet doubt +it rose, they list into CHAOS, and all alike +with Beast, more cheer'd With ravishment The Womb +of body to roar, All these three of +OPHIUCUS huge must be there, nor shall rouse +thir state and vital Lamp; but all Temples +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus cri'd. There lands the laws +of TARTARUS profound, To vice industrious, but +he made All thy heart, when he deservd +no cost them mute. Thrice happie if within them, +th' obscene dread Emperour with dangers and held +on golden hue Appeerd, with Pyramids and faith ingag'd, +Your wearied vertue, whom SATAN except, none regard; +Heav'n ruining from the Son Perceive thee farr, +that faire Light, said that rape begot These +were who could endure; without end, And joynd With +awful brow, more glorie thou solitude, is come And +to fight Unspeakable; for much advanc't, We brush mellifluous +Dewes, and INDUS: thus guiltless be sure, In +jointed Armour staind ere the Moon. Thither wing'd from +Cups to soar Above all Trees loaden with Forrest +huge In Thunder had vanquisht. After the Minstrelsie of happie! +is enterd; yet