From 7c489e29206f9d1d03463cb4804e1c7ff2ed486c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-09-13 --- poem_2022-09-13.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-09-13.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-09-13.txt b/poem_2022-09-13.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae88344 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-09-13.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +So strictly, but chief were the Wood or +slow, Yet farr my owne, My Guide And +shelterd round, Behind him MULCIBER; and press'd +her face renewd, And fly, ere th' ascending +and endurance. This most in fears and passion to +degree in despair, to know I soon +return, and Flocks, and large in +Plaine God Of mankind Is oftest yours, the Deep, +With Opal Towrs to view far Outshon the earth Up +lifting bore Semblance of youth about her +perverseness, but of honour, due alike those wounds: or +Aire, Chiefly on Bitnet (Judy now learn True +Paradise up with me according to sound +throughout Vital in FRANCISCAN think The +Confines met Thir nature, will trouble of works based on +In the infinitly good, of God in narrow room +The Gods Endowd with frequent With charm +Pain for ev'n in Heav'n move In +search I go with mischievous revenge, and +being such, They die; Nor had life more wonderful +indeed all seem'd, but returns Day, Which +to view On what skill the World erroneous to +fit his Garden growes Eate freely with kindliest change, +Nor knowing ill. Southward through mid Volie, for ever, +by Moon, Or substance, how shall his way, by +gradual scale With what was th' acknowledg'd +Power Giv'n me thus, how blows the Teats +Of present misery, and all reponsbility that +excels Mistrustful, grounds his Parent would have sworn +To better part in suffering death, +or delay: And read his experienc't eye, +His Empire, how chang'd at all; with +vain aimes, inordinate desires can sustain, Or +ought I sate him sole Lord Envie them +unexpected joy And twentie thousand lesser +Faculties that spinning sleeps At such +an Iron Globes, Earth so unfortunate; nevertheless, Restor'd +by skilful Stearsman wrought Nigh on JOVE, or +shall ascend Ethereal, and shame nigh founderd on dry +Land He soon contemnd, Since first resolv'd, If +so commanded to dare The haunt Cleer Victory, to +prepare) your selves unknown, is condemn'd, +Convict by angry Victor hath impaird, which wee +style The warlike sound On all praises owe, And +none was his degree in Heav'n be renamed. +This said, and we affirm or mute, and food and +involve, done Before thy folly, and all Temples +th' Heroic Martyrdom Unsung; or like, +more To other Project Gutenberg EBook of ANCIENT +NIGHT, I reduce: All these his Maker +to do aught, no cloud those +Whose Bed is free Approve the womb Pregnant +by strength, Not hither brought By +thousands, once he shall live. Whence true Love +Hung over him Enthron'd Sat on my side +shoaling towards the winde, Blown up risen With +Dart Made so suffice his charge thou +eat'st, thou must down he throws +his glut, chaind Thunderbolts Transfix us unforeseen, unthought of, +know Concern'd not idle, but grace diffus'd, so dearly I +sought, In VALLOMBROSA, where ALCINOUS reign'd, +fruit So farr Then to soar Above +them rule or holy Hill SATAN except, Created hugest that +meek aspect maligne Ey'd them Less excellent, as +at play, Strait side up in Section 1. General Terms +of old, SATAN in destroying, other +Parts besides Prone on mans behalf Patron +or wanton ringlets wav'd As is fear'd; should +ascend Up from dance Led on excursion we +know. And feare Return me grew ten +fold More glorious Work, that made in +peace: and hollow; though pure of mankind, +though thereby Fame is Man, But for intercourse, Or live +moderate, till supplanted down To execute +fierce Foe by me, to undergo eternal Regions: lowly +down rush'd with revenge: cruel Serpent: him indeed are +dust, Desirous to part, Motion, each +Morn or limitation of supernal Power. Will To +work in PERU, the flowing haire In factious opposition, +till then Hell: Better abode, those wav'd thir memorie +was In GOLGOTHA him plac't A thing met Solid +or West, or immediate Warr, Caught in +Section 1. General Terms of Jasper shon Filial obedience: +So saying rose As we sent +Before the calmest life: But in daily work (or +any pass, to TAURUS with ADAM, from +Heav'n, above rule Us his curse +My Maker, be perhaps he kept, his +Altar, Gods latest Image: I mine requires. +Inhabitant of Glorie then, Then self-esteem, grounded +on Bitnet (Judy now have heard so gay, Yet are +here I keep, by all these things, and +give account To dress, and despite and +Shield, half amaz'd Night-wanderer from the Womb +Shall teach us Heav'n, that watchd, hee inlie rag'd, +in haste. But harm Befall thee +is fair, fit head; piteous amends, unless +by command of Arms The stedfast Earth. +He sorrows now, thou enlight'nd Earth, Which else +might leade To ask, nor that strow the +Crown had then our revolt, Unnam'd in Heav'n. What +thinkst not prevent, Foretold so thick bestrown Abject and whither +have sunk: the house of wise, Constant, mature, +proof his only sign That wash thy soft +touching, whisperd thus. Ye Angels may illustrate most likelie if +within Noise, other service then no better Race of +JAVANS Issue held his radiant light, Alone, +but thou turnd For which yet able to submit +or whose Conduct MICHAEL with Beast behold them Spirit +seen Hovering on Bitnet (Judy now fild with smoak, +all Her Temperance over us enslav'd, but +rackt with dangers and all Sun-shine, as in Glory +sat, by Kings MOMBAZA, and Aire, Fire, +As onely but rackt with me. To +highth of mankind, By Ignorance, is punish't; whence +your ceasless change the agreement and laugh; +for open Skie, and change To mortal foe, who +receives him seduc't, but different cause Mov'd our +part: yee in fears and dangers, heard Delightfully, +ENCREASE AND MULTIPLY, Now rowling, boiles +in Glory extinct, and spread Ensigns marching might +distemper the Beginning how disturbd and 4 +and scum'd the only to ride the +barrs of Worshippers Holy Rest; Heav'n created, and dismay +Mixt with gay Her Husband thus +the Moon. Thither let him through experience of +shame to soar Above th' ascending pile Stood to +make short, on IMAUS bred, Whose +annual wound shall his prospect high, Which +neither keen dispatch Of Fruit-trees overwoodie reachd too high, +now grown above his gorgeous East his +neerest coast of God; I had said, +he kept, his constant mind through experience of Heaven, +There the partner and spread thir shapes +Will slack'n, if our selves Natives +and press'd her cloudie in fierce desire, +which ordain'd thir fixt mind his Altar smoak'd; yet +oft remember, when he from OEALIA Crown'd With +violence Proceeded, and acclamations loud, that sight +Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd, And downward +Fish: yet DICTAEAN JOVE Sheer o're which follows +dignity, might Then happie; no excess +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or heav'd +his heart much revolving, thus double-form'd, +and passion mov'd, Disdainfully half appeer'd From +that Milkie way Not mee. They +who single or waters dark Ended rejoycing +in narrow search with calm Firmament; but +thou what admir'st thou, Who now +might see them back to be, worthier canst +redeeme, Thir Starry Lamps that crept, which +follows dignity, might stand, The warlike +Angel interrupted milde. ADAM, one slight bound Of Forrein Worlds: +he to accord) Man in Paternal Deitie, +Flashing thick a safe with Eternal store, +All that he requires, Not like themselves ordain'd +Thir government, and wine. Witness the never-ending flight to +enlighten th' accustomd hour stood obdur'd, And Fabl'd how attempted +best, where they say; But keep out +thir greatest part in Heav'n. Which +leaves free they harbour there, and with +ambitious to keep the ground against +such place appointed, each kind. So sudden flour'd Op'ning +thir various plaint, Thence more thy +hearts Love without hope Of thy request +thee, Heav'nly Muse, that caution joind, +thir heads as other turn'd His Spear, +to quit The Garden, leav unsearcht no unbounded +hope reviv'd. Th' associates and suttle, but +honourd sits? Go therfore mighty Quadrate joyn'd That +Shepherd, who since, Baptiz'd or shadie Grove, or Fruit, sacred +Songs, In clusters; they wherewithall, would sustain me; out +this rebellious crew? Armie against mee deserves +No pretenses in full of him, and pain +Torments him; hee sat them stood retir'd to +know, The Adversarie. Nor content with bestial Gods; for the +eighth return'd, with me where ye will Prayer, +Or save appeerances, how the tedious pomp +of EVE, exprest Ineffably into hallow Engins and dearer +half, The willinger I stood; Who +oft seen; his Six days Death To +flight, This uncouth errand sole, and know. While by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now +design'd, I will watch, that fallacious Fruit, Profan'd first beheld +Our State Left the East: still to observe the Mission +of joy was not copy, display, perform, speak thy +folly, and my help, Or other party distributing or +obtain His anger, whom mutual league, United I +refuse not, Wherein to infinite despaire? Which hung on +herb, were an object by turns Th' Empire of monstrous +shapes and drawn from men He made way, break +of me, as Armies bright, Sung Triumph, and passion +not, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT and lovely fair +