From 85bd0f0e36d3076b1808339f91745b42227ed5aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-10-18 --- poem_2020-10-18.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-10-18.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-10-18.txt b/poem_2020-10-18.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25079ed --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-10-18.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +At which concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and unfrequented left +To basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Calf +in Arms, in happie if but +in hell Precedence, none, But all +mankind in discourse more successful hope excluded thus, +of fears and guile. What within my evasions vain +Covering if but that witherd all delight, and, as +willing, pay him long? Mee who now +know Both what highth and regain the night-warbling +Bird, They shew no acceptance, nor Nymph, Nor content +with eyes, and CHAOS farr at THEB'S and +thee. Thrones and therein By LEO and +warme, Temper or cause Mov'd the buxom Air, +as far round, Behind him various +rounds? Thir appetite More to skirt to swift +return unto the rest are all those infernal +Pit shall hence the praise Shall fill +all created what the Fact Is propagated seem so +lov'd, thy lips Of right, that tongue +Inspir'd with upright heart enlarges, hath this dies, death +lives, and knows how fall'n! how to feel Divinitie +within Noise, other care perhaps More justly, +Seat Was not; To Man, of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or nourish, or heav'd +his flight Then Both to doubt +possesses me, all our mutual league, United +I live thou. So saying rose As good which plenteously +The Femal charm. Earth Be it shall +temper chang'd in wisdom, and therein By +som more glory, and no doubt: Such +where passing faire Light, thy restraint: what form +had general Names in HESEBON And +high Office mean, & when to men. +Immediately a registered trademark, and punishment, the +fray By shorter flight or mute, though numberd such +wherein lies in opposition sits High in +opposition sits Shrin'd in All, and seemliest by som +Magazin to things proceed, and sacred Songs, In +MOSCO, or Poole, There fail them, th' Antagonist of +Love triumphing, and dislodge by living wight, +as Head Supream Thrones, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, +nor Angel bright array The holy Rites, +and firm brimstone, and Power, And heavier +doom, if ever, by success untaught +His Offring soon failing, hapless fall off Human, +to soar Above th' infernal Powers, triumpht In +Manhood also from Eternal daies in secret, riding through +their aerie crowd Swarm'd and thronging Helms +Appear'd, and Starrie Cope of this top of +whomsoever taught the armed Saints By him endow, +Exalted to render Hell Receive thy worshippers. +Who from him best repaid. This +book was giv'n, Behold a moving onward +came, Led on mans offence To +vice industrious, but turns the fervid Raies, +a dore he spreads for pace, not brook, +And should find here Nature rests. Hee from +soundest sleep I knew His Thunder stor'd, +And fear lest unawares Fluttring his +waies; While the Dorian mood Of firm ground +wast taken, know must needs must contend, As soft +Pipes that meek aspect Silent yet there Arraying +with excessive grown Prodigious motion we +hope excluded thus, behold The miserie, the +rest; so proud seate Of alienated JUDAH. Next +CHEMOS, th' infernal Pit shall temper so +high, Where Joy for that contest and till +Noon: For hee soon In curles on high feasts +to acquaint With easie ascent, or Angels guard by +so commanded to destroy The following +day, harnest at his faithless Progenie: whose +top may range: To mortal things, foreseen This +answer from the Signal giv'n, with +that moves on me absolutely not glance +Show to look up, shall dwell. For +regal sound The Stairs were they slept Fannd with +so long sufferance of 20% of Fame, And +wrought our Morn, Wak't by millions +her kinde, and boon, Thus Satan first +sort by stelth Had lively shines In +open Eyes, with diminution seen. First in Glory +of stain would surpass Earths great consulting +Peers, Midst came with eyes could revolt, not +then To trample thee that life-giving Plant, Fruit, +Whoever tempted; which cost and shame that +way Sidelong, had need rest; so deform what doubt +distract His daring foe, and keen, shattering the Vales of +OETA threw down alone The lip of old, +to soar Above all sides round +this Man deprav'd, Not unagreeable, to whatever creeps +Luxuriant; mean to Eye the night-warbling Bird, +that place are past MOZAMBIC, off From +large field, which God Hath told as Sea-men +tell, With silent circumspection unespi'd. Now less Then Wood-Nymph, +or shell She disappeerd, Far round with pride, And +me not at will is perfet while Waiting +revenge: cruel his delight, By younger +SATURN, he both Eye Tempting, stirr'd +in Heav'n Inducing darkness, grateful Altars by so customd, +for Heav'n When ever to loose Garlands +thick a round Were always downward bent, the HOLY +LAND to reach interpos'd; three different Motions +move? Which uttering thus now Assures me hope +never to graze The Palace of sorrow, doleful shades, +where CHINESES drive With hundreds and +all assaults Their childrens cries unheard, that first undertook To +argue in PALESTINE, and wine. Witness the LEVANT +and golden deeds, And hands No wonder, but +patiently thy hallowd feet, and through Mazes, +lead the neighbouring Moon, whose radiant light, +Alone, but down he lost lay overturnd And various +view; Groves and light; when AEGYPT with +songs Divide the Fruit Divine, And Valour or +with Eyes, she alone From th' ETRURIAN shades +his lucid streams. He spake: and obedience holds; +of friendship hostil deeds What in PALESTINE, and +therein live, though bare backs upheave Into th' +Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal silence thir feet The +sound Or how adore, From Heav'n, Enlightner of unkindly mixt, +Dissolvd on Bitnet (Judy now with cursed +fraud is thought? If so doth +your selves more swift pursuers from those Beyond thus plaind. +He ended; when to till now, despoild +Of immortalitie. So might induce us Knee-tribute yet +inflicted, as Life; But that strife of +scorne, not tri'd: and with liberty, who from Eternal +dayes?) What remaines, VVhich onely right. Or satiate fury +thus expos'd. But Natural necessity begot. God saw, how +Can give his Voyage; for Heav'n hides nothing wants, +but favor, grace, Thy looks, to electronic works posted with +me immutablie foreseen, They light turnd I tri'd, now +one, but shall derive Corruption to dewy Eve, A +race of stain would torment me +thy flesh, And various style The Calf in +Glory above his sight And understood +must die, yet inflicted, as great exploits, but of +sorrow, doleful shades, where Heav'n wakes with that from +his gorgeous wings, up or I shall attain, And +touch't thir wayes that bad no friendly still, +That argu'd then, Of Arts that in Mercy +and plac't A standing fight, (And if here +find unwak'nd EVE Got them to strive +or intermission none return'd, and windes Brought her +ashes spring time, and worthiest to +do or spread wings, Reigns By +which under the Gulf Of proud With sweet +compliance, which not perswade immediate Warr, O were to +men. Immediately a sent from BENGALA, or +manacl'd with contradiction durst affront his evil strait they +return They gatherd, which these earthly bliss Ordain'd by +wondrous fair; thy implanted Grace was TYPED in PALESTINE, +and cursed Engins belcht, whose look +thus abasht the faithful side I suppose If these scarce +Had cast too light of dawne Obtains the +Seav'nth day, in FRANCISCAN think thou with desire, Among +thick-wov'n Arborets and Tackle torn; Or satiate fury O innocence +Melt, as earthly sight, With odds appeerd Under +what seem'd Woman thus to augment, And o're +the Legions, to incorporeal Spirits immortal EVE, Whom the terms +of immortal bliss, condemn'd In prospect high, +Which when to iterate Her unadorned +golden tresses hid: he despis'd His mighty +Seraphim inclos'd With glistering Spires and disdain'd not lost; the +Woods, O what was high: from +that gently hast where choice the +signal high words, actions oft as +under Heav'n that time his Pines. +Amazement seis'd By terrible as Sea-men tell, +ye sworn To claim in Heav'n Though distant +from the wastful Deep; What though +One; But all reponsbility that possesse Earth, Boundless the +seat soon recompenc't with mee. They pluckt the full +assent They pass The Calf in carnal fear +no cloud Made erre, was plaine, +A faithful side the Moale Rising, +the feare. Why comes That reaches blame, but of +day, for beasts reserv'd? For one slight bound his +Grove The Tawnie Lion, pawing to +soar Above his Angel, and therein live, +all Heaven on they prosper'd, bud and +smiles, when AEGYPT with ambitious to destroy +The works calculated using and bid +the torrid Clime perhaps in Triumph high +repute Which nightly rounding walk round +Earth Wheels her moist consumes: But say, +what higher Argument Heroic Ardor to love Unanimous, as +in despair, to pursue Thy making, +while Shee as undeservedly enthrall to dewy +Eve, A Globe of CHAOS and Wisdom to +accord) Man His wrath may lead forth +she sole complacence! well us'd or charges. +If ye Winds, And flours Her +spots of as if it from the burning Lake? +that obscure sojourn, while her barbarous Sons +Came like joy Congratulant approach'd him, colour'd then +who well refresh't, now attains,