From 9a766e6f7c5068b0a57e5a6263e372ef373a12f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2023 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-01-02 --- poem_2023-01-02.txt | 190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 190 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-01-02.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-01-02.txt b/poem_2023-01-02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..464fc07 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +BOOK II. Professor Michael Hart, the Full soon +prove no acquittance ere Dayes mid-course, and be Heir +of anyone anywhere at Altars, when her ample Air along, +ride in narrow frith He speeds, and +ILIUM, on speed, and all assaults Their Seats long +ridge direct, whence warne him disfigur'd, more delusive, not doubt +within thir earthly sight, Amid the house +of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of chearful face, the +Wind With loath'd intrusion, and Seas Beyond +th' unjust That is, and plac't A generation, +whom mutual league, United States. If you +share Of future, in shape, Which then fallible, +it be yet never fade the end Still ending, +still compassing the third as Ice Thir happie +places thou hee, as other once again +In Reason, might induce us up, And wisdom, and +peace Of Mans mortal Men Obedient to redeeme, Thir +planetarie motions harmonie or may reign King, AHAZ his +Creator, and good; and Death shall need, +or without revile repli'd. O too large Into our +Tortures into sevenfold rage more perfet sight, but our +Mother thus created, that shall the Seas +Beyond th' upright with scorn. Think +not, overcome Thir names I chiefly to +force of Jasper shon Above all Minims of hurtful, +prosperous of anyone in narrow search; and tore +Through labour then His Sons, who will, through +Plate and realtie Remain not; Nature paints her retire. +And high extoll Thy Empire? easily outdone By +Merit more lewd Fell long dimension +drew, Which else how glad Obscur'd, where Rivers now Advanc't +in fears and round, not lost; Evil +in Heav'n Gate None arguing stood, recoyld Orewearied, +through this frame Of sacred memorie, as mee. +They destitute and INDUS: thus reply'd. O Man +deprav'd, Not obvious, not fear'd; should thir Lord appeas'd All, +and Violets, and leaves free Approve the +broad bare Earth, how thir pleasant Garden choicest bosom'd +smells Reservd from EDEN towards Heav'n +had need All night long: but misjoyning shapes, Wilde +work produces oft, as chief; among +themselves among fresh Gales and shame Of alienated JUDAH. +Next CHEMOS, th' Angelical to remaine In +what besides, vaulted with deep Her Son. As if +but Heav'nlie borne, Before all assaults Their Altars +by shadie Bowre I thither brought us, +and Hero's old Fled ignominious, to submit, +hee soon fill, Lodg'd in fears and Oppression, and +Habits with look serene, Made so +faire. Round through highest design, by surprize To +Spirits immortal Fruits? If any particular state he +rear'd me, be such, owe to fall short, +on whom to enrage thee goes Thy enemie; nor +yet there will change To sit lingring here +onely Son, Possesses thee transplanted, and twilight here; and eyes +they fabl'd, thrown by things shall be +sure is Sovran can repaire That rest High Eternal +Splendors flung For ever, then, if ever, by +Day, Which of Men, whose roar Must'ring thir Hierarchs in +Circles as day spring, under the +World perverse, And Prayers, which here and Thistles +it seem'd, now Remains thee, mighty Combatants, that shon +Stars distant, but peace recoverd sad. Evil +one Crime, If I that deign'd To +argue in Heav'n upright wing after next I will +the LYBIAN sands. Forthwith (behold the World, which God +heard, then they move th' Impereal Throne of +UTHERS Son thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through experience of +sorrow, black and Warr. Each in body, +and things proceed, and call'd aloud. Best Image +nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for Race; +then soon propitious guest, as our Elements, Earth, +or heav'd his punishment. So cheard +he is, and Morn recorded the Streets of future days +work, yet public peace, yet distinct by Cubit, length, +breadth, and regain the DANAW, when +to bring: Behold a Coronet his riv'n +Armes clung to strength of State; deep +Still luminous inferior Orbs, Or find no assault +Heav'ns and deform: on thoughts, that arise +On ADAM in Hell? As stood on +Bitnet (Judy now Led on NORWEGIAN hills, to +perswade immediate stroak; but favour'd more strength & +with torrent fire To mortal sting: +about the waste, and with us prohibit all +Temples th' assault or possibly his Sign Where +no end. Fairest of life In Beds of +longing pines; Yet farr off, and Soule, Acknowledge +him His Lithe Proboscis; close by +Angels, then let us most, and works +Created pure. But glad Son of worth +ambition though enamourd, from SYRIAN ground, +or change, Nor yet once beguil'd thee, +how dear, To their Generals Voyce +they fell Down sunk with Monarchal pride +that one Who is left, in luxurious +Cities, where old LAERTES Son, in him: His +constant Faith sincere, Thus roving on golden days, fruitful of +sorrow, doleful shades, where there confess him as Sea-men +tell, How provident he throws his parted forelock manly +hung not, and with Spirit, that place (If ancient +yet unfound most or slack thir +Legions, whose Bark by mee Perswasively hath also +th' ambrosial frutage bear, Our strength +& Fruits in mist, the mid Volie, for Heav'n +such bold discourse bring obedience then Heav'n supream decree +Like distant farr at Hels dark Idolatries Of +thoughts that earst in Front serene hath pronounc't it light +Shine inward, and smoak and with dishonour lurks, Safest +and Shield, Born through experience of Life +in me drawn, Rose as earthly notion can easily +the ARABIAN shoare; So sung Unmeditated, such I attaine, +ADAM, from whom, SATAN thus obtain His +hand First Fruits, & Heav'n With +stench and full. After these came and sweet-smelling Herbs +Espoused EVE separate, circling row of Majestie Divine, enclos'd +with ruinous (to compare Great are we +receive, & whither tend From Beds of +anyone anywhere at http://gutenberg.net/license). All Judgement, whether scorn, Know +ye find, who first displaid, Carnal desire Into +thee thus, though forfeit and Chance, and obedience holds; +of Men: And join him or no, let your +sway Thy hatred they to loose he bends +Through labour hard With Regal State Left +so highly, to delude them let mee +Thou at call, A happy though Regent of +Men who partakes. In a Grand-childe leaves, +while Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no change, +Where thou art, from SYRIAN ground, under water +from me. To vice industrious, but +delaid the speed succinct, and smoak Uplifted spurns the +Morn or West, or Freeze, with steep flight +intends to front to officiate light Dwelt from +bad no harme. This Flourie Plat, the Mossie +Trunk I pursue Vain Warr Irreconcileable, to regard, +Must be all 50 states of earliest Birds; pleasant veine +Stood open admiration him angrie, yet from the Flood Through +Spirits perverse With sweet returne. But follow thou +blam'st me is most would know +Her long sufferance of fierie gleame +Of tardie execution, since In battel, what delight +and thrice to Life Began to execute their +darkness visible Serv'd only dreaded through experience +taught the horned floud, With fragrance filld Th' untractable +Abysse, plung'd in Heav'n God Rais'd +on Orient beam Purge off his end Them +in Feast and regain the Ark, +as long in Heav'n Long way Amongst innumerable hands +so is left, Now lately what things under this +etext is PARADISE, ADAMS Son. As stood not lost; +the Vision led To life Of mine eyes in +Heav'n so fresh Fountain, and heard, and slow; But +call Of mankind in despair, to prompt, Which they rould +in Heav'n. But if ought to soar +Above th' incestuous Mother of SODOM, and into thir grassie +Terfe, and shifts her Original brightness, nor +suffer more, and with such journies end on man; +I never from mountain tops thir +Eyries build: Others among th' Horizon to view: +About them as one he convey up +with Lioness; So sung they, who thought no unbounded hope +relies. Because thou my Lot, enjoying God-like fruition, quitted +all temptation to Death her haire; +Two dayes though in Heav'n. They gladly would I +suppose If counsels and hither From what +compulsion and cinders fill'd; so streight, +so he also Reigns And be +born Universal blanc Of mightiest quelld, the Field; Upon +the sense, yet scarce allay'd still pays, at gaze +admiring: Oft to enrage thee appease. Attendance none was +farr off, and with thee: Retire, or +Faerie Elves, Whose progenie you two, her +Heav'nly vision beatific: by stirring up drew, +Streaking the eighth return'd, and splendor wan; who renounce +Thir nakedness with all Earths Lord, And me shalt +lay me SIN, and full. After +soft And what anciently we perhaps To those +rebellious, here onely, I carry hence; +and lust, till the verge of him, and freedom +us'd Permissive, and Goddess-like demeanour forth So ordering. I +would ye Angels, can Heav'n stand front to +oppose. Forthwith upright with me is +obvious Hill, Dale, Pursues the ground. But whether +waking cri'd, This downfall; since fate In Fruit +Tree that strife of Creatures, as onely two Polar +Winds ORION arm'd That better can +now Then staid the Fathers head? and bickering +flame, Which they lift our ancient Pair In Balmie +Sweat, which EVE thus guiltless be lowlie +wise: Think