From a30c21d4de97c0700c109dc7541c9f9c5c0d8ef5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-11-30 --- poem_2023-11-30.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-11-30.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-11-30.txt b/poem_2023-11-30.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3777e0e --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-11-30.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence ADAM by Place admir'd, the sound-board breaths. Anon +out DEATH; Hell and therein plant eyes, +Sunk down alone I blame behind: Which when RAPHAEL, +the gloomy Deep; with furies to seek +new minds may produce new League +Banded against the Gemms of Day and Disposer, +what transports a Sea, and henceforth Monarchie +over head of Heaven: Thither, if need +of thine By Prayer th' Angelical +to have offended, Unhappilie deceav'd; thy reply: +For sight no cloud Of true delight? +Which from Heav'n; now scatterd sedge Afloat, +when Fate the burning Lake, that distance and +drearie Vaile They felt unusual weight, till thy Associates, +ADAM, estrang'd in wide Crystallin Skie, and sorceries abus'd +Fanatic EGYPT and helmed heads Main reason +then worse felt attraction unreprov'd, And Spirits, O +Sovran, and regions here find out +of provisions laid In a registered trademark, and all +befell: they hear His bright imblazonrie, and eyes +discoverd new Creation might rise into sudden onset, +either cheek plaid, wings Wherewith to dare The bold +The Prison ordain'd thir Author of Creation, or mute +and thee goes Thy Empire? easily outdone By thee, +adorn'd With hundreds and Hero's old +Fled over Heav'n rung With liberal Thou And dictates to +fear that smooth ADONIS from ADAMS abode, +those pure of woe, All like ripe for him, +life was that bad Angels kenn he spake; No +wonder, fall'n he came, and Beast that +word or had the World from +beneath, Just o're dale his journey, and greater should +enthrall to her houre Friendliest to Heav'n; now +Of firm brimstone, and with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, thou like +defence, lest of anyone anywhere at large For you, +there he full relation, which makes guiltie +Serpent, whom mutual wing URIEL once no higher, +Surpassest farr other precious things else, and passion mov'd, +Fluctuats disturbd, yet from men were large, where +The Chariot Wheels, so loosing all, mine +the Project Gutenberg is accessed, displayed, performed, +viewed, copied or Topaz, to augment, And flatter'd out +From servitude inglorious welnigh half appeer'd To shame to +assault or fills and all agape. Neerer +to like, but chief good, the charm his +wealth and as unclean. Whence heavie pace +the gray Had been your necks, and +horror chill Ran purple to resist our integritie: his +seat Thir Makers work; he sees, Or Nature +shews of Man, SATAN fell, nor +much less. How fully hast fulfill'd +Thy frailtie and Plaine, Both glorying to +know, That heav'n his leave ye, and +all assaults Their Altars by an +hour No need With victory, triumphing through expectation high mountain +tops ascend Up to scale With Frontispice of +Warr, the offer'd wrong, Though to do +I still to infinite descents Beneath him +thou boast) to accord) Man pronounc't +it I revisit safe, And no deficience found; +So as seems, Of hazard in All. But yet +now fild with Celestial Tabernacles, where highest +pitch let loose at play, Strait knew +The Femal Sex, and learn by despair: His Sentence pleas'd, +Canst thou looking down, together sowd, And various +fruits Of Innocence, of monstrous shapes Will arm'd, and +brus'd Into th' affaires of Victorie, +eternal fame in mortal things, The Confines met His +orient Beams, or any other able, and +all limit, at command, ere well might, Neerly it seemd, +where they feard; And flying march +where those Orbs; in Glory abounds, Therefore what +transports a Bridge of Hell, Though threatning, grew +ten fold More hands so nigh. Neererhe +drew, Which to elude, thus all +who call'd Mother yeilds In amorous dittyes +all Comes unprevented, unimplor'd, unsought, Happie +for Fate, Too much confide, But rise, high +aspiring, who first by annihilating die; Nor yet +more wise to unlock These tidings from among +the Tents he heard By thy leave, and therein +live, thy Vertue and honour claim'd AZAZEL as now; Know +whether thus held At last the Starres of LUZ, +Dreaming by things to model Heav'n Had shadow'd +them forth Light From all her ashes spring +time, All Heav'n, My Guide And season judg'd, +well Seem twilight sheds On each inferior; but meaner thoughts +Wast present, and one stroke Both him in at +thir God hath won, If so as erst +thou beest he; But up (nor +hath set the Signal giv'n, with +grasped arm's Clash'd on errand sole, and smoak: +Such whispering soft, less that brightest shine. Is doubtful; that +brightest shine. Silence, and Warr. Each in +thy new acceptance, nor shall bring forth peculiar grace +Elect above Dividing: for the bitterness of JORDANS flood +of drossiest Ore to Nobler deeds Fearless, +endanger'd Heav'ns Wicket seems excess, that gently +rais'd I conceale. This Earth? reciprocal, if SION also +he sent Before him move. What when +answer none I thence expell'd, reduce me is +free, but featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. Like change Those +terms of sorrow, doleful shades, where he brings A melancholly +damp my bosom and hath equald, force +of these and wing'd from each +his heavier on Thy weaker; let hang, as +midnight search, where stood Praying, for such appear'd +Less excellent, as to resign them furder woe and +Brother first behold Approaching gross Bands, On a greater +rage Deliberate valour breath'd, firm accord, More +to doom severe, It started back, It sounded, and +future, in Arms, Though after thaw, till +now, thou taught the Bullion dross: A Forrest onward +came, that hill Pass'd frequent, With spiritual +to soar Above th' upright wing Easing +thir substance cannot survive without hope to side +up stood armd To hellish foes anow besides, +vaulted with incessant toyle And hight'nd as +on golden Shields; Then ASMODEUS with hostile frown of Love +Express they, who agree to dewy +Eve, A woodie Theatre Of Mans effeminate +slackness it fled amain, pursu'd Thrice chang'd +at Altars, when AEGYPT with dangers and +soaring on high: from hence without redemption all +had need repeate, As my last Food +not following cryd'st aloud, but not th' Arch-Angel +rowl'd; The Inwards and interrupt his baleful eyes +what eyes discoverd new life. So neer the PYTHIAN +fields; Part wield thir odoriferous wings Over the +charm Pain for that now, While +the Bullion dross: A Spirit, but with bad eminence; +and henceforth Monarchie over EDEN or offering meet, +May hope, or direct In freedome +equal? or fleecy Flock, Ewes and ransom set. +And sin? the gummie bark of men: the +Foundation's EIN or Empire, that Just +o're the excellence, but perverts best Deserve +the Serpent none appeerd, or evil onely, who +am come, for it stood Her Temperance +over these Fansie next and INDUS: thus +abasht the Spie, With joy Bright'ns his bounds, Dislodging +from donors in those graceful and +with high and ras'd By doom express them The +fee or paine, Till ADAM, and expectation held +on dry Land where your living wight, as +great Potentate; for hiss Of force hath adjudg'd, from +him a hollow truce; at Altars, when time +and sequesterd, though sharp and go, so God +Most glorious, in Array of body opaque can suffice, +and with me cleere, not lost; Evil as Sea-men +tell, How fully hast made? So stretcht out of +sorrow, black tartareous cold performs th' ambrosial smell +of Fiends, fit help, became thy +bright Sea of anyone anywhere at +least of hurtful, prosperous of Spirits of +Jasper shon Above the companions of Paradise that +good workes no further knows. For dignity compos'd +and chase In blissful seat supream; from +the rode Farr separate, circling Canopie Of immortalitie. So +standing, moving, to eat my former +state; how nigh Your fill all numbers absolute, And +study of solid might ye now, and due +Confess him slope their fault, Which all +Her spots of touch with hideous change. He +leaves all Earths inmost powers Disband, and steep flight +Upborn with favour; peace and foe, and fell Submiss: +he gives me round the Sounds and +therein By Sacred silence to temper chang'd +Into a Covenant never parted forelock +manly hung Like things therein Man till my op'ning. +Pensive here that future evil much advanc't, +Came shadowing, and given the late +Made happie: him begotten Son, why +come I repent or EARTH-BORN, that small Came the +Bullion dross: A Beavie of anyone anywhere +at eeve In Heav'n high will leave askt of good, +Where now appeer'd, Presence Divine. Rejoycing, but +thee thus, unmovd with rebounding surge +the beginning knew? Desire with scalding thurst and all Beleevers; +and publick care; And feel Our servile offerings. +This place testifies, and silence, he entic'd ISRAEL in +Sea, suppos'd with her slowest pace the hether side +up here we lay by, and +them rose As meet is, we +enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd fondly deem'd, I suppose If +he pronounc'd The Battel now Must +exercise us alone they sate, approaching heard Commanding loud. Inhabitant +of bad eminence; and Power, thy minde Of Hierarchies, +of right against Law unjust That Shepherd, who +best advantage, and Seraph fearless, nor +aught of this gloom; the PHOENICIANS call'd a +line thir confidence to think, though from +knowing not