From adf666e1a32cb37d3df462a52a9b082c1d06a6e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2022-03-29 --- poem_2022-03-29.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2022-03-29.txt diff --git a/poem_2022-03-29.txt b/poem_2022-03-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c78f38 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2022-03-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whence ADAM at our safe unenvied Throne Yeilded with +Envy and bear, Our task transferd From +sharpest sighted Spirit That scorn'd his +resolution and her bestial Gods; and all temptation to +execute their misrule; And utter woe; +Since MICHAEL thus, ADAM, from him Som such vast +survey Useless and regions here onely, I travel +this latter, as rais'd Others apart sat devising Death +amain Following his Crest, and understanding sound, +Due entrance high; No inconvenient Diet, nor could ever +power Now from neighbouring Hills, and erect, +with Heav'n, But long or talk Of Natures healthful +rules a few His end, in VALDARNO, to tell +Of choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from Heav'n, +for proof could weild These Adamantine +Gates; three folds were no deficience found; +So down alone pleas'd her. O +shame By Haralds by fiery Surge, that possesse +Earth, a horrid Front engraven Deliberation sat Chief +return. Part curb thir light Flew through experience +taught In darkness, thrice in Heav'n so endur'd, +till wandring Fires that compute Days, months, and aspects +In Battel hung; till more violent +and blasted overthrew. I So were +low Bow'd down alone against thee adulterous +lust hard One way Tore through fire +Among themselves, and through midst unmarkt, In Pearl, +in Heav'n rejoic'd, and low, then +those fourfooted kindes, in hateful Office in numbers thus +milde Zone his offence. O were +abasht, and woe, With Tresses discompos'd, and a pleasing +was In prospect, what recompence Of Iron +Rod Of his pain? where he soon +propitious guest, as Starrs, fixt Laws to evince Thir +course, both life And thus repli'd. O fleeting +joyes Of what place or Earth, Medal or +enur'd not offending, satisfi'd With Man So wise +to fire. They worse Urg'd them not sad demeanour +seems the Fiend, a Reed Embattell'd in Glory extinct, +and Charioter lay Chain'd on which declares his only +hee; But ratling storm of our destruction: +if what was fill'd With blandishment, each +divided Legion might taint Th' unarmed Youth of compliance. +To the fiend Stood to submit or slack thir +diminisht heads; while Warr unproclam'd. The image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and circling Hours, with transcendent brightnes didst +inspire That curld MEGAERA: greedily they mix And as +farr Thir branches warbling; all sides round Environ'd +wins his Meridian Towre: Then let mee That +dust thou bruise Expect to dissolve Allegeance to +soar Above th' Impereal Throne Of Mans Friend, familiar +grown, I suppos'd, all other copies of +Pomp and resume New reapt, the Books of anyone in +Heav'n Err not) another EVE, Partake thou shad'st The +black GEHENNA call'd, and Heav'n so we claim My exaltation, +and passion to equal hope, aspires Beyond +thus guiltless be his? Or Pilot +of bones, Like consort of kind for +long Lie vanquisht; thou then soaring on IMAUS bred, +Whose failing, hapless fall Of hazard in her Fancie, and +deep; COCYTUS, nam'd ALMIGHTIE to reduce To mortal prowess, yet +aloof? The Mountain Pines, With supple knee? +ye will be from Flesh to have +spar'd not, and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now +without remorse The evil tongues; In Courts +and beginning knew? Desire with ambitious mind through +experience of Hell thy Senses represent, She gave +them more came on, with me grew +Neer that waits On purpose, nor in paine, +Can Perish: for delight the blessed peace, denouncing wrauth +bent (who could hav orepow'rd such astonishment as +an Oath, That errour wandring, each Bank, the +Spear. From many as glowing Iron Gates, And +Head, And happie end. Justice must; unless +for another row of brightest shine. Fall'n +Cherube, to contribute Each on earth, durst +defie th' ambrosial frutage bear, Our +prompt eloquence Flowd from the grunsel edge, Where Scepter'd +Angels plac'd) Thir natural center to accord) Man +by Limb by soft showers; and remov'd VVhich +onely what Revenge? the CAPE OF THIS WORK +Fall'n Cherube, and CHIMERA'S dire. Well manag'd; of +monstrous Serpent in Glory above and passion mov'd, +Disdainfully half enclose him out for high Justice +had veins of Taste, Sight, Smell, Herbs, Fruits, Though +all real dignitie: Adornd She gathers, Tribute large, Beguil'd +by Kings destroyd, Or all thir foes +walk the justling Rocks: Or less Then commune +how we renounce, and with vain +so deform what resolution rais'd unite. Why ask +what doe mine eyes Rove idle unimploid, and eat Against +th' infernal Serpent; he gives me most, +and wip'd them to dream, Waking +thou enterprisest Be wanting, but such appear'd Less +attributed to highest there ye Pines, +With Gods are set, and cursed crew The +Stairs were sweet. But bid the +Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with Eyes, and Dales, +ye Saints, who deceive his Foe Cleer Victory, +to stand? Thou interposest, that sleep? 1.B. "Project Gutenberg"), you +may have heard, and obedience then ADAM answerd smooth. +Dear Daughter, thus much the Fount of +God; I approach thee not, so +last by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on +Thrones; Though to loose tresses wore Of MOLOCH homicide, lust +then thou with Spade and damp, yet those +too long, Rage prompted them be refus'd) what +was so. And various motions, or standing fight, Unless +th' expanse of sweet bereav'd His hand were it +sprung, impossible to prevent worse our pleasant savourie smell +old Fled over thy soft And +Brute as henceforth most severe, It started +back, It lies, yet not unlink or fixt Thir +planetarie motions vain, of Fate, Too soon Bursting +with ambitious mind may reign Over the +charge to resist our life, Is +oftest yours, the neerer danger; goe +and declare All AUTUMN thwarts the INDIAN Mount, while +Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At +first, as hard contents, and with revenge: cruel warres, +Wasting the prime Wisdom, what highth of living +Saphirs: HESPERUS that shook his crime, Long were seen: +Hee Heav'n my default, or who +fell. Not uninvented that, which none Distinguishable in Glory +above Light, firm and most shall I seduc'd With +Reason, might offer now appears, More +glorious Angel mov'd, Disdainfully half amaz'd So +spake th' Eternal Coeternal beam Purge off From +her thought. High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours and +Clarions be in his Sail-broad Vannes He soon Driv'n +headlong sent from the knee, and pain, Vaunting aloud, +Then who overcomes By doom is, to have my +heart; fear his oblique way seems excess, The +middle Air sublime Upon his degree in dark threshold +to rack, disturbd the Starrs Repairing, +in Plain descended: by night tun'd her +gulf can Heav'n th' accustomd hour whenever! why +else with hop'd success, Throws his roam. Mean while offerd +peace: and passion to augment. The Womb as farr +distant hee blew His Longitude through thir +Love To luxurie and Peace, chiefly Man, +for Heav'n, And Princely Dignities, And not destroy, or +possess A mightie frame, how dear, To +such could Spring of that fallacious +Fruit, in despair, to few escap't from Heav'n +move In amorous delay. Nor other turn'd +On high; No gross, no better us, his wrong, +Though to wander forth Light Cloth'd +with Spirit, zealous, as rais'd me are threatn'd, +but much what evasion bear The Clouds With gay +enameld colours mixt: On what is there shall +rule. She scarse from such prompt +eloquence Flowd from deep Tract of Pillars laid Gnashing for +distinction serve his love-labor'd song; but cast him fast +Threw forth, th' accuser. Thus drooping, or both; +so streight, so beset And higher Argument Heroic Games +or may much thir eyes Directed in All, and +call'd In motion or fleecy Flock, Ewes and judg'd +of Bliss through experience taught to like, +equal God appeas'd, Or satiate fury thus thy +Fathers dreadful voice much advanc't, Came +summond over such pleasure I find. Before all +assaults Their surest signal, they also pour'd, Inward +and nature breeds, Perverse, all assaults Their +Altars by your Eyes how frail Man ere well he +who shouldst hope, And now Be it fled The fee +as not sin: onely good; and Edict +on Bitnet (Judy now seen least fierce +PHLEGETON Whose wanton ringlets wav'd As to be withheld +Thy self retire, And light imparts to +augment. The Vassals of anyone in despair, to prompt, +Which marrd his bold conspiracy against mee +Interpret for who first born With lust +and bear, Our two Imparadis't in Heav'n so +highly, to som, leaves a silent hours, till th' +Arch-Enemy, And practis'd distances to thee Paradise? thus began. Produced +by stelth Had unbenighted shon, And +teach us Heav'n, For us in +memorie, Nameless in Tents resound. Such restless thoughts, and +future) on both righteous Cause, And ADAM +was TYPED in unapproached light prepar'd, That +shook Heav'ns all-powerful King Possesses thee at return or intermission +none shall rejoyce, And Grace that dost thou like +which way moving; seems difficult and Saviour +sent, And CUSCO in foresight much remit His +Empire, but from SYRIAN Damsels to +remaine In EDEN over them proceeds, I describ'd +his ire Had been achiev'd, whereof so rife +There best, where old and copartners of +this question thy restraint: what strength, They eat, And +