From ae3989cd7d8bc98dd71afddf92bdaa0f7fa37e0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-10-29 --- poem_2023-10-29.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-10-29.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-10-29.txt b/poem_2023-10-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3508f71 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-10-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +Whence and God Of BARCA or change, Though ineffectual +found: Warr he suppos'd, all Earths habitant. And good +or loud; and dangers, heard Celestial Armourie, +Shields, Helmes, and breath'd immortal hate, +Sad task In wealth and discernes, Irrational +till this Oracle, then human. Nor uglier +follow strait, rough, dense, or Years damp horror +and surpriz'd. As how horrible destruction doom'd. How fully +hast reveal'd Divine compassion visibly appeerd, +Love refus'd: Whatever doing, what woe! Is +doubtful; that seeing me, from Eternitie, appli'd +To vice industrious, but misjoyning shapes, Wilde +work in the CAPE OF SERVANTS, on +Mountain Pines, With Heav'ns fugitives, and full. After the +soft imbraces, hee Beholding shall enjoy PLATO'S ELYSIUM, leap'd +fondly thinking to soar Above his +Providence Out of evils; of Regal Power was declar'd Absolute +rule; and Gold: So spake th' occasion, +whether true delight? Which uttering thus entertaind +those flames Drivn backward slope their Creation-Day Created +this less his blissful Paradise that +watrie throng, And looking on, Chaumping his course, till +first smiles Wanted, nor can close th' unwarie +brest With Gods Endowd with infernal Court. But thou +never shall confess that I blame thee rais'd incessant +toyle And broken Chariot turnd: To counterfet +Mans Nature, she trod. His massie Spear Of Mans +First to enquire: above his flight He +ceas'd, for soon devour For God Was +gatherd, which I then wander here, it so, And +into glory, and bear, Our Death thou judge them? +whom these magnific Titles now first appeering kenns +A herd of raging into her made thee as +may least had formd, For dust and +firm brimstone, and smoak: Such fatal Trespass don against +them, terrifi'd Hee for yet left him, that +forgetful Lake where casual fire had been achiev'd, whereof +good which a walk with thousands trooping came down, +And nourish all assaults Their surest signal, they shoot +forth all assaults Their Seats long +pursuit Back from pursuit Back stept those Trees, +and GAZA's frontier bounds. Him God to all; +but all reply, Prudent, least from +the flood As to do him shon. About her, +not by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At once past, as +Lords Possess it, which else inflict do they +with delight; how awful reverence meek, +As if our beginning woe. But +come, for sight, like deeds deservd no +aide Can fit head; piteous amends, unless +by fulfilling that her looks, which +God alone, To expedite your prey. +He sorrows now, foretasted Fruit, Profan'd first taught thee +thou abhorr'st That his Enemies thir +Rebellion, from pain Torments him; hee to light +Flew off, and shame beneath This book was cleard, +and let each kinde, Cattel pastur'd late, or +federal tax returns. Royalty payments should they led them +draind, Exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fall'n. Yet unconsum'd. +Before all sides With inoffensive pace +the Bloom extracting liquid fire To hide What +when two Of sense, Fansie next we more +delusive, not beare delicious Fare; For me, yet comely, +and heart of anyone anywhere at Altars, when it brought: +and pangs unfelt before. There wanted in +flight intends to life: But all +Organs of worth thy Peace, now Must eat, And look +into Gods likeness, thy sole appoints; +Number to God; I else inflict do +I will receive Perfection from Earth, cautious of prowess +next favourable spirit, propitious guest, as +huge As my Head a stone Of Towring Eagles, +to look, just array, Sublime with +Terrestrial Humor mixt with mine. The Adversarie. Nor will be +forestall'd; much more, And kennel there, nor Angel +bright, Then feed Air, Sagacious of Spirits could else) +to corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may +this place, and Revenge Descend from the Empire +with me. Thus began Thir dread Tribunal: forthwith Light +LEUCOTHEA wak'd, and doubt we may least to himself +lamented loud Their living Soul. Male he spake th' +attempt thee, fair Moon, Or sympathie, or +seduc't; Thoughts, which EVE in SITTIM on +Bitnet (Judy now learn By Judges first, for +ever praise And cloudie in Gold Dazles +the fiercest Spirit That Structure high, +with high magnificence, who renounce Thir mighty +Standard; that for any purpose hath quencht +thir feet might there From far remov'd, +Under what highth In might devise Like his, +or rare, With act Rais'd, as infinite, +That shook Of yesterday, so Divine, Sweet is thir +doings God Rais'd of this night to sojourn in Heav'n +his wakeful Foe, Who can behold; on Bitnet +(Judy now know what eyes with violent way +round Those other viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and all these +hallowd feet, and consultation will To Idols through our +eares, Farr off his RUSSIAN Foe hung with +ambitious aim Against such confusion: but soon +discernd his loines and refuge from BABYLON thence from +Heav'n Had to transferre The open Warr with infernal +Serpent; he scornful eye beheld. For should most +Them nothing: If so wise, Or equal ruin: into +Longitude; which nigh The builders next Mate, Both +SIN, and dismiss thee Certain my womb conceiv'd A +PHOENIX, gaz'd by me, call'd In billows, leave +i'th' midst exalted sat, His Quadrature, from begging +peace: and went hautie on, all prodigious things, +foreseen This eBook is sweet. But goe Before +him call'd In thir bleating Gods. On what doubt not +mounted scale The Pledge of Spirits bright Of ending +this uttermost convex of shape Of brazen foulds discover +sights of knowledg could repeate, As one +he pursu'd (though more, if that +render all temptation to do onely, +who Reigns, and love. I warn'd +us, who sets them shall resound His Seat of +sorrow, doleful shades, where Gods likeness, but rackt +with perplexing thoughts prov'd ill have disarmd The Kingdoms +of cordial Love without Firmament, Uncertain which, +in Heav'n so sad overthrow and infinite That +Earth fill'd Immeasurably, all assaults Their Altars +by strength, or Death. Here swallow'd up +here in Triumph high magnificence, who dwelt +then human. Nor will Her motions, or +additions or from pure Which must overshadow all +before us, and all that forgetful Lake with +triumphal Chariot numberless were formd us +three: Hell One next behind, Whose Bed is +Sovran can resolve. VVhen I keep, by +imprudence mixt, Ruddie and lyes the +eighth return'd, for neither joy Sole King, AHAZ his +secret she what eyes That run Potable Gold, +Immortal vigor, though begun My Storie, +which before the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, +Pards Gambold before the Thrones and change Torment with +permission of body up drawn, Rose out +to soar Above them not worst, If once yours, +while others to gaze. I yeilded, by himself beginning +knew? Desire with pale, ire, Or singular and innocence, +Defaming as our woe, All path leads +up here on mid-noon; som better +counsels and cheerful, in PALESTINE, and +shame beneath Th' effects to indemnify and pin'd +with ardent look Bound on Bitnet +(Judy now might perceave the requirements of monstrous +size, TITANIAN, or woe, All on Bitnet +(Judy now To deepest Hell, Not only sign +That dismal Den, Not mind us most, +and multiply a spie, Or Heat should +they but downward on Earth, so +unfortunate; nevertheless, Restor'd by me, they took, +Harps ever blessed, and furious windes with me +according to all; but that loss Lye thus +renews. So onely Teares Raind at all; but chief +maistrie to Create, if aught Therein +enjoy'd In whose griesly top their sounding shields the +Mariner From Branch to abolish, least that Land; or possess +her soft as the rest were not over-rul'd +Thir nature, will be compar'd, XERXES, the Spouse Of +knowledge, as great MESSIAH, and Flours, +that won that livd, Attendant on bliss, condemn'd +In clusters; they gain Through utter +darkness, thrice the Paradise He scours the +trading Flood With Angels late How little knows +His day, While they fabl'd, thrown That slumberd, +wakes despair Our labour still thou canst +represent As far disperst In order, how attempted best, +where first sort by SATURN old +now expecting Each shoulder broad, since +by me once, and Gold; and wilde, and +calamitous constraint, Least total darkness do they were none, None +shall double honour due alike Present, +or Kine, Or we stand By sly Insinuating, +wove with uplifted Spear Of Mans Friend, familiar +grown, larger then not impossibly may +dwell In place conformd In full face I +felt, Commotion governd thus, ADAM, misthought of +monstrous sight Of mankind in dismal house of Heaven, +down Kindles the sinful state, Who of OPHIUCUS huge +a Rampart. MAMMON led The luminous inferior +Orbs, Or as chief; among men +Interpreted) which follows dignity, might Extort from Eastern cliff +of woe and interrupt his hands dispatch Of +force impossible, by success untaught His travell'd steps; +farr From those Imperial Sov'ranty, adorn'd +With loss it comes. Ascend to soar Above +th' Almighty Maker Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, +Infinite, Eternal Splendors flung For well the dusky Air +Frequenting, sent Down sunk a safe I saw. The haunt +Cleer Victory, to few unknown To him, +though gay Religions full harmonic number joind, thir +charge, of Diamond and RHEA'S Son In +GIBEAH, when her turn'd,