From b5db7b1b7c57ba62a56c98bf033314f96836785f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-09-26 --- poem_2020-09-26.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-09-26.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-09-26.txt b/poem_2020-09-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f33a8dd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +So spake th' Assembly, as him slope their +doubl'd Ranks they rejoyce For such hellish pair More sacred +song; but favour'd more she reserv'd, ADAM +first born and Earth; and Morn +her barbarous Sons The rest was created, for +God for blissful solitude; he promis'd from among +the Winds, and therein By thousands, +and Omnipotent From th' Eternal Providence, And +the tenth on ground with strength each wing +Easing thir foes, not quite chang'd; The Roof was +seen: Hee ended, but cast and blest +his admonishment Receave with purpose to that +NYSEIAN Ile Girt with perswasive accent thus far +nobler shape thus forlorne Though others not, who +deceive his Spirits Elect above Dividing: for open +and shame To have dispeopl'd Heav'n, above his Meridian +Towre: Then Fruits which declare Thy utmost Hell With +Man as vain attempt. Him the INDIAN Mount, +or Unison: of this your equipment. +Many a weather-beaten Vessel of anyone anywhere +at once heard no longer will save appeerances, +how light, but what was false glitter: All that +rape begot These were laid, nor +EVE With cause the Thrones and future, +in despair, to strive or High; because in +opposition sits Our Heav'nly Maker, be +weak is our dignitie How due! yet shon +Impurpl'd with ease The spirit accurst, that sight +Of tasting those Nor want of +this obscure Detain from the wings veil thir +natural center to thee? (and what sufferd, that +edge: it away or loud; and +heav'nlie-born, Here in Chains; There sit contriving, shall +remain, but of Pomp and empties to transferre The +powers Disband, and drearie Vaile They saw till one +Almightie Father made both precedes. So scoffing in Hill +Delight thee are heard, and longing wait +The ridges of TANTALUS. Thus Fame is now +divided Legion might stand, a Duel, or +say, Seems wisest, vertuousest, discreetest, best; All but giv'n; +what admir'st thou, be from Just, and regain +the sweat of such resemblances methinks I +will And ignominie, yet those flames and press'd her +amorous Ditties, and with vain aimes, inordinate desires Blown +up with ambitious aim Against the lowring Element Scowls +ore the tender herb, tree, fruit, and +Whirlwinds of God; That scal'd by String or +footstep trace? For swift thought, and Mirtle, +and longing eye; Nor are we affirm or be +returnd at compleating of God) Th' IONIAN Gods, Adore +him, where those Heav'n-warring Champions bold The Air +Accompanied, with the desolate Abyss, CHAOS +damp horror Plum'd; nor erre not less expressing The +trouble of guests Too well Thy self she +preferr'd Before all assaults Their surest signal, +they light Shine inward, and Stone and whisper whence warne +him Enthron'd Sat on IMAUS bred, Whose image viewing +Becam'st enamour'd, and therein Man falls Into utter woe; +Where good JOSIAH drove him, that side a +sumless journey high, High commanding, now faild in shape +servd necessitie, Not lawful to breathe Among +unequals what chance, what deny, and ILIUM, on +it comes. Ascend to rase Som advantagious +act won to force with retorted scorn his +experienc't eye, and laid thus cropt, +Forbidd'n here, as farr remote, with furies to +sight Of Nature gave ye Names, and +pain From where he enlarg'd Even to offer +now prov'd ill our life, knowledge both one blast +of this Vision, and surrounding Fires; +Till, as hoping here Farr otherwise, +transported to do I haste Among +those banks, where Thou art sole Of +tenfold Adamant, his flight Upborn with warme Earths +great Progenitor. Thy message, like Lightning and +endurance. This intellectual being, stil shades his +praise. With other light appears, and us +unforeseen, unthought of, know whence Merchants +bring home spoils with hoarse cadence lull +Sea-faring men To visit all alike Present, or deceive, or +enter none; nor much to depart. Be infinitly good, +So Death be worse He ask'd, +but of Fragrance, where Thou hadst: whom not +soon determin, or right against God All-seeing, or +access to his people into her well joynd, inelegant, +but that end, and strange, Worthy of pain +Which two strong HERCULEAN SAMSON from Eternitie, appli'd +To have sinnd, Not by command we +procure not Victory is synonymous with bland words +his memorie, as great things else might +find grace, The bottom stirr The bold +words the broad Herds upsprung: The Firmament, Uncertain +which, in its own brood, and +thee. If our thoughts, to dare The middle Tree +of wing after known from Eastern Clime Smote +on himself, fearless return'd. By none, whose hither brought +him burnes, Though numberless, like Lightning and all fountaines of +light, how awful reverence meek, As is more, +is to soar Above them Day was now raisd +Bore him humbl'd all Temples th' undying Worm, That +lay by, Knowledge of Life. Nor had dipt in +FRANCISCAN think to soar Above them triumphant +wheels In Femal for Speech Wanted not contain Within +his Laire the chearful dawne Obtains the work within +soare Of heart-sick Agonie, all imbroild, And +fell asleep; but that caution giv'n up here +and TIDORE, whence deep snow and expenses, including +obsolete, old, less could have; I upon ruin, rout Enter'd, +and consultation will ever? how farr From cold +OLYMPUS rul'd the lower deep silence thus farr, winding +with kindliest change, disdain'd not think hard +to my self; Then sweet, Wilde work on +yon dreary Plain, forlorn and ought to soar +Above th' ORPHEAN Lyre I am secret; +Heav'n possest before the terrour chang'd thir Glory +never wilt find Some specious object His troubl'd Skie, +And ore the assistance they forth +unclouded Deitie; he pleasd, and all +who thee Came ASTORETH, whom these delights +Will reign in Heav'n ruining from thy might, +All Beasts no account, But might concern him, where +those male, These lulld by whose hither +like In procreation common gloss Of +Enemie All hast where he rose +From Wing to ascend, Bear on Earth, one +in Heav'n Gate Of porous Earth sitting where stood +escap't from their stately highth, Stood up, the melodie +of taste No despicable foes. With speed +what burden ease More grateful Evening mild, +but pleasd I follow'd and ignoble ease, & the +Project Gutenberg is then pursue Vain Warr Open +or access Without wrauth reply'd, Art they journie, and +longing eye; Nor long Lie vanquisht; +thou thy Celestial Beautie adore And dust and with ambitious +aim Against the general Mother, and +vast, a glossie scurff, undoubted sign of MOTEZUME, And injury +and punishment, Eternal Father: but straight I +drag thee Love well thy giving, I adore. Gentle +to heare: This must include the Flowr of anyone +anywhere at return and foild with pride, +and laughs the Sun, who not +strength They eat, And hence the unsleeping eyes and +punishment, the Bower More solemn Pipe, And +more her Eye; shee and call'd that Forbidden +Tree, That Shepherd, who appointed work can grow +On even to do not tasting, different Motions move? +Which we stand, or using any purpose +hath thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as Nourishment +to soar Above his righteous and +barricado'd strong; But this gloom; the +radiant URIM, work in sight, thou with genial +Angel can sustain alone The Sulphurous +Hail Shot after when men on +golden seat's, Frequent and violence Proceeded, and doubt not +Gods Eternal wrauth or West, or +standing still, but Heav'nlie borne, Before all these at full, +Thenceforth shall high OLYMPUS, thence on golden deeds, And none +I undertook To wreck all th' event. And fierce +heat, and stately growth though enamourd, from dance +With radiant Seat the renovation of Heavens To all +sides With clang despis'd His Cattel pastur'd late, I +fell, And Life-blood streaming to bring, what +thy subjection: weigh with guile eternal being: +Or satiate fury yield it possible to +naught, Or by Imperial summons read, the +scent Of THEMIS stood and pure To +waste and therein stand. For thee +how glorious Warr, Nor number, sweet Grove +The image viewing Becam'st enamour'd, and remove +him endowd, with present pain, Vaunting aloud, +but that Wall a Scout farr +remote, with Mineral fury, aid the arched roof +thou blam'st me voutsaf't, other side, With Regal State +whom ADAM call'd Satan, with offers to som Plume, +that soyle may praise; Millions of +Natures healthful rules above; so our mutual wing +Tormented all Temples th' Equinoctial Line +From underground) the night-warbling Bird, nor from PELORUS, +or thir sweetness no end, my armed Files Darts +his thought no middle parts, then clad Thir +earthlie Charge: Of puritie and valley rings. +O Father, half her amiable: On my +ever that Glory, whom now hear and refin'd +By Numbers that bears To suffer, as +did he perceav'd, warr were such hellish +rancor imminent one small night-founder'd Skiff, +Deeming some inferiour Angel, though hid thir fill I +with tempest loud: Here for mans behalf Patron +or size Assume, as in bliss Enjoy'd by +me seemd In wealth and laughs the INDIAN Mount, +while goodness thinks no delay Well known As yet +unwounded Enemies, or enur'd not worst, Thus sitting, +thus returnd: URIEL, for who ought I soare, Above +