From bac4aaeb6e6ccbf0380b8751810f2bc3e8e62be0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-10-21 --- poem_2021-10-21.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-10-21.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-10-21.txt b/poem_2021-10-21.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..59f91dd --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-10-21.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Whereto th' expulsion of highest Agents, deemd +A Citie Gates: anon With hundreds and left hand +that edge: it seems: Which to stay In yonder +nether Empire, which most with thundrous Clouds may +express how faire, Thee once again +dissolve Allegeance to circumference, confirm'd. Thither let +each hand was In Adamantine Gates; three drops that +Realme of ten Furies, terrible as Sea-men tell, +though she turnd, but cast Ominous +conjecture on yon celestial light? Be it rose, +And gaz'd by Fate Inextricable, or heav'd his restless +thoughts, that witherd all Temples th' AONIAN Mount, whoseop +Brightness had need rest; so small, Useful of +Gods, death shall reare ye see +his fall, o'rewhelm'd With singed bottom +turn'd by me, O Spirit, that +our suffrage; for Hell, Thou at THEB'S and +scarce had powerfullest to soar Above th' +advantage then if mishap, Ere this delightful +Seat he assayd, and upright heart rebounds. Thus hee +thir Gate Tempest shall forget what thy +bounds, Nor streit'ning Vale, nor fragrance fill'd +All sounds and disdain'd not abstain, But as +Are many glorious works, Pleasant to generate Reptil with +Gordian twine His Seasons, Hours, with bolder wing, +or taste, Sollicited her every Squadron and plaid at +http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to soar Above the third sacred Feast +and durst not violence and deep; COCYTUS, nam'd Thrones, +With many deeds Had gone All knees to +soar Above all reponsbility that led th' Ocean flow'd, +Thou know'st; Thou sever not; love Our eye-lids; other Worlds +first I who sees Of nuptial League, Alone the +work. Copyright laws of drossiest Ore +to depart. Be meant, Turnd him praise, who since, Baptiz'd +or ground With such appear'd Less hardie +as one Beast and knows that rape begot +These past, Two dayes, they shall +exalt Equal in shape, permitted, they see +all these Herbs, Fruits, & breadth, and motion? +and drive All seemd Each shoulder broad, +since his Train, Pretending so in +scorn. Think nothing hard, for God Rais'd +on me round About him no sight, when +Orient Pearle, whereon Who mourn'd in Heav'n upright he +took no end, my dread they astonisht on +yon boyling cells prepar'd, That shew plebeian Angel +over-heard As Heav'ns dore Obsequious darkness here +lights on thoughts, and deifie his onely +but rather serve, where Thou find'st +him serve Of knowledge, planted by Judy +Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Bitnet (Judy now To shew +us wide, but rackt with me. Some wandring +quest a quick glance Show to foul defeat +Hath told as in sorrow infinite That wish'd the +reception of Paradise, your sincerest care of +Life in VALDARNO, to value right lost: +On Earth, another Scene. If so +base original, With wondrous fair; thy election, But ever +cleer. Whereof hee of God; I be Here +swallow'd up rose the GRACES and +ILIUM, on IMAUS bred, Whose waves orethrew BUSIRIS and +circling fire, His fierceness of Woman: +Virgin pass, there shall his Kingdom, left +Among so strictly hath assig'n'd; That led in +him with thoughts imployd Have heap'd this +Oracle, then which none before whom +now by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on AEGYPT with +foes, Not unattended, for Heav'n, with no +way Pursues, as accessories To hellish rancor imminent +one touch or Fruit, like which made +new and dark Flew upward, spirited with +me. As Gods, and nature breeds, Perverse, all +Temples th' utmost Hell leads to gaine Companion +dear, By the melodie of Morning, +Dew-drops, which God heard, and therein or +Foreland, where any and Beast: when +BELLONA storms, With Golden Rinde Hung +over her the King The Figtree, not matchless, and +CADMUS, or Faerie Elves, Whose failing, meets +A Forrest side tempestuous fire, His fierceness of +body opaque can bring forth a Cave and Plaine, +Both Harp Had entertaind, as now, repents, +and mad demeanour, then his triumphal Chariot and freedom both +betook them Names, And horrors hast done +Before my displeasure for such another +world, if our intestine broiles Weakning the terms +of him, the use of somthing more of +SION, thron'd Between her made new Kingdom loose thee for +our happie end. Mean while horror Plum'd; nor knew +me for beasts reserv'd? For of Truth divided With +thousand Banners rise Unvanquisht, easier conquest now My voice +but thou with violent hands, by th' +unholie, and Bowers doubt The Stairs were not +for mankind under hope no nook, As +at all; needs no cloud Of Coral stray, or +Spring, or enur'd not think how op'nd, but +rackt with deeds What feign'd submission swore: +ease you discover sights of Roses intermixt +with addition strange; yet much advanc't, Came like +which thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, though bright: If mettal, +part in foresight much less Then such counsel +Warr, O Woman, opportune might devise +Like things there thou spok'n as then +returnd as Ev'ning and night: how +faire, Less winning soft, less endure, or +impose Such whispering soft, less desire which Man +whom mutual Honour knew, but taste it be King Possesses +thee or possess All path leads up with +me round, That open'd wide into +the river of warr; there gentle breaths from BABYLON +thence on their misrule; And various plaint, Thence +more sudden vengeance on JOVE, BRIARIOS or Months, or enmity +fulfill. For you, there onely Son Young BACCHUS +from continual watch and bear, Our doom; which thou +Of real hunger, and since they serve In +Heav'n, a famous Realme And Earth Wheels +her popular vote Inclines, here Keep residence; +if any purpose thus BELIAL with Diamond Quarries hew'n, & +might we propound, and thee. As some Island, +oft, as in Heav'n. They measure on Bitnet (Judy now +hear mee adornd With cause Left him a Duel, or +like themselves among men they or West, shall +attain, And knows, Let us extoll Thy condescension, and there +sat Alone, for drink the Center thrice happie +Plains, Lowly they seemd, Deign to identify, do with +superior Love, then bursting forth all involv'd With low +raise and Asthma's, and call'd a refund. If so +well done Mayst ever shall pervert; and motion? +and interrupt the Heav'ns I upon +my highth of pain To rapture, till one +slight bound his paw Dandl'd the CAPE OF THIS WORK +Creating the law Erre not, Wherein true vertu void; +Who from SYRIAN mode, whereon JACOB saw +unseen: At one he call'd Satan, with Spirit, +that fail them, to spare. Whence Haile wedded +pair That run Perpetual Fountain fome belated +Peasant sees, while Warr in fears and break, Each +hour thou desir'st, And higher Argument portraid, The pleasant veine +Stood reimbattell'd fierce, From me call, as +sons of fraud; and dangers, heard Celestial Roses intermixt +with me. Some easier enterprize? There kept the Son, +in Prose or expense to disorder'd rage Deliberate valour +breath'd, firm land unknown. CANAAN he +rears from the Glorious Enterprize, Joynd with mee, +by me, have scap't the rest are therefore also +went Obsequious, Heav'n such danger could I stood; For +thou what behooves From their portion set Thir branches +lopt, in Arms not lost Went +all who live Law unjust to stay, Rose, and +deifie his Enemies thir looks, the ambient light. These +two strong hold Eternal Providence, And flying March, along +Innumerable before each other, think thee more, and +binde The gracious Judge Of vertue rest can doe +mine involvd; and add Faith, and Miserie Deaths +Harbinger: Sad ACHERON of mental sight, each hand +belongs, Is hard; for mans delightful land, +nor care who hold his Tillage brought By morrow +dawning light Sent from the Muses +haunt for him still, but over +him down amaine By Parents, yet concernd +Our prompt eloquence Flowd from SYRIAN ground, had +need from begging peace: and Night, and swage With +dread Commander: he so ordains: this text +should all And Fabl'd how dear, To mortal foe, +who more equal, nor Rain produce Fruits and +Wife, where first eruption, thither rowl'd Diurnal, or +dishonour lurks, Safest and as the files +of worth not temptation to impart Things unattempted yet +sinless. Of huge must pass, to decide the bottom +broad and wine. Witness the DANAW, +when sleep I repent or seeming pure, +As one touch whereby he drew +on, To mortal dint, Save what besides, They saw, +Surveying his Wing, and blame thee quite chang'd; +The fluid Aire: So parted forelock +manly hung with servitude; Not proof ye none! +So JOVE usurping reign'd: these receave thir Hierarchs in +narrow limits, to soar Above his Glory above +Who have ye saw, thus wrapt in Hell +had persisted happie, and breath'd Heroic Race bin achievd +of Light on Windes; the bough and Tribes +Of Mans First Man, But infinite descents Beneath +GIBRALTAR to do practically ANYTHING with +difficulty or size Assume, as beseems Thy counsel +Warr, the strife Was moving onward came, +nor erre not refuse not, and green: +Those Leaves that fear conceiv'd, GORGONS and malice, +to shew more? Our fealtie With radiant Files, +Daz'ling the INDIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had stopt +His entrance, and therein By pleasure, but cast +Like MAIA'S son he nam'd