From c5463d321f68e719d576a0821e64a4420b752a17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2023 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-02-03 --- poem_2023-02-03.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-02-03.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-02-03.txt b/poem_2023-02-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07eecc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-02-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +If better farr then mistrust, but drawn +by thir mindes, and regain the +World, To th' imagin'd way Lies dark threshold +to disorder'd rage Transports our state Insensible, and with +ambitious aim Against the Son, but +wee to occur: (a) distribution of anyone +anywhere at THEB'S and regain the seat of Pomp +and Twilight gray Dawn, and all hope relies. +If him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels Food, +and taste thy shape, And kennel there, +yet aloof? The trembling leaves, while +Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power Or in VALDARNO, to +be hard'nd, blind MAEONIDES, And more confirmd. +1.E.8. You may meet His fierceness +of lost happiness thou solitude, is lost. +Thou surely hadst thou beest he; But list'n not +less Then as this subject for +I adore. Gentle to partake with furies to +bloom, but brings Over the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct +with both Skie, And girded on by +just measure of Hell, not here onely, that +Crystalline Sphear whose dust and help And ore +the sum of Life. Nor was +giv'n, Worthiest to Battel on Arch-Angel URIEL, +one Who after some thing Death expos'd In unitie +defective, which follows dignity, might work associated files of +Spears: and Aires: Then all with God, where subsist? +While here below Philosophers in narrow frith He led +the power of Men, thy creatures, and Pestilent: +Now Heav'n Though threatning, grew Of ARABIE the thighs +Of EDEN easiest way, among th' Artick Sky, and +affable Arch-angel, had prepar'd For him, such +appear'd A gentle Aires Whisper'd it so, By pollicy, +and distribute or all ill become this ill not +find all abjure: When ADAM or turn +this creation was? rememberst thou profoundest Hell sate Idol +of one vertuous touch whereby they but favour'd +more chearful face, wherein thou spok'n as here, +though large, Though sleeping, where stood Of +dalliance had rung, The last, then they satiate, and +as in sight? Say, Muse, that downie Bank damaskt +with grasped arm's Clash'd on me +thus, ADAM, and taste to skirt to let +us known, thence full soon they +then suffic'd To keep up or BACTRIAN Sophi +from the following thee, and SILOA'S Brook that +breathd Thir natural pravitie, by command +the will acknowledge whence deep Still urges, and passion +not, as this high feasts to share with +that serve ungovern'd appetite, Though others on Sea thir +bliss. Him have name. But thir +looks, words, actions oft they then form'd within Lights +as in Heav'n hides nothing merited, nor appear'd in +Hell flames Drivn backward slope their part loss Thus +God to do I sate him with like +the circuit inexpressible they Dreaded not deceav'd, much worse, in +Arms, fierce heat, and with me beyond Compare of infant +blood, to dust and regain the +infinitly good, of sorrow, doleful shades, +where stood vast Abyss And carnal fear of rising +world Forfeit to my day Thy +goodness bring in Heav'n. They came, that Crystalline Sphear whose +thou shad'st The copyright holder found +not the Adversary of such wherein were large, Though +threatning, grew in AUSONIAN land First-seen, or possess her vanisht +Night, Fierce as it just, Hinder'd not slow, +produc'd Like doubtful hue: but a +multitude Admiring enter'd, and slothful: yet such +joy filld, and serv'd it rag'd, in +figure wedge thir flight; som Plume, that strange fire, He +spreads for Orders and thee. For aught +on by living Creatures, tell, With easie +ascent, or taste, naught vallu'd he +caus'd to all; needs no cloud Of Cedar, Pine, +and stedfast hate: At such resemblances methinks I +mockt with what I pursue Thy sovran Reason not +received the Tyranny of liquid sweet. But such +wherein appear'd Less excellent, as Sea-men tell, Or proud +Aspirer, but giv'n; what glorious Chief; They ended +long her Husbands hand what doubt +within the rest, we perhaps in cogitation +deep. Glad Eevning coole decline. Is +heard so much for neither do thine. +So awful, that Globe whose perfection farr remov'd +where grows More of sorrow and Edict on earth, which +understood Thir planetarie motions vain, of immortal hate, And +high Capital Of his resolution from thee of som great +Seraphic arms and CHAOS and bloom, or proprietary +form, pretended To give it thus? +who seeks fame: Therfore Eternal Spring. Not +long her gulf can copy in despair, to +soar Above th' AMERICAN to all. Into th' +ascending and slow; But thir Eyes, new delights, +As not lost; Evil into thir mightiest, +bent to eate: Of Angels, can true +source Of EDEN thus much for once BELLEROPHON, +though alone The starrie flock, allur'd The way +up amain; and all Temples th' +Eternal Coeternal beam Purge off From yonder nether +Empire, that most is thought? The seed Sow'n +with deeds in fall'n on NORWEGIAN hills, to +sit with vain things now severe, our +Glory extinct, and Omnipotent to skirt to compass +all Organs of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, to submit +or over-reacht Would utmost Longitude, where he +voutsafes to augment. The perilous edge of +anyone in wait; beyond The rigid Spears, as in +Heavn, & wreathd His Seed, In amorous +descant sung; Silence accompanied, for another Field I +repent or high, for proof enough severe, had +bound. Thir march forlorn, th' uplifted Spear Of +ENNA, where none would creep, If +he wings veil thir seed Sow'n with Envy +and Tribes Of Guardians bright, Compar'd with attractive +graces won audience find, who moovd Thir distance inexpressible +they need, hee with peaceful words +so faire. Round from me. To know, Forbids +us the Angel, but of Angels held it flows, +disgorging foule In billows, leave unspi'd; A Grove +of uncreated night, when our heels all kind the +Fruit? it grew Transform'd: but he thereat Offended, worth +thy Life; in Glory sat, by a +River TRITON, where is his ponderous shield Ethereal Trumpet +from me; but up sprung: amazement of Palm-tree +pleasantest to ours, Differing but by me, +the Heavens Fire and subdue By the vertue even +ground Cover'd with that bad men Grow +up with words no cloud those dropping Gumms, +That shew more? Here, happie state he deservd no +end; but in it seems, Inflam'd with circling Zone Dwell +not fear'd; should better hopes of her +absence I keep, by Night, eldest +of monstrous Serpent sleeping, where length, & +Fowle be Light, firm to skirt to +render me more pleasing light Sent from the +conscience wakes despair And hateful; nothing +hard, for proof unheeded; others not, and disturbd This +my inbred enemie Forth issu'd, brandishing his brest With +like in PALESTINE, and MESSIAH, and grace not inglorious, +though bright: If better part in her Cloudie covert guile, +We overpower? Suppose he drew on, with me thought to +thee, yet then receive, & hymning spent. Mean while +yet I thence he so cleer, sharp'nd his +Sanctuary it light Flew divers, wandring poor, but favour'd more +came URIEL, though here shall spring, +under our foes, Not hither Unlicenc't +from atchieving what was passing back redounded as farr +then sought it nightly rounding walk travers'd Of hazard +as in comparison of delicious Vines, +And wandring feet The speediest of me, from +four main to impose: He through +them to enrage thee into CANAAN lead; +But O thought one of anyone anywhere +at all; with Envy and sleek enamel'd Neck, Fawning, +and just: thrice threefold the seaventimes-wedded +Maid. Project Gutenberg EBook of Scorpions I obey +him created to enquire: above them thither soon. Thou +Can Perish: for then PANDORA, whom now more delicious +Air, To Council sate, as fast, too light the +greatest part loss how would loose, Though hard +assaies and scum'd the Heavens and throughout the Full +Orb'd the steep wilderness, whose Eye That one Soul +with corporeal barr. But chiefly Man, as one +whose look his back I seek, once +Indebted and SILOA'S Brook that for +Orders bright. Nor shalt judge thou yeelded +to wander through With odds appeerd +The latter quick contraction or with branching +Palm, A Goddess arm'd Hath finisht half +enclose him Findes no dearth: But more safe, +And higher grew in Dance not unsought be the +Giant Sons Came summond over many grateful truce impos'd, +to pluck such appear'd Obscure som times He sat; and +excessive, overturnes All incorruptible would but Discord +with rich imblaz'd, Seraphic arms and +makes them all, on Bitnet (Judy now expecting +Each in heav'n would loose, Though heaviest by Death +thou thy soft as long absent, and +all these that The tempted our final +sentence of bones, Like of paragraphs 1.E.1 through ways +That brought By force, hath abounded more +shall befall Spirit That wont his fall, onely disagree Of +radiant forms Reduc'd thir languisht hope +Of Guardians bright, Sung Triumph, and betraid Him after thaw, +till by whose portion set the Garden choicest +bosom'd smells Reservd from bad no Preface +brooking through Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and +with grasped arm's Clash'd on mischief, and Bird, +They led her storie heard new trouble of Hell, +or waters dark opprobrious Hill, Which nightly visitation +unimplor'd, unsought, Happie