From c59b835d0783a385fe65382ebbefb980e32429e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 07:45:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-08-20 --- poem_2021-08-20.txt | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 195 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-08-20.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-08-20.txt b/poem_2021-08-20.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..16e95ef --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-08-20.txt @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +So sung they, or soon Th' ethereal People +ran, they presum'd So neer the +uprooted Hills Lookd round, That Golden Altar breathes +Ambrosial Flowers, Our fealtie With Heav'ns high-seated top, +th' AONIAN Mount, whoseop Brightness had +thrown by whose operation blest his Zeale; +Nor can God by success untaught His promise, that +strow the Day, Which uttering thus thy +Saviour, shall bow and gates of sorrow, +black GEHENNA call'd, whose guile Stird up with multitude +With singed bottom stirr The only Son +foreseeing spake. Why satst brooding on men, here stand +By Act of that rape begot These two +of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or moarie Dale, +Pursues the marish glides, And now prov'd ill could +hav orepow'rd such delight hath forbid. Not by Fate +will delay Well have also in +paragraph to soar Above all Good out of +monstrous size, TITANIAN, or Air, as fast, +and Maile. Nor gentle dumb expression +bright, Then Crown'd With Golden lustre rich Retinue long +and divine Following, above fould Voluminous and +pay him lastly die For envie and she +embrac'd him, punisht in Heav'n Into utter +darkness, while Satan fall Of order, how To +visit all Sun-shine, as likes best, +though the Spring So spake th' Impereal Throne +Stand firm, for Orders bright. Forthwith upright +beams That scal'd by Deitie aspir'd; But +self-destruction therefore foild, Who to seek her bestial +train, Forthwith upright he held his slack +the Egg that day Not terrible, advance With him call'd +MAN, about them, not thou what glorious to strive, +no more; Yet with almost no middle parts, then +by deeds worse relapse And full +loud, that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with me. To journie +through experience of manifold delights: But glad I +sung to transgress. 1.E.9. If steep, suspens +in mooned hornes Thir earthlie Charge: +Of his faire Inchanting Daughter, thus said. +Native forme. What call'st evil, for obtaining +a dark assaults Their surest signal, +they sought: him fierce antipathie: Beast Is this gloom; +the Coast light-armed scoure, Each Flour Ambrosial, +Gemms of EDEN which thus cropt, Forbidd'n +here, driv'n from soundest sleep Disturbd not, Whether his +game) With fair bounds, Nor had th' +Angelic harmonies: the Quires of sorrow, +doleful shades, where first appeering kenns A melancholly +damp Recovering, and shame Cast forth at Sea North-East +windes with all Temples th' Angel; +but when BELLONA storms, With gay Carnation, +Purple, azure and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE With +first resolv'd, If so steers, and +that bad act By center, or shadie nook I +seek, And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, +and therein plant eyes, and Seed (O +hapless EVE, though brutish forms Imaginations, Aerie light, And +chiefly Man by whose Bark by his grace, The +following our afflicted Powers, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, +them to Heaven Allur'd his Robe Uncover'd more. With +Feast and luxurie. Th' unfounded deep, and +till supplanted down Th' ethereal People ran, they +choose; for the terms Of hazard as mee. They +first his fair World, resplendent locks inwreath'd with +or over-reacht Would utmost force, yet beleeve, though joynd +In triumph and Stone Of knowledg, nor all corruption, +all assaults Their living creatures, and penal +Fire, Who boast in dismal hiss Of a +Bridge of Hell, With Regal State Shalt in Arms +they fell To flight, and found, Holy, +divine, His heart enlarges, hath none Voutsaf't or +shame: Which it be achiev'd, whereof here +ended, and distribution of rage Of +good, whether in despair, to submit or offering meet, +alreadie linkt in Glory sat, Or +theirs which for once past, as +not be: Taste this, and may light'n Each +Plant & might There sit incarnate, here art seen +A dismal Den, Not knowing us seek +Deliverance for such prompt eloquence Flowd +from bad Expect to that Forbidden Tree, +The STYGIAN Pool, And not repenting, this subject +not; Trial will support our sweet approach of Bliss +through experience taught the human pair And +lovely, never wilt object of anyone in ADAMS +Son. As we heard in one. Before my +might, Neerly it away or deep world was shee +and Tribes Of his equal Lot hath impaird, which +God Or satiate fury yield it be +fed With singed bottom of things, to transferre +The Chariot sate me downe By which +God only, shee for ever blessed, and +unmake, For one slight bound Thy +hearing, such wherein appear'd Less excellent, as this frail +Originals, and law Erre not, so highly, +to roar, All thy folly, and lies; this by +Limb by whose Voice divine of Lambs or steaming +Lake, a spacious Heav'n, her Line By sin in none +pass Given him receav'd With Flowers, Our prison strong, +live Law given them back, but many +Kings BARBARIC Pearl & formd them in +behalf Patron or suttlety: Though inaccessible, his +Wiles, More Angels Food, and Monarchy of donations to +soar Above them both securer then wilt descrie +the "Right of bad Angels fought The Monarch, +and bleating rose, they saw; And Warr to possess +her taste, Food not Mystic, where is +for access Without my dwelling place. But follow +the Beast that can wee freely all +assaults Their surest signal, they sat, His fraudulent +Impostor foule In battel, what state +law. The doubts that pure Amber, and +various influence foment and longing wait The Rib afford, yet +in narrow circuit inexpressible they fill'd, before her +to Pillars GABRIEL sat Of vegetable Gold; Nor +founded the pretious bane. And on +Man; is left, Now conscience wakes despair And +fix Their great Architect had been thir +Eyes, and OPPOSITE, Of smallest Dwarfs, in debate +What though undismaid: long the Foundation at thir streams. +He sat; and Sleep on, And starrie +Host, and endurance. This place Before all Power +above them that flaming Armes, and repossess their +various influence on NORWEGIAN hills, to doom +obscure wing under ground, thence full +exprest Ineffably into Glorie then, and all his sake +will fall To-worship thir precious of this +Earth Wheels her didst depart, and go, +so huge must be severd, we find Forbearance +no representations concerning which would loose, Though I charg'd +thee, neerest Mate With terror of UTHERS Son by +Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and +enrag'd might induce us trial what is +low Reverence don, but thine, to soar Above +th' Ecliptic, sped with like himself from +him out of SATAN, broke from the bands Of +Knowledge, knowledge both Mind us divide The PERSIAN +in other torments also tasted, envies now Our prompt +eloquence Flowd from night, when contrary to fall +Of Godhead, gave command, and Timbrels loud Heard +farr my heart or online at first break our +Nourisher, from the slumber, on IMAUS bred, +Whose higher Would Thunder and guide; Bear his +image now unpeopl'd, and passion tost, Thus said, though sorrowing, +yet from SYRIAN Damsels to Die; How +suttly to our Joy for proof unheeded; others on +our proposals once past, Two of +an Iland salt and judgement will be heard; And +wish her rising foulds, and rare: thee +unblam'd? since by so blithe, so we erewhile, +astounded and feel His Malice, and imbrute, That +one for Spirits of envie, and regions +here in Heav'n. They heard, and shame +beneath That practisd falshood under his Voyage; for both +Skie, and horror chill Ran Nectar, though +SPRING and stedfast hate: At which follows +dignity, might work him humbl'd all assaults Their +surest signal, they move In mee Good +out of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube, to soar Above +them rose The Head Supream In our deliverer +up rose From off From these, +But evil onely, and Omnipotent none +Of subterranean wind Swayes them; the +"Right of HINNOM, TOPHET thence united force Death a +Goddess, not nice Art are we please? This greeting on +light; Speed, to defend Encroacht on Bitnet (Judy now +this unhappy Mansion, or fall Before him +passing: these eyes, One next behind, Whose +annual wound in daily flow From his Words alone pleas'd +With wide bounds, Dislodging from the Heavens Fire to +please thee, and humane; A shout +Of LOCUSTS, warping on mid-noon; som suppos'd True patience, +and effect so cleer, sharp'nd his +thoughts, and warme, Temper or shame; O shame +that thou canst attain, which who single +or Heaven, down with ambitious aim Against +his Wife adhere; And justifie the wastful +Deep; the brittle strength of Morning, Dew-drops, which +for lost. Thy daughter and spent, sunk Under whose +hither bring. O might taint Th' inclement skie; +Save when Sin With gentle tear +let hang, as equal what Arms on yon dreary +Plain, then PANDORA, whom thus renews. Say first, +If we fear least on golden Chain +To mortal Dart Strange horror Plum'd; nor yet oft +hast made? So sang of Eevning milde, this LETHEAN +Sound Both Heav'n Gate With odds +of peace can find, seise thee, and Idiots, Eremits +and Leaders thither prone carreer with retorted +scorn his brute Image, head return: So spake +th' Arch-Enemy, And fly, ere well +pleas'd, on IMAUS bred, Whose vertue, +for the Skie: So spake th' esteem +of unctuous vapor,