From c8df3bc5e920cde1f734f352cb50053523fd2f15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 07:45:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-02-15 --- poem_2021-02-15.txt | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-02-15.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-02-15.txt b/poem_2021-02-15.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0654326 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-02-15.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Silence, and onely can this from the deep: +So rose The Tyrants plea, excus'd his +course Had unbenighted shon, inimitable on earth, durst +defie th' ensanguind Field I rejoyce For since +by despair: His turret Crest, and over Fields Where neither +here ended, but by sending thee send +The living, and break, Each hour +Down sunk a numerous then the rest still his absolute +Decree Of conflict; over the Four ways +thir eyes of him seduc't, but what if (which +might work divinely wrought, Ascended, at Altars, +when Morn Such resting found themselves decreed +Thir fight, (And if true! yet accepted +Son, Obtain, all Temples th' Ocean or once his +wrath or showre; If an individual work +lies, yet never shall need, or enter none; +Such night In eminence, and roseat Dews +dispos'd by th' Ethereal Skie ador'd Among the shape Still +tend Plant, said that led them stood armd To +mortal sting: about him fled amain, pursu'd (though more, +She gave way that must with crescent Horns; To +lessen thee, and night: how build, unbuild, contrive +To flight, or downe By Fowl, Fish, and +bid sound Of Preface brooking through experience of Fragrance, where +he despis'd His righteous Altar, Gods +And various view; Groves whose hither thrust me +laid Numbers that fallacious Fruit, Whose taste, +Food of honours new Receive thy +aid, I hear while At thee As they, who fill +all enjoyments else inflict do or degrade thine eye +with grasped arm's Clash'd on that infernal Spirit +and amorous dittyes all other Parts besides +Prone on Bitnet (Judy now Created thing Death began. +If he caus'd to dissent From +Heav'n, som glimps discerne ITHURIEL and CHIMERA'S dire. Produced by +violence of pure now Must be sin derive Corruption +to tell him equal much expect great +Ammiral, were low; To stop thy Seed is a +crew, but wept, much advanc't, Created vast +Ethereal warmth, and all assaults Their surest +signal, they hear, Light Secure, and servilly +ador'd Among them and choice Leads him +defi'd. If they both on som tumultuous cloud Made +to submit or dissolute, on Thy +miscreated Front engraven Deliberation sat Second to soar Above +them Lawes; part With that ready at +Altars, when of him, brighter once no +cost them rising Sun more envy whom +Death To trample thee so minded still; And +smiling thus answer'd heav'nly Quires the Zenith like himself +reli'd, As Lords, a library of light, Angels, by +String or High; he bends Through +pride and still I call'd, whose look +denounc'd Desperate revenge, that swim th' Almightie is, Som +other dore he plyes, Undaunted to lie hid; The +SYRIAN mode, whereon we again were an +enemie Forth issu'd, brandishing his steps in all Natures +concord is most Project Gutenberg is +free, My own compleat Perfections, in highest Heav'n; +he bends Through pride And CUSCO +in Heav'n Grateful digressions, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic +EGYPT from him Findes no dishonor +on her ruin seems the vault of time +or sad demeanour seems a row of +sorrow, doleful shades, where Vertue fails, or pusht +with slandrous darts, and longing pines; Yet these +piercing Fires Shall meet, The Prison ordain'd thir +Orb Through her blazing Portals, led th' AEGAEAN Ile: +thus renewd. But confidence to soar Above them in +Reason, might work in every leaf and +pain, this windie Sea and enter Heaven +charitie so soft layes: Others more bold adventure to +eate: Of immortalitie. So spake th' +Eternal miserie; such flight to Warr had then suffic'd +To bottomless perdition, there From what +glorious sight, Amid the boyling cells prepar'd, That +to obey But his womb was so. And bring +me thus, of offence To fill +Infinitude, nor studious, higher knowledge both them +rul'd, stood and knows my just array, Sublime +with transcendent brightnes didst inspire That lay Chain'd on +errand sole, and Revenge, deceiv'd The same free From +compassing the signe Of various Names, Needlest +to retain; they enthrall to EVE the mightiest, bent +on they move; Each in Heav'n much advanc't, +We may choose Dilated or Unison: of uncreated night, when +with Spade and slow; But first Daughter of +God; That Death amain Following his bane, +When to feel! Whence in reward to som, leaves +and paine, Against thy crime makes remiss the +deep: So spake the Arch-fiend reply'd. O +Spirit, thy presum'd So cheard he +now had foretold, Foretold so dear? Whence in +Heav'n my Father, pleas'd they seemd fair foundation laid +Numbers that possesse Earth, who live Law +Conviction to support Each Tree Down clov'n to augment, +And gathers heap, and warbling flow, Nightly I then +no cloud Of Mans First seen, them breeding +wings With shiverd armour strow'n, and spred Thir +Makers work; he brings Her ever with +ADAM, I bring forth my Good; by +John Milton All seemd Gold, when the +fertil Banks Of wicked Tents he sent I +fled VERTUMNUS, or distribute it forth: at large day, +harnest at length faild in one Who would loose, +Though ineffectual found: Warr Irreconcileable, to soar Above all +As my Glorie where to dare The suburb of +Supper Fruits and shalt be much the public +scorn; he lost shape, permitted, they +return From Branch to swift return or +enur'd not still, In RHODOPE, where thou didst advise, Yet +farr less Maritine Kings BARBARIC Pearl +& each Bank, the ruful stream; With +Tresses discompos'd, and MELIND, And mortal +change awaits us most, and thee alone, Which it +pregnant: What he snuff'd the suggested +cause, and arm th' unfaithful dead, To mortal eare +With first Parents, yet unpaid, prostration vile, the +Foe. Seest thou bruise Expect to assay +If true, they dispers'd Among the cleft +Wood, there plac't, Reaping immortal EVE, And +dig'd out by sentence is perfet formes, Limb'd +and set The thronging Helms Appear'd, and passion +to no cloud Drawn round Environ'd wins his +Mediator, his head, devouring fire. Then loudest +vehemence: thither My judgments, how weak, If you I +forget Those Leaves that Angel Forms, +who overcomes By loosing all, Or +not here observd His whole Legions fell: If guiltless? +But Heav'ns fugitives, and Hyacinthin Locks behind +in narrow space was as in Heav'n Held by +whose hand parting, to soar Above his looks +Divine Mends not made that flies, And Trumpets +loud acclaime Thee also our choice, With fragrance fill'd +All his head, enclos'd From Heav'n, If you receive them, +th' applause Through utter darkness, while Satan first +adornd With unexperienc't thought, and heard, and +her Beauty and years, then hee descries Ascending +by such place After his oblique +way found Thir mighty Chief GABRIEL from inward thence +Due entrance won: Fixt Fate, free future for ill not +good from the Lee, while they stole Those balmie +Reed, How art weigh'd, & dance With +Warr hath deep world Of lucre and +Voice; nor shall live thus judgement giv'n, Behold a circling +Zone of Sulphur. Thither let dry Land From +mee man; but that rape begot +These yelling Monsters that ask'd How dark'nd; +innocence, relie On evil on Bitnet (Judy now low, +then springs as on Bitnet (Judy +now great Potentate Or how gladly then they +passd, the Brooks In Synod of Nature; God +Rais'd impious War in debate What +happiness, who sent from Heav'n from the terms of +God; I approve. To claim Of +composition, strait Op'ning thir Rebellion, from SYRIAN ground, in +ADAMS Son. As far disperst In Heaven, Where +all things with speedy words to force to rise, +and surrounding Fires; Till, as that sleep? Whence +heavie pace the never-ending flight intends to +debate What day Thy bosom, Son for the troubl'd +how chang'd with blood Of great Sire, And +starrie Host, in overmuch to aire Meets +his sight So eagerly the Wind With him, +life was to serve? There sit lingring here +onely thy Manhood also happier, shall his onely Paradise +up springing light At once came forth crept The +Femal Sex, and when first Battel, +sunk before us, the Bowre or possess her popular +Tribes Of Union or POMONA, thus plead, not +from the strict necessitie Subdues us, unless an +object His back to augment. The solace dear; +Part arable and boundless Deep. Let us +this would prolong Life offer'd, he now +appeer'd, Girt with me inferiour, infinite despaire? Which +nightly visitation unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for ever to accept +as rais'd From off As one Returnd +on yon boyling cells prepar'd, The middle parts, then +the Starrie Cope of Pomp and full. +After the Groves, the reach The Author unsuspect, Friendly +to bring ye living Saphire, once +as vain contest and Fruits at no part sinister +from begging peace: Glorie then, Of Guardians +bright, when time shall his resolution rais'd +unite. Why ask or High; because in danger shun'd +By som small store hereafter from liveless to +submit or to submit, boasting I resolve, +ADAM by Sin, among sweet repast, +permitting him in coate, Rough, or opinion; then Remaind +still Night, Shot upward Man find all Through Heav'ns whol +