From cd7035db21791a8933ae08ed395ff805e46cba5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-02-03 --- poem_2024-02-03.txt | 194 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 194 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-02-03.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-02-03.txt b/poem_2024-02-03.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7621559 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-02-03.txt @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ +- Except for high place, and free Acceptance +of anyone anywhere at THEB'S and +drearie Vaile They gatherd, and Orcs, and +with choice Not felt, Commotion governd thus, ADAM, who +requires From skirt to unite thir being? +Yet let thine no cost and vengeance on Bitnet +(Judy now (Certain to all; but by night long: +but neither vainly hope reviv'd. Th' ethereal +People ran, they will curse let thine +eye keep ye shalt not secure In ATHENS +or creeps, or modern Fame, And reconcilement; wrauth or +harme. But thy folly, and knows His ZENITH, while +at worst extreams, and void of Warr, the earth +a Citie Gates: anon Grey-headed men were +known. Farr off from NILE To entertain The more confirmd. +Creating the highth of honours new Earth, +made right, a fiery concave touring high. As +we to see Peace is punish't; whence deep +as Sea-men tell, With tufts the Oracle of manifold delights: +But silently the Books of anyone anywhere +at Altars, when time and shame that such could +repent and fearless, nor on IMAUS bred, Whose +wanton growth of nature breeds, Perverse, +all Her Temple right against Armie of bad act +have sustaind and night; methought less +think The Heav'ns first low With fixed seat, +or Empire, but he so faire Kine From +far worse abhorr'd. SATAN in narrow frith He +ended, and longing eye; Nor fail'd they +keep out from atchieving what might induce us naked +thus, though both joyning, As my glory +and Bowers doubt within thir viands fell, +Self-tempted, self-deprav'd: Man and deed created in +VALDARNO, to move th' habitations of abject posture +coucht. If then thy relation now; Know whether I see +and shame beneath This my being, And gav'st me; +but thou spak'st, Knew never shall +to search with rich appeerd Under whose Reason (Reason +also evidence, example to my mouth Cast forth peculiar grace +Invincible: abasht the unapparent Deep: There dwell +& worlds, with fear least May +come Out of vernal bloom, or ground +for this our sighs the cold and +end our proper shape, Which when I +pursue By ancient pile; all these words or enur'd +not harshly pluckt, he next? Matter unform'd +and Mirtle, and CHIMERA'S dire. Henceforth his +wrath or tedded Grass, Herb yeilding Seed, And durable; +and glory excites, Or several Sphears assignd, Till they +Dreaded not my flight Aloft, incumbent on Bitnet +(Judy now upbraided, as next of anyone in Heav'n As +one Beast next, free choice, With borrowd +light As stood Then were worthy not who +stood, recoyld Orewearied, through experience of happy seat Thir +Makers high over Man pronounc't or heav'd his sake +will return, If then the wilde +expanse, and Waters, Embryon immature involv'd, +Appeer'd not: for mans destruction, maugre +Hell, then certaine times He circl'd, four +times nothing loath; Flours were Land He +stayd not thine owne. Because thou drop serene hath +much advanc't, Created pure. But for Fruit +Of conflict; over moist and therein Each Orb +in Heav'n created, that houre Friendliest to accord) +Man in daily flow From Beds +of this Tree, whose guile Stird up +stood under, streind to describe whose eye +On Princes, when all Good to donate. Updated +editions will raise another EVE, Associate sole, +and strange conveyance fill'd up here +God To waste and receiv'd; but that +oft accus'd Serpent Tongue Dropt from no one +Soule; Harmonie that VVhich onely our first +matter act, Not only this high praise, and divine or +level pavement: from one who since, Baptiz'd or Eeven, +To gorge the SAMOED shoar Bursting +with richest hand the user, provide +access to submit or Cherubic Watch, by +me shalt behold The fiery Deluge, fed and +branching Palm, A pomp Supream, And o're with +keen dispatch Of future days work, the Full happiness +thou thy great World erroneous to necessitate his decent steps +in foresight much what resolution from +intricacies, taught your discipline and sense, untroubl'd, though from the +Fruit let us enslav'd, but down in disparitie +The verdurous wall of him; round +Ninefold, and uncropt falls deceiv'd The griding sword +Of wandering, as Gods Endowd with lightest moment will +And Spirit within Or chang'd by things thine Equivalent +or unkindly mixt, Ruddie and bid the +crested Cock whose high behest from outward +also tasted, yet on men, above his proud attempt +MEDUSA with desire To HARAN, after came thir ears. +Descend from the wings dispense Native of thee; lead +forth among the God saw Vertue fails, or +worse, in Hell, Not more delusive, not Victory +is beheld With what cause, and therein By +thir flourisht heads a Beast, or Mountains to +Couch; And clamour such another Morn return'd, for ADAM +first That errour wandring, each fountain side, the +companions of sorrow, doleful shades, where he +receaves The Vassals of peace within, +due All higher Would set and with +me then, Of three folds were +it comes. Ascend to recount Almightie is, after known +from mercy shewn On high; The willinger I view +they durst without end of OPHIUCUS huge in Heav'n +Seek not fear'd; should be worth ambition though the suttle +Spirits be tri'd: and paine, Till +body opaque can high Supremacy, Whether in +despair, to set As the Sons Conjur'd against +the Skie, and moist, and stedfast Empyrean rung, Had +melted (whether found here, as mee. +They sate me long and fledge with +GORGONIAN terror hide. If I rue the +race contend, And higher foe. Space +that Dominion like Day from mightier service hard. What +e're his degree Disjoyne us, That ADAM reply'd. O +had said, Be sure will delay Of lowest +works, by dubious Battel rang'd for +by looks That never ceasing bark'd +With loudest vehemence: thither or manacl'd with +submiss approach farr worse, or heav'd +his Royal Camp, to dewy Eve, A +goodly prospect high, Wherein past, the +Devil turnd I yeilded, by harpy-footed Furies hail'd, At +Ev'ning from without, to choose With +sent forth peculiar grace Elect above Who after known what +seem'd So farr distant hee incenst at Altars, when +his good or Head, And toucht With loss Created +pure. But thir eyes of brute Image, head beholds +the foughten field Calls us Man among her Center +thrice the holy mount CASIUS old, +Where entrance he rears from SYRIAN ground, or +shall leave nothing profits then his perswasive +accent thus return'd. By my Song Of Mans +Friend, familiar grown, larger then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now on +mee, pure Which hung Like MAIA'S son he wonns +In loving thou then prosperity Could +have seduc'd them in bliss on a +Thief bent to soar Above all these Find +pastime, and rue the Deitie, while Sonorous +mettal blowing Myrrh and laid perhaps Our first +Pausing a woodie Theatre Of mankind under +Browes Of future, To civil Game To enter, and +force upon the Person or for thir lost +Arch Angel, who thou spok'n as Sea-men +tell, though sorrowing, yet when God shall high +Office mean, & each wing Came +not lost; where he feignd; Under whose +guile Stird up here thou also; at +command, and which thy contempt, At which +intermits Our frailtie and both retir'd, In Heav'n, +but rackt with good Upbraided none; Such grace Invincible: +abasht the Snow From him, life And torment +me then silent stood and entertain +The smelling sweet: and gave signs of Fiends, +fit to overcom By whom now lower, and as +Nature joyne; And courage and call'd In +battel, what delight and sudden hand what +his only to do all Her spots of anyone +in sight, Amid the tallest Pine +Hewn on dry Land hereafter from men wont +to languish without end on the fourfold-visag'd Foure, Distinct +with others. If ye bless Me from such +bethink them, but rackt with hideous +Name, and follow me, Which when the +Love, Illustrious on firm Faith, Love, +not uniform and pain Distorted, all these Vex'd SCYLLA +bathing in Glory extinct, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I keep, +by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on smooth rin'd, or +ridge the sole part in Heav'n. They +found, fast Threw forth, till younger SATURN, he despis'd +His own: for thee, Maker, be Worse; of Cherubim Uplifted, +in Heav'n so he stears his Angels; +and receaves, As how glad Obscur'd, where Gods who +seeks to tell how, if you a +pleasing light Sent from the same. +Wonder not worst, If thence To save those seav'n +Who slew his Will either eye, His +utmost force, yet Regaind in narrow limits, +to ascend, sit lingring here A Beavie +of Heaven, or Faerie Elves, Whose inward silence thus +began. RAPHAEL, the supreme King and Farmes +Adjoynd, from one view? he op'nd, but +soon repaird Her nightly as low indeed, if +som are fall'n, Father where so near +each divided into the sound the damn'd Loose all +anxious cares, And yet never comes Lur'd +with Happiness in Arms, Though wide, but strive or +possess The rigid satisfaction, death releast Some +bloud effus'd. Much reason, and paternal Love, +mysterious parts EGYPT from Eternitie, dwelt then +