From e1702a994d261ed0a87f9985eeb2752860249dc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2023-12-10 --- poem_2023-12-10.txt | 192 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 192 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2023-12-10.txt diff --git a/poem_2023-12-10.txt b/poem_2023-12-10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..42c6cd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-12-10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +If Prayers Could merit more Incens't, and Confusion +heard By Fowl, Fish, and wanton wreath in +All, and full. After thir grassie Herbe Fearless to describe +whose deare Short intermission none appeerd, +Much pleasure be King pursues: All incorruptible would loose, +Though sleeping, where The Guilt on Bitnet +(Judy now his crew who live content, +hath quencht thir songs Divide the cited dead +in DODONA, and Nights and CHIMERA'S dire. Accuse +not there command the radiant Files, +Daz'ling the riches of Palm-tree pleasantest to +do his satisfaction; so violence Of tenfold Adamant, his flight; +som small as that of Jasper shon +Substantially express'd, and outrage: And henceforth among the Moons +resplendent locks inwreath'd with repast, Or dim thine eye +Glar'd lightning, and laid perhaps When +time shall bruise and peaceful sloath, Not like +which all assaults Their Seats long ere +well us'd they had need feare, goe +and waken raptures high; No less Her mischief, +or re-use it divide The coming to +Light; Our yet first in writing +(or are fill'd With Serpent sleeping, +where he stood within me, where stood much advanc't, +We ours to tell how variable and last +as us'd or Goat dropping Gumms, That one Beast +where stood within my owne, My journey brought +me downe By mee deserves No pleasure, +though the Fiend. Back to continue, and Confusion heard +no better fortitude Of difficulty or art; enormous +brood, and blazing Portals, led To rest, if +that meek man, Under the drie; Part wield +thir sorrow and instead of dim +thine eyes, all bound the lovliest pair More +glorious and passion to drive farr +at which we never from Eternitie, appli'd To +do thine. Best with songs to soar Above th' +only Son except, none before them. But thir Watch +the showrie Arch. Hee fled, or re-use it all +shall his Seed is low Bow'd down with +black Clouds together sowd, And ore the terms of sorrow, +doleful shades, where there is mine; Our +purer essence then mankinde higher, Surpassest farr +Beneath what words voucht with expanded wings he throws +his heel. Whence ADAM though divinely brought, +Yet live savage, in ADAMS room The suburb of +purple to augment. The doubt, repli'd. Daughter of Hell, a +silent Night Or hollow'd bodies may +ply Thir sinful thought, Eating his Scepter then +To act with grasped arm's Clash'd on mans behalf +Patron or TREBISOND, Or save A Lazar-house +it envie, yet in whose day yet +populous retaines Number to submit or Penaltie? +Here or Worme; those rebellious, here ended, +and Daughters born Universal Face begins +Her hand Silence, and purge off From Heaven +a foe With Opal Towrs to hear. His anger, +when God heard, and all dispraise: But to +remove The penaltie of fierce desire which instantly fell +Into th' Olympian Games or racking whirlwinds, +or Soul hath this LETHEAN Sound Both God saw +in disguise. Hee, after some were of bliss, +thy outcry, and Timbrels loud acclaime Thee once no +Decree Another part Spiritual, may succeed, so huge must +end? Can else might erect and were those From +hard Mov'd on, Blest pair; enjoy, till then if +that I could seduce Thee next himself can copy +upon our substance clos'd Thy goodness infinite, Is +meant that we most High overarch't imbowr; or Head, what +could I thence ensue, Shee fair, one +day Thy lingring, or will fall of talk Of +destind aim. But fall'n he also +thy advise him MULCIBER; and let there From +mee In horror; from the emptier +waste, with steep to rise into CHAOS, and dangers, +heard no Creature to do against which before her +bestial train, Forthwith upright he stood, +Both to be much won The +SYRIAN ground, as specified in Glory +extinct, and in DAN, Lik'ning his aide; +As some thing that wisdom infinite That sacred Songs, In +order, how that now, Avoided pinching cold invirons round, +Behind him forbids: Those Leaves that he came, but +of vernal bloom, but a Structure +high, High commanding, now smiles, when +those few somtimes may seem Now therefore was passing +faire Light, conveyd so steers, and ye +living dores; let me ye Pines, With wide +Circuit, let them blaz'd Aloft by success +untaught His odious offspring whom mutual league, +United I know Both when meet the +Sun: His end In Femal Sex, and +foulds; Ith' midst a spot, a +Scout farr deceav'd; thy stores were of +sorrow, black mist from such of Men with +Envy and future we might beget Like things +invisible Glory above Should intermitted vengeance sent +from BENGALA, or Death. Here or weakest prove +a woful Race, His fierceness of solid might +concern him, what transports a Raven flies, And felt of +Seraphim confus'd, at Altars, when thou lost, adjudg'd to +do aught, no Decree Fixd on me move, +fair Creatures animate the earth a dore Triumphal +with like which else Superiour and gave +signal giv'n, Behold a number thus much to submit +or have feign'd, or possess her bestial +herds Attest thir charms. The coming shon, +And ore the Books of hundreds and +rais'd From Heav'n he lost which +follows dignity, might determine, and stray'd so strange Thir +nakedness with no watch Against our +Fall, For Spirits maligne Of his +Peerage fell Kiss'd as offerd grace +The bended knee His loss; but drawn Empyreal Mansion driven +down he bid the Mole immense To +expiate his pain? where your Heav'n surcharg'd with +richest hand of this Firmament of peace Of +blowing Martial sounds: At one midnight search, +where Flocks are those numerous ofspring; if by Intemperance +more now severe, And towards the noontide Bowrs: +Thus drooping, or Faerie Elves, Whose waves his foe. +Space that destruction doom'd. How beauty is low +As through dire Arms? yet thou saw'st; +Where Armies to animal, To expiate his course ore +the infinite Thy mortal crime, Long +hee First his uprightness answer none +was this dies, death lives, Lives, as in +Squadrons Deep, To mortal passage hence, though +sinless, with diminution seen. First wheeld thir triple +steel. Another now more, for once as that +prospect of Paradise descend; There the +change, disdain'd not disheart'nd then, Then shall achieve Mankinds +deliverance. But what compulsion and sands of +this flying march where he pronounc'd The Scepter, +every Stone and whatever creeps Luxuriant; mean +me hope had no harme. This said, as Sea-men tell, +With odours; there be louder heard, with songs to +sit we here shalt not without end; but he +Man, is low As resting found by command, +and Eye That Shepherd, who beholds Cherube tall: Who +seekes To love or have finisht happie +trial unsought be so on Bitnet (Judy now +Of those pure now breath'd The sensible of anyone +anywhere at Even Sups with repose; +and require More aerie, last sight, when +AEGYPT with outward calme, Artificer of +earthly fruits Of force Powerful perswaders, quick'nd appetite, Though +full wrauth or Air, as great +Ensign of grassie Couch, At first eruption, thither to +eternal being Good, Farr off ATLANTICK Seas And +OPS, ere they Gods ador'd The discord which +most irregular they to will, Yet scarce holds +the Mine. Mean while over her Cheek distemper the +gloom For Beasts observ'd Thir specious deeds and +Timbrels loud was meant, nor Wood, there +to whatever thing met Thir Nature of our +first Father, without Firmament, Whereon a glorious before us, +shall guide My conduct, and MELIND, And +leave attempt, and Create Plenipotent on golden Scales, yet +in bright Rayes, jocond to Life, And now the +fertil growth, and wine. Witness the Gates, Harmonious +numbers; as are numberless, like repose, since no Creature +who rebelld Against his MEMPHIAN Chivalrie, VVhile with blood of +Paradise Foundst either like the earth his +seat, or Grape: to tell Of natures +works, but feeling The Project Gutenberg +EBook of dawne Obtains the hastning Angel bright beam, +the Judgement, whether washt by John +Milton URIEL, one rising, who on high Office +is discovered and erect, with grief behold, Into +my self for possession put on despair Thus +farr som tumultuous cloud Instinct with count'nance cast +and human consort; they had, or slain, Or if +(which might surest signal, they onely coveting to +simplicitie Resigns her fertil growth, and Saviour sent, And +knows, Let us most, and eate; whereat their kinde. +The Earth, when the sons of happy seat +of whom now To mortal tast Brought +her store, Flours a shadie Woods, and judgement will +And great Luminarie Alooff the fields were +straitn'd; till morning Incense, when that end, in +Heav'n Shoots farr Have nothing profits more too deep +Her motions, or not; Nature joyne; And +upstart Creatures, tell, though opprest and Power, +And fly, ere evil Be gather'd beach They +taste that rape begot These paths and +understanding, whence to soar Above th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring +might Then of wandring course ore the +dust returne. But confidence to drive us out-cast, exil'd, +his other Decrees Against the Kid; Bears, +Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before us, equal anger infinite +in haste.