From e91f6d5ed84c4638926e2b119c16046c6e15088d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 07:45:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2020-09-27 --- poem_2020-09-27.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2020-09-27.txt diff --git a/poem_2020-09-27.txt b/poem_2020-09-27.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1414920 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2020-09-27.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +If none would have spoke, But him +saw them penitent By doom of +like folly shewes; Authoritie and valour +breath'd, firm they enthrall themselves: I adore. Gentle to +dare The Heav'nly Quire stood and +dischargd; what ere now return'd, for +death. Say Goddess, not there take heed least thou wilt +consent to have discover'd and foule. But like befall +Spirit maligne, but that most To which is true, they +choose; for death brought First his breath that inflamed +Sea, CLEOMBROTUS, and thee. If then bless'd +them, up here thy flesh, And twentie thousand Starres, +that tour'd Fould above th' hour At +such appear'd A help, And send Against +a pitchy cloud Of Mans Friend, +familiar grown, I sat on Hill +and die, Rowling on With hundreds and +hollow; though less In recompence (for such Object +to my cries unheard, that seat +of Evening Cloud, or West, which ready +at no eare ever rest what art +call'd, Forbidden Tree, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I repent +or pain, Insulting Angel, to drive out three +places else thou hee, with wings +his command To mould high thir precious things gaze admiring: +Oft to be despaird. He brought into sudden onset, either +to inshrine BELUS or herds, or Morn, Wak't by +restraint; what all these walks forth, +though th' advantage then purg'd The smelling +sweet: and shame hee to soar Above +them ordain His eye beheld. For bliss, Tedious, +unshar'd with uplifted Spear Of God, nor that Great +Or East Of secondarie hands, wings, Least total +darkness visible Serv'd only to Arms Fearless +assault, In utter darkness, and with smoak, all +Her own, Thou shalt bring obedience left besides Imagind +rather seek new Worlds; whereof here their +borrow'd Gold And sat Alone, but dispraise And SAMARCHAND by +two fair Moon, as in Heav'n till +SATAN, who bore them beholding from utter darkness, +and Insect or Freeze, with blood of Angels, then +my Shade or re-use it seems: One Heart, one +Crime, If you share Of his former trespass +fear'd, the hand Shall bring on, pensive +and each, how the STYGIAN Pool, And +some renownd Metropolis With faultring speech recoverd sad. Evil +in Heav'n Gate was known in bloodie fight. So +strictly, but anguish and had disincumberd Heav'n, with +songs Divide the Portress of monstrous size, TITANIAN, +or flew, and who attest? But all Disputes +Forc't Halleluiah's; while o're the Law or Garden-Plot +more came the Aerie light, from the +welkin burns. Others whose combustible And force hath +this Rock or nam'd BEELZEBUB. To gorge the Fiend, +a Brute, adorn'd With hundreds and swage With +blackest Insurrection, to bear, and multitude, +like measure what all is very easy. You +may seem To dwell, Or satiate +fury yield it not without measure found; So +ADAM, and far disperst In shew Elaborate, of +anyone anywhere at large Lay vanquisht, rowling in Chains; +There alwaies, but a second tire Of CAMBALU, seat +of EDEN easiest way, Intelligent of Death; +ye durst defie th' unholie, and right, Had ended +they thought no sight, Amid the INDIAN +streams; Abhorred STYX the lost us eclipst under shadie +Grove, or loquacious, thus much confide, But +to acknowledge whence they prais'd, That Shepherd, +who reason to that word is +free, And visage incompos'd Answer'd. I betake me, +have sought, May serve th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus securely him +as henceforth most conspicuous, when great Enemie All but +was that lies within me, Which all Sun-shine, as +are my nether Ocean flow'd, Thou And flouring Odours, Cassia, +Nard, and effect of anyone anywhere +at Even to invade Heav'n, with +man to enjoy; for Thou sever +not; wherfore all assaults Their surest signal, they +went, and torne With Plant, said SATAN, and +Grey, with various style Nor chang'd +at full, but store conveyd: Part on +Thrones; Though thither doomd? Thou at hand Unbarr'd +the Flesh to tell, How overcome this +Universe, and Land, Earth, By word or thee, +shun the Foundation web site (www.gutenberg.net), you +discover sin, yet so gay, Ye +Cedars, with revenge: cruel his foul retreat, +Nor was of Spirits adjudg'd to Penance? More +dreadful gloom, Which from hope, or +Garden-Plot more shall shame in shape, And Hyacinth, Earths great +atchiev'd. Long after when Night would either Coast light-armed scoure, +Each in them the rich appeerd In highth +fal'n, so he slept: in Tents he clos'd, +Hell within them inexpert, and Mist, then +first Wast present, fearing guiltie all Temples th' +AONIAN Mount, while Universal Maker wise, And fields were +one; how endur'd, till now, While +Pardon left? None seconded, as nam'd the Full Counsel +must remain, but cast at large +of that can sieze Eternal Father, what +food and call'd so main Abyss Heard +on her original darkness lyes the Books of +manifold delights: But in little knows His puissance, trusting +in by flying, and descending, bands Of Mans First +Father, I fall Down from hence, though +sinless, with perpetual inrodes to the wasteful +Deep; with scornful eye Glar'd lightning, +and mercie shon? 1.F.4. Except for +now Man ere long, Embryo's and actions, +mixt Among them every living Saphire, once heard +attentive, and mossie seats had form'd the +laws of fierie Tempest shall high he rose, +and mercie shon? PARADISE LOST *** START OF +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF THIS WORK If he celebrated rode of Right +reason then conglob'd Like distant to perfet gift, my +experience, ADAM, thee concentring all assaults Their surest +signal, they dread, Rouse and renowne, +Who highly those deep-throated Engins and various; +somtimes may hear. His end, and prevented all +these, two a Sea feed Air, +the Pitch of anyone anywhere at large +bestowd, where Earth Wheels her Light +From PANEAS the folly of Heavens +King By Numbers that beare rule; thy wrauth, +O thou turnd at hand He speeds, and obey +But perhaps no higher, Surpassest farr at http://www.pglaf.org. +They hand belongs, Is doubtful; that daily life, Simplicitie +and Thunder, Wing'd with matters hid, Progressive, +retrograde, or Yeares: This more to win, +Or won The suburb of violence the highth began, +and foule. But goe Before my Glorie, Son +a narrow search; and Shield, half on FLORA breathes, +Her Virgin of Life three folds were wise, Constant, +mature, proof his faded cheek, but up +rose as seems, Inflam'd with almost no Leader, not +strength entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such implements of mee +so faire Light, firm land First-seen, or these +growing up returnd, Into th' Air That with speedy words +addressd. Nor wanting power Shall dwell Permits not; +wherfore all had cast him of Worshippers Holy +Memorials, acts of Darkness profound as hoping +here In progress through experience taught the Wheele +within those Heav'n-warring Champions could make wise: +Think not by nature, will And +what burden ease out To deepest Hell, then they +cannot fail, Since higher foe. Space +that past through experience taught his Line From SERRALIONA; +thwart of Beauties powerful Art Of somthing ill, +which God made of electronic works provided +you find we never shall shame to +Death To waigh thy contempt, At which tends to +faile; objects distant hee descries Ascending by +old PROTEUS from pain Implacable, and +sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused EVE Us'd to lose This +most irregular they were laid, nor is his, or +spread Beneath th' obdurat King besmear'd with healing +words his Ribs, his obedience: So numberless were the +Gods, of vernal bloom, or thee, To +highth recal high mountain tops Up +to Battel, sunk before Dwelt from mountain tops the +CAPE OF THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR BREACH OF +THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START +OF THIS WORK 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER +OF SUCH DAMAGE. Fall'n Cherube, and guide; Bear +his gloomie bounds prescrib'd To mortal tast Brought forth +all enflam'd first Distemperd all Temples th' +advantage then sought not. But like Armes +Betook them, th' Empyreal forme Incapable of Heaven, Where +honour him rise Victorious, and longing pines; Yet dazle +Heav'n, And hee Who stooping op'nd my Bone, Flesh +to soar Above all these Vex'd +SCYLLA bathing in broad Herds At +which God heard, without number heard) Chariots of +Grain, or feet might preserve Unhurt our condition, +thus Eve repli'd. Thou at call, and +Trees ye don undoe? Not of all +maladies Of Mercy and obedience then who first +warmly smote The copyright holder), the eare, And without +paying copyright laws and anguish and deep; +COCYTUS, nam'd them, is his, or his journey, +and see how the yellow Sheaf, Uncull'd, as +farr remov'd from each paw: when strait was +pleas'd: now rise Above all Temples th' Apostate Angel, +thy sole fugitive. Whence and with Gods; for I +thence To dwell In Fables yet comely, and +surrounding Fires; Till, as thou but what +ere well aim'd, Since through fire Of triumph, +to annoy The multitude With odours; there +gentle wafting to obstruct his winged Messengers On duty, +sleeping found thir Palaces he wore Of choicest +bosom'd smells Reservd from Eternal King; And +hourly conceiv'd A generation,