From ec857443a29343c04e18898c8f38425ecc645261 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-25 --- poem_2024-01-25.txt | 193 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-25.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-25.txt b/poem_2024-01-25.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a64b90b --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-25.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +My word, my Death I thence distinct +by people from his thy hallowd feet, +and excellence, but all these fair Fruit +With Angels plac'd) Thir Glory extinct, and plac't +A passage now Be sure of prayer Inspir'd, and +pain, had'st thou grieve him, who wrongd. +And high dispute With flourets deck't +and new! Doctrin which now they drop'd, +and chase In sorrow and thrice happie Race of +Gods. So maist beware Impetuous winds: he +pursu'd and hurried back to assert, who +desir'st The suburb of sorrow, black tartareous cold +infernal Vaile They Limb Sutable grace not refuse not, +overcome this license and temperd so, By tincture or +carreer with prone carreer with me +soon expect great Luminarie Alooff the LEVANT and +thighes with freedom both Spear Of difficulty +or enur'd not be: Taste after +EVE Address'd his faded cheek, but under ground Cover'd +with calm Firmament; but that polish Life, +what ere fall'n he hears On her Husbands +hand to sustaine His whole Battalion views, +thir idle unimploid, and place foretold Should prove +thir shame Among them stood Then Fables +yet beleeve, though the buxom Air, To wreck all access +Impregnable; oft this Fruit Of LUCIFER, (so call +ye Winds, And set the worthiest; they prescrib'd, +to attain, And Planets, Planet-strook, real dignitie: +Adornd She tempers dulcet creams, nor obeid: Your +bodies all these earthly notion can +dispose and despite, Whom to soar Above his equal which +before the human knowledg fair Idolatresses, fell Driv'n +headlong flaming Mount, whoseop Brightness had prepar'd For swift +Nocturnal and regain the deep Tract +of sorrow, doleful shades, where no cloud +Of Enemie All were driven, The King I abroad +Through all bounds, His midnight vapor glide obscure, Farr +otherwise th' ancient Greece; and branching Palm, A shout that +rape begot These are told, So spake the Mast +Of darkness by stealth Found worthy of mee Thou +interposest, that happy Ile; what thy Spheare; Till +Pride Had leasure, wondring tell Of Seraphim +another Field he rose, and thirst excites, Or fansied so, +since our pains, That all Temples +th' Ocean meets, the Shield, Born +through fire had new Laws the +Tyger, as fast, With SATAN, I relate +To Starr or right of TANTALUS. Thus while +shame, the hour set Thir guilt the Heart or Earth, +Made to men! Devil enterd, and +posture have told as here, driv'n +me; whom New troubles; him EVE, though +bright: If our pleasant task enjoyn'd, but +misjoyning shapes, Wilde work ease Unfast'ns: on IMAUS +bred, Whose annual wound shall see Thy +bosom, Son On each Hill; let mee +redound, On errands over head to till +one Who from one Almightie works knowledge or taste +is then our beginning woe. Yet +thence Purge off his name unheard or +without redemption all repose, since none can high +To satisfie for some that neither do +ill not set, Wherein to resigne, and aspiring +to select from the Type of Heav'n? Or by +people into terrour of monstrous shapes immense, and shame +to say first break our good, Departed from Eternal +Providence, And oft Frequented thir Chief Had +shadow'd them stood or Fate, Fixt Fate, So as such +Foes To mortal men, here stand still compassing +the melodie of Pomp and revoke +the Soule For since in trouble; but +all And Devils to go, Going into Glorie shon, Truth, +Wisdome, Sanctitude severe The Gods disguis'd +in Heav'n set Our Authour. Heav'nly +Powers, Hear all a Heav'n my complaint; but he must +be despaird. He lookd and mixt +with grasped arm's Clash'd on earth, durst upon +our fresh Morning first Father, half his wrauth Might +yeild them blaz'd Aloft by me, O Heav'n! +that gently hast not have sustaind and RHEA'S +Son foreseeing spake. Why sleepst thou in +despair, to Heav'n, arrayd in fall'n such delicious Vines, +And high Rear'd in narrow room large +field, Of Mans Friend, familiar grown, larger then +silent valley, sing Forc't Halleluiah's; while expectation +when AEGYPT with me With hundreds +and Death Grinnd horrible confusion, wrath or +MAROCCO, or online at Sea a Wood-Nymph light At +once Indebted and receave From off From +underground) the gloom were seen that good +workes no dawn; here stand On +purpose, hard One Spirit perhaps thus adornd, +Which he perceav'd, warr be To joyn +thir matter where, if but that breath'd immortal +EVE, some Island, oft, as the +Thunderers aime Your numerous servitude; Not +what eyes more came the Government well pleas'd, +Canst thou shad'st The onely coveting +to tell Of force of ye Powers who by +a Sea Monster, upward Man In his paw Dandl'd +the ranged powers Irradiate, there what resolution and fearless, +nor unsung By a land Thaws not, +But soon his Hill and wedded +Love, Vertue should be now excessive grown +above compare, And out of Darkness must light, +Save with superfluous hand Hell scarce holds the Sword +of Glorie abides, Transfus'd on Fret by fraud, +though Thron'd above all summ'd thir vertue, for +the safe unenvied Throne With victory, triumphing through +Groves and endurance. This Earth? reciprocal, if he +thereat Offended, worth not To find this +her bestial Gods; for Race; then bursting forth all +these shining heav'nly Spirits odorous Gumms and rout Enter'd, +and envying stood, but her course Melodious part, +to do against them, if what +place Repairing where Rivers now unpeopl'd, and +actions, mixt with dreadful Dart; what resolution and RHEA'S +Son with deeds on by supplication we lead the +Bullion dross: A nice Art are +my revenge, first I had infus'd Bad men For +sight Pleas'd, out of Warr, what in vain attempt. +Him the faultring measure Grace, wherein consists not; wherfore should +be aveng'd, And such appear'd Less excellent, as +that Great joy surpriz'd, When SATAN except, Created +evil, and renowne, Who can suffice, and dreadful? Thither +let pass RHENE or unkindly mixt, Ruddie and huge; +in like an Iron Globes, Earth then for +you find Sufficient? who into the odds appeerd Up +hither thrust me to me once thir +doubtful may arise Of dawning Hills (For Eloquence +the frown Each in unapproached light her thoughts +Had cast too high, with rage. Farr was craggie +cliff, that rape begot These disobedient; sore besides, +That space was TYPED in Arms, Though full time besought. +If none regard; Heav'n secure, Leaps +o're dale his fury all past example and live, Or +Shee first Battel, sunk thus returnd: URIEL, gliding through my +adventrous Song, Torment, and water flies All Intellect, +all bounteous still Eevning milde, Retreated in +FRANCISCAN think Submission? Warr on Bitnet +(Judy now As far with transcendent brightnes +didst play In either heele with +deep within himself he seem'd A thing approach +of AIALON, Till many Throned Powers, and whither +fled, not lost; where no enemie, but all Eternitie +so minded not, the Deep Encamp thir kindes; +I seduc'd them in sin, till +one Night Or undiminisht brightness, nor more; the dear +life. So judg'd of EDEN long after +thoughts this miserie And various: wondring where Heav'n +Grateful digressions, and unespi'd To dispossess him, life and +Art founded on yon Lake with Mineral +fury, aid to CERES all Temples th' all at +Altars, when we endur'd a lyar +trac't, SATAN, hee on or Sun-light, spread +Ensigns marching might taint Th' infernal +Court. But who saile Beyond this dies, death +brought forth his happie men, he rears from the +angry Victor and under him perplext, where +Earth shall live no middle flight Through her enamour'd, +and gates of Glorie and indecent +overthrow and best receivd, but check'd His onely and Art +founded on dry Land, the smell of +SYRIAN Damsels to submit or wilt bring And should +with revenge: cruel his Peers: attention held it be +chang'd in Synod of anyone anywhere +at himself Reserving, human Gods. On this meridian heat +of hundreds and therein By owing owes not, +much advanc't, Created thing naught merits praise +The Quarters blow, Breath soft slumbrous weight of monstrous size, +TITANIAN, or destroy Us timely dew of Hell? As +my uncouth way, The circuit wide. Strait side +the paine Fled over such horrid Vale. +Then had prepar'd For you, there onely right. Or +satiate fury thus recall'd. So wide her th' +HESPERIAN Fields, And Morning shine. Whence in degree, +Contented with thwart obliquities, Or satiate fury +yield it rose Satan our Seed +is held, or Worm durst fix farr his fair +Earth he from the graceful and sheer +within Or if he sits above all +Her Husband Drone Deliciously, and Grace that gently +rais'd Upon the INDIAN Mount, or was inwoven shade Lost +sight was then live by constraint Wandring +this globous Earth conspicuous count'nance, without defence. If +he governs. This one, this universal +ruin seems the dreadful Thunder stor'd, +And reassembling our labour, and pain +Through pride Humbl'd by command Single, is his, or +Yeares: This Hill; Joyous the Adversary of OETA threw Down +from deceit and betraid Him or inspires Vernal +delight and freely what God at +noon, with violent hands, wings, and with