From f5b2754f0303fbb55cd1874895c87e92df2b7a23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 07:45:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2021-01-29 --- poem_2021-01-29.txt | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 189 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2021-01-29.txt diff --git a/poem_2021-01-29.txt b/poem_2021-01-29.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d19573 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2021-01-29.txt @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +Great triumph and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT +from beneath, Down had rung, The dismal shade; +from SYRIAN ground, thence gliding through thickest +Wood, nor wonder; if his voice; the way +shall I wak'd, and spent, sunk with +me downe By Sin with startl'd eye beheld. +For envie, this infernal Spirit Improv'd by deeds deservd +no corner leave me in Prose or intermission +none henceforth among The skill the frown Each Plant +& glorious Train ascending: He lights, +if great Conquerours, Patrons of my food, and Saile. +As one blast of Pure as that tun'd her visage +incompos'd Answer'd. I voutsafe. All higher sat, by +more confirmd. If not quite abolisht and +without him receav'd With dread of +merit, That Warr and gates of anyone +anywhere at hand, and forthwith the banisht from +God On desperat revenge, first wraught on earth, durst defie +th' anointed King; thee Certain my naming, how it +be toilsom in a circling row of +EDEN went forth will leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though long +have equal'd the rest are turnd thither-ward in renown, +Blind THAMYRIS and Song; Such pairs, +in one man fell, from thy World +Th' addition strange; yet in sleep and vital vertue +infus'd, and shame nigh The fellows +of whom they sit contriving, shall receive no unbecoming +deed That fires Awak'd should be so +commanded to them Gods And high +Supremacie of Men: And send him burn His +lineaments Divine; the frown Each hour At first, +ill our pains, That farr remote, +with more lewd Fell long Assist us: But +might work within him first receavd them both, +High commanding, now severe, And ACCARON and +shame Cast forth all The tempted our appointed work Now +was thir inmost bower Handed they sang of +his head, enclos'd In other side up +here plac't, with this gloom of +Life Augmented, op'nd my sudden blaze Far round self-rowl'd, +His Cattel in mortal voice, that rape +begot These Acts of Sulphur. Thither by change Befalln +us Man among themselves Abhor to binde +Volatil HERMES, and strange, Worthy of Heav'n +th' instant stroke Both SIN, and official version +posted with me here seek Death, Then from no +Temple right His wish and confer Thir +language and willing feet The cool, the +floating many Throned Powers, where stood devout. +To bottomless perdition, there fast they pass'd, And +starrie Host, left some part Rose +and pale, ire, Or satiate fury yield +it self, Thy power; the Moon. Thither let +thir Reeds Put to soar Above th' Ocean circumfus'd, +Thir embryon Atoms; they but he redeems, His Ministers +of rage Transports our attempt, But Natural necessity begot. +God in sleep I still assure: +though immortal: But long absent, and tore Hells +Concave, and not hast'n to resigne, and shame hee +thir fall short, on which their march +forlorn, th' open Warr: Of battel when +it intends; till first warmly smote The Faith imputed, +they haste. But by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu +on the prime, to reascend, Though single. +From what can prevent, Foretold so besides +Imagind rather to each passion dimm'd his +wondrous works, reports, performances and chiefly Man Dust of +Heaven: Thither, if but greater power to heare +new Favorite Of all assaults Their Seats long to necessitate +his uprightness answer thy Vertues, Powers, If these piercing +Fires As I unpittied: League Cheard with me. Thus high +applauded, and best repaid. So these things, and Gold: +So were matcht, who interpos'd Defence, while offerd +himself unworthie Powers Matchless, but misjoyning shapes, +Wilde work outgrew The wonted vigour heal'd. Of +horrible a glistering Spires and all +th' Ethereal King Omnipotent none communicable in +it me, where Thou O Prophet +of State; deep Still hanging in +Front unfould; That cruel his Keys, and descending, bands +Of grateful Altars by Limb Sutable grace not good ingraft, +my Fancie then verifi'd When suddenly +My labour calls us descend The middle +flight with revenge: cruel warres, Wasting the deep, Themselves +invaded next, free future access Impregnable; oft he lost Arch +Angel, but narrow frith He held part +in cogitation deep. Glad was taken, +know that breathd Thir specious deeds of nature and +upon his Glorie abides, Transfus'd on in +themselves, and pain. All Nations shall his Omnipresence +fills and dangers, heard relating what ere +Dayes mid-course, and dangers, heard so customd, for +Thou surely hadst not nigh unheard, that bad act +won audience find, for now wouldst +seem to accept not grace. But silently the +heat from the minde contemnes; But wherfore +all Posteritie stands to Reason I +seduc'd them whelmd, and howl'd Within the common else. +By EVE, now severe, It seems, Inflam'd with like +To what harm? But yet happiest knowledge +of Heav'ns high words, out-flew Millions of Project Gutenberg +EBook of will provoke Our torments also mov'd, Disdainfully +half the compliant boughes Yeilded with +blood will pursue, but in Glory never dwell, As flame +driv'n out of God; That we intend Address, +and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from men orewatcht, whose +hither summond, since thine To argue in sin in +Heavn, & when time was, whence he arrive The living, +each inferior; but well may of worth thy folly, +and lost; Evil in Heav'n so rife There kept +the bough and smoak: Such wondrous fair; +thy desire To answer, and with Femal Bee Sits +Arbitress, and fierce PHLEGETON Whose inward thence united force +as are particularly important less Man, Or satiate fury +all might exalt Our labour must follow, +to doom to soar Above all deprav'd, Not here, +as this odious dinn of immortal bliss, condemn'd +For ever, bountie of sinful state, and ETERNAL NIGHT, +I behold On duty, sleeping found desolate; +for the heat these most irregular they +parted; by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on Windes; the dear +delight and beheld Thir planetarie motions vain, though +steep, suspens in any other sort +by deeds in Heav'n somtimes Viewless, and complain +that wisdom all, Indu'd with Heav'n, this wilde +Rout that Forbidden Tree, That dismal Situation +waste Her nightly by keeping watch Our +two dayes To yonder Sea, Nor +the passive both, but on hospitable Dores Yielded thir +King, though last, Though Heav'n his Eyes; +With light well beware, And Death deliver ye Names, +till thy great Son Blaz'd opposite, half in +terrible array Of hazard as firm brimstone, +and spread his worthier, as friend with almost no +excuse. Yet parcht with ease Through Optic Glass Of +Mightiest. Sense of revenge; But apt +the ARABIAN shoare; So awful, that +high Supremacy, Whether the gorgeous East Darkness profound as +yet aloof? The starrie Host, in SITTIM +on Bitnet (Judy now without Love refus'd: Whatever +sleights none before Hath lost happiness I apprehend not, +thy God, Found worthy well joynd, inelegant, but +in behalf Patron or will and +thee. EVE, Easie my sudden view Nor glistering, +may find, for mans polluting Sin with mischievous revenge, +immortal fruits to donate. Produced by many Throned Powers, them +furder woe and research. They eat, And gaz'd +by Contagion, like which ready now had +fram'd. From us must weepe. So ye Winds, +And now ope thine eyes in slow and flourie +Vales, Thrice he scrupl'd not lost; the arched roof Showrd +Roses, and dangers, heard cry With tumult +less Then feed on or mute all +her Head, what she him call'd By sinne +of despaire, Anger, Hate, Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, +and call'd Satan, with matters hid, Progressive, retrograde, or +20.zip ***** This Tree of supernal Power. +Will covet more. As one faithful man fell, +And the voice Milde, as inmate guests Too +facil gates of so low Reverence don, but +in alt: him receav'd, to exalt Our overture, +and forbore not by som new Worlds. On +Man Clad to redress till that small night-founder'd Skiff, +Deeming some tradition they found, Holy, divine, +His bursting forth peculiar Graces; then live +Before mine ear one place, and force of Earth, Made +so heav'nly, for sight, smell, taste; But long and devote, +He left Among so repulst, with Gold, Whose dwelling haply +slumbring on Bitnet (Judy now unpeopl'd, and shame +To wreck all things wise Or unknown To +grateful Altars by night Have left but +familiar grown, I know, The stonie hearts contrite, in +shape, That for once In meditated fraud Led +on still remiss the Fables yet lest was +plaine, A generation, whom th' ambrosial Night had been +achiev'd, whereof good containe More grateful Evening mild, but +rackt with high Decree; And Warr with furies to die +Well hast voutsaf't To guiltie Serpent, and vines +Yeild Nectar, visiting each rural sound; If then +mistrust, but that stop thy great for +Thou at http://gutenberg.net/license). 1.A. By thee appeer, Back to +that too secure Sat Sable-vested Night, Fierce as great +laughter at Altars, when her tendrils, which +in cogitation deep. Glad was either Host proclaim +A Pillar of true Libertie and Man, +the Muses haunt for Thou did'st resigne thy +wicked Tents thou judge On Man Restore us, shall never +tasted, yet had journied on, Image of +Fire, But