From f80da04928bfdc89fe9f1cc0cf3684c2bebc7eb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olivier Tremblay Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 07:45:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Robo poem for 2024-01-05 --- poem_2024-01-05.txt | 196 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 196 insertions(+) create mode 100644 poem_2024-01-05.txt diff --git a/poem_2024-01-05.txt b/poem_2024-01-05.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05ebf5d --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-05.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +*** START OF THE NINTH BOOK. Whence +Haile wedded to my state. But thir +wonted signal, they say, How overcome this darkness +should spout her Wheeles That day spring, +under his winged course through experience of Man +Restore us, what Arms can grow +Deep Encamp thir Conquerour: This Desart soile Wants +not nigh the chief; among her original +darkness do I among fresh dews +and valour breath'd, firm ground None arguing stood, Each +on high applauded, and outward shew Invalid +that brightest Seraphim another Heav'n created, nor from +Golden Altar to diminish, and with mortal snare; for +when ZEPHYRUS on FLORA breathes, Her graceful and +press'd her ears Cannot be styl'd +great Father. Admiration seis'd All knees +to enrage thee charge receivd, And fell +both will haste His loss; but in +slow and support; That self invisible Amidst as all +Heav'ns ascent Accessible from ADAMS Son. As +we discharge Freely put thy praise: +Thy tempring; with calm Firmament; but +by stelth Had it had displeas'd, his +purposd prey. He comes, and knows +His puissance, trusting in that tend Thir +soft or false Fruit Of Gods live +by th' AEQUATOR, as this windie +Sea he whom New courage never more at full, +but thir crude consistence, half lost, And worship him, +Author of Worshippers Holy Memorials, acts of all +was hid themselves at call, but pleasd +I behold The highth of such +Audacious neighbourhood, the Sons and tedious pomp +that wisdom back with blood Of Warriers old now True +relish, tasting; if better these fair Fruit, Flour which +thus imploid beheld thir shapes immense, and +regain the Violet, Crocus, and CHIMERA'S dire. ADAM, whom the +dreadful revolution day (For where she learne, +That ore Hill retir'd, from the shape they +win in Paternal Deitie, while over her +Nuptial Bowre I be who him +a heap: Confusion all Temples th' +incensed Deitie, while it be turnd, and +with Mirtle band, mindless the gloom were +interpos'd, Or glittering Tents Pitcht about me, will +By Numbers that no good from men they but thy +reward was seen In vision beatific: +by shading the praise of God Of danger could I +eate th' unsufferable noise, Hell extend His +heart, divine or refuge; and spread +her woomb, And various Spirit in +Mercy and plac't or lasting fame, +Or come and full. After short blush of +light, Angels, then his experienc't eye, and gav'st +me; out thir King of shame, The +fruitless hours, till SATAN, whose just avenging Sword +of Pomp and Repentance, none return'd, +and judgement giv'n, Worthiest to soothe Him +the Wood fast Threw forth, but that +gently warms The STYGIAN flood a devillish Engine +back redounded as beseems Thy coming, and feel +by sentence Man: For him, thy Compeers, +Us'd to God we Stand in me hope excluded thus, +though plenteous, as this Universe, and +stately highth, bent to these Herbs, Fruits, & Fowle +of God; That rais'd Their Seats long they drink, and +spoile back to execute What in Air. Him with +speed, and thirst and honour done +Mayst ever power Who slew his eyes devout, Grateful +digressions, and effect so farr, and Flour. Our knowledge +past with power, and laughs the lurking +Enemie All he lay, and all time, +when men innumerable, there mingle and ras'd, And ignominie, +yet still longer then whom, SATAN went hautie on, +Blest pair; enjoy, till then Forsook them, th' +adventure to weep, burst forth: at noon, +with genial Angel stand, a round Environ'd wins +his wary speech recoverd sad. Evil got, And high +Throne, but straight conjunction with me unsearchable, now +Of Innocence, of honour, due Rites, and ILIUM, +on errand sole, and Mist, then +under Rocks of God; I deceav'd: that first Arch-Angel, great +Author of Heavens Fire and expire. What when BELLONA +storms, With strictest bondage, though the +Spouse Of stern regard Should favour sent from thy +deaths wound shall his Helme, gripe fast bound. +Thou mai'st not; To recompence Equal in thee, vile as +infinite, By LEO and fierie Tempest shall die. How +art can pass Unprais'd: for Man. With ATLANTEAN shoulders +like which yonder Gates? through unquiet rest: this +vertuous touch of nitrous Powder, laid me as Angels +Food, and toward Heav'n so much advanc't, Created mute all +who intends our great Commander; Godlike Power: for +joy thou wert, and Odours and Patriarchs +us'd. Here swallow'd up here Chains +and all sides With blackest Insurrection, to drouze, Charm'd +with hop'd success, Throws his sight Of erring, from +our state he turn'd by success untaught His mightie +Bone, Flesh of Love, is low Bow'd +down Th' ethereal People ran, they +saw beneath This one, the happier Seat Of +fellowship I should be call'd Satan, +with hideous length: before them. But bid +What when call'd The paine fled the Sons +Came not equal much what chance, what +proof unheeded; others count'nance cast and peace by SATURN +old and Goats, they weend That place Ordaind without +his faction, in hell Precedence, none, +so To live there, And look +down Wide interrupt can grow mature +Of Grove of pleasure I part, though fall'n, yet +he so highly, to soar Above his thoughts +intent ITHURIEL and wonderful indeed all assaults +Their surest signal, they around the +Judgement, whether scorn, shall his view: +About him. But yet this Yoke? Will For many +a spacious Heav'n, som glimps of place: +Now I hold us call the taste +nor then wilt bring home spoils with hideous Peal: yet, +when Nature first by command Single, is thought? +To travel this life, sustain'd By Night, To Gods +Disdain'd, but well he heal'd; for high top +was his own? ingrate, he sole +appoints; Number to forewarne Us to +accept as fast, too high, Where art weigh'd, +& glorious Warr, Warr Irreconcileable, to submit or heav'd +his anger saves To God Rais'd impious obloquie +condemne The rest High Eternal Empire, that +thou oft in mysterious parts were it not: +that Forbidden Tree, from begging peace: All his head, +possessing soon recompenc't with Femal Light, yet +beleeve, though joynd With fresh dews +and ride forth, soon after made +common else. By mee; not of anyone +anywhere at my right against the sea, Earth +So having pass'd On duty, sleeping +soon they part loss Created thee, whom mutual wing after +EVE Had entertaind, as ten fold More grateful, +to soar Above th' Ocean stream: Him +God only, shee thy prediction, Seer +blest, with human left side, With rallied Arms +and arm th' offended taste that posteritie must +be free, If you share with +fear, hath God Rais'd on mee +of lamentation loud Their Altars by command Of Thunder: +and with their aerie flight We mean Drawn round he +hath recall'd His rivals, winning soft, by +Day, Which leaves and Rebel Angels, +Progenie of Darkness must exasperate Th' unfounded deep, to +all; but the field, unsafe within thir +eyes; with fresh Fountain, and dangers, heard Commanding loud. PARADISE +LOST *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK +PARADISE LOST *** END OF THIS PROJECT +GUTENBERG EBOOK PARADISE LOST *** START OF HOPE, and +heav'nlie-born, Here swallow'd up rose A Circuit wide, +enclos'd, Pattern of doubt, however to submit +or punish endless? wherefore let dry Land: nigh at +command, ere day upon my course; Directed, no +cloud, or, to prosper, and pain +To question askt Puts on in sleep, +and pain To ADAM took with Project +Gutenberg is so ill. Southward through sloth had +at all; but familiar grown, I +not fear'd; should rest can Man is Knowledge +grew fast sleeping found in Chains; +There dwell free, be returnd Victorious King, AHAZ +his Angels; and Fowle of Armies rung A Creature +thence: if one day by Decree Of congregated Waters +from God In wise are to +spite us long woes are told, So warnd he +spake th' Accuser of God; I +overlive, Why should most High, If mettal, part +shed down in Heav'n permits, nor shall he +yet thir Conquerour: This deep a moment; CHAOS wilde +Abyss, CHAOS to return and shalt know. While other still +But faded splendor likest Heaven Gate Tempest shall write, +To my State, the Architect: his +experienc't eye, His danger, and therein live, The hollow +Abyss the tedious pomp of this Deep, then suffic'd +To dispossess him, who renounce Thir Nature paints her +nothing from the Giant brood Of his Life that +Globe whose hairie sides round by angry JOVE +usurping reign'd: these the smoothed Plank, +The Plain, forlorn and scarce of talk +where highest in strength of sorrow, doleful shades, +where choice Leads him out life; he +gives Heroic Ardor to bring on, with clamors +compasst round Environ'd wins his first +I request for now glow'd the tryal +of Sulphur. Thither full branches would ye bless Me +from begging peace: and avert From +SUSA his waies; While yet dim thine anger fall; +And fly, ere dawne, Effect shall his absolute +Decree Or wander and pride, And calculate +the newes Heart-strook with Hell I obey +him fierce Chariot turnd: To darkness,