Robo poem for 2021-06-01
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Whence in Glory witherd. As my complaint;
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but peace And thrice threefold the
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necks Thou therefore as Sea-men tell, With lust and change
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Befalln us down with me ow I will Thine
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own doom, Yet oft as Angels
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numberless, like state Hold, as heard
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thee sing, Hymns and taste; But O thou canst
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attain, which for the public moment, in
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Heav'n It may reach of cold the shore When
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SATAN beheld From the soft downie Bank damaskt
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with desire To pray, repent, and
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not substance, gently rais'd unite. Why satst brooding
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on Thy fiercest, when earnestly they might
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rise Among our state and stedfast Earth.
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At first, now rests Upon himself; horror
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shot with ambitious aim Against God looking forth pernicious
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highth. My motions harmonie Divine Behests obey,
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worthiest to unite thir Love Immense, and
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mix With mortal dint, Save what
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ensu'd when to consummate floure Spirits arm'd With
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suppliant knee, and willing feet might work in
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degree, Contented with deeds Might hap Of
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ARABIE the floud, With lust hard be peace, Yet
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leudly dar'st our attempt, and upright And Spirit That
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Shepherd, who most they see from those infernal Vaile
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They ended foul concupiscence; whence thither must lie
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bestrowne unsightly and glowing Iron Rod extends
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to stay, Rose, and unfoulding bright and ambrosial
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smell So fitly them to speak Such prohibitions binde
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Volatil HERMES, and with Cedars crownd Above them as
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rais'd They vote: whereat their malice fall'n, to them,
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th' upright And now 'Twixt upper, nether, and Caves;
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but giv'n; what seem'd A dewie
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Mist Went all access was at Heaven and hostile
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din, That ADAM the Vision led the
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Foe not those few unknown Long way
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Pursues, as glowing Iron or heav'd his solitary flight; som
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small donations ($1 to pine Immovable, infixt,
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and dearer half, The multitude of
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Death; ye see Thy Rebels, or holds
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the Full Counsel must confess to light and
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shame beneath Th' eternal fame in Heav'n
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wakes despair That with delight; how dear, To
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argue in Hell: Better to enure
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Our knowing, as this gloom; the Aire
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Smooth Lake, That would intermix Grateful vicissitude,
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like which yonder nether Empire, that Fantasm
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call'st evil, and drearie Vaile They sate
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Sin and acceptance found, Among the
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horrid Shade above I fear; Yet
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these two strong To Gods are
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lost; Evil one small donations to strive,
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no less but chief delight and
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Left for us all: this creation was? rememberst thou
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accept Alone thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, as from
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guilt and Rebel Angels, then in sight, thou met?
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thy Name I foreknew, Foreknowledge had filld with
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everlasting Frame, while ye Angels, then perus'd, and passion to
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Death at ease The bold Wont
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ride in yon Lake thir issue Guard, Mount he proceeded
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on Thrones; Though comfortless, as the wooff; His
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Word, begotten Son, Heire, and bid
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cry With gay Traine Follow'd in lieu of more
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Of love refines The Earth Gave proof
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enough such appear'd in VALDARNO, to performe
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Aught whereof all hue, as in Array of whose
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hand soft oppression seis'd By Night, and Omnipotent From
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Noon, and therein plac't us most, and
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shame To mortal Dart Made vocal by
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stelth Had shadow'd them clos'd, Hell
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With rallied Arms not fear'd; should have foyld, If
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an hour What thanks sufficient, or Golden
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Scepter of Bulls and scourge that
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God, Creator in utmost skirts appeer, and
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said, thy Sister, and all Mankind, by various Names, Needlest
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to love they stood; But O shame hee
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Whom to cross. Nor shalt proceed, and
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soft'n stonie hearts To manifest the tumid Hills,
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and SUS, MAROCCO and call'd aloud. Whence Haile
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wedded to prosper, and remote Produces
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with ambitious to accept Alone the local wounds
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This would intermix Grateful digressions, and amaz'd, No inconvenient
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Diet, nor example with ambitious mind his orbed Shield,
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Awaiting what command thir Citie, his Lip
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Not Spirits, traind up rose A herd of works
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Created vast immeasurable Abyss the shades High commanding, now
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enforc't to nobler Bodies to and
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Creeping things, and gave way they little seems
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a Floud thee being So spake our equal:
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then gon to sing, Hymns and with Forrest
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huge Rose and therein By Death ready at Midnight Bal,
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Or transmigration, as great LUCIFER, (so call Decrepit Winter,
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from the Garden plac't, but rather darkness do
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practically ANYTHING with threats To mortal injurie
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Imperishable, and feare it long, Embryo's and
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highth, And full terms too long Assist us: But
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mark what things clad; Silence accompanied, for the prime,
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yet not worst, If dream'd, If thou
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attended gloriously from the waste, and shame that pure
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To MICHAEL of envie, yet by som cursed crew
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I assume, And the Muses haunt Her own, our
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afflicted Powers and joy Sole in thine
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this Empyreal Aire, Fire, Who can copy upon his
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devilish Counsel, first taught The punishment all assaults Their
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surest signal, they drink, and passion first
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wraught the fixt Mine eare of their
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side Mixt with reflected Purple and luxurie. Th' IONIAN
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Gods, Thir wandring thoughts, Vain hopes, vain
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In curles on flours, much worse,
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in Arms, in honour and everie magnitude
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of unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on the works Not
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all Her dark opprobrious Hill, or
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Drie, Like Night, Or if ye will grow
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All hast made? So sented the Master work, without
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hope relies. The stedfast Earth. Forthwith
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upright with me Henceforth; my revenge,
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immortal EVE, Saw where to all; but endless woes?
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inexplicable Thy creature late Doubted his
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Works, Creature grew, there ye find,
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who Reigns, and one whose thwart obliquities, Or
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with grasped arm's Clash'd on yon boyling
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cells prepar'd, The goodly prospect large bestowd, where
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is subject not; shee and highth, bent thir
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kindes; I call ye flow, Nightly I repent and all
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to like himself and yet unpaid, prostration
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vile, the welkin burns. Others whose
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charge with unnumber'd as friend with
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fresh Morning streak the winde, Blown up drawn,
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Rose as soon they seise them more. But
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O Powers Insensate, hope no cloud Made common
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else. By Night, Fierce as Sea-men tell,
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With awful brow, more rich appeerd Under th' infernal
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Spirit seen least had filld the Fiend. Back to
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hymne his rebellious head. And RAPHAEL
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After these first taught In horror; from Night; which
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glory excites, Or we know, when the Giant
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brood Of force of this agreement, you find here
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plac't, with capacious mind and all articulat
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sound; If then no reward, the INDIAN
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Mount, whoseop Brightness had need from under shadie
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Bank damaskt with charge Returnd on thoughts,
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and reason'd high magnificence, who thee appeer, Yet by
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decision more pleas'd they pass'd, and be
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here in Lust they fought at Midnight Bal,
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Or Starrs Numberless, as Night Starless
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expos'd, and bliss, Exempt from the Fowles
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he assayd, and eas'd the Son,
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by degrees Of Cattel pastur'd late, or Heaven seen,
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The sound Yet dreadful to that arise On JUNO
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smiles, for the sound-board breaths. Anon they
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choose; for all corruption, all Beleevers; and with wonder
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now Remains thee, Whither shall need, not
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lost; Evil in Plain Of middle shoare Of
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order, though she took; And Bush with
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infinite Abyss the works In Entrailes,
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Heart Omniscient, hath shut Excel'd her rural
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mound the ARABIAN shoare; So little know What when
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they sit the most irregular they
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ran, they choose With God, that finds her Will
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rule; thy hallowd mould, earth-born perhaps,
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Not without permission of Principalities the Spirits perverse
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With thought no middle Tree of
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short Of sacrifice, and motion? and
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longing wait The Calf in DODONA, and deadly hate,
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Sad task To know Second to
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incline his Sons, the Plain; A
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gentle sleep can relate, Erring; for anguish
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and with reiterated crimes he so stupid grown, larger
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then Op'nd into sevenfold rage more elevate, and
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seal up every leaf, that rape begot These disobedient; sore
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The Parsimonious Emmet, provident he abides,
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Transfus'd on him raise and declare All is
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punish't; whence a moment; CHAOS judge
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both live, Though all these thoughts
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revolv'd, his Ire, Though of replacement copy
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and rather such wherein consists not;
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shee for open Front to touch.
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Immediate in alt: him perplext, where Vertue
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fails, or therein live, though gay Traine Follow'd in
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compliance with Man: For dissolution wrought In Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable,
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impal'd with like themselves they Hasted with transcendent
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glory to God; That Shepherd, who first
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tending, when BELLONA storms, With gay
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enameld colours mixt: On LEMNOS th' event
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In order, so suffice his due course now
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hear and heard, and Edict on or have then fallible,
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it was, whose fault? Whose midnight
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vapor glide obscure, Farr on rout, Confusion heard
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no cloud in naked Glorie. Such proof,
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Hell-born, not fear'd; should not endu'd With
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what sweet repast they acquitted stand By thir matchless
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Chief: As good proceeds, I will trouble of
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Heav'n From thir secret gaze, Or aught then
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they fell! There in PALESTINE, and waken
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raptures high; The Confines met thou th'
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AEGAEAN Ile: thus consulting, thus expell'd to
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sit contriving, shall his mind, whose
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