Robo poem for 2022-04-26
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Meanwhile the Giant brood Of natures works, Parent of
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Pomp and passion dimm'd his head, but
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in PALESTINE, and breath'st defiance toward
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the sportful Herd Of Mans First Disobedience,
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and regain the Pow'rs of monstrous shapes and frozen
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loyns, to soar Above all assaults Their surest signal, they
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had suffic'd, Not only shon Above
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all Her Seed Is not built exclaimd,
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And ACCARON and motion? and therein live, till
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fire Among his faithless Progenie: whose thou in fears and
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Vanquisht: on NORWEGIAN hills, to do ought that
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strow the smiling Morn or High; because
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in worth Attempting, or later; which follows
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dignity, might offer now learn What life ambrosial
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fragrance fill'd With hundreds and goes: but Heav'nlie
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borne, Before all assaults Their surest signal, they see
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Pleasures about this frail Man his secret now changing;
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down he make sure was safe, And
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high rode: the Eastern Wind, That is, and
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with Eyes, she by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu
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on by coming on dust and Twilight
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(for he spake, th' expanse of worth Attempting,
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or human life. So they treat
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till in Heav'n so just, said MICHAEL, this
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Garden, leav unsearcht no strife Was moving
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nigh, Soft she preferr'd Before all a Beast, or
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these Heav'ns Artillery fraught, come flying, and
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(c) any particular state Hold, as nam'd Thrones, First,
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what compulsion and warme, Temper or carreer with farewell
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sweet influence: less At random yeilded light OREAD
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or paine, Till by command thir feet On that
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feard to enrage thee more, A triple-mounted row of
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unkindly mixt, Assemble, and beat'n way seems Of
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ravenous Fowl, Fish, Beast, or Head, nor
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from Hell, Thou at command, and shoares
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Thir Brood as farr distant farr Beneath
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thy flight To civil Game To fill Of goodliest
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Trees on main to Godhead; which methinks I
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fear, which wee want praise; Yee that gently
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mov'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to minde Labouring had I
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fear; Yet live thus obtain a crew, but chief delight,
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As flame they faint Satanic Host and shame
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in sleep dissent? new joy Sole reigning holds
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the ranks ascend Ethereal, and inclination or Thicket past
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thy Sons Then both despoild, Made erre, was pure,
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Transparent, Elemental Air, if within beyond Frighted the highth
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began, and Love no thought, and
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therein plac't A fairer person or past, present, could
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frequent, and rural labours crown As soft And high advanc'd,
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Standards, and Shield, Born through experience taught The
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Chariot drawn up risen With Angels held Before all th'
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adventure then bursting forth Afresh with loud acclaime Thee
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what could yeild. For envie, yet Regaind in
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Heav'n Gate With low Bow'd down alone against Armie
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against so Fate the Son, why hast
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heark'nd to provide access to that
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God attributes to meet Man; him MOLOC,
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Scepter'd Angels Food, and rule or
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tongue ineloquent; for the dire was come,
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and ILIUM, on Bitnet (Judy now
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To mortal Sentence turn'd. All yours, now flotes,
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but op'n flie With earths hallowd feet, and therein
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plant A Virgin pass, What better
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us, pregnant causes mixt with warring Winds, And should
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rest to pervert that tun'd her battering Engines
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bent on golden Scales, yet once The circuit
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of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or drink, and
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rather Death Shall build His ZENITH, while
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Warr seem'd Woman to prepare Fit Vessel,
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fittest Imp of Life. Nor love
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Our circuit meets A vast Abyss Might tempt with
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circling Zone Dwell not fear'd; should be, Deterrd
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not for grace in her prime, yet linkt;
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Which oft, they were an authoritative
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edition in peace. Can sort, So numberless were
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Of ugly Serpents; horror shot forth redounding smoak and
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Thrones, that so wondrous Art thou op'nst Wisdoms
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way, but neither Sea, and distribution of Warr, Nor
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stop th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus MICHAEL. Justly
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hast made? So dear pledge Of secondarie
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hands, by EVE, Easie my owne, My
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word, each To have else and
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poure Abundance, fit and ceasless praise ye
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judg'd, the Oracle of Life. Nor good before
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the agreement for intercourse, Or taint
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integritie; but this opacous Globe Of
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hazard all Sun-shine, as farr distant
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farr, whereby he turnd, And saw the Birds;
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fresh Gales and stedfast Earth. God to
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his absolute Decree Of Seraphim and Timbrels loud Their living
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Creatures rational, though that thir light
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turnd the pain Which else might determine, and jarring
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sound Or glittering Starr-light without paying copyright laws
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of Battel; and Ocean brim, Shot
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after thaw, till anon A World a liquid sweet. But
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rather seek needless cause Mov'd the voice and
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dismiss thee Henceforth; my advice; since no nook,
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As present, past, and superiour Fiend lookt up returnd, as
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fast, fear not fight. So spake the
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Love, mysterious parts like, the rest his
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rigour Satisfi'd never; that to emulate, but less
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vext with almost no dividual holds, men Such ruin last,
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then Glory extinct, and therein plant eyes, Sunk
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down thir change, Nor serv'd but th' unholie,
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and meet: What justly accuse Thir lighter
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wings. To pray, repent, and keen, shattering
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the purer, earth his fatal Throne: Which leaves in
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AUSONIAN land Thaws not, the bowels of zeale
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None can prevent, Foretold so stears his
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fellows, with ambitious mind and sole Auditress; Her graceful
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and chase Anguish and with caution joind, thir
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known in Vale, nor could frequent, and
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with offers to devour, immures us then
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wilt descrie the Gates; three lifted up to till
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thus abasht the Son, in Chains, with Soul. Male
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he decreed Thir multitude, stand or Penaltie? Here or
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deceave his grace, The Rib he
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oppos'd; and native suttletie Proceeding, which th' Ocean
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or heav'd his Words alone bent to submit or of
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OPHIUCUS huge He spreads for Deities: Then
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with one Tree of increasing the
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voice I taught the Sons Came Prologue,
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and lyes Bordering on which follows dignity, might relate
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Things unattempted yet from beneath, Down from the
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method you may bring, what sin hath no fall,
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onely Teares Raind at ease I spare
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Thee also th' Angelical to accord) Man therefore cannot live.
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For Death ensue? But all was TYPED in
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sighs now Saint PETER at whose lowly
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creep; Witness if fields revive, though all Regal Scepter,
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every living Saphire, once as this enclosure green,
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As they, or grey, Till Pride Had gone
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All Prophecie, That lay intrans't Thick swarm'd, both one slight
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bound the passive both, the Zenith like himself beginning
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knew? Desire with gentle gales Fanning
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thir canie Waggons light: So many more toil Of
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three folds were interpos'd, Or if our
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Law. If then Obtuse, all assaults Their
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surest signal, they wherewithall, would but Life
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offer'd, he came, and ere day yet
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rude, Guiltless of two past; and forms Imaginations,
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Aerie wheele, Nor shall dash Maturest
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Counsels: for love refines The PERSIAN
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in Glory obscur'd: As is committed and gratious purpose
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to adorn His Sons, the Heavens thou the vision
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beatific: by small reflection gaines Of tasting to
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soar Above th' effect of hurtful, prosperous of
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us hence: Here for ever to gaze; When
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ever shall his head, enclos'd with Envy and pain
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Through pain To suffer, as heard Infallible? yet
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with perfet sight, If answerable style Nor are one,
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this or oppose, or nourish, or depth,
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still thou count, Or not lost; the
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Victors will. To match with ambitious to
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circumvent us falling, and upturn'd His own:
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for high Noon Culminate from the bare backs
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upheave Into their great Ensign of such
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from either Wing, and happier life, Is
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Center, and reason just, said God, leap'd fondly
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thinking to their Generals Voyce they fierce heat, Whose failing,
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meets A shameful and fix't as fast, fear To mortal
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tast Brought forth all assaults Their childrens cries unheard,
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that may then be read thy Sister, and
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fed With wide bounds; beyond abstain To
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tempt not have not quite abolisht and dangers, heard me
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cleere, not over-rul'd Thir nakedness with almost
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no higher, Surpassest farr then bursting
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forth Triumphant through hostile din, That Death is free,
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And various Names, Needlest to have heard, dim
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Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On ADAM,
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who overcomes By my firmness gains To
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basest things. Revenge, deceiv'd The Adversarie. Nor the Fift
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day. Assembl'd Angels, yet dim suffusion veild. Yet
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dazle Heav'n, the Cope of guests Too
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facil gates of joy; Happie, but a Birth Of
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Natures concord holds, men Such high he
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drew nigh, Soft on Bitnet (Judy now
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return'd, with rosie hand Reaching beyond dust is
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To Idols through Darkness, drive us in
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Armes; And O loss of thee;
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greater Man deprav'd, Not here, driv'n out From
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underground) the Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of
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rest. Meanwhile the Gulf Of waters fall From
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dust: spite us excites his indignation: through experience taught
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the Lake, nor obeid: Your bodies may see who not
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before us, we his head, but in Arms,
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in despair, to sway Brandisht aloft shading the Hall (Though
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like This Flourie Plat, the shaggie hill and therein
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stand. For thee out of NEGUS to good; And look
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Bound on man; I forewarn thee, yet
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