StoryTitle("caps", "Invocation") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Phœbus arise! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And paint the sable skies ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With azure, white, and red; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That she thy cáreer may with roses spread; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The nightingales thy coming each-where sing; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make an eternal spring! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give life to this dark world which lieth dead; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spread forth thy golden hair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In larger locks than thou wast wont before, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And emperor-like decore ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With diadem of pearl thy temples fair: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chase hence the ugly night ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which serves but to make dear thy glorious light. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This is that happy morn, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That day, long wishéd day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of all my life so dark ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(If cruel stars have not my ruin sworn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fates not hope betray), ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which, only white, deserves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A diamond for ever should it mark: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This is the morn should bring into this grove ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My Love, to hear and recompense my love. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair King, who all preserves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But show thy blushing beams, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou two sweeter eyes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shalt see than those which by Penéus' streams ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did once thy heart surprise: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nay, suns, which shine as clear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As thou when two thou did to Rome appear. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now, Flora, deck thyself in fairest guise: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If that ye, winds, would hear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A voice surpassing far Amphion's lyre, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your stormy chiding stay; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let zephyr only breathe ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And with her tresses play, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Kissing sometimes these purple ports of death. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The winds all silent are; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Phœbus in his chair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ensaffroning sea and air ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Makes vanish every star: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Night like a drunkard reels ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beyond the hills to shun his flaming wheels: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fields with flowers are deck'd in every hue, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clouds bespangle with bright gold their blue: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here is the pleasant place— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And everything, save Her, who all should grace.", "") ?>
Poet("William Drummond of Hawthornden ", "1585-1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>