Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INVOCATIONS, by WILLIAM FREELAND


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First Line: Arise, o sun and bring / upon thy genial wing
Last Line: A legion, to repel despair by heaven's diviner plan.
Subject(s): Morning


ARISE, O sun and bring
Upon thy genial wing,
The vigour of the morning-tide, the wholesomeness of day.
Arise, and wake the lark,
That, all the dewy dark,
Amid the green concealing grass, wrapt in a dream song lay.

Awake, O drowsy bee;
Flow'r-bosoms pant for thee
And ope, and bloom with beauty, and drip with hydromel;
Awake and join thy hum
To the enchanting sum
Of mirthfulness and melody that now begins to swell.

Open thy beauty, rose;
For now the south wind blows;
And, from the east, thy bold bridegroom is rising from the sea.
The birds thy praises sing,
And flash their merriest wing,
For there is not, in all the world, a flow'r to equal thee.

O lover, ope thine eyes,
And feed no more on sighs,
Or those delicious maladies that make thee lean and weak.
Cast out, not sense, but fear,
And whistle, cool and clear,
And soon the maid, who wavers now, will not be long to seek.

O maiden why so coy?
Seize, seize the proffer'd joy!
And join the music of thy heart unto the pulse of man;
And ye two, being one,
Shall march beneath the sun,
A legion, to repel despair by heaven's diviner plan.





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