INVOCATION. Written on a very hot day, in August 1783. Hannah Cowley (née Parkhouse) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T90094 K073164.000 Cowley, Mrs. (Hannah), 1743-1809. The Poetry of Anna Matilda. London printed by John Bell, British Library, Strand, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. M DCC LXXXVIII. 1788 pp. []-3. [8],139,[1]p.; 8⁰.

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INVOCATION . Written on a very hot day , in August 1783. COOLING zephyrs haste away , Round my humid temples play ; Groves and grots in pity leave , On my fainting bosom breathe ! Skim , as you pass , your silken wings O'er gurgling founts , and glassy springs . Oh ! come from Greenland's icy plains , Where silver Winter constant reigns ; Or from the Arctic , higher fly Thro' the chill Norwegian sky — Turn not to Gallia's sunny vales , Nor mix with yours Italia's gales , Strait o'er the northern ocean sweep , Where pearls the frozen Naïads weep ; But on high Grampia's fleecy top , Where kids , the gelid herbage crop , There zephyr touch ! — then , with new wing Fresh from its chilly caverns spring . Oh ! linger not , midst England's fields , Nor taste the sweets the garden yields ; Heed not our meadows' gaudy charms , But dart , with vigour , to my arms !