 TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye. The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 261by Henry Reed - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Richard Lovelace - English poetry - 1817 - 284 pages
...through this cloudy day To dress my sorrow by. SUljjca, front SONG. SET BY DR. JOHN W/LSOW. WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates ; And...at the grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The gods that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1818 - 624 pages
...with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althoa brings To whisper at the ¡crates, When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air Have no euch liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...first and last stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates ; And...at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...in his power to make the heart of the prisoner leap for joy. SONG. To ALTHEA, from Prison. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates ; And...at the grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...first and last stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates ; And...the grates ; ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...make the heart of the prisoner leap for joy. SONG. To ALTHEA, from Prison. When love with unconfmcd wings Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea...the grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, . And fetter'd in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air. Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfmed wings Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea...at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. ; Stone walls do not... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1824 - 982 pages
...he was in priion : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates ; And my divine ALTII FA brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled...birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. Campbell, vol. iiL p. 400. • « The title of this work (says Mr. Campbell, vol. iii.p.358) was in... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...soldier. His lines "To Althea from prison," are among the best : here are some of them. " When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To hover at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1825 - 532 pages
...is thus introduced in a Song — addressed to her, by Lovelace, when he was in prison : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates ; And my divine ALTHEA brings To whisper at the grates ; briars which beset the earlier paths or haunts of the more ancient British Muse, and having placed... | |
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