 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
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...Prison,' is full of grace and animation, and breathes the very soul of love and honour — ' When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And...divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I 1it- tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Historic buildings - 1847 - 474 pages
...First. Here it was, too, that he composed his beautiful song, "To Althea, from prison." When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; * Aubrey's " Letters of Eminent Men." When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...county of Kent, Therein he wrote the following beautiful poem : TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her lair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...ache, penury, and imprisonment, To what we fear of death. Shakspere. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...my divine Althc» brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettcr'd with re, p When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...of the cavaliers of Charles the First, and author of the exquisite ballad beginning, — " When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; " When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pages
...bird, and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.' Upon which Mr Ellis notes : ' In the original it is " Gods;" the correction is very happy.' Unhappy.... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 pages
...bird, and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.' Upon which Mr Ellis notes : * In the origU nal it is " Gods;" the correction is very happy.' Unhappy.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...; I could not lore thee, dear, so mach, Lov'd I not honour more. To Aluica,from Pram. When 1оте chokiiu» up their stalls, And common cries pursue your ladjvhip For hind'ring o' the m my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetterM with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no...no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd, Our hearts with loyal flame's; When thirsty grief iu wine we steep, When healths and draughts... | |
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