 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
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. 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 fettur'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...coal, Then chiefly lives ! TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. RICHARD LOVELACE, born 1618, died 1658. 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 to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...will return to thee, Ev'n sated with varietie. ToAlthea. — From Prison. When love with uncoufined wings Hovers within my gates; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates : When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetter' d to her eye; The gods that wanton in the aire, Know no such... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...grace and animation, and breathes the very soul of love and honour : — When Love, with nnconflned wings, Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When 1 lie tangled iu her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...the reader, and still more to captivate the fair. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love, with unconflned 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...Anil my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter' d to her eye, — The birds, that wanton in the air...swiftly round With no allaying Thames, * Our careless head with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...while within the walls of his prison. His mind was free ; tyrants conld not chain that. 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 eve, — The birds that wanton m the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...much to charm the reader, and still more to captivate the fair. TO ALTHBA, 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...1658, when he died of consumption, induced by misery and want TO ALTHEA. Written in Prison. 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. • * • • • Stone... | |
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