 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...died of consumption, induced by misery and want TO ALTHEA. Written in Proon. When love with unconfincd 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 gods that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. • • • • • Stone... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...embalmed in a single poem, his Song to Althea, written in prison. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISOX. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 336 pages
...poems intitled, ' Lucasta,' 1649, li'ini). collated with a copy in the Editor's folio MS.1 WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her haire, s And f etter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London - 1859 - 478 pages
...of Charles the First, and author of the exquisite ballad beginning — " 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 in her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 364 pages
...wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. 2 When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 370 pages
...may surely become music's metaphor .and poetic analogy. SONG. TO ALTHEA, PROM PBISOK. 1 When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 580 pages
...most of our readers, it would be unfair to substitute any other specimen of his poetry : — When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And...tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye ; The birds l that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. * K. prints of both have been produced by Mr. Singer;... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...spirits unconfined In heaven, their earthly bodies left behind. TO ALTHKA, FROM I'RISON. 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 fettered with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 pages
...what Seas imbrace ; yet he That wants bimselfe, is poore indeed. To Althea, from Prison1 When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my Gates ; And...divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates : When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetterd to her eye ; The Gods that wanton in the Aire, Know no such Liberty.... | |
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