 When Love with unconfine'd wings Hovers within my Gates ; And my divine Althea brings To whisper 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.  The Retrospective Review - Page 1241821Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...I could not love thee, dear, so much, - Loy'd I not honour more. To AlAea,from Prwon. When 1оте , . : 05 b 2 6 ¡ P ' ! | " BY V&y*Md @ ! A] { 1 my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | 1863 - 518 pages
...one verse which he has not given as Lovelace wrote it, " When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty." Lovelace wrote " the gods that wanton in the air ;" and birds was substituted by Bishop Percy. It is... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 148 pages
...gates, And my divine Altheu brings N/ RICHARD LOVELACE. 101 When I lie tangled in her hair, And fctter'd to her eye, — The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound,... | |
 | Love poetry - 1841 - 178 pages
...would be to each a flame If love or fear would let me tell his name. REN JONSON TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea brings...birds, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1845 - 466 pages
...be to 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 my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; \Vhen I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye ; The birds" that wanton in the air •... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...Therein he wrote the following beautiful poem : TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When lore, with nnconfined 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... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 788 pages
...felt assured of meeting with applause from the incapable; so I cleaned my harsh pipe and began — ' When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea ' ' Excuse me!,' shouted the red-haired young man. I stopped and looked at the listeners. A glum look... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...: While some so like to thorns and nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. 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 to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. LXXIII. WHEN Love with unconfinëd wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air... | |
 | William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. LXXIII. WHEN Love with unconfinëd wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — • The birds that wanton... | |
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