 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
 | 1847 - 334 pages
...from' Prison,' is full of grace and animation, and breathes the very soul of love and honour — ' When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my...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.... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...grievances from the 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
...That age, 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...Charles the 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. To AWtta,from Pram. {! {! Althc» brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettcr'd with her eye,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...you, too, shall adore ; I could not 1оте thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. Prison. Wben er bring) To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 pages
...historical. But Dr Percy will have it to be a bird, and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her...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.... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pages
...historical. But Dr Percy will have it to be a bird, and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her...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.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...elegant 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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