 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
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1853 - 378 pages
...wars, with 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... | |
 | 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 Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, * Our careless head with roses bound,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...life till 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:...tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye; The gods that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. • * • • • Stone walls do not a prison make,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...the reader, and still more to captivate the fair. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love, with unconfin&d 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... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...the sun in his early ray, But shake your head and scatter day. SONÓ. TO ALT1IE4, ГНОМ PRISON. WHEN Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Altura brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, —... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...life till 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:...tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye; The gods that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. • • • * • Stone walls do not a prison make,... | |
 | English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...be, And her love she vows to me. RICHARD LOVELACE. Born 1618. 1. 1658. To Althaea. — From Prison. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...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 libertie.... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...perfectly characteristic of the cavalier-feeling, — a high-toned loyalty and gallantry and gayety : — " When Love, with unconfine'd wings, Hovers within my...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...ALTIIEA. Written in Prison. When love with unconflned wings Hovers within my gates : And my divine Althca brings To whisper 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 walls do not a prison make,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...Only a sweet and virtuous soul, TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. l!i< us KJ> LOVELACE, born 1618, dicd 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... | |
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