 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
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - History - 1995 - 254 pages
...physical state of imprisonment and the state of moral freedom, he also finds himself sensuously entangled: 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 fetterd to her eye; The Gods that wanton in the Aire, Know no such Liberty.... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...may sound quaint, but his name still gleams with honor. Form: Ballad measure. To Althea, from Prison When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates,...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, Our... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig." TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON Richard Lovelace When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates,...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, Our... | |
 | Stephen C. Manganiello - History - 2004 - 632 pages
...graceful lyrics and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier. To Althea, From 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. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 596 pages
...(1591). Althe'a (The divine), of Richard Lovelace, was Lucy Sacheverell, called by the poet, Lucretia. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates. . (The "grates" here referred to were those of a prison in which Lovelace wag confined by... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...considered the ideal figure of the courtier: aristocratic, witty, and chivalrous. To Althea, 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 fettered to her eye; The Gods that wanton in the Aire, Know no such Liberty.... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1860 - 332 pages
...chiefly lives ! TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. KIOHARD LOVELACE, born 1618, died 1658. WHEN love with vmconfmed 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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