 | 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...securely 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
...volume of his 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... | |
 | Thomas Percy, George Gilfillan - Ballads, English - 1858 - 342 pages
...of his poems intitled, ' Lucasta,' 1649, 1 L'niii. collated with a copy in the Editor's folio MS.i WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Altnea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her haire, s And fetter'd with her eye,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...165S, when he died of consumption, induced by misery and want. TO ALTHEA. Written in Prison. When lovo with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates : And...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,... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...characteristic of the cavalier-feeling, — a high-toned loyalty and gallantry and gayety : — "When Lore, with unconfine'd wings, Hovers within my gates, And...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. " When flowing cups... | |
 | Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 pages
...Lord of all what Seas imbrace ; yet he That wants bimselfe, is poore indeed. To Althea, from Prison1 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.... | |
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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. 
