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" PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at 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. "
Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed an Historical ... - Page 277
by George Ellis - 1803 - 458 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...wretched 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...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,...
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Englische Dichter: Eine Auswahl englischer Dichtungen mit deutscher Uebersetzung

English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...religious 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...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....
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

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,...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 2

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 pages
...the civil 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...
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Songs of England. The book of English songs, ed. by C. Mackay

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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

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...
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Select specimens of the English poets, ed. by A. De Vere

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...
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Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy. Repr ..., Page 111, Volume 2

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...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic ..., Volume 2

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,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

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,...
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