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" 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 fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. "
Bits of books, from old and modern authors, for railway travellers - Page 21
by Bits - 1847 - 72 pages
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 29-30

1861 - 790 pages
...and manly confidence : — SONG. (By Richard Lovelace, 1618-1658.) " To ALTHEA, FRO« PRISON. I. " When Love, with unconfined wings Hovers within my...at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. II. " When flowing cups...
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The Loves and Heroines of the Poets

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 pages
...speak like spirits unconfined In heaven, their earthly bodies left behind. TO ALTHEA, FROM PBISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates,...at my grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run...
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The Loves and Heroines of the Poets

Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 pages
...speak like spirits unconfined In heaven, their earthly bodies left behind. TO ALTHKA, FROM I'RISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates,...at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run...
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A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English ..., Volume 2

George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...bo to most of our readers, it would be unfair to substitute any other specimen of his poetry : — 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 l that wanton in the...
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Prison Books and Their Authors

John Alfred Langford - 1861 - 400 pages
..." When Love, with unconfined wings, Hover'd within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whifper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air, Know not fuch liberty. " When flowing cups run fwiftly...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...former class we shall quote a portion of the well-known lines composed by the gallant Lovelace while in prison : — " When Love with unconfined wings Hovers...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...
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Choice Poems and Lyrics

Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...gudeman's awa'. Richard Lovelace. Bom 1618. Died 1658. TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON. WHEN Love with unconfinM 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...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

1863 - 982 pages
...still make love anew ? When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true. Sir C. Sedley XCIX TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON WHEN Love with unconfined wings...my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames,...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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...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 gods that wanton in the air,...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...least e'er this A dozen dozen in her place. 107. Sir Richard Lovelace. 1618-1658. (Manual, p. 179.) To ALTHEA FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings...divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such...
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