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" To ALTHEA FROM 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 birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. "
Specimens of the early English poets [ed. by G. Ellis.]. To which is ... - Page 225
by English poets - 1801
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Recollections of a Literary Life

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...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 2

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...physician also, that being the science the worldlings have most need of. — Stetle. DCCLXVIl. When Love with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates,...birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. * * * * Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...physician also, that being the science the worldlings have most need of. — Steele. DCCLXVI1. When Love with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates,...birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. * * * * Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

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

English poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...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....
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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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Songs of England. The book of English songs, ed. by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 pages
...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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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 2

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 374 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...
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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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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...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 air, Know no...no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd, Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine wo steep, When healths and draughts...
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