 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...quoting the first and last stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...quoting the first and last stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 pages
...the means in his power to make the heart of the prisoner leap for joy. SONG. To ALTHEA, from Prison. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfmed wings Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea...tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. ; Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...make the heart of the prisoner leap for joy. SONG. To ALTHEA, from Prison. When love with unconfmcd wings Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea...grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, . And fetter'd in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air. Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly... | |
 | Barry Cornwall - Poets, English - 1824 - 132 pages
...better of the soldier. His lines "To Althea from prison," are among the best : here are some of them. " When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To hover at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1824 - 982 pages
...here noticed, u thus introduced in a Song —addressed to her, by Lovelace, when he was in priion : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates ; And my divine ALTII FA brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1825 - 532 pages
...here noticed, is thus introduced in a Song — addressed to her, by Lovelace, when he was in prison : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my...And my divine ALTHEA brings To whisper at the grates ; briars which beset the earlier paths or haunts of the more ancient British Muse, and having placed... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Best books - 1825 - 474 pages
...here noticed, is thus introduced in a Song — addressed to her, by Lovelace, when he was in prison : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates ; And my divine ALTHEA bring* To whisper at the grates ; briars which beset the earlier paths or haunts of the more ancient... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...Westminster, where he wrote that well-known and elegant little song, " Loyalty confined," beginning thus : " 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 fettered in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the... | |
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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. 
