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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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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...my divine Althc» brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettcr'd with re, p When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...you, too, shall adore ; I could not 1оте thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. Prison. Wben er bring) To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds...
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Memorials of Montrose and his times [ed. by M. Napier].

Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 pages
...historical. But Dr Percy will have it to be a bird, and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her...birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.' Upon which Mr Ellis notes : * In the origU nal it is " Gods;" the correction is very happy.' Unhappy....
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Memorials of Montrose and His Times, Volume 1

Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pages
...historical. But Dr Percy will have it to be a bird, and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her...birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.' Upon which Mr Ellis notes : ' In the original it is " Gods;" the correction is very happy.' Unhappy....
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 1

Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 328 pages
...elegant of the cavaliers of Charles the First, and author of the exquisite ballad beginning, — " 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 in her eye, The birds that wanton in the...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...; I could not lore thee, dear, so mach, Lov'd I not honour more. To Aluica,from Pram. When 1оте chokiiu» up their stalls, And common cries pursue your ladjvhip For hind'ring o' the m my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetterM with her eye, The birds that wanton in the...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings 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 flame's; When thirsty grief iu wine we steep, When healths and draughts...
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...to coal, Then chiefly lives ! TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. RICHARD LOVELACE, born 1618, died 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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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, 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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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, 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 fettur'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the...
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