Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty. The Loves and Heroines of the Poets - Page 223edited by - 1861 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 454 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me — " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage." "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this place;... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1845 - 456 pages
...And tell the Doctor I often think of those beautiful verses he taught me — " Stone walls to me no prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take These for a hermitage.'* "I have thought so," continued the ingenuous boy, "since I came into this... | |
| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, merey, majesty, And glories of my King ; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great...bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone that soar above... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...flamens, and (as between two stools) going away in the end without his supper ! Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his ,own rude but vigorous... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 246 pages
...infinitely higher sense than some of his enemies in the celebrated song of his times, " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for a hermitage." In Bunyan's prison meditations, he describes most forcibly, in his own rude but vigorous... | |
| William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...linnets, I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And glories of my King ; When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should be, Enlargëd winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...glories of my king ; When I shall voice aloud how good ' He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged wind*, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls...cage ; Minds, innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage : If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free ; Angels alone, that soar above, Li... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...Men." When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. * * * " * * Stone walls do not...a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage. If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, — Angels alone, that soar above,... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...shall voice aloud, how good He is, how great should be, Th' enlarged winds that curls the flood, Knows no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make,...cage, Minds, innocent and quiet, take . That for an hermitage ; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy... | |
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