 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.  The Loves and Heroines of the Poets - Page 222edited by - 1861 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,...my 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. * * * * " Stone walls... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 pages
...and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The 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.... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pages
...and nothing but a bird. Again, Dr Percy gives us, ' When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The 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.... | |
 | 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...o' the market. A ift. Have you done, sir ! Born. fetterM with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...turns to coal, Then chiefly lives ! TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. RICHARD LOVELACE, born 1618, died 1658. WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates,...at my 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. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...shall 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,...at my grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettur'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...shall 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,...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 such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...the reader, and still more to captivate the fair. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love, with unconflned wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea...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 such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
 | Scotland - 1852 - 838 pages
...very excellent theme for the poet. In the first verse, speaking of his " divine Althaea," he says, " When I lie tangled in her hair, ' And fettered with...her eye, The birds, that wanton in the air, Know no tuch liberty." This is pretty ; but unfortunately the birds in the air suggest the fishes in the sea.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...grace and animation, and breathes the very soul of love and honour : — When Love, with nnconflned wings, Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When 1 lie tangled iu her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
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