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" 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 air, Know no such liberty. "
Summer excursions in ... Kent, along the banks of the rivers Thames and Medway - Page 133
1847 - 120 pages
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The uncompleted edition of Wither's poems, ed. by J.M. Gutch. 4 vols, Volume 2

George Wither - 1622 - 476 pages
...confinement in the Gate-House, Westminster, for political reasons, in the year 1642. To Altheafrom 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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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, Volume 70

1791 - 728 pages
...you will give room fnr the following copy of it. To ALT HE A. FKOM P«UON, SKT BY Dx. JOHN WILSON. When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To wliifper at my grates; When I lit t.-Hifleil in her hair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds th:it...
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The english anthology.

1793 - 376 pages
...no bound, but makes his power his fhores. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON-. BY RICHARD LOVELACE, ESQ^* Wf HEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whifper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her haire, 5 And fetter'd ' with' her eye, The ' birds'...
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Specimens of the British Poets ...

British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...take, Aud Doric music make, To civilize with (raver notes our wits again. RICHARD tOVELACE. SONNET. 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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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...sex, and the darling of the ladies, died in the lowest wretchedness, obscurity, and want, in 1658. WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her haire, And feiter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the...
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Effigies Poeticae, Or, The Portraits of the British Poets: Illustrated by ...

Barry Cornwall - 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...
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The Library Companion; Or, The Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man ..., Volume 1

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 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...
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The Library Companion: Or, the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's Comfort ...

Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 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...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 11

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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Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court scenes in the reign of Charles the second [by ...

Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1827 - 972 pages
...The earl made a sign to Eden Green, who, in his best voice, instantly sang the following song : — " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetter'd with her eye,' The birds that wanton in the...
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