| Bits - 1847 - 88 Seiten
...imprisonment, To what we fear of death. Shakspere. 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... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 Seiten
...was, too, that he composed his beautiful song, " To Althea, from prison." When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; * Aubrey's " Letters of Eminent Men." When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...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,... | |
| Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 Seiten
...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.... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 Seiten
...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1848 - 328 Seiten
...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 air, Know no such liberty. * * * * " Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take That... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...lore thee, dear, so mach, Lov'd I not honour more. To Aluica,from Pram. When 1оте with unconfined ir 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... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 Seiten
...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... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...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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