 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 466 Seiten
...be to most of our readers, it would be unfair to substitute any other specimen of his poetry : — " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates,...And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; \Vhen I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye ; The birds" that wanton in the air •... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 Seiten
...Therein he wrote the following beautiful poem : TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When lore, with nnconfined wings, Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her lair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | 1858 - 788 Seiten
...felt assured of meeting with applause from the incapable; so I cleaned my harsh pipe and began — ' When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea ' ' Excuse me!,' shouted the red-haired young man. I stopped and looked at the listeners. A glum look... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 Seiten
...: While some so like to thorns and nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. 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 to her eye, — The birds that wanton in the... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 Seiten
...nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. LXXIII. WHEN Love with unconfinëd wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 342 Seiten
...nettles live, That none for them can, when they perish, grieve. LXXIII. WHEN Love with unconfinëd wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, — • The birds that wanton... | |
 | 1847 - 334 Seiten
...from' Prison,' is full of grace and animation, and breathes the very soul of love and honour — ' When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my...divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I 1it- tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 474 Seiten
...master, Charles the First. Here it was, too, that he composed his beautiful song, "To Althea, from prison." When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers...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... | |
 | Bits - 1847 - 88 Seiten
...paradise That age, ache, penury, and 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... | |
 | William Goodman - 1847 - 376 Seiten
...grievances from the county of Kent, Therein he wrote the following beautiful poem : 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 lair, And fetter'd with her eye, The birds that wanton in the... | |
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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 fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. 
