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" When Love with unconfine'd 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. "
Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ... - Page 171
by John Timbs - 1856
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...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...birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 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, 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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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 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, 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...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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 such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd,...
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 pages
...will return to thee, Ev'n sated with varietie. ToAlthea. — From Prison. When love with uncoufined wings Hovers within my gates; And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates : When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetter' d to her eye; The gods that wanton in the aire, Know no such...
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The Railway Anecdote Book: A Collection of the Best and Newest Anecdotes and ...

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 air, Know no such...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 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 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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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 1

Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...composed by him while within the walls of his prison. His mind was free ; tyrants conld not chain that. WHEN Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my...When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eve, — The birds that wanton m the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round,...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

1853 - 560 pages
...note ; And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. ANDREW KARVELL. WHEN love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...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. When flowing cups run...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 pages
...wars, with much to charm the reader, and still more to captivate the fair. TO ALTHBA, 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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