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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. "
Specimens of the Early English Poets: To which is Prefixed, an Historical ... - Page 277
by George Ellis - 1811
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The Wit of Seventeenth-century Poetry

Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - History - 1995 - 254 pages
...physical state of imprisonment and the state of moral freedom, he also finds himself sensuously entangled: When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my Gates;...divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates: When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetterd to her eye; The Gods that wanton in the Aire, Know no such Liberty....
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The Concise Encyclopedia of the Revolutions and Wars of England, Scotland ...

Stephen C. Manganiello - History - 2004 - 632 pages
...Cavalier poets. His graceful lyrics and dashing career made him the prototype of the perfect Cavalier. To Althea, From Prison When Love with unconfined wings...tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The gods, that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume I

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 596 pages
...(1591). Althe'a (The divine), of Richard Lovelace, was Lucy Sacheverell, called by the poet, Lucretia. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates. . (The "grates" here referred to were those of a prison in which Lovelace wag confined by...
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Modernism: An Anthology

Lawrence Rainey - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 1217 pages
...thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee no Althea from the poem by Richard Lovelace (1618-57), "To Althea, from Prison": When Love with unconfined...my divine Althea brings / To whisper at the grates ..." libretto a text to be sung to music. 32 Lawes and Jenkins . . . Dolmetsch Henry Lawes (1596-1662)...
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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...Robert Herrick. He was considered the ideal figure of the courtier: aristocratic, witty, and chivalrous. To Althea, from Prison When Love with unconfined wings...divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates; When I lye tangled in her haire And fettered to her eye; The Gods that wanton in the Aire, Know no such Liberty....
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The book of English songs

Charles Mackay - 1860 - 332 pages
...chiefly lives ! TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. KIOHARD LOVELACE, born 1618, died 1658. WHEN love with vmconfmed 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 to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air,...
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