 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. When flowing cups run swiftly...  The Onlooker - Page 241902Full view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...round, With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd, Our hearts with loyal names ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths...Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When linneMike confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories... | |
 | 1852 - 838 pages
...unfortunately the birds in the air suggest the fishes in the sea. So the next verse concludes thus : — " When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, FiyhcSf that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty." We meet here also with that poem attributed... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...tangled in her hair, And fettered to her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying...Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty. When (like committed linnets) I With shriller throat shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, And... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...birds that wanton m the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no alloying Thames, Our careless heads with roses bound Our hearts...Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty. When, like committed linnets, I With shriller notes shall sing The sweetness, mercy, majesty, When... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd, Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief...Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty. When, linnet-like confined, I With shriller note shall sing The mercy, sweetness, majesty, And glories... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...in her hair, And fetter' d to 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 head with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 pages
...my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty." The cavalier, Lovelace, sings, "When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths...Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty." The republican friend of Milton, Andrew Marvell, according to Aubrey, " would never drink hard in company,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 630 pages
...clause, we have a similar expression in Lovelace's delectable little song " To Althea, from Prison : " " When flowing cups run swiftly round, With no allaying...heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyal flames." H. with the forehead of the morning.4 What I think, I utter, and spend my malice in my breath. Meeting... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...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, Our hearts with loyal flames; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...TOi* i^te ?lujen binben : fflitb man btim Sulpb,, bem luft'gen 9tat, 9ii*t folcke 3teif»eit finben. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying...Our careless heads with roses bound, Our hearts with loyall flames : When thirsty griefe in wine we steepe, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that... | |
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