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" 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. "
The autumn holidays of a country parson, by the author of 'The recreations ... - Page 297
by Andrew Kennedy H. Boyd - 1864
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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, 5 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 Thames, 10 Our careless heads with roses crowned,...
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Books and Authors; Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches

Books - 1868 - 220 pages
...And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty." But "dinnerless the polished Lovelace died." He obtained his liberation, after a few months' confinement....
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The Holly and Mistletoe: Beautiful Bouquets, Culled from the Poets ..., Book 2

1869 - 184 pages
...unconfined wings I Hovers within my gates, !l And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her...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, Our...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...And my divine Althea bring* To whisper at my gates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered 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 crowned,...
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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...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 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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Class-book of English Poetry from Chaucer to Tennyson

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...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 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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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crowned,...
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fettered 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 crowned,...
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Longer English poems, with notes, ed. by J.W. Hales, Issue 440

John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...wont in Prothal. 135. 68. As Tityrus with her name, in Virgil's Eel. i. 4 : 23. 69. Comp. Lovelace's " When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her...birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty." Warton thinks Milton refers to certain poems of Buchanan addressed to Amaryllis and Neeera, which were...
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Golden leaves from the works of poets and painters, ed. by R. Bell

Robert Bell - 1872 - 420 pages
...brings To whisper at the grates; 67 I \ RICHARD LOVELACE. 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 round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crowned....
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