The gods 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 hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free,... Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys - Страница 33написао/ла William Ernest Henley - 1891 - 364 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
| Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 450 страница
...he employed the means in his power to make the heart of the prisoner leap for joy. SONG. To ALTHEA, from Prison. When love with unconfined wings Hovers...at the grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
| 1821 - 404 страница
...quoting the first and last stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...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. Stone walls do not a... | |
| 1821 - 408 страница
...quoting the first and last stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates...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. Stone walls do not a... | |
| Rowland Freeman - 1821 - 846 страница
...make the heart of the prisoner leap for joy. SONG. To ALTHEA, from Prison. When love with unconfmcd wings Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea...the grates : When I lie tangled in her hair, . And fetter'd in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the air. Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 страница
...stanza, and omit the other two, which we cannot bring ourselves to admire. " When love with unconfmed wings Hovers within my gates ; And my divine Althea...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. ; Stone walls do not... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1824 - 982 страница
...he was in priion : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers within my gates ; And my divine ALTII FA 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. Campbell, vol. iiL p. 400. • « The title of... | |
| Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1825 - 532 страница
...Althea" here noticed, is thus introduced in a Song — addressed to her, by Lovelace, when he was in prison : When Love, with unconfined wings, Hovers...And my divine ALTHEA brings To whisper at the grates ; briars which beset the earlier paths or haunts of the more ancient British Muse, and having placed... | |
| 1826 - 384 страница
...Westminster, where he wrote that well-known and elegant little song, " Loyalty confined," beginning thus : " 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 in her eye ; The birds that wanton in the... | |
| Elizabeth Isabella Spence - 1827 - 972 страница
...The earl made a sign to Eden Green, who, in his best voice, instantly sang the following song : — " When love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates ; When I lye tangled in her haire, And fetter'd with her eye,' The birds that wanton in the... | |
| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 страница
...at freedom, but in great poverty and obscurity, in a poor lodging near Shoe-Lane, London. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. WHEN love, with unconfined wings, Hovers...at the grates ; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, — The " birds," (a) that wanton in the air, Know no such liberty. When flowing... | |
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