 | 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... | |
 | 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)... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 2005 - 392 pages
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 | 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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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. 
