StoryTitle("caps", "To Althea, From Prison") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Love with unconfinéd wings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hovers within my gates, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And my divine Althea brings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To whisper at the grates; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I lie tangled in her hair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And fetter'd to her eye, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The birds that wanton in the air ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Know no such liberty. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When flowing cups run swiftly round ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With no allaying Thames,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our careless heads with roses bound, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our hearts with loyal flames; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When thirsty grief in wine we steep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When healths and draughts go free— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fishes that tipple in the deep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Know no such liberty. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, like committed linnets, I ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With shriller throat shall sing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sweetness, mercy, majesty, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And glories of my King;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I shall voice aloud how good ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He is, how great should be, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enlargéd winds, that curl the flood, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Know no such liberty. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stone walls do not a prison make,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor iron bars a cage; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Minds innocent and quiet take ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That for an hermitage; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If I have freedom in my love ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And in my soul am free,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Angels alone, that soar above, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Enjoy such liberty.", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Lovelace", "1618–1658") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>