• 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 round
    . . . With no allaying Thames,
    Our careless heads with roses...

  • When Love with unconfinèd wings
      Hovers within my gates,
    And by 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 pass swiftly round
      With no allaying Thames,
    Our careless heads...