Poems you ought to know . Lovelaces is, with the Lucasta, the bestknown and most often quoted of his poems. When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates;When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered with her birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames,Our careless heads with roses crowned, Our hearts with loyal flames;When thirsty grief in wine we steep. When healths and draughts go free—Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty. 98 When linnet-like c
Poems you ought to know . Lovelaces is, with the Lucasta, the bestknown and most often quoted of his poems. When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my my divine Althea brings To whisper at my grates;When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered with her birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty When flowing cups pass swiftly round With no allaying Thames,Our careless heads with roses crowned, Our hearts with loyal flames;When thirsty grief in wine we steep. When healths and draughts go free—Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty. 98 When linnet-like confined, With shriller throat shall singThy mercy, sweetness, majesty And glories of my king;When I shall voice aloud how good He is, how great should enlarged winds that curl the flood Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make. Nor iron bars a cage;Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage;If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am alone, that soar above, Enjoy such L^ tofa 99 SONG. BY JOHN BUNYAN. John Bunyan was born at Elstow in 162S. He was a tinker, aa hisfather was before him, but he finally became a soldier in the parlia-mentary army. In 1653 he became a nonconformist and went about th»country preaching until he was arrested under the statutes against thatdoctrine. While In prison Bunyan began his well-known allegory—Pilgrims Progress. Under Charles II. he was released and madepastor at Bedford. He died at London in 1688.
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