This writer addressed a woman whose "sad indifference" "both kills and doth reprieve" in a poem that describes its subject as "an angel here, the devil there." Another work by this poet praises the "sweetness mercy, majesty and glories" of his (*) King, and mentions that "birds that wanton in the air / Know no such liberty" as the speaker "When Love with unconfined wings /
This writer addressed a woman whose "sad indifference" "both kills and doth reprieve" in a poem that describes its subject as "an angel here, the devil there." Another work by this poet praises the "sweetness mercy, majesty and glories" of his (*) King, and mentions that "birds that wanton in the air / Know no such liberty" as the speaker "When Love with unconfined wings / Hovers within my gates." "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage" according to - for 10 points - what Cavalier poet's "To Althea, from Prison?"
This writer addressed a woman whose "sad indifference" "both kills and doth reprieve" in a poem that describes its subject as "an angel here, the devil there."
Richard Lovelace