Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage;Minds innocent and quiet takeThat for an hermitage;If I have freedom in my loveAnd in my soul am free,Angels alone, that soar above,Enjoy such liberty.
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Richard Lovelace quotes & passages
1 passage by Richard Lovelace, from To Althea, from Prison. Richard Lovelace died in 1658, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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Seventeenth-century English Cavalier poet (born 1617). Wrote “To Althea, from Prison” (“Stone walls do not a prison make”) while jailed in 1642.
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