25 Quotes by Richard Lovelace

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase,The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt adore;I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.

Stone walls do not a prison make,Nor iron bars a cage.

And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.

Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, / That from the nunnery / Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, / To war and arms I fly.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.