Richard Lovelace was an English poet in the 17th century.
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“And when she ceased, we sighing saw / The floor lay paved with broken hearts.”
Richard Lovelace
“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 honor more”
“Fishes, that tipple in the deep, / Know no such liberty.”
“Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage;/ Minds innocent and quiet take/ That for an hermitage.”
“Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, / That from the nunnery / Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, / To war and arms I fly.”