Richard Hovey Quotes

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Who would not rather founder in the fight
Than not have known the glory of the fray?

Richard Hovey
I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

Richard Hovey
East, to the dawn, or west or south or north! Loose rein upon the neck of-and forth!

Richard Hovey
The dawn is lonely for the sun, And chill and drear; The one lone star is pale and wan, As one in fear.

Richard Hovey
Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The leash of her hounds of damnation; Ye who remembered the Alamo, Remember the Maine!

Richard Hovey
O, Eleazer Wheelock was a very pious man;
He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian....
Eleazer was the faculty, and the whole curriculum Was five hundred gallons of New England rum.

Richard Hovey
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.

Richard Hovey
In all climes we pitch out tents,
Cronies of the elements,
With the secret lords of birth
Intimate and free.

Richard Hovey
I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.

Richard Hovey
The people blossoms armies and puts forth
The splendid summer of its noiseless might.

Richard Hovey
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.

Richard Hovey
Nor love they least
Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast.

Richard Hovey
Spring in the world!
And all things are made new!

Richard Hovey
Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
Into our souls the secret of your power!

Richard Hovey
There are worser ills to face
Than foemen in the fray;
And many a man has fought because—
He feared to run away.

Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.

Richard Hovey
I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods.

Richard Hovey
The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend
As a man and a woman that plight
Their troth in the warm spring night.

Richard Hovey
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.

Richard Hovey
Shall the iron argue with the smith what it would be?
Or, shall the wrought iron reason with the monger
To whom it would be sold?

Richard Hovey
For 't is always fair weather
When good fellows get together
With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

Richard Hovey