“Abstain not! Life and love like night and day offer themselves to us on their own terms, not ours. Accept their bounty while ye may, before we accept by the worms,” — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
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… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass; I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass. — Richard Hovey Copy Share
EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast. — Richard Hovey Copy Share
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray? — Richard Hovey Copy Share
Ye who made war that your ships Should lay to at the beck of no nation, Make war now on Murder, that slips The… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
“I said in my heart, 'I am sick of four walls and a ceiling. I have need of the sky. I have business with… — Richard Hovey Copy Share
“I do not know beneath what skies or upon what sea shall be they fate I only know it will be high I only… — Richard Hovey Copy Share