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.Collection: Fate
Spring in the world! And all things are made new!Collection: Spring
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.Collection: Thank You
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Spring
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?Collection: Failure
How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!Collection: Strong
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!Collection: War
Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.Collection: Giving
The great white cold walks abroad!Collection: White
Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.Collection: Weather
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.Collection: Travel
There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.Collection: Lost Love
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.Collection: Uplifting
EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand.Collection: God