Richard Hovey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am sick of four walls and a ceiling I have need of the sky, I have business with the grass.
-- Richard Hovey

#Wall #Sky #Sick
Spring in the world! And all things are made new!
-- Richard Hovey

#Spring #World #Made
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

#Fate #Destiny #Sky
Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.
-- Richard Hovey

#Weather
The great white cold walks abroad!
-- Richard Hovey

#White #Cold #Walks
How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!
-- Richard Hovey

#Strong #Lord
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.
-- Richard Hovey

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

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

#Fate #West #Necks
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

#Travel #Sunset #Soul
Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
-- Richard Hovey

#Failure #Fighting #Glory
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

#Thank You #Song #Weather
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

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

#Fighting #Battle #Beast
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

#Men #Gold #Cotton
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

#Memorial Day #Cheer #Rose
There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.
-- Richard Hovey

#Lost Love #Joy #Sorrow
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

#War #Maine #Ships

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