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 u…

- 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

How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!

- 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

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 w…

- Richard Hovey

Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?

- 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

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

- Richard Hovey

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

- Richard Hovey