Top 15 Richard Hovey Quotes

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

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

Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.

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

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?

How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!

The great white cold walks abroad!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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