Richard Hovey

Richard Hovey (1864 – 1900) was an American composer, poet and playwright.

Quotes

• In all climes we pitch out tents,
  Cronies of the elements,
  With the secret lords of birth
  Intimate and free.
  • The Wander-lovers.

Along the Trail (1898)

• The people blossoms armies and puts forth
  The splendid summer of its noiseless might.
  • "The Call of the Bugles", p. 5.

• Nor love they least
  Who strike with right good will
  To vanquish ill
  And fight God’s battle upward from the beast.
  • "The Call of the Bugles", p. 15.

• Who would not rather founder in the fight
  Than not have known the glory of the fray?
  • "Two and Fate", p. 29.

• Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
  Into our souls the secret of your power!
  • "Comrades", p. 49.

• 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.
  • "I have Need of the Sky", p. 56.

• Spring in the world!
  And all things are made new!
  • "Spring", p. 58.

• For ’t is always fair weather
  When good fellows get together
  With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
  • "Spring", p. 60.

• 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.
  • "Spring", p. 61. Compare: "Oh, East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet", Rudyard Kipling.

• The great white cold walks abroad!
  • "Dartmouth Winter-song", p. 80.

• How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!
  • "Benzaquen", p. 109.

• 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?
  • "Benzaquen", p. 113.

The Marriage of Guenevere (1891)

• Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
  Who gives and asks no payment.
  • Act i. Sc. 1.

• Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.
  • Act i. Sc. 3.

• There is no sorrow like a love denied
  Nor any joy like love that has its will.
  • Act i. Sc. 3.

• There are worser ills to face
  Than foemen in the fray;
  And many a man has fought because—
  He feared to run away.
  • Act. iv. Sc. 3.

External links

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
• Biography of Richard Hovey
• Works by Richard Hovey at Project Gutenberg
• Dartmouth Lyrics by Richard Hovey at Making Of America Books
• Sonnets.org