23 quotes found
Poet · American · 1864–1900
American poet (1864–1900)
“The great white cold walks abroad!”
“Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.”
“Spring in the world!And all things are made new!”
“How loving is the Lord God and how strong withal!”
“The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.”
“Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?”
“There is no sorrow like a love denied Nor any joy like love that has its will.”
“For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.”
“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.”
“In all climes we pitch out tents,Cronies of the elements,With the secret lords of birthIntimate and free.”
“The people blossoms armies and puts forthThe splendid summer of its noiseless might.”
“Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish illAnd fight God’s battle upward from the beast.”
“Who would not rather founder in the fightThan not have known the glory of the fray?”
“Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breatheInto our souls the secret of your power!”
“I have need of the sky,I have business with the grass;I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheelingLone and high,And the slow clouds go by.I will get me away to the waters that glassThe clou...”
“For ’t is always fair weatherWhen good fellows get togetherWith a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.”
“The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blendAs a man and a woman that plightTheir troth in the warm spring night.”
“Shall the iron argue with the smith what it would be?Or, shall the wrought iron reason with the mongerTo whom it would be sold?”
“Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.”
