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Richard Hovey's Poetry, by title

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  • A Stein Song
    Give a rouse, then, in the Maytime
    For a life that knows no fear!
    28 lines
  • Accident In Art
    What painter has not with a careless smutch
    Accomplished his despair?--one touch revealing
    14 lines, 2 comments
  • America
    We came to birth in battle; when we pass,
    It shall be to the thunder of the drums.
    15 lines
  • At The Club
    When a pretty maiden passes
        By the window down the street,
    14 lines
  • At The Crossroads
    You to the left and I to the right,
    For the ways of men must sever—
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • At The End Of The Day
    There is no escape by the river,
    There is no flight left by the fen;
    32 lines
  • Chanson De Rosemonde
    The dawn is lonely for the sun,
    And chill and drear;
    16 lines
  • College Days
    For the Fly-Leaf of an Autograph Album
    THESE college days of jollity and mirth
    15 lines
  • Comrades
    Comrades, pour the wine to-night
    For the parting is with dawn!
    28 lines
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
    GONE art thou, then, O mystical musician!
    Pure-thoughted singer of these sinful years!
    14 lines
  • Dartmouth Winter-Song
    HO, a song by the fire!
    (Pass the pipes, fill the bowl!)
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Earth's Lyric
    APRIL. You hearken, my fellow,
    Old slumberer down in my heart?
    28 lines
  • Eleazar Wheelock
    Oh, Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man;
    He went into the wilderness to teach the Indian,
    18 lines, 2 comments
  • Envoy
    Whose furthest footstep never strayed
    Beyond the village of his birth,
    22 lines
  • From “Taliesin: a Masque”:Voices Of Unseen Spirits
    Here falls no light of sun nor stars;
    No stir nor striving here intrudes;
    28 lines
  • From “The Birth of Galahad” : Ylen’s Song
    AND if he should come again
    In the old glad way,
    8 lines
  • Hanover Winter Song
    Ho, a song by the fire;
    Pass the pipes, pass the bowl.
    48 lines
  • Hunting-Song
    Oh, who would stay indoor, indoor,
    When the horn is on the hill? (Bugle: Tarantara!
    16 lines
  • In Memoriam
    (A.H. Quint)
    MOURN we who honored him but knew him not;
    15 lines
  • John Keats
    IF thou canst not from some superior sphere
    Look down upon this world that gave thee birth
    14 lines
  • Kronos
    As one of those huge monsters of the sky,
    Fierce with the flame of fiery floating hair,
    14 lines
  • Lancelot And Gawaine
    Two women loved a poet.
    One was dark,
    15 lines
  • Laurana’s Song: For “A Lady of Venice”
    WHO’LL have the crumpled pieces of a heart?
    Let him take mine!
    16 lines
  • Love In The Winds
    When I am standing on a mountain crest,
    Or hold the tiller in the dashing spray,
    14 lines
  • Men Of Dartmouth
    Class of 1885
    Men of Dartmouth, give a rouse
    27 lines
  • Philosophy
    I SOMETIMES long to throw my books away
    And to forget the thoughts that make me sad--
    14 lines
  • Sonnets To: Swinburne
    POET! thou art to me a faery king
    Dwelling in some weird place of witchery,
    42 lines
  • Squab Flights
    "LOVE is eternal," sang I long ago
    Of some light love that lasted for a day;
    14 lines
  • The Call of the Bugles
    BUGLES!
    And the Great Nation thrills and leaps to arms!
    105 lines
  • The Last Love Of Gawaine
    You will betray me--oh, deny it not!
    What right have I, alas, to say you nay?
    14 lines
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