Showing posts with label Richard Hovey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Hovey. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Necessities


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.

-- Richard Hovey (1864-1900)