Ocupation: Poet
Life: May 4, 1864 - February 24, 1900
Birthday: May 4
Death: February 24
Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head.
source: Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”
topic: Memorial Day, Cheer, Rose, Memorial Day Messages, Memorial Day Poems, Memorial Day Remembrance, Memorial Weekend, Remembrance Day