Henry Cuyler Bunner
Henry Cuyler Bunner (3 August 1855 – 11 May 1896) was an American novelist and poet born in Oswego, New York.
Quotes
[edit]- Shake was a dramatist of note;
He lived by writing things to quote.- "Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe" (i.e. Shakespeare, Molière and Goethe), line 9; by V. Hugo Dusenbury (pseudonym of Henry Cuyler Brunner), in Puck, Vol. 6, No. 151 (January 28, 1880), p. 762.
- The couplet is today better known in the version published in A Dictionary of Humorous Quotations, ed. Evan Esar (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949), p. 42:
- Shakespeare was a dramatist of note,
Who lived by writing things to quote.
- Shakespeare was a dramatist of note,
- What does he plant who plants a tree?
He plants the friend of sun and sky;
He plants the flag of breezes free;
The shaft of beauty, towering high;
He plants a home to heaven anigh
For song and mother-croon of bird
In hushed and happy twilight heard—
The treble of heaven's harmony—
These things he plants who plants a tree.- "The Heart of the Tree. An Arbor-Day Song", stanza 1, in The Poems of H. C. Bunner, new edition (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899), p. 249.
Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere (1884)
[edit]- Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884
- What, know you not […]
That love must kiss that Mortal’s eyes
Who hopes to see fair Arcady?
No gold can buy you entrance there;
But beggared Love may go all bare—
No wisdom won with weariness;
But Love goes in with Folly’s dress—
No fame that wit could ever win;
But only Love may lead Love in
To Arcady, to Arcady.- "The Way to Arcady", lines 45, 47–55, p. 5.
- Compare Louise Chandler Moulton, "The Secret of Arcady" (1892).
- Ah woe is me, through all my days
Wisdom and wealth I both have got,
And fame and name and great men’s praise;
But Love, ah! Love I have it not.- "The Way to Arcady", line 56, p. 5.
- A pitcher of mignonette,
In a tenement's highest casement:
Queer sort of flower-pot—yet
That pitcher of mignonette
Is a garden in heaven set,
To the little sick child in the basement—
The pitcher of mignonette,
In the tenement's highest casement.- "A Pitcher of Mignonette. Triolet", p. 35
- Off with your hat as the flag goes by!
And let the heart have its say;
You're man enough for a tear in your eye
That you will not wipe away.- "The Old Flag" (Evacuation Day, 1883), stanza 1, p. 92
