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Henry Cuyler Bunner

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Henry Cuyler Bunner

Henry Cuyler Bunner (3 August 185511 May 1896) was an American novelist and poet born in Oswego, New York.

Quotes

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  • 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.
  • 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)

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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.
  • 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.
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