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Henry Cuyler Bunner
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“Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) first seen 1880 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.
“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.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.
“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.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Flag" (Evacuation Day, 1883), stanza 1, p. 92