Henry Cuyler Bunner

thumb|Henry Cuyler Bunner Henry Cuyler Bunner (3 August 1855 – 11 May 1896) was an American novelist and poet born in Oswego, New York. Quotes 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 anighFor song and mother-croon of birdIn 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) Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884 What, know you not […]That love must kiss that Mortal’s eyesWho 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 inTo 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—yetThat pitcher of mignonetteIs 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 eyeThat you will not wipe away. "The Old Flag" (Evacuation Day, 1883), stanza 1, p. 92 External links H. C. Bunner Henry_Cuyler_Bunner Henry Cuyler Bunner Free audio recording of "The Nice People" from Librivox Some H. C. Bunner stories, including 'What Mrs. Fortescue Did' and 'Zenobia's Infidelity' are read in Mister Ron's Basement Podcast Category:Poets from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:1855 births Category:1896 deaths Category:People from New York (state) Category:19th-century poets from the United States