John Vance Cheney Quotes
1848–1922 United States
John Vance Cheney (29 December 1848 – 1 May 1922) was an American poet.
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- 19th-century poets
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I pour into the world the eternal streams
Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
Not in the time of pleasure
Hope doth set her bow;
But in the sky of sorrow,
Over the vale of woe. Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.
Tears (1892)
Through gloom and shadow look we
On beyond the years!
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
We look through gloom and storm-drift
Beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
Had the eyes no tears.
The message from the hedge-leaves,
Heed it, whoso thou art;
Under lowly eaves
Lives the happy heart.
No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.
Holding occasion by the hand,
Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,
Waiving what none can understand,
I take mine hour.
The happiest heart that ever beat
Was in some quiet breast
That found the common daylight sweet,
And left to Heaven the rest.
The rust will find the sword of fame,
The dust will hide the crown;
Ay, none shall nail so high his name
Time will not tear it down.
The wind is awake, pretty leaves, pretty leaves,
Heed not what he says, he deceives, he deceives;
Over and over
To the lowly clover
He has lisped the same love (and forgotten it, too).
He will be lisping and pledging to you.
Who drives the horses of the sun
Shall lord it but a day;
Better the lowly deed were done,
And kept the humble way.