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10 Quotes for 'John Vance Cheney' in the Database.
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John Vance Cheney Quotes
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A breath, whence no man knows,
Swaying the grating weeds, it blows;
It comes, it grieves, it goes.
Once it rocked the summer rose.
Topic: Autumn
Source: Passing of Autumn
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I pour into the world the eternal streams
Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
Topic: Beauty
Source: Beauty
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The message from the hedge-leaves,
Heed it, whoso thou art;
Under lowly eaves
Lives the happy heart.
Topic: Happiness
Source: The Hedge-bird's Message
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No command of art,
No toil, can help you hear;
Earth's minstrelsy falls clear
But on the listening heart.
Topic: Heart
Source: The Listening Heart
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Topic: Melancholy
Source: None
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Holding occasion by the hand,
Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower,
Waiving what none can understand,
I make mine hour.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: This My Life
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I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
Topic: Summer
Source: Love's World
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We look through gloom and storm-drift
Beyond the years:
The soul would have no rainbow
Hard the eyes no tears.
Topic: Tears
Source: Tears
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The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Topic: Tears
Source: None
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The wind is awake, pretty leave, 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.
Topic: Wind
Source: The way of it
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