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John Vance Cheney

I lived from 1848-1922. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

John Vance Cheney was born in Groveland, New York, December 29, 1848; Educated at Temple Hill Academy in Geneseo, New York. After a short period of teaching and of practicing law, he became the librarian of the Free Public Library of San Francisco and held this position from 1887 to 1894 when he accepted a similar one at the Newberry Library of Chicago, where he remained until 1899.
He died in 1922
His biographical note is reprinted from The Little Book of American Poets: 1787-1900. Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915.

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  • Tears
    Not in the time of pleasure
    Hope doth set her bow;
    9 lines
  • The Happiest Heart
    Who drives the horses of the sun
    Shall lord it but a day;
    12 lines
  • At A Grave
    As out of the dark the stars,
    Broke forth the heavenly bars
    12 lines
  • Look Up
    ENOUGH of sweet and fair
    Hovers for hope to see;
    12 lines
  • Great Is To-Day
    OUT on a world that has run to weed!
    The great tall corn is still strong in his seed;
    26 lines
  • One
    ONE whitest lily, reddest rose,
    None other such the summer knows;
    10 lines
  • Blanche Gaylord
    COULD I put up my hand and pluck a star,
    I would give that power
    4 lines
  • And Ghosts Break Up Their Graves
    SWIFT round and round yon yellow mound,
    With grasses rank and pale,
    16 lines
  • The Pilgrims
    "WHITHER, pilgrims, whither bound,
    Passing slowly with no sound?"
    20 lines
  • The Parting Of Ilmar And Haadin
    PUT out thy torch, O watcher by the dead,
    Unto the darkness give its own;
    70 lines
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