Horace Smith

Poems (3)

• Address to the Mummy at Belzoni’s Exhibition

  And thou hast walked about (how strange a story! / In Thebes’s streets three thousand years ago, …

• Hymn to the Flowers

  Day-stars! that ope your frownless eyes to twinkle / From rainbow galaxies of earth’s creation, …

• The Gouty Merchant and the Stranger

  In Broad Street building (on a winter night), / Snug by his parlor-fire, a gouty wight …