On seeing BRET HARTE come upon the Bench.

Thanks for an hour of laughing
In a world that is growing old;
Thanks for an hour of weeping
In a world that is growing cold;
For we who have wept with Dickens,
And we who have laughed with Boz,
Have renewed the days of our childhood
With his American Coz.

(C) Horace Smith
03/10/2020


Best Poems of Horace Smith

• On Circuit.
• Prologue To A Charade. - "damn-ages."
• An Olde Lyric
• Love And Liberty
• Impromptu In The Assize Court At Lincoln
• At The "cock" Tavern
• To The Rev. A. A. In The Country From His Friend In London
• Young England
• To A Scientific Friend
• My Boating Song
• The Curate To His Slippers
• Impromptu In The Assize Court, Nottingham,
• Letter From The Town Mouse To The Country Mouse
• Isle Of Wight - Spring, 1891
• Lullaby