Thursday, April 2, 2026

On Certain New Buildings in Covent Garden

to Inigo Jones.
by Herbert P. Horne.

Originally published in The Century Guild Hobby Horse (Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.) vol.1 #1 (Apr 1886).


                O Inigo,
                        Could you arise again,
                Then might men know
                        What sins in stone they chain:

                Even in that street
                        Where once you did upraise
                The calm, discreet,
                        Sad lesson of your ways.

                Was it of old,
                        Or is it some new blight,
                Men strive for gold
                        As you so strove for right?

Summer Time

Originally published in Belgravia (John Maxwell) vol. 3 # 9 (Jul 1867).                 Sweet it was in that summer time              ...