Amico Suo by Herbert P. Horne. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Amico Suo

Herbert P. Horne (b. 1864)


WHEN on my country walks I go,
I never am alone:
Though whom’t were pleasure then to know
Are gone, and you are gone;
From every side discourses flow.	5

There are rich counsels in the trees,
And converse in the air;
All magic thoughts in those and these
And what is sweet and rare;
And everything that living is.	10

But most I love the meaner sort,
For they have voices too;
Yet speak with tongues, that never hurt,
As ours are apt to do:
The weeds, the grass, the common wort.	15