We’ve heard of comets, blazing things,
With “fear of change” perplexing Kings;
But, lo! a novel sight and strange,
A Queen who does not fear a ‘Change!

ON THE QUEEN’S VISIT TO THE CITY,
BY A CORNHILL TRADESMAN.

Sure the measure is strange
And all Commerce so stops,
And, to open a ‘Change,
Make us shut up our shops.

ON THE STATUES IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

If Nelson looks down on a couple of Kings,
However it pleases the Loyals;
’Tis after the fashion of nautical things,
A sky-scraper over the Royals.

ON A PICTURE (407) IN THE BRITISH INSTITUTION, 1843.

Sir, let me just your tasteful eye enveigle
To yonder Painting, of the Madman Eagle.[9]
Which, that by Poole? Excuse me, sir, I beg,
I really have no wish to catch “The Plague.”