Boudica

Bloodily flow’d the Tamesa rolling phantom bodies of horses and men;
Then a phantom colony smoulder’d on the refluent estuary;

Zahra Modern Art Foundries' Boudica, Houses of Parliament, Westminster, SW1A

Lastly yonder yester-even, suddenly giddily tottering–
There was one who watch’d and told me–down their statue of Victory fell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson’s Boadicea (1859)

Lefevre Park

And some are pretty enough,
And some are poor indeed;

Helena Roden's Flowers, Lefevre Park, Bow, Tower Hamlets, E3

And now again the people
Call it but a weed.

From Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Flower (1864)