Samuel Beazley

Samuel Beazley (1786–1851) was an English architect and playwright. He designed several London theatres, including the St James's Theatre, and wrote a long run of farces, operettas and melodramas for the stage.

The poem here is the one printed under his name in Frederick Locker's Lyra Elegantiarum (London: E. Moxon, 1867), an anthology of vers de société and vers d'occasion by deceased authors; the texts follow that first edition.