William Broome

William Broome (c. April 1689 – 16 November 1745) was an English poet and translator. He was born in Bromsgrove, near Birmingham, Cheshire and died in Bath.

Quotes

Poems on Several Occasions (1727)

2nd ed. (London: printed for Henry Lintot, 1739)

• Tho’ sickness yet a while forbears,
  Yet time destroys what sickness spares;
  Now Helen lives alone in fame
  And Cleopatra's but a name;
  Time must indent that heav'nly brow,
  And thou must be what they are now.
    This moral to the fair disclose,
  Queen of fragrance, lovely rose.
  • The Rose-Bud: To the Lady Jane Wharton", l. 27

• Sure never pain such beauty wore,
  Or look’d so amiable before!
  • To Belinda: On her Sickness and Recovery", l. 1

• But see! the pains begin to fly;
  Tho’ Venus bled she could not die:
  See the new phœnix point her eyes,
  And lovelier from her ashes rise.
  • To Belinda: On her Sickness and Recovery", l. 11

• Brighter from her disease she shines,
  As fire the precious gold refines.
  Thus when the silent grave becomes
  Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs;
  When the wide seas and spacious earth
     Resign us to our second birth;
  Our moulder’d frame rebuilt assumes
  New beauty, and for ever blooms,
  And, crown’d with youth’s immortal pride,
     We angels rise, who mortals died.
  • To Belinda: On her Sickness and Recovery", l. 33

External links

• Encyclopedic article on William Broome on Wikipedia
• The Odyssey of Homer (Alexander Pope)