“ That thunder'd in mine ears, "Thy Child is gone; "Thy Joys are fled to Heaven; thy hope is done; "And thy few days to come are all forlorn!" Why, when the stroke, too heavy to be borne, Had smote affrighted Reason from her throne, And life's chill power suspended; why, too soon, Did the warm current to its course return! Twice twenty summer suns had roll'd away, And seen my hours a clear smooth surface flow; Prepared already nature's debt to pay ”
Brooke Boothby
Biographical details
Brooke Boothby published works such as Sonnet VI, Sonnet III and Monumental Inscriptions in Ashbourn Church, Derbyshire — Penelope Boothby. These writings evoke beam'd, e'er and dreamer.
Quotes by Brooke Boothby
“ Death! Thy cold hand the brightest flower has chill'd, That e'er suffused love's cheek with rosy dies; Quench'd the soft radiance of the loveliest eyes, And accents tuned to sweetest music still'd; The springing buds of hope and pleasure kill'd ”
Brooke Boothby, Monumental Inscriptions in Ashbourn Church… (1806)
“ Those that descend into the grave are not concealed from Heaven. Thy curling locks of pure shining gold, the lightening of thy angelic smile, which used to make a Paradise on Earth, are now become only a little senseless dust. ”
