| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 12501900. |
| |
| William Broome. ?1745 |
| |
| 447. Belinda's Recovery from Sickness |
| |
| 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 | 5 |
| New beauty, and for ever blooms, | |
| And, crown'd with youth's immortal pride, | |
| We angels rise, who mortals died. | |
|
|