| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Broome. ?–1745 |
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| 446. The Rosebud |
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| QUEEN of fragrance, lovely Rose, | |
| The beauties of thy leaves disclose! | |
| —But thou, fair Nymph, thyself survey | |
| In this sweet offspring of a day. | |
| That miracle of face must fail, | 5 |
| Thy charms are sweet, but charms are frail: | |
| Swift as the short-lived flower they fly, | |
| At morn they bloom, at evening die: | |
| Though Sickness yet a while forbears, | |
| Yet Time destroys what Sickness spares: | 10 |
| Now Helen lives alone in fame, | |
| And Cleopatra's but a name: | |
| Time must indent that heavenly brow, | |
| And thou must be what they are now. | |
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