Classic and Contemporary Poetry

CLEVEDON VERSES: 3. SECUTURUS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poet's Biography
First Line: Each night when I behold my bed
Last Line: And I would gladly die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Death - Children; Death - Babies

Each night when I behold my bed
So fair outspread,
And all so soft and sweet --
O, then above the folded sheet
His little coffin grows upon mine eye,
And I would gladly die.