Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet

Sonnet XII The Boothby Monument, described as being so lifelike that the child could be sleeping, is inscribed with an epitaph to Penelope's honour: "She was in form and intellect most exquisite. The unfortunate Parents ventured their all on this frail Bark. And the wreck was total" Well has thy classick chisel, Banks, express'd The graceful lineaments of that fine form, Which late with conscious, living beauty warm, Now here beneath does in dread silence rest. And, oh, while life shall agitate my breast, Recorded there exists her every charm, In vivid colours, safe from change or harm, Till my last sigh unalter'd love attest. That form, as fair as ever fancy drew, The marble cold, inanimate, retains; But of the radiant smile that round her threw Joys, that beguiled my soul of mortal pains, And each divine expression's varying hue, A little senseless dust alone remains

Major works Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, 1790 Observations on the Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, 1792 Sorrows. Sacred to the Memory of Penelope, 1796 Venality, 1793 and 1802 Translation of Jean Racine's Britannicus, 1803 Fables and Satires, 1809, Edinburgh Translation of Molière's Le Misanthrope, 1819 The Fudger Fudged, 1819