Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes. 18031849667. Dream-Pedlary
IF there were dreams to sell, | |
What would you buy? | |
Some cost a passing bell; | |
Some a light sigh, | |
That shakes from Life’s fresh crown | 5 |
Only a rose-leaf down. | |
If there were dreams to sell, | |
Merry and sad to tell, | |
And the crier rang the bell, | |
What would you buy? | 10 |
A cottage lone and still, | |
With bowers nigh, | |
Shadowy, my woes to still, | |
Until I die. | |
Such pearl from Life’s fresh crown | 15 |
Fain would I shake me down. | |
Were dreams to have at will, | |
This would best heal my ill, | |
This would I buy. |