Poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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
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?

A cottage lone and still,
   With bowers nigh,
Shadowy, my woes to still,
   Until I die.
Such pearl from Life's fresh crown
Fain would I shake me down.
Were dreams to have at will,
This would best heal my ill,
   This would I buy. 

1. Resurrection Song
2. Song on the Water
3. The Rosy Hour
4. Yes, Mary Ann
5. Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the ‘Prometheus Unbound’

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