Dream-Pedlary
1803-1849
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.
DayPoems Poem No. 619
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/619.html">Dream-Pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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