Thomas Lovell Beddoes Quotes

#1. If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#2. How many times do I love, again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain
Unravelled from the trembling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star:-
So many times do I love again.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#3. If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#4. Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#5. Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human sacrifices. And they ought to be fitted up like the ancient temples in Egypt, in a manner to show the real atrocity of the superstition that is carried on within their walls.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#6. There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes