Beddoes

Famous quotes containing the word beddoes:

“We are afraid
They would envy our delight,
In our graves by glow-worm night.”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

“Hard by the lilied Nile I saw
A duskish river dragon stretched along.
The brown habergeon of his limbs enamelled
With sanguine alamandines and rainy pearl:
And on his back there lay a young one sleeping,
No bigger than a mouse;”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

“If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung the bell,
What would you buy?”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)