Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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“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)

“Is that the wind dying? O no;
It’s only two devils, that blow
Through a murderer’s bones, to and fro,
In the ghosts’ moonshine.”
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)

“Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Squats on a toad-stool under a tree
A bodiless childfull of life in the gloom,
Crying with frog voice, “What shall I be?
Poor unborn ghost, for my mother killed me
Scarcely alive in her wicked womb.”
—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)