| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Dream-Pedlary | | By Thomas Lovell Beddoes (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 | 5 |
| 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? | 10 |
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| A cottage lone and still, | |
| With bowers nigh, | |
| Shadowy, my woes to still, | |
| Until I die. | |
| Such pearl from Life’s fresh crown | 15 |
| Fain would I shake me down. | |
| Were dreams to have at will, | |
| This would best heal my ill, | |
| This would I buy. | | | | |
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