Thomas Lovell Beddoes Quotes

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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.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The anchor heaves, the ship swings free,
The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
A cypress-bough, and a rose-wreath sweet,
A wedding-robe, and a winding-sheet,
A bridal bed and a bier.
Thine be the kisses, maid,
And smiling Love's alarms;
And thou, pale youth, be laid
In the grave's cold arms.
Each in his own charms,
Death and Hymen both are here;
So up with scythe and torch,
And to the old church porch,
While all the bells ring clear:
And rosy, rosy the bed shall bloom,
And earthy, earthy heap up the tomb.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
I have a bit of fiat in my soul,
And can myself create my little world.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
But wilt thou cure thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then die, dear, die.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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
Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand,
My ears, those entrances of word-dressed thoughts,
My pictured eyes, and my assuring touch,
Fell from me, and my body turned me forth
From its beloved abode: then I was dead;
And in my grave beside my corpse I sat,
In vain attempting to return

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
If thou wilt ease thine heart
Of love and all its smart,
Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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
There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes