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Jakujin: The Last Play: Fiction on Two Queer English Playwrights A story on Shakespeare, a poem on Thomas Lovell Beddoes

ericesheng: I heard ‘if there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?’ from a song (John Ireland setting Thomas Lovell Beddoes) as ‘if there were greens to sell, what would you buy?’

MelanieJaxn: Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main... ~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

technopreneurjp: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? By Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Ishmaelphineas: “If there are ghosts to raise, / What shall I call, / Out of hell’s murky haze, / Heaven’s blue pall? …” My new setting of “Dream-Pedlary” by Thomas Lovell Beddoes:

Ishmaelphineas: Music is a path; it can lead us home to the golden world. In Wednesday's edition of my weekly letter, I include a new setting of "Dream-Pedlary" by Thomas Lovell Beddoes:

Daniel_Kalder: Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) was an English doctor-poet much possessed by death. While literary immortality proved to be elusive, his amputated leg is now the subject of two poems by ChatGPT (2022-) Behold:

AnuradhaSowmyan: BOOK FOOD LANGUAGE: THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES 'S POEM - A SONG

Daniel_Kalder: The last letter of the death obsessed, one-legged doctor-poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes, written shortly before he imbibed poison. "Life was too great a bore on one peg & that a bad one."

MelanieJaxn: Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: - So many times do I love again. ~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

ENGLISHmeigen_: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes -

drewdog2060_: Frances Wilson · Poetry is a horrible waste of time: Thomas Lovell Beddoes · LRB 28 October 1999

tempa_j: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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capami: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Deaths' Jest-Book, 1849.

shelleyscholar: Shelleyan 53: The poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49), a sad case, was one of the guarantors of Shelley's Posthumous Poems. 'The disappearance of Shelley from the world seems, like the tropical setting of that luminary, (aside, I hate that word) to which his poetical genius ...

TrueQuotation: In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. — Thomas Lovell Beddoes

BurlHorniachek: For Halloween, here is Thomas Lovell Beddoes' "Old Adam, the carrion crow" from Death's Jest-Book.

JohnMcDonald15: In honor of Halloween, I'm posting a few poems by my favorite macabre poet, Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)

JohnMcDonald15: Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Dirge (”If Thou…”) If thou wilt ease thine heart Of love and all its smart, Then sleep, dear, sleep; And not a sorrow Hang any tear on your eyelashes; Lie still and deep, Sad soul, until the sea-wave washes The rim o’ the sun to-morrow,

linkdniel: 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. If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy? — Thomas Lovell Beddoes

somecaboose: Spooky October poem day 14: “Death’s Jest Book”- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

WebKaese: “Little and grisly, or bony and big, White, and clattering, grassy and yellow; The partners are waiting, so strike up a jig, Dance and be merry, for Death’s a droll fellow. Where’s Death and his sweetheart? We want to begin." Aus "Death’s Jest-Book" von Thomas Lovell Beddoes

SenayS10: Let us drink then, my raven of Cairo. 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, "Death's Jest Book", 1829

ENGLISHmeigen_: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes -

ENGLISHmeigen_: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes -

cowboycoleridge: 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

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English poet/playwright Thomas Lovell Beddoes (June 30,1803), author of “The Bride’s Tragedy” (1822)et al.

Azuridian: Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Dream-Pedlary

v_rossouw3: "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" Thomas Lovell Beddoes ~ from Dream-Pedlary

Kulambq: 'We do lie beneath the grass In the moonlight, in the shade Of the yew-tree. They that pass Hear us not. We are afraid They would envy our delight, In our graves by glow-worm night.' ~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes, from 'Death's Jest Book'

face_n_rise: "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" ~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes

MelanieJaxn: 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

la8Pe99Na2: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Archduke Leopoldo Wilhelmina in his pictures Gallery in Brussels 1650-51 David Terniers

MaryTella2: And in some summer wilderness of flowers, As though but two hearts beat beneath the sun, Consume our days of love. ~ Thomas Lovell Beddoes The Bride's Tragedy ACT IV, SCENE III (1822)

MelanieJaxn: Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: - So many times do I love again. ~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

JohnMcDonald15: "Catholic Emancipation"...full civil rights for Catholics. (Incidentally, she was an aunt of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, famous "dark" poet, whose poems I usually posted around Halloween.)

AJWrightMLS: 1808 Dec 24: Thomas Beddoes died

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nicratwoman: “If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?” ― Thomas Lovell Beddoes

JohnMcDonald15: Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) Macabre poet nearly contemporary with Poe. I usually bring him out on Holloween. I think there is only one portrait of him & it is very inadequate.

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aboredlittleboy: Thomas Lovell Beddoes... guess the year, I bet you can’t

SileFragor: and embellished, both inside and out, with grinning gargoyles." (Lytton Strachey on Thomas Lovell Beddoes)

Beddoes_John: Mick Jagger and Thomas Lovell Beddoes .... Great !

C8257877: If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Dream-Pedlary

ENGLISHmeigen_: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes -

ENGLISHmeigen_: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes -

privejaculation: i feel like the white thomas lovell beddoes

Isbrand3: I recently heard the very sad news of the death of Judith Stancomb (formerly Higgens). Among many other things, Judith was the editor of the Fyfield Books (Carcanet) edition of the poems of Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

finallyhereiam: If there were dreams to sell Merry and sad to tell And the crier rang the bell What would you buy? ~Dream Pedlary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

SamQuill00: A life of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, with emphasis on his final years. It will be called 'Death's Jest Book' and I will, I promise, write it soon.

JJ56123: 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 (30June1803-26 January 1849)English poet&physician.

Brookston: Happy Birthday English poet, dramatist and physician Thomas Lovell Beddoes (June 30, 1803–January 26, 1849)

NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Thomas Lovell Beddoes (d. 1849), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (d. 1887), Joseph Dalton Hooker (d. 1911), Ernest Mason Satow (d. 1929), Frederick Bligh Bond (d. 1945), Georges Duhamel (d. 1966), Archibald Frazer-Nash (d. 1965) and Paul Boffa (d. 1962).

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to English poet/playwright Thomas Lovell Beddoes (June 30,1803), author of “The Bride’s Tragedy” (1822)et al.

JohnMcDonald15: Here is a link to a Thomas Lovell Beddoes site. The embedded video of the portrait of Beddoes reading one of his poems looks a bit bizarre & fits Beddoes strangeness well, imo.

PetloverHermine: 30Jun/1803: Thomas Lovell Beddoes is born in Clifton, Bristol, Glos., England. He’ll be a poet, dramatist and physician.

DanThePongMan: If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy ? Some cost a passing-bell, Some a light sigh. Excerpt from the Dream-Pedlary Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet July 20 , 1803 - Jan. 26, 1849

becimay: Weird to hear both Hopkins and Milton in a poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

aleph_nought: who locks their *ebooks* on soulseek?? and not just any ebook, who locks an ebook of the bride's tragedy by thomas lovell beddoes on soulseek???

SarahFPoetry: "What is the lobster’s tune when he is boiled? I hate your ballads that are made to come Round like a squirrel’s cage, and round again. We nightingales sing boldly from our hearts: So listen to us." Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Jakujin: How can I lose a big fat red Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (one of my most expensive books, secondhand) which I had about the place yesterday?

BecksOfBucks: Well, I guess I'll find out. I'm not scared, I feel like I'll be finally be going home after a crazy long weekend. "If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? Life is a dream, they tell, waking to die." Excerpt: "Dream-Pedlary", Thomas Lovell Beddoes

ThePeshK: “If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?”- Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Liang17842387: Thomas Lovell Beddoes - A Clock Striking Midnight Hark to the echo of Time’s footsteps; gone Thise moments are into the unseen grave Of ages. Thy have vanished nameless. None, While they are deep under the eddying wave Of the chaotic past, shall placea stone

ENGLISHmeigen_: If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy? - Thomas Lovell Beddoes -

MelanieJaxn: 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

paltryform: Fear me now; I am a devil, not a human soul -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

LivesPoetry: On this day 26th January 2021 Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ obsession with death

ByDavidSlattery: By heaven and hell, and all the fools between them, I will not die, nor sleep, nor wink my eyes, But think myself into a god; old Death Shall dream he has slain me, and I'll creep behind him, And beat him into dust. Thomas Lovell Beddoes killed himself today 1849

macleod_miss: January 20th is a short but sweet one by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. I'd never heard of Beddoes but after researching him I'm surprised that the poem is as positive as it is given his tragic life. This just goes to prove that you can never guess what's going on in someone's head.

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AJWrightMLS: 1808 Dec 24: Thomas Beddoes died

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