Thomas Lovell Beddoes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Love #Life #Stars
“Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!”
-- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#Adventure #Swings #Eagles
“If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rung his bell, What would you buy?”
-- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#Love #Dream #Bells
“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 rung the bell, What would you buy?”
-- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#Dream #Light #Rose
“There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.”
-- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

#Secret #World
“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

#Wall #Real #Sacrifice

There Is Some Secret Stirring In The World A Thought That Seeks Impatiently Its Word

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