by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
If there were dreams to sell
Language: English
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? A cottage lone and still, With bowers nigh, Shadowy, my woes to still, Until I die. Such pearl from Life's fresh crown Fain would I shake me down. Were dreams to have at will, This best would heal my ill, This would I buy.
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Text Authorship:
- by Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849), "Dream-Pedlary", appears in The Poems Posthumous and Collected of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, first published 1851 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "Dream-Pedlary", 1952, rev. 1959, 1995, first performed 1958 [high voice and piano], from Six Lyrics, no. 1. [text not verified]
- by Robert Fairfax Birch (b. 1917), "If there were dreams" [text not verified]
- by Maurice Blower (1894 - 1982), "If there were dreams to sell", published 1958. [2-part women's chorus or children's chorus with piano] [text not verified]
- by George Frederick Broadhead (1883 - ?), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1939. [voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by St. John Brougham , "Dream-Pedlary", published 1919 [voice, piano], from Two Songs [text not verified]
- by Colin Brumby (b. 1933), "Dream pedlary" [SATB chorus a cappella] [text not verified]
- by Percy Carter Buck, Sir (1871 - 1947), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1910. [SSA chorus and piano] [text not verified]
- by (Thomas) Frederick Handel Candlyn (1892 - 1964), "Dream‑Pedlary", published <<1940 [four-part men's chorus a cappella], NY : Carl Fischer [text not verified]
- by Jean Coulthard (1908 - 2000), "Dream-Pedlary", 1962 [soprano, piano], from Three Songs for Soprano and Piano [text not verified]
- by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "If there were dreams to sell", published 1915. [medium voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Dream Pedlary", published 1925. [voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1923. [SA chorus or unison chorus with piano] [text not verified]
- by William Sidney Gwynn Williams (b. 1896), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1930. [voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by David Haupt , "Dream pedlary", published 1950 [SSA chorus a cappella], Philadelphia : Elkan-Vogel [text not verified]
- by Frank Haworth (1905 - 1993), "Dream-Pedlary", 1956. [voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by Julian Herbage (b. 1904), "Dream-Pedlary", published c1929. [voice, piano] [text not verified]
- by John Hill , "If there were dreams to sell", published 1899 [voice, piano], from Six Songs [text not verified]
- by Brian Holmes (b. 1946), "Dream-pedlary" [high voice, string quartet], from Death's Jest-Book, no. 2. [text not verified]
- by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "If there were dreams to sell", 1918, published 1918. [voice and piano] [text verified 1 time]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "If there were dreams to sell" [voice and piano] [text not verified]
- by William Lovelock (1899 - 1986), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1958. [SA chorus and piano] [text not verified]
- by Leighton Lucas (1903 - 1982), "Dream pedlary", published [1955] [SATB chorus a cappella], London : Elkin [text not verified]
- by Haydn Morris (1891 - 1965), "If there were dreams to sell", <<1965. [soprano, piano] [text not verified]
- by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir (1848 - 1918), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1920 [voice and piano], from the collection English Lyrics, Twelfth Set, no. 5. [text verified 1 time]
- by Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir (1874 - 1952), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1942. [SATB chorus or SATB quartet a cappella] [text not verified]
- by Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir (1874 - 1952), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1947. [TTBB chorus a cappella] [text not verified]
- by Colin Moncrieff Campbell Taylor (1881 - 1973), "Dream-Pedlary", published 1917. [3-part chorus (SMsA), piano] [text not verified]
- by Herbert J. Tily , "Dream-Pedlary", published <<1940. [voice, piano] [text not verified]
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