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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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Word count: 95

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