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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN NICOTINA, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD
First Line: Oh! She was a gay little cigarette
Last Line: In nothing at all but smoke!
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes
First Line: Oh! She was a gay little cigarette
Last Line: In nothing at all but smoke!
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes
Oh! she was a gay little cigarette
And he was a fat cigar,
And side by side on a tabouret
They stood in a ginger jar.
Though nary a word could I understand,
For they chatted in Actobac,
Yet wonderful things I am sure they planned
Like lovers all do -- alack!
Today she's a sad little cigarette,
For gone is her brave cigar,
And all alone on the tabouret
She stands in the ginger jar.
Now Love is a marvelous thing, 'tis true,
And many a fault will cloak,
But often it ends as the dream of these two,
In nothing at all but smoke!
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