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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A LADY SMOKING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: The slopes of famed vesuvius are fair
Last Line: Such, lady, is a picture of your face.
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes
First Line: The slopes of famed vesuvius are fair
Last Line: Such, lady, is a picture of your face.
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes
The slopes of famed Vesuvius are fair
With golden beauty in the golden air.
In terraced loveliness they softly rise,
Sweet blandishments that melt in sweetest skies.
But lo! upon the summit what is this,
What horrid apex of a mount of bliss,
What fuming, black, bar sinister of grace?
Such, lady, is a picture of your face.
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