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HOUSEWIVES, YOU HAVE CROAKED", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "drops no sustaining fruit, how sweet to pout / consolatory whiffs, alas, too brief" Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes "TOBACCO, SOME SAY, IS A POTENT NARCOTIC", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: We'll burn him forthwith as they used to do heretics Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes A BACHELOR'S INVOCATION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When all my plans have come to grief Last Line: "than, like the rest, thou vanishest / in smoke, my cigarette" Subject(s): Single People;smoking; Bachelors;unmarried People;tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes A BACKWARD LOOK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sat smoking, alone, yesterday Last Line: Than it ever will have again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Life; Memory; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A BALLADE OF THE BEST PIPE, by ROBERT FULLER MURRAY Poem Text First Line: I hear you fervently extol Last Line: Give me a finely seasoned briar. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A CATCH ON TOBACCO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "good, good indeed" Last Line: A pipe of spanish Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes A CIGARETTE VAGARY, by MARY CAMILLA FOSTER HALL-WOOD Poem Text First Line: In the smoke of my dear cigarito Last Line: A bitterness tinges it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Von K., Camilla K. Subject(s): Cupid; Smoking; Eros; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!" Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May the babylonish curse Last Line: An unconquered canaanite. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A GOOD CIGAR, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: A good cigar, long, brown, and fat Last Line: A good cigar? Subject(s): Smoking; Talk; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A PANACEA, by ROBERT O. RYDER Poem Text First Line: If your health is not quite right Last Line: Light your pipe. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A PIPE OF TOBACCO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The wind is loud this bleak december night Last Line: That these are all my own Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes A PIPE OF TOBACCO, by HENRY FIELDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the learned talk of books Last Line: And therefore they banished tobacco. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A PIPE OF TOBACCO (MR. PHILLIP'S STYLE IMITATED), by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little tube of mighty power Last Line: Happiest he of happy men! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A PIPE OF TOBACCO (MR. POPE'S STYLE IMITATED), by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest leaf! Whose aromatic gales dispense Last Line: And let me taste thee unexcised by kings. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A RELIGIOUS USE OF TAKING TOBACCO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The indian weed withered quite Last Line: "thus think, then drink tobacco" Variant Title(s): Pipe And Can: 1 Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes A TOAST TO TOBACCO SMOKE, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A toast - a health, since here we are Last Line: The joys of good tobacco smoke! Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes AN ODE TO A PIPE OF TOBACCO, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No - no - by thy bland self I swear Last Line: And ruin be the order of the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Della Cruscanism (poetic Style); Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes BIOLUMINESCENCE: 4. LUCIFERIN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a dusky / angel drawn to the gleaming Subject(s): Fireflies; Light; Smoking; Glowworms; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes BLUEBEARD'S LAST WIFE: COMES LADY NICOTINE, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now comes the pensive lady nicotine Last Line: Sweet cigarette is dead! Peace to her ashes! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes BOX OF CIGARS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Io tried either one or two but they were stale Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes BREITMANN'S RAUCHLIED, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all de dings dat mordal man Last Line: Fumans expirarem. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CHANEL NO. 5, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one, my mother dips her gauloises bleues Last Line: The longing for her from my throat -- and spit. Subject(s): Desire; Experience; Longing; Mothers & Daughters; Perfume; Secrets; Sin; Smoking; Solitude; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Loneliness CIGARETTES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father burned us all. Ash Last Line: Smoldering halls. Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Fire; Parents; Smoking; Childhood; Parenthood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CIGARS AND BEER, by GEORGE ARNOLD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here / with my beer Last Line: Without the cross! Variant Title(s): Beer Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Smoking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CLOUDS, by EDUARD VON BAUERNFELD Poem Text First Line: Mortals say their heart is light Last Line: Is the smoker's universe. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes COCKTAIL HOUR, by MARGARET E. MCINTYRE Poem Text First Line: Between the dusk and the twilight Last Line: It must be upheld, to get by. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Drinks & Drinking; Dusk; Smoking; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes COMFORT, by CHARLES EDMUND MERRILL JR. Poem Text First Line: With pipe and book, an old armchair Last Line: With pipe and book. Subject(s): Books; Smoking; Reading; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CRIMSON, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crimson is the slow smolder of the cigar end I hold Last Line: Shadows and smoke and watch my thoughts come and go.) Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the land of the dark-eyed gente Last Line: Smoke smoke smoke. Subject(s): Caribbean Sea; Health; Pleasure; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes DRIZZLE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Baudelaire: 'the dead, the poor dead, have their bad hours' Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Smoking; Time; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes EPIGRAM, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: See! Stretch'd on nature's couch of grass Subject(s): Smoking; Time; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes EPIGRAM (4), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frank carves very ill, yet will palm all the meats Last Line: It cost thee more in whips than hay. Subject(s): Jokes; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes FIDUS ACHATES, by W. A. MACKENZIE Poem Text First Line: Where is my trusty old clay Last Line: Broken and passed away! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes FOR THE AVERY 'KNICKERBOCKER', by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shade of herrick, muse of locker Last Line: This the muse can never do! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Boughton, George Henry (1833-1905); New York City - Dutch Period; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; United States - Dutch Settlements; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes HANS READING, HANS SMOKING, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother, poised around behavior, would say Subject(s): Reading; Smoking; Human Behavior; Family Life; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Relatives HERBA SANTA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After long wars when comes release Last Line: Inhaling herba santa in the passive pipe of peace. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes I SMOKE MY PIPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't extend to every friend Last Line: And so I smoke my pipe. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Fortune; Heaven; Leisure; Smoking; Paradise; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IDYLL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Each time that eve and adam meet, he builds Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Smoking; Soul; Spring; Eve; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IF I WERE KING, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were king, my pipe should be premier Last Line: If I were king. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IN NICOTINA, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD Poem Text First Line: Oh! She was a gay little cigarette Last Line: In nothing at all but smoke! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes IN PRAISE OF TOBACCO, by SAMUEL ROWLANDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To feed on flesh is gluttony Last Line: With one light dish of smoak. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes INSCRIPTION FOR A TOBACCO JAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Keep me at hand; and as my fumes arise Last Line: You'll find a jar the gates of paradise Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes INSCRIPTION FOR TOBACCO JARS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Do you recall the wondrous brazen vase Last Line: Becomes to man embodied - reverie! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes INTER SOLADES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over a pipe the angel of conversation Last Line: Over a pipe. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Friendship; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes INTERESTING, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rowed her out on the broad bright sea Last Line: "and said: ""would you mind if I smoked too?" Subject(s): Courtship; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes KING CHARLES' PIPE (TO MY FATHER), by ELEANOR A. FAY Poem Text First Line: I think, my dear, I'll smoke king charles tonight.' Last Line: The meerschaum maiden served her masters well. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes LATAKIA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the panes are hung with frost Last Line: T would be a true arabian night! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes LOVE AND TOBACCO, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The artist feeling for his type Last Line: My pipe and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Smoking; Women; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MARK TWAIN: A PIPE DREAM, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well I recall how first I met Last Line: Then heaven will be heaven indeed. Subject(s): Dreams; Smoking; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 1. ASHES TO ASHES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You smoke yourself, my dear. Then why Last Line: I make my meaning plain, I trust! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MEERSCHAUM, by WRONGFELLOW [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "come to me, o my meerschaum" Last Line: For a penny will always fill you / and buy me content with a smoke Alternate Author Name(s): Wrongfellow Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes MR. SILBERBERG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like me yet dot leedle chile Last Line: I keep dot chile! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Smoking; Childhood; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY AFTER-DINNER CLOUD, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some sombre evening, when I sit Last Line: To blow my after-dinner cloud? Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY CIGAR, by ARTHUR W. GUNDRY Poem Text First Line: In spite of my physician, who is, entre nous, a fogy Last Line: Or more solid than this panful of its dead and sober ashes. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY CIGARETTE, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cigarette! The amulet Last Line: And nought is left me but the ashes. Subject(s): Evening; Fire; Smoking; Sunset; Twilight; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY CORN-COB PIPE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men may sing of their havanas, elevating to the stars Last Line: And I press my lips devoutly to my corn-cob pipe. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY LAST CIGAR, by HENRY JAMES MELLEN Poem Text First Line: The mighty thebes and babylon the great Last Line: Then come the ashes, and the long, long rest. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY MEERSCHAUMS, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long pipes and short ones, straight and curved Last Line: That's wrong! Here, light yourself a new one! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY PIPE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pipe is old Last Line: "the boy was born." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY PIPE IS OUT, by HERBERT MULLER HOPKINS Poem Text First Line: My pipe is out; the hour is late Last Line: My pipe is out. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MY THREE LOVES, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When life was all a summer day Last Line: My pipe, cigar, and cigarette. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas but a month ago to-day Last Line: For, me, I'll not swear. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Promises; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes NIGHT IN A SUBWAY STATION, by MARY LEONARD WEST Poem Text First Line: The train was late. He sat among the crowds Last Line: He couldn't use the things. Subject(s): Night; Railroads; Smoking; Subways; Bedtime; Railways; Trains; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ODE TO TOBACCO, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who, when fears attack Last Line: Here's to thee, bacon! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You might call this / the far side of the river Subject(s): Illinois; Indiana; Kentucky; Ohio; Rivers; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes OLD RALPH RANSOME'S HONEYDEW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Odl ralph ransome sailed the sea Last Line: The apothesis this / of ralph ransome's honeydew Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes ON A BROKEN PIPE, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neglected now it lies, a cold clay form Last Line: What more than it for epitaph have they? Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ON A TOBACCO JAR, by BERNARD BARKER Poem Text First Line: Three hundred years ago or soe Last Line: Who left soe much behind him. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ON RECEIPT OF A RARE PIPE, by W. H. B. Poem Text First Line: I lifted off the lid with anxious care Last Line: Shall last, though pipes and smokers pass away. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ON TOBACCO, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What horrid sin condemn'd the teeming earth Last Line: This satire, perhaps, else had looked like sense. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw Subject(s): Native Americans; Graves; Smoking; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tombs; Tombstones; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes PICTURES IN SMOKE, SELECTION, by T. H. ELLIOT Poem Text First Line: In a rapt dreamy quietude in sit Last Line: We grow old watching pictures in the smoke. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes PIPE AND CAN: 2, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When as the chill charokko [scirocco] blows Last Line: Ha! Give me ale Variant Title(s): In Praise Of Ale Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes PIPE DREAMS: 8, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Only a half a card of hop, wah kee Last Line: Abe jacobs, dressed in zinc and trading stamps! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes PIPE-LIGHTING TIME, by HARRY SINCLAIR LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight paints the fading wall Last Line: Pipe-lighting time. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Sinclair Subject(s): Smoking; Yale University; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SIC TRANSIT, by W. B. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Just a note that I found on my table Last Line: Recalls -- an havana cigar. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SM0KING SONG, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care is all stuff Last Line: Puff! Puff! Variant Title(s): Pipe Song Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE, by LENARD M. BAZELL Poem Text First Line: Wild fantasies of blissful peace perturb my soul Last Line: What a day! Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes' Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Like cigarette smoke Last Line: Away. Subject(s): Smoking; Weeds; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE AND CHESS, by SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD Poem Text First Line: We were sitting at chess as the sun went down Last Line: That misty maiden, saint nicotine. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE IS THE FOOD OF LOVERS, by JACOB CATS Poem Text First Line: When cupid open'd shop, the trade he chose Last Line: Is unsubstantial as the smoke and air. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKE; A POST-PORANDIAL POEM, by JAMES BRANDER MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you're weary, night or day Last Line: Melancholy, end in smoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, Brander Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKER, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The superfine intelligence Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SMOKING SPIRITUALIZED, by RALPH ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: Was this small plant for thee cut down? Last Line: Thus think, and smoke tobacco. Subject(s): Life; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SONNETS: 2. TO MY PIPE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A golden service, most loveworthy yoke Last Line: To dull old griefs and ease harassing thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SPRIGS OF LAUREL, SELECTION, by JOHN O'KEEFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A glass is good, and a lass is good Last Line: And, for sorrowthe devil confound it! Alternate Author Name(s): O'keefe, John Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SWEET SMOAKING PIPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sweet smoaking pipe, bright-glowing stove, / companion still of my retreat" Last Line: "and when my sinking ashes dies, / I learn that I must end like thee" Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes THE ALIBI, by FAIRFAX DOWNEY Poem Text First Line: Gwendolyn / has not been in Last Line: "I like it and it keeps me thin." Subject(s): Smoking; Women; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE BALLADE OF TOBACCO, by JAMES BRANDER MATTHEWS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When verdant youth sees life afar Last Line: A slave is each man to the weed. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, Brander Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE BEST CIGARETTE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are many that I miss Subject(s): Cigarettes THE BETHROTHED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the old cigar-box, get me a cuban stout Last Line: If maggie will have no rival, I'll have no maggie for spouse! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE BETROTHED, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must choose between me and your cigar.' Last Line: If maggie will have no rival, I'll have no maggie for spouse! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE BLESSING OF A SMOKE, by RAY D. SMITH Poem Text First Line: Did you ever invoke Last Line: Makes the whole world look rosy again. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE BRIER-WOOD PIPE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Bully for me again, when my turn for Last Line: Brings back the white-robed lady with hair like the golden wine! Subject(s): Memory; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE CIGAR, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sigh for this or that Last Line: So I have my cigar. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE CONVERSION, by RALPH WILHELM BERGENGREN Poem Text First Line: She told him surely 'twas not right Last Line: "why, then, I love your old pipe, too." Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE INDIAN WEED, by RALPH ERSKINE Poem Text First Line: This indian weed, now withered quite Last Line: Thus think, and drink tobacco. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE MENU, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I beg you come tonight and dine Last Line: Excepting alfred tennyson. Variant Title(s): Maecenas Bids His Friend To Dine;another Invitation Subject(s): Food & Eating; New York City; Parties; Smoking; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE NOBLEMAN AND THE PENSIONER, by GOTTLIEB KONRAD PFEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, god bless you! Does your pipe taste sweetly? Last Line: "the turkish pipe shall be." Subject(s): Asia; Smoking; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE P.R.B.: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The p.R.B. Is in its decadence: / for woolner in australia cooks his chops Last Line: And so the consummated p.R.B. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hunt, Holman (1827-1910); Language; Millais, Sir John E. (1829-1896); Pre-raphaelites; Rivers; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Smoking; Words; Vocabulary; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE PHILOSOPHY OF SMOKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the meerschaum white, or the brown briar-root" Last Line: "so put 'vogue' in your pipe and smoke it, friend" Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes THE PIPE OF PEACE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the magic Last Line: The marriage ceremony? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Marriage; Peace; Smoking; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes THE SMOKER'S CALENDAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When january's cold appears Last Line: That's lighted by their glowing embers Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes THE SONG OF THE CIGARETTE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get thee gone, my erstwhile loved one, I am weary Last Line: Just a cosy spot and silence and a soothing cigarette. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO A LADY SMOKING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text 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 TO C.F. BRADFORD ON THE GIFT OF A MEERSCHAUM PIPE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pipe came safe, and welcome too Last Line: Who sent my favorite pipe to me. Subject(s): Friendship; Gifts & Giving; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO HIS PIPE, IN ABSENCE, by ALFRED DENNIS GODLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faithful companion of my wanderings Last Line: To deck my room, a patriarch of pipes. Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO MY CIGAR, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, social friend, I love thee well Last Line: My soul shall cleave the sky. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO MY MEERSCHAUM, by P. D. R. Poem Text First Line: There's a charm in the sun-crested hills Last Line: My meerschaum! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE CIGARETTE GIRL, by H. F. H. Poem Text First Line: Your motions all are sweet and full of grace Last Line: And yet I wish, my dear, you didn't smoke. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE REV. MR. NEWTON [RECTOR OF ST. MARY, WOOLNOTH], by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says the pipe to the snuff-box, 'I can't understand' Last Line: "but of any thing else they may choose to put in us." Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TO THE REV. WILLIAM BULL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear friend / if reading verse be your delight Last Line: Be always filling, never full. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TOBACCHANALIAN DAYS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love my fragrant brier Last Line: Tobacchanalian days! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TOBACCO, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Incroaching weed; had not thine india room Last Line: Be physik, & not diet in abuse. Subject(s): Smoking; Temptation; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TOBACCO, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tobacco is a harmful weed, the learned Last Line: Means an early tomb. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Fire; Health; Lungs; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TOBACCO NEXT, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took away your drink from you, Last Line: Don't make the same mistake again. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Smoking; Temperance; Wine; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Prohibition TOBACCO'S BUT AN INDIAN WEED, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Think of this when you smoke some tobacco. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes TOO GREAT A SACRIFICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the maid, as by the papers doth appear" Last Line: "but he, when thus she brought him to the scratch, / lit his cigar and threw away his match" Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes ULTIMATION, by MAGDELEN EDEN BOYLE Poem Text First Line: Of tripoli, of lebanon Last Line: And warm his freezing hands. Subject(s): Lebanon; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes WHAT I LIKE, by H. L. Poem Text First Line: To lie with half-closed eyes, as in a dream Last Line: And smoke. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes WHEN THE OLD MAN SMOKES, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the forenoon's restful quiet Last Line: When the old man smokes. Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes WHILE CIGARETTES TO ASHES TURN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smokes - and that's enough,' Last Line: While cigarettes to ashes turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Smoking; Nightmares; Bedtime; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes WITH MY CIGAR, by JOHN CLINTON ANTHONY Poem Text First Line: With my cigar I sit alone Last Line: With my cigar! Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes YESTERDAY, by DIMP MILLIKIN CLEVENGER Poem Text First Line: He used to smoke his briar pipe Last Line: But that was yesterday. Subject(s): Past; Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes YOU AGAIN, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I'm smoking too much too many cigarettes Last Line: Every day this week and I'm glad I don't drink so there Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Substance Abuse; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Addictive Behavior |
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