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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 sorrow—the 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 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