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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


ACROSTIC, by J.+(1) H.    Poem Source                    
First Line: To thee, blest weed, whose sovereign wiles
Subject(s): Smoking


AD NICOTINA, by E. H. S.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let others sing the praise of wine
Subject(s): Smoking


AFTERPARTY, by COLLEEN MCGORMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It happened on the porch
Last Line: And everyone else %was asleep
Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Comfort; Love; Smoking


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


AND DELICATE OLFACTORIES, by JAMES HENRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I thank you, sir -- hurrah!
Subject(s): Smoking


ANOTHER MATCH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If love were dhudeen olden
Subject(s): Smoking


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


ASHES, by DE WITT STERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wrapped in sadly tattered gown
Subject(s): Smoking


BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sit alone with my pipe by the fire
Subject(s): Smoking


BACHELOR'S VIEWS, by TOM HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pipe, a book %a cosy nook
Subject(s): Smoking


BALLAD OF THE PIPE, by HERMANN RAVE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, give me but virginia's weed
Subject(s): Smoking


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


BRIEF PUFF OF SMOKE, by UNKNOWN+102    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great doctor parr, the learned whig
Subject(s): Smoking


CANNON SONG, by H. P. PECK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, seniors, come, and fill your pipes
Subject(s): Smoking


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


CHIBOUQUE, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At yeni-djami, after rhamadan
Subject(s): Smoking


CHILEAN CIGARETTE PACK, by JIANG HAICHENG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A chilean cigarette pack
Last Line: In symbol or fact, %liberty is but a pack of cigarettes
Subject(s): Freedom; Smoking


CHOOSING A WIFE BY A PIPE OF TOBACCO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tube, I love thee as my life
Subject(s): Smoking


CIGARETTE RINGS, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How it blows! How it rains! I'll not turn out tonight
Subject(s): Smoking


CIGARETTE SALESMAN, by BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In winged-tip shoes
Subject(s): Salespersons; Smoking


CIGARETTE SMOKE, by SHEENAGH PUGH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her parents smoked; she moved away
Last Line: Of drowning her mouth in black unbrushed %hair, acrid and soft as ash
Subject(s): Smoking


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


CONFESSION OF A CIGAR SMOKER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I owe to smoking, more or less
Subject(s): Smoking


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


DISCOVERY OF TOBACCO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They were three jolly sailors bold
Subject(s): Smoking


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


DREAMER'S PIPE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Meerschaum, thing with amber tip
Subject(s): Smoking


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


DUET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was smoking a cigarette
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Smoking


EDIFYING REFLECTIONS OF A TOBACCO SMOKER, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: As oft I fill my faithful pipe
Subject(s): Smoking


EFFUSION BY A CIGAR SMOKER, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Warriors! Who from the cannon's mouth blow fire
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Smoking


ENCOMIUM OF TOBACCO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thrice happy isles that stole the world's delight
Subject(s): Smoking


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


EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY WHO DESIRED THAT TOBACCO BE PLANTED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let no cold marble o'er my body rise
Subject(s): Smoking


EYES BELIEVE, BUT THE LEFT BRAIN WANTS TO KNOW, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eyes believe whatever they take in
Last Line: Smoke collecting from both ears again
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Smoking; Substance Abuse


FARMER'S PIPE, by GEORGE COOPER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Make a picture, dreamy smoke
Subject(s): Smoking


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


FIRST CIGARETTE, by JOSEPH ROLNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: My first sabbath cigarette between my lips
Last Line: And laughed into his deep white beard
Subject(s): Sabbath; Smoking


FOR SHAME: A POEM TO MAKE ME QUIT SMOKING, by ELLEN DORE WATSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Shame will be what I'm feeling when I die
Last Line: In her body? Shouldn't I for that be able to %give up fire?
Subject(s): Guilt; Shame; Smoking


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


FREE PUFF', by ARTHUR IRVING GRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do you remember when first we met?
Subject(s): Smoking


FRIEND OF MY YOUTH, COMPANION OF MY LATER DAYS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Smoking


GEORDIE TO HIS TOBACCO-PIPE, by GEORGE S. PHILLIPS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Good pipe, old friend, old black and colored friend
Subject(s): Smoking


GHAZAL 1, by JOHN FALK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stub-blaze cigarette in darkness
Last Line: So intense the listening, thirst has passed
Subject(s): Night; Smoking


GOOD CIGAR, by NORRIS BULL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, 'tis well and enough
Subject(s): Smoking


HANDBOOK OF TOBACCO-FARMING, by SHELBY STEPHENSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since there are no two tobacco-farmers in the world
Last Line: Full of stubble %and slow man barbour's drawl
Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoking


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


HAPPY SMOKING-GROUND, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that last pipe is smoked at last
Subject(s): Smoking


HE RESPONDETH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Smokers, who doubt or con or pro
Subject(s): Smoking


HER BROTHER'S CIGARETTE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like raven's wings her locks of jet
Subject(s): Smoking


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


HOW IT ONCE WAS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Right stout and strong the worthy burghers stood
Subject(s): Smoking


I LIKE CIGARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Smoking


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 FAVOR OF TOBACCO, by SAMUEL ROWLANDS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Much victuals serves for gluttony
Subject(s): Smoking


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


IN ROTTEN ROW, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Smoking


IN THE OL' TOBACKER PATCH, by S. Q. LAPIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I jess kind o' feel so lonesome that I don't know what to do
Subject(s): Smoking


IN WREATHS OF SMOKE, by FRANK NEWTON HOLMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Smoking


INGIN SUMMER, by EVA WILDER MCGLASSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Jest about the time when fall
Subject(s): Smoking


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


INTO THE POPLAR TREES, by ROBERT W. THOMAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are no mailboxes on the side of the highway
Last Line: I go on waiting, as cars and constellatins pass
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Smoking


INVOCATION TO TOBACCO, by HENRY JAMES MELLEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weed of the strange flower, weed of the earth
Subject(s): Smoking


IT MAY BE WEEDS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Smoking


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


LAST PIPE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When head is sick and brain doth swim
Subject(s): Smoking


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


LATEST CONVERT, by F. W. LITTLETON HAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've been in love some scores of times
Subject(s): Smoking


LOGIC, by EMILY FRAGOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I started smoking again after a long time
Last Line: Will seem the perfectly right thing to do
Subject(s): Reason; Smoking


LOSS, by UNKNOWN+54    Poem Source                    
First Line: How hard a thing it is to part
Subject(s): Smoking


LOST LOTUS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tis said that in the sun-embroidered east
Subject(s): Smoking


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


LUCK, by MARC J. STRAUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just my luck, I gave up smoking last month
Last Line: And the lesion in my lung is gone
Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Medicine; Physicians; Smoking


LUCKIES', by WILLIAM REGINALD GIBBONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: A loop of rusty cable incises
Last Line: In a coil, waits for the first call. %the years are smoke
Variant Title(s): Luckie
Subject(s): Smoking


M.B., by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter has spent this snow
Last Line: Against the sky's limits!
Subject(s): Smoking


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


MASTER, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a cuban fellow
Last Line: Way to head of the line
Subject(s): Smoking


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


MODERATION, by GRACE CAVALIERI    Poem Source                    
First Line: One cigarette a day
Last Line: Looking back at me on the porch %in the silence before the whistle
Subject(s): Moderation; Smoking


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 RICHARD BARNARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: To my sweet cigarette I am singing
Subject(s): Smoking


MY CIGARETTE, by TOM HALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Ma pauvre petite
Subject(s): Smoking


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 CIGARETTE! THE AMULET, by CHESTER A. SNYDER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Smoking


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 FRIENDLY PIPE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let sybarites still dream delights
Subject(s): Smoking


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 LITTLE BROWN PIPE, by AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have a little comforter
Subject(s): Smoking


MY MEERSCHAUM PIPE, by JOHNSON M. MUNDY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old meerschaum pipe, I'll fondly wipe
Subject(s): Smoking


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, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When love grows cool, thy fire still warms me
Subject(s): Smoking


MY PIPE AND I, by ELTON J. BUCKLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There may be comrades in this world
Subject(s): Smoking


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


NEWS OF THE BLAZING WORLD, by JOSHUA COREY    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the church of aspartame
Last Line: From general death to the life of the concrete
Subject(s): Smoking


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


NO SMOKING, PLEASE, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Cigar smoke can't come into the famous-actor's house
Last Line: The dog, and, alas, the cigar with no lips to give the plot away [or, with no lips to keep it alive]
Subject(s): Motion Pictures; San Joaquin Valley, California; Smoking


ODE OF THANKS FOR CERTAIN CIGARS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Luck, my dear norton, still makes shifts
Subject(s): Smoking


ODE TO MY PIPE, by ANDREW WYNTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: O blessed pipe
Subject(s): Smoking


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


ODE TO TOBACCO, by DANIEL WEBSTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come then, tobacco, new found friend
Subject(s): Smoking


OF ETERNITY, by SCOTT KEENEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a warm summer night, a teenager smoking a joint sits alone with his
Last Line: Mosquito pinching his forearm, he laughs. And something is multipled in %his eyes
Subject(s): Friendship; Smoking; Teenagers


OLD CLAY PIPE, by A. B. VAN FLEET    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's a lot of solid comfort
Subject(s): Smoking


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 PIPE OF MINE, by JOHN J. GORMLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Companion of my lonely hours
Subject(s): Smoking


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 PARAPET OF JOSHUA LEE'S CLAY PIPE WORKS (1921), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Little tube of mighty power
Last Line: And thy pretty swelling crest %with my little stopper presst
Subject(s): Smoking


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


PATRIOTIC SMOKER'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me, shade of walter raleigh
Subject(s): Smoking


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 AND TOBACCO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When my pipe burns bright and clear
Subject(s): Smoking


PIPE CRITIC, by WALTER LITTLEFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Say, pipe, let's talk of love
Subject(s): Smoking


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 OF TOBACCO, by JOHN USHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let the toper regale in his tankard of ale
Subject(s): Smoking


PIPE YOU MAKE YOURSELF, by HENRY E. BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's clay pipes an' briar pipes an' meerschaum pipes as well
Subject(s): Smoking


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


PIPES AND BEER, by EDGAR FAWCETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before I was famous I used to sit
Subject(s): Smoking


POET'S PIPE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Smoking


POETRY, CIGARETTES AND I, by O SANGSUN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Which flees on the wing of curved melody %into the infinite blue of skies
Subject(s): Smoking


POT, AND A PIPE OF TOBACCO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some praise taking snuff
Subject(s): Smoking


PRESIDENTIAL ODE TO (SMOKE) BLOWING, by MAX GUTMANN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In college, bill clinton
Last Line: Breath would prevail
Subject(s): Clinton, William Jefferson (b. 1946); Smoking; Universities & Colleges


QUITTING SMOKING, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The phone says smoke when it rings, the radio says smoke, the tv
Last Line: Cameo
Subject(s): Smoking; Substance Abuse


RELIGIOUS USE OF TAKING TOBACCO, by ROBERT WISDOME    Poem Source                    
First Line: The indian weed withered quite
Last Line: Return thou must: %thus think, then drink tobacco
Subject(s): Smoking


SCENT OF A GOOD CIGAR, by KATE A. CARRINGTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What is it comes through the deepening dusk
Subject(s): Smoking


SEASONABLE SWEETS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the year is young, what sweets are flung
Subject(s): Smoking


SERVICE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dime %in the slot
Last Line: And who knows at what price?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Africa; Money; Plantation Life; Service; Smoking


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


SIR WALTER RALEIGH! NAME OF WORTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Smoking


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 DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her hands are pasty and liver-spotted
Last Line: Her native tongue: 'camels'
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Pollution; Smoking


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 RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes'
Last Line: They left, and they looked, but %they never did find that pack of cigarettes
Subject(s): Smoking


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 THAT GATHERS BLUE AND SINKS, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Here's your gin %now begin!
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Singing And Singers; Smoking


SMOKE TRAVELLER, by IRVING BROWNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I puff my cigarette
Subject(s): Smoking


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


SMOKER'S REVERIE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm sitting at dusk 'neath the old beechen tree
Subject(s): Smoking


SMOKING, by RONALD W. WALLACE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm holding my cigarette out the car window
Last Line: Lighting me up again and again %every time I try to put them down
Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron
Subject(s): Music, Rock; Smoking


SMOKING AWAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Floating away like the fountain's spray
Subject(s): Smoking


SMOKING FROG, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three men I saw beside a bar
Last Line: The gods must have their laughter.
Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Smoking


SMOKING SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: With grateful twirl our smoke-wreaths curl
Subject(s): Smoking


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


SONG OF THE SMOKE-WREATHS, by L. T. A.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not like clouds that cap the mountains
Subject(s): Smoking


SONG WITHOUT A NAME, by W. LLOYD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas in queen bess's golden days
Subject(s): Smoking


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


SWEET SMOKING PIPE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Smoking


SYMPHONY IN SMOKE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A pretty, piquant, pouting pet
Subject(s): Smoking


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


THOSE ASHES, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up to the frescoed ceiling
Subject(s): Smoking


TITLE PAGE DEDICATION, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let those smoke now who never smoked before
Subject(s): Smoking


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 A PIPE OF TOBACCO, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Come, lovely tube, by friendship blest
Subject(s): Smoking


TO AN OLD PIPE, by DE WITT STERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once your smoothly polished face
Subject(s): Smoking


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 FRIEDRICH MARC    Poem Source                    
First Line: The warmth of thy glow
Subject(s): Smoking


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 SEE HER PIPE AWRY, by C. F.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Betty bouncer kept a stall
Subject(s): Smoking


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


TO THE TOBACCO PIPE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dear piece of fascinating clay!
Subject(s): Smoking


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 WILLIAM JOHN COURTHOPE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Homer, you were born too soon
Last Line: Jove-like to compel a cloud
Subject(s): Smoking


TOBACCO, by THOMAS+(1) JONES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let poets rhyme of what they will
Subject(s): Smoking


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, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing in the world like it; you can tell aristotle.'
Last Line: At how much it costs, think too what fun it is
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Lungs; Smells; Smoking; Substance Abuse


TOBACCO, by GEORGE WITHER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The indian weed, withered quite
Subject(s): Smoking


TOBACCO IS AN INDIAN WEED, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tobacco's but an indian weed
Subject(s): Smoking


TOBACCO MEN, by JAMES APPLEWHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Late fall finishes the season for marketing
Last Line: A cloud's high forehead wears ice
Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoking


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


TRUE LEUCOTHOE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let others praise the god of wine
Subject(s): Smoking


TWAS OFF THE BLUE CANARIES, by JOSEPH WARREN FABENS    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Smoking


TWO OTHER HEARTS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Full tender beamed the light of love down from his manly face
Subject(s): Smoking


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


VALENTINE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What's my love's name? Guess her name
Subject(s): Smoking


VIRGINIA TOBACCO, by JOHN STANLEY GREGSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two maiden dames of sixty-two
Subject(s): Smoking


VIRGINIA'S KINGLY PLANT, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, muse! Grant me the power
Subject(s): Smoking


WARNING, by ARTHUR LOVELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I loathe all books. I hate to see
Subject(s): Smoking


WE WERE THREE, WE WERE TWO, IT WAS ME ALONE, WE WERE NONE, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were three, our heads down, in the darkness of vintages
Last Line: Sets out, watchfully, towards the brilliant instant
Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Solitude; Survival


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


YO-YO, by ANTONIO VALLONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day I quit
Last Line: The backward way %most people do
Subject(s): Smoking; Yo-yos (toys)


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