Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker's Own Book of PoetryJoseph Knight Company, 1895 - 182 páginas |
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A. C. Swinburne after-dinner cloud amber ANON ARTHUR IRVING ashes bliss blue bowl brain breath bright brother's cigarette burn charm cheer cheroot cigar clay curling dance with Grace dear delight divine doth dream dreamer's drinke tobacco dust E'en eyes face fair faithful pipe fancy fear fire float fragrant FRANCIS MILES FINCH GEORGE WITHER give glow Havana heart incense JAMES RUSSELL Lowell Keats took snuff kiss Latakia leaf life's light lips lovers Maggie maid meerschaum meerschaum pipe Muse ne'er neath Nicotine night o'er old by-gone days old pipe peace pipe awry pipe of tobacco pleasure praise puff rare ripe rose Says Dick Says Jack scent sigh sing skies smile smoke ascends smoke tobacco smoke-wreaths smoking pipe SMOKING SONG soft SONG soothe sorrow soul strife summer sweet T. B. ALDRICH thee There's thine thou art thought weed wine wreaths of smoke
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Página 112 - A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.
Página 104 - While their sorrow's at the height, Lose discrimination quite. And their hasty wrath let fall To appease their frantic gall, On the darling thing whatever Whence they feel it death to sever, Though it be, as they, perforce. Guiltless of the sad divorce. For I must (nor let it grieve thee, Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee. For thy sake, Tobacco, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise.
Página 73 - The pipe, with solemn interposing puff, Makes half a sentence at a time enough ; The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain, Then pause, and puff — and speak, and pause again. Such often, like the tube they so admire, Important triflers ! have more smoke than fire.
Página 100 - A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO. MAY the Babylonish curse Straight confound my stammering verse If I can a passage see In this word-perplexity, Or a fit expression find, Or a language to my mind, (Still the phrase is wide or scant) To take leave of thee, GREAT PLANT...
Página 103 - Twas but in a sort I blamed thee ; None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee ; Irony all, and feign'd abuse, Such as perplex'd lovers use, At a need, when, in despair To paint forth their fairest fair, Or in part but to express That exceeding comeliness Which their fancies doth so strike, They borrow language of dislike ; And, instead of Dearest Miss...
Página 148 - Though green at noon, cut down at night, Shows thy decay ; All flesh is hay, Thus think, and smoke tobacco.
Página 103 - Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,— Not that she is truly so, But no other way they know A contentment to express, Borders so upon excess, That they do not rightly wot Whether it be pain or not.
Página 162 - Grew round the stump," she loved me — that old sweetheart of mine! And again I feel the pressure of her slender little hand, ' As we used to talk together of the future we had planned : When I should be a poet, and, with nothing else to do, But write the tender verses that she set the music to ; When we should live together in a cozy little cot, Hid in a nest of roses, with a fairy...
Página 135 - ... grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards; Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. Confound such knavish tricks! Yet know I five or six Smokers who freely mix Still with their neighbors ; Jones — (who, I'm glad to say, Asked leave of Mrs. J.