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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONVERSION, by RALPH WILHELM BERGENGREN 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 | |||
SHE told him surely 'twas not right To smoke a pipe from morn to night. "Indeed," cried he, "what would you, dear? 'Tis but to aid my thoughts of you." "Why, then," she whispered, nestling near, "Why, then, I love your old pipe, too." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON CHANEL NO. 5 by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR OLD MEN ON THE COURTHOUSE LAWN, MURRAY, KENTUCKY by JAMES GALVIN DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A COLONIAL MORNING DREAM by KAREN SWENSON BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
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