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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INTER SOLADES, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY 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
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
OVER a pipe the Angel of Conversation
Loosens with glee the tassels of his purse,
And, in a fine spiritual exaltation,
Hastens, a rosy spendthrift, to disburse
The coins new minted of imagination.
An amiable, a delicate animation
Informs our thought, and earnest we rehearse
The sweet old farce of mutual admiration
Over a pipe.
Heard in this hour's delicious divagation
How soft the song! the epigram how terse!
With what a genius for administration
We rearrange the rumbling universe,
And map the course of man's regeneration
Over a pipe.
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