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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION FOR TOBACCO JARS, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: Do you recall the wondrous brazen vase
Last Line: Becomes to man embodied - reverie!
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes
First Line: Do you recall the wondrous brazen vase
Last Line: Becomes to man embodied - reverie!
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco;pipes;cigars;cigarettes
Do you recall the wondrous brazen vase,
Fish'd up long since in an Arabian night,
Whence rose a thick columnar smoke, that was
A fearful Djinn of more than mortal might?
I am akin to it.—Within my womb,
Hid in the fragrant stores therein that be,
There dwells a kindly genius, that, from fume,
Becomes to man embodied—Reverie!
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