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Subject: SNUFF (TOBACCO)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass
Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more.
Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior


KEATS TOOK SNUFF', by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: So 'keats took snuff?' a few more years
Last Line: "somewhere, if ever ghosts be gruff, / I trust some keats will 'give you snuff'"
Subject(s): "keats, John (1795-1821);poetry & Poets;snuff (tobacco);


NAPOLEON'S SNUFF-BOX, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, accept the box a hero wore
Last Line: Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco); Napoleon I (1769-1821)


ON SNUFF-TAKING, by ELIZABETH TEFT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Custom, in this small article I find
Last Line: Lest custom makes it amiable in time.
Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco)


SNUFF, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A delicate pinch! Oh how it tingles up
Last Line: And jokes that must be laugh'd at shall proceed.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Noses; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


SNUFF, SELS., by JAMES ARBUCKLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: To snuff the muse her grateful homage brings
Last Line: The rest exhale in aromatick air
Subject(s): Snuff (tobacco)


THE SNUFF-BOXES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A village pedagogue announced one day
Last Line: "round, sir, on sundays, square on other days"
Subject(s): Bureaucracy;snuff (tobacco)


TO MY NOSE, by ALFRED HENRY FORRESTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knows he that never took a pinch
Last Line: A roman knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Crowquill, Alfred+(1)
Subject(s): Noses; Snuff (tobacco)