Why I have started smoking a pipe

[robinturner]

OK, terrible poetry, but it sums up the feeling ...

A Refuge

From A Smoker's Reveries, Joseph Knight, ed., 1909

There's a still, cosey nook, with a novel or two,
And a generous armchair that beckons to rest,
And a jar of tobacco, whose wealth I may strew,
In and over the bowl of the pipe I like best.
And there, where the incense of indolence burns,
Above the big armchair, the pipe and the book,
It seems that life's labours, its devious turns,
But lead, after all, to this still, cosey nook.

The noise of the world babbles distant and soft,
And the cannon's dull rattle, the trumpet's rude blare,
Would mellow, should War hurl his banner aloft,
For gentleness only can penetrate there.
'Tis a spot that was ever a stranger to fear;
A shelter 'gainst fate where no storms ever shook,
And the hours are my comrades, who whisper of cheer,
With the generous armchair, the pipe and the book.

Comments

[flowersperish.livejournal.com]

.. trying to picture you smoking a pipe

[solri.livejournal.com]

It's a new development - I started in England this summer as a way to reduce my consumption of cigarettes.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

[ankh156.livejournal.com]

I bet you've got one of those swanky meerschaum jobs. If you haven't, then you should.

Re: Ceci n'est pas une pipe

[solri.livejournal.com]

It's just a cheap briar actually, but I plan to get a Meerschaum, since turkey is where they make the best ones.