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" Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire, Lip of wax, and eye of fire ; And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest... "
The Twenty-ninth of May: Rare Doings at the Restoration - Page 350
by William Henry Pyne - 1825
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Tobaccoland, a Book about Tobacco: Its History, Legends, Literature ...

Carl Avery Werner - Tobacco - 1922 - 488 pages
...brave old Hawkins' gallant ship Who found out Tobac-kee. — Cigar and Tobacco World, London. A PIPE OF TOBACCO Little tube of mighty power, Charmer of an...: And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently braced ; And -thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper press'd, And the sweetest bliss of...
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The Shorter Poems of the Eighteenth Century

Iolo Aneurin Williams - English poetry - 1923 - 524 pages
...Imitation 2, Ambrose Philips (the rest of the series being by IH Browne) Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire,...: And thy snowy taper waist, With my finger gently brac'd ; And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest, And the sweetest bliss of blisses,...
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The Seven Sisters of Sleep: The Celebrated Drug Classic

Mordecai Cooke, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - Fiction - 1997 - 308 pages
...in a pipe worth writing about, or he would have never given us the following: Ode to a Tobacco Pipe Little tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour,...wax, and eye of fire; And thy snowy taper waist, With thy finger gently braced; And thy pretty swelling crest, With thy little stopper prest; And the sweetest...
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The American Bibliopolist, Volume 5

American literature - 1873 - 306 pages
...any of your readers tell me who is the author of the following poem, and where it is to be found : " Little tube of mighty power, Charmer of an idle hour,...And thy snowy, taper waist, With my finger gently braced, And thy pretty swelling crest, With my little stopper prest; And the sweetest bliss of blisses,...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 25

American literature - 1862 - 882 pages
...a sonnet to his mistress : "Pretty tubs of mighty power! Charmer of BU idle hour; Object of my hot desire, Lip of wax and eye of fire ; And thy snowy taper waist, With my fingers gently brac*d ; And thy lovely swelling crest. With my bended etopper preat; And tho sweetest...
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