<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533755" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Omarism</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With pen in hand and pipe in mouth,<br>And claret iced to quench my drouth,<br>I sit upon my balcony<br>That overlooks the sparkling sea,<br>Serenly gay, and cool, and bland -<br>With pipe in mouth and pen in hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This life I think is beautiful,<br>When at the jug I take a pull.<br>The harbor shines like azure silk;<br>The claret tastes like mother's milk;<br>Then to the pipe I turn again -<br>And then I trifle with the pen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The red-faced neighbors townward go;<br>The air is in a furnace glow.<br>I watch them scorching as they pass,<br>Like flies beneath a burning glass -<br>Each clutching at the red-hot hour<br>For coin; their folly turns me sour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Business Man may fret and sweat<br>In his black coat, for etiquette,<br>And grow in shop and office old,<br>And gather wrinkles with his gold -<br>I sit in shirt-sleeves cool and bland,<br>With pipe in mouth and pen in hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The white clouds - idle they as I -<br>Like dreaming gods, at leisure lie<br>Upon the hill-crests. Smoke upcurls<br>From chimneys lazily, and girls<br>Below me, with bare, brown arms fine,<br>Are pegging linen on a line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great ships, from the world outside,<br>Steam slowly in with stately pride,<br>Their giant screws now gently spin;<br>'Tis good to watch them gliding in<br>From East, and West, and North, and South,<br>With jug in hand and pipe in mouth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These visions fill me with content,<br>And I remember not the rent.<br>When with cool breezes comes the night<br>It will be time enough to write.<br>Then you shall see me start the band -<br>With pipe in mouth and pen in hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+James+Daley">Victor James Daley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533755" data-title="Omarism de Victor James Daley" data-description="With pen in hand and pipe in mouth, And claret iced to quench my drouth, I sit upon my balcony That overlooks the sparkling sea, Serenly gay, and cool, and bland - With pipe in mouth and pen in hand. This life I think is beautiful, When at the ju..."></div> </div> </div>

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