 HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broached him to. His form was of the manliest beauty. His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone...  Songs of the Late Charles Dibdin: With a Memoir - Page 26by Charles Dibdin - 1850 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1790 - 176 pages
...at home, my fweet girl 1 fought her; But forrow alas! to her cold grave had brought her. POOR TOM. . HERE a Sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew, No more he'll hear the tempeft howling, For death has broach'd him too. His form was of the manlieft beauty, His heart was... | |
 | Charles Henry Wilson - English ballads and songs - 1803 - 228 pages
...is found : For when it is o'er, As brisk as before, Next morning we spurn up the ground. TOM BOWLINa HERE a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling...more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has brought him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft, Faithful below he... | |
 | Goldfinch - 1805 - 276 pages
...Hodge's wife, For virtue none was ever such : She led so pure, so chaste a life, Hodge said — Sere, Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling...No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death — To Bachelor's hall we good fellows invite, To partake of the chase that makes up our delight, We... | |
 | Scottish songs - 1816 - 320 pages
...woods the hunted boar, On native strength relies; The forests echo with his roar, THE SAILOR'S EPITAPH. HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling...more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has brought him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1821 - 154 pages
...life by '.loner's breeze, It was all along on loving these First made HIO doat on lovely Nan, iTOM BOWLING. HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling...more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broached lum too : His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful below... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1841 - 956 pages
...lints," to which surely Tom \\ovi-liin' belongs. In spite of all the fascination of Dibdin's verses — " Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew." we cannot help associating with them an idea of some Bowling Green hero, instead of, what he intended,... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1841 - 940 pages
...to which surely Tom How-line belongs. In spite of all the fascination of Dibdjn'a verses — " Hero, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew." we cannot help associating with them an idea of some Bowling Green hero, instead of what he intended,... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1834 - 480 pages
...a wife. POOR TOM! OK, THE SAILOR'S EPITAPH. (Dibdin.) Written on the Death of Ли Brother Thomcu. HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling...tempest howling, For Death has broach'd him to. His form \vas of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he's... | |
 | Songs - 1835 - 320 pages
...helped us to bail her, And we-managed to patch up her rib; Safe arrived is each true hearted sailor, TOM BOWLING. HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling,...hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him too; His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty,... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - New South Wales - 1837 - 1052 pages
...ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNOR BLIGH, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN AND RESULT OF THE COLONIAL REBELLION OF 1808. Here— a sheer hulk — lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew. IE fourth Governor of New South Wales was William ifh, Esq., a post-captain in the royal navy. This... | |
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