 | 1834 - 480 pages
...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 of...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... | |
 | 1834 - 358 pages
...Camden-town, appear the following lines, from his own song, * Poor Tom Bowling; or, The Sailor's Epitaph':— His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was...Faithful below he did his duty, And now he's gone aloft! 'THE ECCLESIASTICAL CHOIRS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. [Continued from page 43.] No. V.—YORK. THE... | |
 | 1835 - 320 pages
...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, The darling of...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,... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1836 - 632 pages
...described in the well-known and justly-celebrated ballad of Charles Dibdin's beginning thus : " Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor TOM BOWLING, The darling of our crew :" &c. From what I have been able to learn, his figure was tall, robust, and proportionate ; in strict... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - 1837 - 1052 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...blow low, Our duty keeps us to our tethers, And where the gale drives we must go. TOM BOWLING. HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of...has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest heauty, His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful helow he did his duty, And now he's gone aloft. Tom... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...weathers, Great guns let it blow high, blow low, Our duty keeps us to our tethers. TOM BOWL1NG. 1 1 Kit ic, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of...more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has hroach'd him to. His form was of the manliest heauty, His heart was kind and soft ; Faithful helow... | |
 | Charles Dibdin - 1841 - 406 pages
...Perhaps I may find a kind station, Perhaps I may touch at Cape Horn. For sailors, &c. TOM BOWLING. HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of...was kind and soft, Faithful, below, he did his duty, But how he's gone aloft. Tom never from his word departed, His virtues were so rare, His friends were... | |
 | 1888 - 324 pages
...Pratt Street, are the following lines from bis own often sung, ever-applauded " Tom Bowling" .— " His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was...and soft ; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he 'B gone aloft." Yes, CIUKLES 1 dun IN " did his duty," in a fashion that laid seagirt England under... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1841 - 1010 pages
...darling of our cre%v, No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broached him to. Tom's form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft, Faithful below he did his duty, But now he's gone aloft. " Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather, When He, who all commands, Shall... | |
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HERE, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew ; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For Death has broach'd 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... 
