| Old Humphrey - 1842 - 366 страници
...Braces,1 and ' Mat Mizens,' in abundance. No doubt you have heard the following words sung : — " 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... | |
| 1842 - 504 страници
...For the same little cherub that sits up aloft Will look out a good berth for poor Jack. TOM BOWLING. 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... | |
| George Dixon - 1842 - 134 страници
...ear, •What cheer, oh! brother /^iickly tell?' ' Above, below— goWi nighiTall's well.' TOM BOWLING. 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 too ; Hia form was of the manliest... | |
| Quaver - 1844 - 552 страници
...foe is now before us ; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is smiling o'er us ! TOM BOWLING. HERE a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew ; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has brought him to. His form was of the manliest... | |
| 1846 - 166 страници
...world say what they will, [dy O. But the Yankee boys for fighting are the danTOM BOWLING.— By Hibdin. 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 too; His form was of the manliest... | |
| British minstrel - 1848 - 480 страници
...strains we call, But listen to the waterfall. TOM BOWLING. Music — at D'Almain'a, Soho Square. HBKB a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling The darling of our crew; No move he'll hear the tempest lm\\ liir-, ?or death has hrought him to, € ! His form was of the... | |
| Charles Dibdin - 1850 - 424 страници
...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 our crew ; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 страници
...the sea, The hurthen of my song shall he — Blow high, blow low, &c. TOM BOWLING. CHARLES DIRDIN. 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... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 страници
...high, 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 our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest... | |
| 1853 - 706 страници
...a hulk, and nothing else. Thus we say sheer nonsense, shesr starvation, &c. ; and the song says : " Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew," &c. The etymology of sheer is plainly from shear. BHC Poplar. 77(e Magnet (Vol. vi. passiin). — This... | |
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