 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 sider
...His Poll was kind and fair ; And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly ; Ah, many's the time and oft I But mirth is turned to melancholy, For Tom is gone...to pipe all hands. Thus Death, who kings and tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doffed ; For, though his body's under hatches, His soul is gone... | |
 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 452 sider
...blithe and jolly, — Ah, many's the time and oft ! But mirth is turned to melancholy, For Tom has gone aloft. Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather,...life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands. 1 William Julius Mickle (1734-78) was chief proof reader at the Clarendon Press. During his employment... | |
 | John Edward Patterson - 1913 - 428 sider
...true hearted ; His Poll was kind and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, — Ah, many's the time and oft ! But mirth is turned to melancholy, For Tom has gone aloft. Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather, When He, who all commands, Shall give, to... | |
 | Arthur Mee - 1910 - 656 sider
...and fair : And then he'd sing, so blithe and jolly. Ah, many's the time and oft ! But mirth is turn'd to melancholy. For Tom is gone aloft. Yet shall poor...life's crew together. The word to pipe " all hands." lus Death, who kings and tars despatches. In vain Tom's life has dofl'd : For though his body's under... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1920 - 520 sider
...to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wand'rings, but relieved their pain." — Goldsmith. (c) " Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather, When He,...life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands." — O. JDibdin. EXERCISE XV. (Pronouns, p. 23). 1. Define a pronoun ; give its derivation ; and say... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1921 - 454 sider
...humorist, in the sense that Shakespeare and Fielding and Dickens are humorists, he might have been. 1 Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather When He,...life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands. DIBDIN, The Oddities, 1789. Count That he never so much as guessed at it is clear. There is no Bowling,... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 sider
...so rare ; His friends were many and true-hearted; And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, Ah, many's the time and oft! But mirth is turned to melancholy,...to pipe all hands. Thus Death, who kings and tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doff d, For, though his body's under hatches, His soul has gone... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 sider
...and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, Ah many 's the time and oft ! But mirth is turn'd to melancholy, For Tom is gone aloft. Yet shall Poor...to pipe all hands. Thus death, who Kings and Tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doffed, For, though his body 's under hatches, His soul is gone... | |
 | 1919 - 434 sider
...dreadful manner, which implies nothing derogatory, as we may learn from Dibdin's use of the word : — ' Yet shall poor Tom find pleasant weather, When He...life's crew together, The word to pipe all hands.' The archbishops can hardly see anything degrading in that, whatever their committee may say ; and anyone... | |
 | W. H. Auden - 2004 - 604 sider
...and fair: And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, Ah many's the time and oft ! But mirth is turn'd to melancholy, For Tom is gone aloft. Yet shall Poor...to pipe all hands. Thus death, who Kings and Tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doffed, For, though his body's under hatches, His soul is gone aloft.... | |
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Tom never from his word departed, His virtues were so rare ; His friends were many and true-hearted, His Poll was kind and fair : And then he'd sing so blithe and jolly, Ah, many's the time and oft! But mirth is turned to melancholy, For Tom is gone aloft. 
