Charles Dibdin

Poems (3)

• Poor Jack

  Go, patter to lubbers and swabs, do ye see, / ’Bout danger, and fear, and the like; …

• The Heaving of the Lead

  For England when with favoring gale / Our gallant ship up channel steered, …

• Tom Bowling

  Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, / The darling of our crew; …