Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TARPAULING JACKET, by ANONYMOUS First Line: I am a young jolly brisk sailor Last Line: And fiddle and dance to my grave Subject(s): Death;drinks & Drinking;love;sailing & Sailors; "dead, The; | ||||||||
I am a young jolly brisk sailor, Delights in all manner of sport, When I'm in liquor I'm mellow, The girls I then merrily court. But love is surrounded with trouble, And puts such strange thoughts in my head, Is it not a terrible story, That love it should strike me stone dead? * * * Here's a health to my friends and acquaintance, When death for me it doth come, And let them behave in their station And send me a cask of good rum, Let it be good royal stingo, With three barrels of beer, To make my friends the more welcome When they meet me at derry down fair. Let there be six sailors to carry me, Let them be damnable drunk, And as they are going to bury me, Let them fall down with my trunk. Let there be no sighing or sobbing, But one single favour I crave, Take me up in a tarpauling jacket, And fiddle and dance to my grave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SITTING BULL IN SERBIA by WILLIAM JAY SMITH TO THE EXCELLENT ORINDA by PHILO PHILIPPA EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 1 by ALEXANDER POPE THE GIFT OF THE GODS by JOHN GODFREY SAXE TO CHRISTOPHER NORTH by ALFRED TENNYSON BEAU NASH by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER BEAU NASH AND THE ROMAN, OR THE TWO ERAS by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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