This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word long ton. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: The Avoirdupois or Imperial ton of 2,240 pounds. Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Long ton is the name for the unit called the ton in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements that was used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries before metrication.
The Hollow Men Summary. T. S. Eliot. Summary. This poem of emptiness, âThe Hollow Men,â opens with a double epigraph, one from the novelist Joseph Conradâs Heart of Darkness (1902) and one from the traditional childrenâs request for a penny on Guy Fawkes Day, November 5.
Written by Richard Kerr and Will Jennings (who also supplied Manilow with the minor masterpiece Somewhere in the Night), the song featured one of the more balanced, restrained arrangements in Manilow's extensive catalog of dramatic love ballads.espite Manilow's reputation for sentimental schmaltz, he tended to select love songs with characters were confused, hurt, and haunted by the past -- who perhaps hadn't expected adult relationships to be so complex, and the happy endings so difficult to achieve in real life.