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William Schwenck Gilbert

1836 - 1911


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: A Classical Revival At the outset I may mention it's my sovereign intention 60179
2: A Discontented Sugar Broker A GENTLEMAN of City fame 120172
3: A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid A man who would woo a fair maid, 45216
4: A Manager's Perplexities Were I a king in very truth, 31176
5: A Merry Madrigal. Brightly dawns our wedding day; 24193
6: A Mirage. Were I thy bride, Then the whole world beside 40211
7: A Nightmare When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety, 32202
8: A Recipe. Take a pair of sparkling eyes, 28183
9: A Worm Will Turn I love a man who'll smile and joke 85208
10: Ah Me! When maiden loves, she sits and sighs, 20217
11: An Appeal. Oh, is there not one maiden breast 16184
12: An English Girl A wonderful joy our eyes to bless, 48275
13: An Unfortunate Likeness. I've painted Shakespeare all my life 100173
14: Anglicised Utopia Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, 48166
15: Annie Protheroe. A Legend Of Stratford-Le-Bow. Oh! listen to the tale of little Annie Protheroe. 86194
16: At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One An Actor sits in doubtful gloom, 68176
17: At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One. An Actor sits in doubtful gloom, 68193
18: Babette's Love BABETTE she was a fisher gal, 84247
19: Baines Carew, Gentleman Of all the good attorneys who 92213
20: Ben Allah Achmet; Or, The Fatal Tum I once did know a Turkish man 80172
21: Blue Blood Spurn not the nobly born 26189
22: Bob Polter Bob Polter was a navvy, and 100175
23: Braid The Raven Hair. Braid the raven hair, Weave the supple tress, 20209
24: Brave Alum Bey Oh, big was the bosom of brave ALUM BEY, 96207
25: Captain Reece Of all the ships upon the blue, 92163
26: Damon v. Pythias Two better friends you wouldn't pass 80213
27: Disillusioned By An Ex-Enthusiast Oh, that my soul its gods could see 54191
28: Don't Forget. Now, Marco dear, My wishes hear: 56192
29: Eheu Fugaces! The air is charged with amatory numbers 20163
30: Ellen McJones Aberdeen MACPHAIRSON CLONGLOCKETTY ANGUS McCLAN 84169
31: Emily, John, James, And I. A Derby Legend. Emily Jane was a nursery maid, 81171
32: Etiquette. {1} The Ballyshannon foundered off the coast of Cariboo, 88156
33: Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman At a pleasant evening party I had taken down to supper 64175
34: First Love A clergyman in Berkshire dwelt, 108186
35: General John The bravest names for fire and flames 52193
36: Gentle Alice Brown It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown; 72174
37: Girl Graduates. They intend to send a wire To the moon; 40158
38: Good Little Girls Although of native maids the cream, 40180
39: Gregory Parable, LL.D. A leafy cot, where no dry rot 118185
40: Haunted Haunted? Ay, in a social way 64164
41: Haunted. Haunted? Ay, in a social way 64162
42: He And She. I know a youth who loves a little maid 41158
43: He Loves! He loves! If in the bygone years 16176
44: Her Terms My wedded life Must every pleasure bring 50173
45: Hongree And Mahry. A Recollection Of A Surrey Melodrama. The sun was setting in its wonted west, 110160
46: How It's Done Bold-faced ranger (Perfect stranger) 66175
47: Is Life A Boon? Is life a boon? If so? it must befal 22210
48: Joe Golightly Or, The First Lord's Daughter A tar, but poorly prized, 99163
49: John And Freddy JOHN courted lovely MARY ANN, 56201
50: King Borria Bungalee Boo King Borria Bungalee Boo 105164
51: King Goodheart. There lived a King, as I've been told, 48195
52: Lieutenant-Colonel Flare The earth has armies plenty, 96176
53: Life First you're born - and I'll be bound you 66188
54: Life Is Lovely All The Year When the buds are blossoming, 34179
55: Limited Liability Some seven men form an Association 42163
56: Little Oliver Earl Joyce he was a kind old party 107201
57: Lorenzo De Lardy DALILAH DE DARDY adored 80213
58: Lost Mr. Blake. Mr. Blake was a regular out-and-out hardened sinner, 60264
59: Mister William. Oh, listen to the tale of Mister William, if you please, 88271
60: My Dream. The other night, from cares exempt, 92172
61: My Lady Bedecked in fashion trim, 28171
62: Old Paul And Old Tim When rival adorers come courting a maid, 64179
63: One Against The World It's my opinion - though I own 36162
64: Only A Dancing Girl Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, 42159
65: Only Roses! To a garden full of posies 20158
66: Out Of Sorts When you find you're a broken-down critter, 36160
67: Pasha Bailey Ben A proud Pasha was BAILEY BEN, 104193
68: Peter The Wag Policeman PETER forth I drag 96171
69: Phrenology. Come, collar this bad man 88148
70: Poetry Everywhere What time the poet hath hymned 18171
71: Proper Pride. The Sun, whose rays Are all ablaze 32187
72: Put A Penny In The Slot If my action's stiff and crude, 30168
73: Said I To Myself, Said I. When I went to the Bar as a very young man, 32206
74: Sans Souci I cannot tell what this love may be 16182
75: Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo This is SIR BARNABY BAMPTON BOO, 72191
76: Sir Guy The Crusader Sir Guy was a doughty crusader, 65177
77: Sir Macklin Of all the youths I ever saw 68178
78: Sleep On! Fear no unlicensed entry, 24174
79: Solatium Comes the broken flower 20173
80: Sorry Her Lot. Sorry her lot who loves too well, 12194
81: Speculation. Comes a train of little ladies 16195
82: Tempora Mutantur Letters, letters, letters, letters! 53157
83: The Aesthete If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line, as a man of culture rare, 24206
84: The Ape And The Lady. A lady fair, of lineage high, 33192
85: The Baby's Vengeance. Weary at heart and extremely ill 102179
86: The Baffled Grumbler. Whene'er I poke Sarcastic joke 48198
87: The Bishop And The 'Busman It was a Bishop bold, 76198
88: The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo From east and south the holy clan 96193
89: The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo Again. I often wonder whether you 88174
90: The British Tar. A British tar is a soaring soul, 16170
91: The Bumboat Woman's Story. I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief, 76184
92: The Captain And The Mermaids. I sing a legend of the sea, 108182
93: The Coming Bye And Bye. Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year, 24174
94: The Contemplative Sentry. When all night long a chap remains 30167
95: The Cunning Woman On all Arcadia's sunny plain, 104194
96: The Darned Mounseer. I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop, 42183
97: The Disagreeable Man. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: 27171
98: The Disconcerted Tenor A tenor, all singers above 32167
99: The Duke And The Duchess Small titles and orders 65198
100: The Duke Of Plaza-Toro. In enterprise of martial kind, 54193
101: The Englishman. He is an Englishman! 12169
102: The Fairy Curate. Once a fairy Light and airy Married with a mortal; 156174
103: The Fairy Queen's Song Oh, foolish fay, Think you because 34191
104: The Family Fool. Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon, 65191
105: The Fickle Breeze Sighing softly to the river 24198
106: The First Lord's Song. When I was a lad I served a term 36212
107: The Folly Of Brown By A General Agent I knew a boor a clownish card 80192
108: The Force Of Argument Lord B. was a nobleman bold 84167
109: The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin O'er unreclaimed suburban clays 96159
110: The Ghosts' High Noon When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, and the bat in the moonlight flies, 12181
111: The Great Oak Tree There grew a little flower 36170
112: The Haughty Actor. An actor Gibbs, of Drury Lane 117157
113: The Heavy Dragoon. If you want a receipt for that popular mystery 40143
114: The Highly Respectable Gondolier. I stole the Prince, and I brought him here, 44176
115: The House Of Peers. When Britain really ruled the waves 21183
116: The Humane Mikado. A more humane Mikado never 74186
117: The Independent Bee A hive of bees, as I've heard say, 54164
118: The Judge's Song. When I, good friends, was called to the Bar, 40177
119: The King Of Canoodle-Dum. The story of Frederick Gowler, 112146
120: The Lord Chancellor's Song. The law is the true embodiment 30160
121: The Love-Sick Boy. When first my old, old love I knew, 16163
122: The Magnet And The Churn. A magnet hung in a hardware shop, 28161
123: The Martinet. Some time ago, in simple verse 100141
124: The Merryman And His Maid I have a song to sing, O! 64171
125: The Mighty Must Come mighty Must! Inevitable Shall! 24165
126: The Modern Major-General. I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral. 36130
127: The Modest Couple When man and maiden meet, I like to see a drooping eye, 68164
128: The Mystic Selvagee. Perhaps already you may know 110138
129: The National Anthem A monarch is pestered with cares, 32148
130: The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask Vast empty shell! Impertinent, preposterous abortion! 45147
131: The Perils Of Invisibility. Old Peter led a wretched life 92139
132: The Periwinkle Girl I've often thought that headstrong youths 84128
133: The Phantom Curate. A Fable A BISHOP once I will not name his see 60236
134: The Philosophic Pill. I've wisdom from the East and from the West, 16155
135: The Played-Out Humorist Quixotic is his enterprise, and hopeless his adventure is, 33147
136: The Policeman's Lot. When a felon's not engaged in his employment 16137
137: The Practical Joker Oh what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes! 50142
138: The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale An elderly person a prophet by trade 86169
139: The Reverend Micah Sowls The REVEREND MICAH SOWLS, 76172
140: The Reverend Simon Magus. A rich advowson, highly prized, 96141
141: The Reward Of Merit. Dr. Belville was regarded as the Crichton of his age: 36180
142: The Rival Curates List while the poet trolls 92135
143: The Rover's Apology. Oh, gentlemen, listen, I pray; 24163
144: The Sailor Boy To His Lass. I go away this blessed day, 104138
145: The Sensation Captain No nobler captain ever trod 104143
146: The Sorcerer's Song. Oh! my name is John Wellington Wells 79175
147: The Story Of Prince Agib Strike the concertina's melancholy string! 85130
148: The Suicide's Grave. On a tree by the river a little tomtit 24173
149: The Susceptible Chancellor The law is the true embodiment 30179
150: The Tangled Skein. Try we life long, we can never 20178
151: The Terrible Tale. Tis now some thirty-seven years ago 60154
152: The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo There were three niggers of Chickeraboo 72136
153: The Troubadour A troubadour he played 88164
154: The Two Majors. An excellent soldier who's worthy the name 84143
155: The Two Ogres Good children, list, if you're inclined, 100136
156: The Usher's Charge. Now, Jurymen, hear my advice 18168
157: The Way Of Wooing. A maiden sat at her window wide, 48150
158: The Working Monarch. Rising early in the morning, 62155
159: The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell" Twas on the shores that round our coast 92156
160: The Ęsthete. If you're anxious for to shine in the high ęsthetic line, as a man of culture rare, 24156
161: They'll None Of 'Em Be Missed. As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, 30135
162: Thomas Winterbottom Hance In all the towns and cities fair 88162
163: Thomson Green And Harriet Hale Oh list to this incredible tale 64139
164: To A Little Maid By A Policeman Come with me, little maid, 27158
165: To My Bride (Whoever She May Be) Oh! little maid! (I do not know your name 42167
166: To Phoebe Gentle, modest little flower, 16152
167: To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch Roll on, thou ball, roll on! 19130
168: True Diffidence. My boy, you may take it from me, 30150
169: When A Merry Maiden Marries. When a merry maiden marries, 32173
170: When I First Put This Uniform On. When I first put this uniform on, 24150
171: Willow Waly! Prithee, pretty maiden prithee, tell me true 32170
172: Would You Know? Would you know the kind of maid 24163




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