The Poetry Corner

William Schwenck Gilbert

Poems

A Classical Revival
A Discontented Sugar Broker
A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
A Manager's Perplexities
A Merry Madrigal.
A Mirage.
A Nightmare
A Recipe.
A Worm Will Turn
Ah Me!
An Appeal.
An English Girl
An Unfortunate Likeness.
Anglicised Utopia
Annie Protheroe. A Legend Of Stratford-Le-Bow.
At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One
At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One.
Babette's Love
Baines Carew, Gentleman
Ben Allah Achmet; Or, The Fatal Tum
Blue Blood
Bob Polter
Braid The Raven Hair.
Brave Alum Bey
Captain Reece
Damon v. Pythias
Disillusioned By An Ex-Enthusiast
Don't Forget.
Eheu Fugaces!
Ellen McJones Aberdeen
Emily, John, James, And I. A Derby Legend.
Etiquette. {1}
Ferdinando And Elvira; Or, The Gentle Pieman
First Love
General John
Gentle Alice Brown
Girl Graduates.
Good Little Girls
Gregory Parable, LL.D.
Haunted
Haunted.
He And She.
He Loves!
Her Terms
Hongree And Mahry. A Recollection Of A Surrey Melodrama.
How It's Done
Is Life A Boon?
Joe Golightly Or, The First Lord's Daughter
John And Freddy
King Borria Bungalee Boo
King Goodheart.
Lieutenant-Colonel Flare
Life
Life Is Lovely All The Year
Limited Liability
Little Oliver
Lorenzo De Lardy
Lost Mr. Blake.
Mister William.
My Dream.
My Lady
Old Paul And Old Tim
One Against The World
Only A Dancing Girl
Only Roses!
Out Of Sorts
Pasha Bailey Ben
Peter The Wag
Phrenology.
Poetry Everywhere
Proper Pride.
Put A Penny In The Slot
Said I To Myself, Said I.
Sans Souci
Sing For The Garish Eye
Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo
Sir Guy The Crusader
Sir Macklin
Sleep On!
Solatium
Sorry Her Lot.
Speculation.
Tempora Mutantur
The Aesthete
The Ape And The Lady.
The Baby's Vengeance.
The Baffled Grumbler.
The Bishop And The 'Busman
The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo
The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo Again.
The British Tar.
The Bumboat Woman's Story.
The Captain And The Mermaids.
The Coming Bye And Bye.
The Contemplative Sentry.
The Cunning Woman
The Darned Mounseer.
The Disagreeable Man.
The Disconcerted Tenor
The Duke And The Duchess
The Duke Of Plaza-Toro.
The Englishman.
The Fairy Curate.
The Fairy Queen's Song
The Family Fool.
The Fickle Breeze
The First Lord's Song.
The Folly Of Brown By A General Agent
The Force Of Argument
The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin
The Ghosts' High Noon
The Great Oak Tree
The Haughty Actor.
The Heavy Dragoon.
The Highly Respectable Gondolier.
The House Of Peers.
The Humane Mikado.
The Independent Bee
The Judge's Song.
The King Of Canoodle-Dum.
The Lord Chancellor's Song.
The Love-Sick Boy.
The Magnet And The Churn.
The Martinet.
The Merryman And His Maid
The Mighty Must
The Modern Major-General.
The Modest Couple
The Mystic Selvagee.
The National Anthem
The Pantomime "Super" To His Mask
The Perils Of Invisibility.
The Periwinkle Girl
The Phantom Curate. A Fable
The Philosophic Pill.
The Played-Out Humorist
The Policeman's Lot.
The Practical Joker
The Precocious Baby. A Very True Tale
The Reverend Micah Sowls
The Reverend Simon Magus.
The Reward Of Merit.
The Rival Curates
The Rover's Apology.
The Sailor Boy To His Lass.
The Sensation Captain
The Sorcerer's Song.
The Story Of Prince Agib
The Suicide's Grave.
The Susceptible Chancellor
The Tangled Skein.
The Terrible Tale.
The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo
The Troubadour
The Two Majors.
The Two Ogres
The Usher's Charge.
The Way Of Wooing.
The Working Monarch.
The Yarn Of The "Nancy Bell"
The sthete.
There was an Old Man of St. Bees
They'll None Of 'Em Be Missed.
Thomas Winterbottom Hance
Thomson Green And Harriet Hale
To A Little Maid By A Policeman
To My Bride (Whoever She May Be)
To Phoebe
To The Terrestrial Globe. By A Miserable Wretch
True Diffidence.
When A Merry Maiden Marries.
When I First Put This Uniform On.
Willow Waly!
Would You Know?