The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert Contents: Captain Reece The Rival Curates Only A Dancing Girl ...
2011-12-08
And he was a trifle past seventy-three: Now what she could see Is a puzzle to me, In a prophet of...
"But stay - I do not like Undue assassination, And so before you strike, Make this communication:...
Who watched him from the Calais shore. It caused good PIERRE to swear and dance, The sight annoyed...
"Decide!" quoth they, "let him be named, Who henceforth as his wife may rank you." "I've changed m...
A nicely-balanced mind, I'll back The noisy chaff And ill-bred laugh Of clerks on omnibuses. His...
What amount you mean to pay, Why, the lower you can put it at, the better. They then proceed to tr...
From scholastic trammels free, Each a little bit afraid is, Wondering what the world can be! Is i...
Meets two well-behaved young ladies He's attractive, Young and active - Each a little bit afraid ...
No man can face with equanimity. Then let's rejoice with loud Fal lal That Nature wisely does cont...
That illiterate National Anthem! It serves a good purpose, I own: Its strains are devout and impre...
you snore, for your head's on the floor, and you've needles and pins from your soles to your shins,...
soon, For cockcrow limits our holiday - the dead of the night's high noon! And then each ghost wi...
To my great oak tree!" Sing hey, Lackaday! Let the tears fall free For the pretty little flower ...
Her coldness turns my brain To VERGE of madness merely. Her kiss - though, Heaven knows, To dream...