The Bab Ballads
The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert is a witty collection of humorous poems and illustrations that blend absurdity, clever wordplay, and social satire, foreshadowing his famous operatic collaborations with Arthur Sullivan.
- Ballad: Captain Reece 1,940 Words
- Ballad: The Rival Curates 1,491 Words
- Ballad: Sir Macklin 2,600 Words
- Ballad: Baines Carew, Gentleman 2,062 Words
- Ballad: At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One 1,831 Words
- Ballad: The Sensation Captain 1,959 Words
- Ballad: The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin 2,197 Words
- Ballad: Sir Guy The Crusader 2,208 Words
- Ballad: The Periwinkle Girl 2,003 Words
- Ballad: Ben Allah Achmet; – Or, The Fatal Tum 2,226 Words
- Ballad: Thomson Green And Harriet Hale (To be sung to the Air of “An ‘Orrible Tale.”) 1,598 Words
- Ballad: The Story Of Prince Agib 1,840 Words
- Ballad: Babette’s Love 1,730 Words
- Ballad: The Reverend Micah Sowls 2,107 Words
- Ballad: The Phantom Curate. A Fable 2,016 Words
- Ballad: The Troubadour 1,798 Words
- THE AIR OF THE “WHISTLING OYSTER.”) 1,743 Words
- PART II. 1,814 Words
- Ballad: The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo 2,048 Words
- Ballad: The Yarn Of The “Nancy Bell” 1,774 Words
- Ballad: The Force Of Argument 2,218 Words
- Ballad: Ellen McJones Aberdeen 1,842 Words
- Ballad: Lorenzo De Lardy 2,093 Words
- Ballad: The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo 2,120 Words
- Ballad: A Discontented Sugar Broker 2,145 Words
- Ballad: Thomas Winterbottom Hance 1,780 Words
- Ballad: The wind blows towards the lee, Willow! But though I sigh and sob and cry, No Lady Jane for me, Willow! 1,781 Words
- Ballad: Haunted 1,798 Words
- Ballad: The Folly Of Brown – By A General Agent 2,115 Words
- Ballad: King Borria Bungalee Boo 1,894 Words
- Ballad: Peter The Wag 2,214 Words
- Ballad: Bob Polter 1,889 Words
- Ballad: The Bishop And The ‘Busman 2,166 Words
- Ballad: Gentle Alice Brown 2,167 Words