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    The Bab Ballads

    by LovelyMay

    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.

    1. Ballad: Captain Reece
      1,934 Words
    2. Ballad: The Rival Curates
      1,491 Words
    3. Ballad: Sir Macklin
      2,588 Words
    4. Ballad: Baines Carew, Gentleman
      2,039 Words
    5. Ballad: At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One
      1,829 Words
    7. Ballad: The Sensation Captain
      1,957 Words
    8. Ballad: The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin
      2,197 Words
    9. Ballad: Sir Guy The Crusader
      2,205 Words
    10. Ballad: The Periwinkle Girl
      2,003 Words
    11. Ballad: Ben Allah Achmet; — Or, The Fatal Tum
      2,226 Words
    12. Ballad: Thomson Green And Harriet Hale (To be sung to the Air of “An ‘Orrible Tale.”)
      1,598 Words
    13. Ballad: The Story Of Prince Agib
      1,840 Words
    14. Ballad: Babette’s Love
      1,730 Words
    15. Ballad: The Reverend Micah Sowls
      2,107 Words
    16. Ballad: The Phantom Curate. A Fable
      2,012 Words
    17. Ballad: The Troubadour
      1,798 Words
    18. THE AIR OF THE “WHISTLING OYSTER.”)
      1,741 Words
    19. PART II.
      1,802 Words
    20. Ballad: The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo
      2,046 Words
    21. Ballad: The Yarn Of The “Nancy Bell”
      1,774 Words
    22. Ballad: The Force Of Argument
      2,218 Words
    23. Ballad: Ellen McJones Aberdeen
      1,740 Words
    24. Ballad: Lorenzo De Lardy
      2,089 Words
    25. Ballad: The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo
      2,118 Words
    26. Ballad: A Discontented Sugar Broker
      2,145 Words
    27. Ballad: Thomas Winterbottom Hance
      1,778 Words
    28. Ballad: The wind blows towards the lee, Willow! But though I sigh and sob and cry, No Lady Jane for me, Willow!
      1,779 Words
    29. Ballad: Haunted
      1,796 Words
    30. Ballad: The Folly Of Brown — By A General Agent
      2,112 Words
    31. Ballad: King Borria Bungalee Boo
      1,894 Words
    32. Ballad: Peter The Wag
      2,212 Words
    33. Ballad: Bob Polter
      1,877 Words
    34. Ballad: The Bishop And The ‘Busman
      2,164 Words
    35. Ballad: Gentle Alice Brown
      2,153 Words
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