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 5,058 Words
- Ballad: The Rival Curates 4,745 Words
- Ballad: Sir Macklin 4,418 Words
- Ballad: Baines Carew, Gentleman 4,352 Words
- Ballad: At A Pantomime. By A Bilious One 4,151 Words
- Ballad: The Sensation Captain 4,430 Words
- Ballad: The Ghost, The Gallant, The Gael, And The Goblin 4,601 Words
- Ballad: Sir Guy The Crusader 3,523 Words
- Ballad: The Periwinkle Girl 4,478 Words
- Ballad: Ben Allah Achmet; — Or, The Fatal Tum 5,239 Words
- Ballad: Thomson Green And Harriet Hale (To be sung to the Air of “An ‘Orrible Tale.”) 4,487 Words
- Ballad: The Story Of Prince Agib 4,640 Words
- Ballad: Babette’s Love 4,118 Words
- Ballad: The Reverend Micah Sowls 3,916 Words
- Ballad: The Phantom Curate. A Fable 4,000 Words
- Ballad: The Troubadour 3,746 Words
- The Air of the “Whistling Oyster” 4,465 Words
- Part II 4,223 Words
- Ballad: The Three Kings Of Chickeraboo 5,245 Words
- Ballad: The Yarn Of The “Nancy Bell” 4,050 Words
- Ballad: The Force Of Argument 4,324 Words
- Ballad: Ellen McJones Aberdeen 4,735 Words
- Ballad: Lorenzo De Lardy 4,402 Words
- Ballad: The Bishop Of Rum-Ti-Foo 4,069 Words
- Ballad: A Discontented Sugar Broker 3,908 Words
- Ballad: Thomas Winterbottom Hance 4,179 Words
- Ballad: The wind blows towards the lee, Willow! But though I sigh and sob and cry, No Lady Jane for me, Willow! 5,438 Words
- Ballad: Haunted 3,969 Words
- Ballad: The Folly Of Brown — By A General Agent 4,423 Words
- Ballad: King Borria Bungalee Boo 4,875 Words
- Ballad: Peter The Wag 4,508 Words
- Ballad: Bob Polter 4,798 Words
- Ballad: The Bishop And The ‘Busman 3,968 Words
- Ballad: Gentle Alice Brown 4,370 Words