
William Schwenck Gilbert
A Merry Madrigal
Brightly dawns our wedding day;
Joyous hour, we give thee greeting
Whither, whither art thou fleeting
Fickle moment, prithee stay
The Way of Wooing
A maiden sat at her window wide,
Pretty enough for a Prince's bride,
Yet nobody came to claim her
She sat like a beautiful picture there,
The Two Majors
An excellent soldier who's worthy the
Loves officers dashing and strict:
When good, he's content with escaping all blame,
When naughty, he likes to be licked
Emily John James and I
LY
NE was a nursery maid,
ES was a bold Life Guard,
HN was a constable, poorly paid(And I am a doggerel bard)
King Goodheart
There lived a King, as I've been
In the wonder-working days of old,
When hearts were twice as good as gold,
And twenty times as mellow
Dont Forget!
Now,
Marco, dear,
My wishes hear:
While you're
The Bumboat Womans Story
I'm old, my dears, and shrivelled with age, and work, and grief,
My eyes are gone, and my teeth have been drawn by Time, the Thief
For terrible sights I've seen, and dangers great I've run -I'm nearly seventy now, and my work is almost d...
Thomas Winterbottom Hance
IN all the towns and cities
On Merry England's broad expanse,
No swordsman ever could
With
The Sorcerer Act I
IS
Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, an Elderly
Alexis, of the Grenadier Guards—His
Dr
The Englishman
He is an Englishman
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit,
That he is an Englishman
Ellen McJones Aberdeen
ON
TY
US
Was the son of an elderly labouring man;
The Disagreeable Man
If you give me your attention,
I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist - all other kinds are sham
Each little fault of temper and each social