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Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist librettist poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan of which the most famous include HMS Pinafore The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre The Mikado These as well as most of their other Savoy operas continue to be performed regularly throughout the English-speaking world and beyond by opera companies repertory companies schools and community theatre groups Lines from these works have become part of the English language such as short sharp shock What never Well hardly ever and Let the punishment fit the crime Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own comical drawings His creative output included over 75 plays and libretti numerous stories poems lyrics and various other comic and serious pieces His plays and realistic style of stage direction inspired other dramatists including Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw According to The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Gilberts lyrical facility and his mastery of metre raised the poetical quality of comic opera to a position that it had never reached before and has not reached since Source - Wikipedia

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List of poems by William Schwenck Gilbert 169 total

A Classical Revival
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A Discontented Sugar Broker
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A Man Who Would Woo a Fair Maid
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A Manager's Perplexities
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A Merry Madrigal
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A Merry Madrigal.
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A Mirage
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A Mirage.
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A Nightmare
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A Recipe
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A Recipe.
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A Worm Will Turn
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Ah Me!
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An Appeal
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An English Girl
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An Unfortunate Likeness
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Anglicised Utopia
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Annie Protheroe. A Legend of Stratford-le-Bow
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At a Pantomime. By a Bilious One
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Babette's Love
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Ben Allah Achmet, or, the Fatal Tum
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Blue Blood
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Bob Polter
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Braid the Raven Hair
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Brave Alum Bey
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Captain Reece
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Damon vs. Pythias
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Disillusioned - By an Ex-Enthusiast
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Don't Forget!
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Eheu Fugaces -- !
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Ellen McJones Aberdeen
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Emily, John, James, and I
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Etiquette
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Ferdinando and Elvira
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First Love
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General John
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Gentle Alice Brown
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Girl Graduates
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Good Little Girls
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Gregory Parable, LL.D.
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Haunted
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He and She
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He Loves!
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Her Terms
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Hongree and Mahry
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How It's Done
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Is Life a Boon
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Joe Golightly - Or, The First Lord's Daughter
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John and Freddy
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King Borria Bungalee Boo
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King Goodheart
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Lieutenant-Colonel Flare
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Life
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Life Is Lovely All the Year
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Limited Liability
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Little Oliver
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Lorenzo De Lardy
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Lost Mr. Blake
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Mister William
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My Lady
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Old Paul and Old Tim
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One Against the World
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Only a Dancing Girl
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Only Roses
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Out of Sorts
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Pasha Bailey Ben
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Peter the Wag
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Phrenology
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Poetry Everywhere
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Proper Bride
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Put a Penny in the Slot
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Said I to Myself, Said I
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Sans Souci
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Sir Barnaby Bampton Boo
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Sir Guy the Crusader
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Sir Macklin
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Sleep On!
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Solatium
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Speculation
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Tempora Mutantur
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The Aesthete
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The Ape and the Lady
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The Baby's Vengeance
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The Baffled Grumbler
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The Bishop and the Busman
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The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo
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The Bishop of Rum-Ti-Foo Again
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The British Tar
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The Bumboat Woman's Story
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The Captain and the Mermaids
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The Coming By-and-By
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The Contemplative Sentry
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The Cunning Woman
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The Darned Mounseer
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The Disagreeable Man
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The Disconcerted Tenor
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The Duke and the Duchess
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The Duke of Plaza-Toro
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The Englishman
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The Fairy Curate
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The Fairy Queen's Song
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The Family Fool
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The Fickle Breeze
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The First Lord's Song
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The Folly of Brown - By a General Agent
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The Force of Argument
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The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin
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The Ghosts' High Noon
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The Great Oak Tree
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The Haughty Actor
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The Heavy Dragoon
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The Highly Respectable Gondolier
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The House of Peers
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The Humane Mikado
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The Independent Bee
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The Judge's Song
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The Love-Sick Boy
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The Magnet and the Churn
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The Martinet
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The Merryman and His Maid
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The Mighty Must
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The Modern Major-General
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The Modest Couple
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The Mystic Selvagee
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The National Anthem
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The Pantomime Super to His Mask
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The Perils of Invisibility
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The Periwinkle Girl
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The Phantom Curate
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The Philosophic Pill
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The Played-Out Humorist
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The Policeman's Lot
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The Precocious Baby - a Very True Tale
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The Reverend Micah Sowls
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The Reverend Simon Magus
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The Reward of Merit
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The Rival Curates
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The Rover's Apology
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The Sailor Boy to His Lass
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The Sensation Captain
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The Sorcerer's Song
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The Sorcerer: Act I
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The Sorcerer: Act II
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The Story of Prince Agib
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The Suicide's Grave
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The Susceptible Chancellor
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The Tangled Skein
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The Three Kings of Chickeraboo
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The Troubadour
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The Two Majors
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The Two Ogres
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The Way of Wooing
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The Working Monarch
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The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
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Thespis: Act I
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Thespis: Act II
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They'll None of 'Em Be Missed
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Thomas Winterbottom Hance
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Thomson Green and Harriet Hale
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To a Little Maid - by a Politician
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To My Bride (Whoever She May Be)
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To Phoebe
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To the Terrestrial Globe
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Trial by Jury
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True Diffidence
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When a Merry Maiden Marries
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When I First Put This Uniform On
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Willow Waly!
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Would You Know?
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