William Schwenck Gilbert

Poems (3)

• Captain Reece

  OF 1 all the ships upon the blue, / No ship contained a better crew …

• The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell”

  From “The Bab Ballads” / ’T WAS on the shores that round our coast …

• To the Terrestrial Globe

  By a Miserable Wretch / ROLL on, thou ball, roll on! …