Poems

HMS Pinafore: Act I DRAMATIS PERSONAE The Rt.Hon Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty) Captain Corcoran (Commanding H.M.S. Pinafore) Tom Tucker (Midshipmite) Ralph […]

HMS Pinafore: Act II DRAMATIS PERSONAE The Rt.Hon Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty) Captain Corcoran (Commanding H.M.S. Pinafore) Tom Tucker (Midshipmite) Ralph […]

Hongree and Mahry The sun was setting in its wonted west, When HONGREE, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores, Met MAHRY DAUBIGNY, the Village Rose, Under the Wizard’s Oak […]

How It’s Done Bold-faced ranger (Perfect stranger) Meets two well-behaved young ladies He’s attractive, Young and active – Each a little bit afraid is. Youth advances, […]

Is Life a Boon Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene’er he call, Must call too soon. Though fourscore years he […]

Joe Golightly – Or, The First Lord’s Daughter A tar, but poorly prized, Long, shambling, and unsightly, Thrashed, bullied, and despised, Was wretched JOE GOLIGHTLY. He […]

John and Freddy JOHN courted lovely MARY ANN, So likewise did his brother, FREDDY. FRED was a very soft young man, While JOHN, though quick, was […]

King Borria Bungalee Boo KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO Was a man-eating African swell; His sigh was a hullaballoo, His whisper a horrible yell – A horrible, […]

King Goodheart There lived a King, as I’ve been told In the wonder-working days of old, When hearts were twice as good as gold, And twenty […]

Lieutenant-Colonel Flare The earth has armies plenty, And semi-warlike bands, I dare say there are twenty In European lands; But, oh! in no direction You’d find […]