"e;Little Maid of Arcadee"e; is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877. From Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Thespis. Gilbert and Sullivan were a Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). Together they collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896 which are still performed and loved ...