William Topaz McGonagall's Poetry, by title

• A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of My Departed Parents

  My parents were sober living, and often did pray
  For their family to abstain from intoxicating drink alway;

  68 lines, 3 comments
• A Christmas Carol

  Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the morn
  That Christ our Saviour was born!

  60 lines, 2 comments
• A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay

  Beautiful silvery Tay,
  With your landscapes, so lovely and gay,

  29 lines, 2 comments
• A Humble Heroine

  'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War,
  That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there by far;

  60 lines
• A New Year's Resolution to Leave Dundee

  Welcome! thrice welcome! to the year 1893,
  For it is the year I intend to leave Dundee,

  20 lines, 4 comments
• A Requisition to the Queen

  Smiths Buildings No. 19
  Patons Lane,

  28 lines
• A Soldier's Reprieve

  'Twas in the United States of America some years ago
  An aged father sat at his fireside with his heart full of woe,

  60 lines, 1 comment
• A Summary History of Lord Clive

  About a hundred and fifty years ago,
  History relates it happened so,

  56 lines
• A Tale of Christmas Eve

  'Twas Christmastide in Germany,
  And in the year of 1850,

  50 lines
• A Tale of Elsinore

  A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease,
  In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine trees -

  56 lines
• A Tale of the Sea

  A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold,
  Enough to make one's blood run cold;

  88 lines
• A Tribute to Dr. Murison

  Success to the good and skilful Dr Murison,
  For golden opinions he has won

  26 lines
• A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley

  Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee,
  The great African explorer Henry M Stanley,

  40 lines
• A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson, The World's Fair Judge

  Thrice welcome home to Hawick, Mr J. Graham Henderson,
  For by your Scotch tweeds a great honour you have won;

  20 lines
• A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army

  All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave,
  That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave,

  52 lines
• Adventures of King Robert the Bruce

  King Robert the Bruce's deadly enemy, John of Lorn,
  Joined the English with eight hundred Highlanders one morn,

  52 lines
• An Address to Shakespeare

  Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel,
  You have drawn out your characters remarkably well,

  33 lines
• An Address to the New Tay Bridge

  Beautiful new railway bridge of the Silvery Tay,
  With your strong brick piers and buttresses in so grand array,

  59 lines
• An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan

  All hail to the Rev. George Gilfillan of Dundee,
  He is the greatest preacher I did ever hear or see.

  27 lines
• An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland

  On one occasion King James the Fifth of Scotland, when alone, in disguise,
  Near by the Bridge of Cramond met with rather a disagreeable surprise.

  52 lines
• An All-Night Sea Fight

  Ye sons of Mars, come list to me,
  And I will relate to ye

  62 lines
• An Autumn Reverie

  Alas! Beautiful Summer now hath fled,
  And the face of Nature doth seem dead,

  48 lines
• An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay

  'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day,
  That an alarming accident occurred in the River Tay.

  56 lines
• An Ode to the Queen

  All hail to the Empress of India, Great Britain's Queen!
  Long may she live in health, happy and serene;

  15 lines
• An Ode to the Queen on Her Jubilee Year

  Sound drums and trumpets, far and near!
  And Let all Queen Victoria's subjects loudly cheer!

  52 lines
• Annie Marshall the Foundling

  Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry,
  And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry

  68 lines
• Attempted Assassination of the Queen

  God prosper long our noble Queen,
  And long may she reign!

  48 lines
• Baldovan

  The scenery of Baldovan
  Is most lovely to see,

  20 lines
• Balmoral Castle

  Beautiful Balmoral Castle,
  Most handsome to be seen,

  33 lines
• Beautiful Aberfoyle

  The mountains and glens of Aberfoyle are beautiful to sight,
  Likewise the rivers and lakes are sparkling and bright;

  40 lines

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