If he’s most famous for poems about mass death and disaster, the deaths of individuals moved McGonagall just as much. Funerals were a pretty constant part of life, and high levels of mortality through disease meant that Victorian Britons might find themselves unexpectedly in mourning at any time.
- Death and Burial of Lord Tennyson
- Drowning of the Rev. Wm. Horne
- Lines in Memoriam of the Late Rev. George Gilfillan
- Lines in Praise of Professor Blackie
- The Burial of Mr Gladstone
- The Burial of the Reverend George Gilfillan
- The Death of Captain Webb
- The Death of Fred Marsden, the American Playwright
- The Death of John Brown
- The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie
- The Death of Prince Leopold
- The Death of the Rev. Dr. Wilson
- The Funeral of the German Emperor
- The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee
- The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg
- The Late Sir John Ogilvy
- The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie
