Published as part of Duckworth’s 1980 edition of McGonagall’s works, this book is made up of poems previously published in the conventional version of Poetic Gems:
- To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee
- The Battle of Bannockburn
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow
- The Battle of Flodden Field
- Greenland’s Icy Mountains
- A Tribute to Henry M Stanley
- Jottings of New York
- Beautiful Monikie
- The Death of the Old Mendicant
- Loch Katrine
- Forget-Me-Not
- The Royal Review
- The Nithsdale Widow and her Son
- Jack o’ the Cudgel, Part I
- Jack o’ the Cudgel, Part II
- The Battle of Culloden
- The Battle of Sheriffmuir
- The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
- Baldovan Mansion
- Loch Leven
- The Castle of Mains
- Montrose
- Broughty Ferry
- Robert Burns
- Adventures of King Robert the Bruce
- A Tale of the Sea
- Descriptive Jottings of London
- Annie Marshall the Foundling
- Bill Bowls the Sailor [Version 1]
- Young Munro the Sailor
- A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army
