The Great McGonagall

Subtitled Poetical Pearls from the pen of William McGonagall Poet & Tragedian of Dundee. With numerous notes and asides on their provenance by the poet Himself, including the account of his Debut as MacBeth in the tragedy by Mr Wm Shakespeare, this collection was published in Vermont in 1968:

• The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
• The Moon
• Loch Leven
• Bonnie Montrose
• Greenland’s Icy Mountains
• The Wreck of the Barque “Wm. Paterson” of Liverpool
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
• The Battle of El-Teb
• The Famous Tay Whale
• Saving a Train [Version 1]
• The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie
• The Battle of Abu Klea
• The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai
• A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of my Departed Parents, who were Sober Living & God Fearing People
• The Demon Drink
• Women’s Suffrage
• Jottings of New York
• An Address to Shakespeare
• Burning of the Exeter Theatre
• The Little Match Girl
• The Funeral of the German Emperor
• A Requisition To The Queen
• Attempted Assassination of the Queen