The World’s Worst Poet

Subtitled Selections from “Poetic Gems” by William McGonagall, this collection included an appreciation by James O. Jackson (foreign correspondent of the Chicago Tribune), the Brief Autobiography and Reminiscences, and the following poems:

• Saving a Train [Version 1]
• The Rattling Boy from Dublin
• Annie Marshall the Foundling
• Baldovan Mansion
• Robert Burns
• The Sorrows of the Blind
• An Ode to the Queen
• The Nithsdale Widow and her Son
• General Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum
• The Death of the Old Mendicant
• Bill Bowls the Sailor [Version 1]
• Burning of the Exeter Theatre
• Loch Leven
• The Burial of the Reverend George Gilfillan
• Descriptive Jottings of London
• Jenny Carrister, The Heroine of Lucknow-Mine
• The Miraculous Escape of Robert Allan, the Fireman
• Adventures of King Robert the Bruce
• The Late Sir John Ogilvy
• The Pennsylvania Disaster
• Attempted Assassination of the Queen
• The Royal Review
• To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee
• The Collision in the English Channel
• The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose
• The Beautiful Sun
• The Clepington Catastrophe
• The Battle of Bannockburn
• The Christmas Goose
• The Battle of Culloden
• The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie
• A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army
• Grace Darling or The Wreck of the “Forfarshire”
• The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
• The Famous Tay Whale
• The Funeral of the German Emperor
• An Address to the New Tay Bridge
• The Sprig of Moss
• A Tribute to Henry M Stanley