The publisher Duckworth issued a new edition of McGonagall’s works in 1980, splitting the established three-volume set between seven titles. Their version of More Poetic Gems contains about half the poems in the established title:
- The Destroying Angel, or The Poet’s Dream
- Lines in Defence of the Stage
- Calamity in London
- The Black Watch Memorial
- Lost on the Prairie
- The Irish Convict’s Return
- Little Jamie
- An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan
- An Address to Shakespeare
- The Fair Maid of Perth’s House
- The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
- An Ode to the Queen
- The Death of the Queen
- A Humble Heroine
- Nora, The Maid of Killarney
- The Bonnie Lass o’ Dundee
- The Little Match Girl
- A Tale of Elsinore
- The Bonnie Sidlaw Hills
- Bonnie Callander
- Bonnie Kilmany
- Bonnie Montrose
- Beautiful Comrie
- Beautiful North Berwick
- Beautiful Crieff
- Beautiful Balmoral
- The Beautiful Village of Penicuik
- Beautiful Nairn
- Beautiful Torquay
- The Ancient Town of Leith
- The City of Perth
- Bonnie Dundee in 1878
- Loch Ness
- A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay
- The Den o’ Fowlis
- The Inauguration of the Hill o’ Balgay
- Little Popeet: The Lost Child
- The Bonnie Lass of Ruily
- Mary, the Maid of the Tay
