Poetic Gems

This collection of McGonagall’s work was first published in 1934, combining the first and second series of the original Poetic Gems into a single volume, and adding a further 17 for good measure. It’s remained in print ever since.

• An Ode to the Queen on her Jubilee Year
• The Death of Prince Leopold
• The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie
• The Funeral of the German Emperor
• The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
• The Famous Tay Whale
• The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
• The Newport Railway
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
• An Address to the New Tay Bridge
• The Late Sir John Ogilvy
• The Rattling Boy from Dublin
• The Burial of the Reverend George Gilfillan
• The Battle of El-Teb
• The Battle of Abu Klea
• A Christmas Carol
• The Christmas Goose
• An Autumn Reverie
• The Wreck Of The Steamer “London”, While on her way to Australia
• The Wreck of the “Thomas Dryden”
• Attempted Assassination of the Queen
• Saving a Train [Version 1]
• The Moon
• The Beautiful Sun
• Grace Darling or The Wreck of the “Forfarshire”
• To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee
• The Battle of Bannockburn
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Oban
• The Battle of Flodden Field
• Greenland’s Icy Mountains
• A Tribute to Henry M Stanley
• Jottings of New York
• Beautiful Monikie
• A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army
• 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
• Montrose
• The Castle of Mains
• 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
• The Death of the Old Mendicant
• An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland
• The Clepington Catastrophe
• The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai
• Burning of the Exeter Theatre
• John Rouat the Fisherman
• The Sorrows of the Blind
• General Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum
• The Battle of Cressy
• The Wreck of the Barque “Wm. Paterson” of Liverpool
• Hanchen, The Maid of the Mill
• Wreck of the Schooner “Samuel Crawford”
• The First Grenadier of France
• The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie
• The Burning of the Steamer “City of Montreal”
• The Wreck of the Whaler “Oscar”
• Jenny Carrister, The Heroine of Lucknow-Mine
• The Horrors of Majuba
• The Miraculous Escape of Robert Allan, the Fireman
• The Battle of Shina, in Africa
• The Collision in the English Channel
• The Wreck of the Steamer “Storm Queen”
• The Pennsylvania Disaster
• The Sprig of Moss