A Tale of Christmas Eve (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas Christmastide in Germany, And in the year of 1850, And in the city of Berlin, which is most beautiful ...
'Twas Christmastide in Germany, And in the year of 1850, And in the city of Berlin, which is most beautiful ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a terrible ...
A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease, In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
It was biting cold, and the falling snow, Which filled a poor little match girl's heart with woe, Who was ...
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
In a humble room in London sat a pretty little boy, By the bedside of his sick mother her only ...
Kind Christians, pray list to me, And I'll relate a sad story, Concerning a little blind girl, only nine years ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
As I stood upon the sandy beach One morn near Pentland Ferry, I saw a beautiful brigantine, And all her ...
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
Near by the silent waters of the Mediterranean, And at the door of an old hut stood a coloured man, ...
'Twas in the village of Ruily there lived a bonnie lass With red, pouting lips which few lasses could surpass, ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
Success to James Scrymgeour, He's a very good man, And to gainsay it, There's few people can; Because he makes ...
King Robert the Bruce's deadly enemy, John of Lorn, Joined the English with eight hundred Highlanders one morn, All strong, ...
'Twas in the year of 1900, and on the 5th of June, Lord Roberts entered Pretoria in the afternoon; His ...
'Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of September, Which many people in Aberdeen will long remember; ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
Ye sons of Mars, come list to me, And I will relate to ye A great and heroic naval fight, ...
In one of fhe States of America, some years ago, There suddenly came on a violent storm of snow, Which ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a harrowing ...
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry, And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry And ...
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