Captain Teach alias Black Beard (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port On board a privateer, in search of sport, ...
Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port On board a privateer, in search of sport, ...
'Twas on the 26th of August, the sun was burning hot, In the year of 1346, which will never be ...
Composed, by Special Request, 18th June 1890 Then Pilate, the Roman Governor, took Jesus and scourged Him, And the soldiers ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken ...
A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride, Were walking one day by a river side, They talk'd of love, and ...
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
Friends of humanity, of high and low degree, I pray ye all come listen to me; And truly I will ...
Alas! now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom For brave General Gordon, that was killed in Khartoum, He ...
Twas in the month of October, and in the year of 1899, Which the Boers will remember for a very ...
I dreamt a dream the other night That an Angel appeared to me, clothed in white. Oh! it was a ...
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was ...
In an immense wood in the south of Kent, There lived a band of robbers which caused the people discontent; ...
'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November, Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember; ...
'Twas in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers, A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years; Which was meant ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
Near the village of Udorf, on the banks of the Rhine, There lived a miller and his family, once on ...
King Shuac, the Giant of Mizra, war did declare Against Ulva, King of Shina, telling him to prepare And be ...
The 27th Regiment has mutinied at Kalapore; That was the substance of a telegram, which caused great uproar, At Sattara, ...
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
'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 ...
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