A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
Beautiful city of Edinburgh, most wonderful to be seen, With your ancient palace of Holyrood and Queen's Park Green, And ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold, About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold; Who struggled hard in the ...
North Berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green, With a fine bathing beach most lovely to be seen; And ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
'Twas on the 8th of January 1881, That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran, And spread death and ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
'Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of September, Which many people in Aberdeen will long remember; ...
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
A gallant knight and his betroth'd bride, Were walking one day by a river side, They talk'd of love, and ...
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
Success to James Scrymgeour, He's a very good man, And to gainsay it, There's few people can; Because he makes ...
'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in, Lord Roberts and the British Army their march ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand, And wondrously created by the Almighty's command; And the works of the Almighty ...
Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last, Which causes many people to feel a little downcast; ...
'Twas on a sunny morning in the month of May, I met a pretty damsel on the banks o' the ...
Near the village of Udorf, on the banks of the Rhine, There lived a miller and his family, once on ...
Oh, thou demon Drink, thou fell destroyer; Thou curse of society, and its greatest annoyer. What hast thou done to ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
'Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 8th of June, A mother and six children met with a ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all be advised by me, And don't believe what the ...
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
Alas! the people's hearts are now full of sorrow For the deceased Professor Blackie, of Edinboro'; Because he was a ...
'Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of September, Which many people of Honan, in China, will ...
Beautiful Loch Leven, near by Kinross For a good day's fishing the angler is seldom at a loss, For the ...
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