Lines in Praise of Mr. J. Graham Henderson, Hawick (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Success to Mr J. Graham Henderson, who is a good man, And to gainsay it there's few people can, I ...
Success to Mr J. Graham Henderson, who is a good man, And to gainsay it there's few people can, I ...
Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing, For being so brave in relieving Mafeking, With his gallant little ...
Alas! the people's hearts are now full of sorrow For the deceased Professor Blackie, of Edinboro'; Because he was a ...
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And ...
Oh! beautiful Oban with your lovely bay, Your surroundings are magnificent on a fine summer-day; There the lover of the ...
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie, I'm told he went to the High School in Dundee, For to learn to read ...
Richard Pigott, the forger, was a very bad man, And to gainsay it there's nobody can, Because for fifty years ...
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
It was on the 21st of March in the year of 1801, The British were at their posts every man; ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
Beautiful Ancient City of Perth, One of the fairest on the earth, With your stately mansions and scenery most fine, ...
Alas! noble Prince Leopold, he is dead! Who often has his lustre shed: Especially by singing for the benefit of ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
There was a rich old gentleman Lived on a lonely moor in Switzerland, And he was very hard to the ...
God prosper long our noble Queen, And long may she reign! Maclean he tried to shoot her, But it was ...
Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead, And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled, To sing ...
Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone- The late and the good Lord Tennyson. I hope his soul ...
'Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced ...
As I stood upon London Bridge and viewed the mighty throng Of thousands of people in cabs and 'busses rapidly ...
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
In an immense wood in the south of Kent, There lived a band of robbers which caused the people discontent; ...
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
Near the village of Udorf, on the banks of the Rhine, There lived a miller and his family, once on ...
Alas! Sir John Ogilvy is dead, aged eighty-seven, But I hope his soul is now in heaven; For he was ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
It was biting cold, and the falling snow, Which filled a poor little match girl's heart with woe, Who was ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
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