A Soldier’s Reprieve (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
'Twas in the United States of America some years ago An aged father sat at his fireside with his heart ...
'Twas in the United States of America some years ago An aged father sat at his fireside with his heart ...
Richard Pigott, the forger, was a very bad man, And to gainsay it there's nobody can, Because for fifty years ...
Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was ...
About a hundred and fifty years ago, History relates it happened so, A big ship sailed from the shores of ...
At on time, in America, many years ago, Large gray wolves wont to wander to and fro; And from the ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November, Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember; ...
'Twas on a sunny morning in the month of May, I met a pretty damsel on the banks o' the ...
Success to the good and skilful Dr Murison, For golden opinions he has won From his patients one and all, ...
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
'Twas in the village of Ruily there lived a bonnie lass With red, pouting lips which few lasses could surpass, ...
Alas! Beautiful Summer now hath fled, And the face of Nature doth seem dead, And the leaves are withered, and ...
Mr. Smiggs was a gentleman, And he lived in London town; His wife she was a good kind soul, And ...
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry, And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry And ...
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
God prosper long our noble Queen, And long may she reign! Maclean he tried to shoot her, But it was ...
A pathetic tragedy I will relate, Concerning poor Fred. Marsden's fate, Who suffocated himself by the fumes of gas, On ...
The mountains and glens of Aberfoyle are beautiful to sight, Likewise the rivers and lakes are sparkling and bright; And ...
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
'TWAS in the month of December, and in the year l883, That a monster whale came to Dundee, Resolved for ...
Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone- The late and the good Lord Tennyson. I hope his soul ...
'Twas in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers, A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years; Which was meant ...
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 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
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 be advised by me, And don't believe what the ...
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