An Autumn Reverie (William Topaz McGonagall Poems)
Alas! Beautiful Summer now hath fled, And the face of Nature doth seem dead, And the leaves are withered, and ...
Alas! Beautiful Summer now hath fled, And the face of Nature doth seem dead, And the leaves are withered, and ...
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry, And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry And ...
A pathetic tragedy I will relate, Concerning poor Fred. Marsden's fate, Who suffocated himself by the fumes of gas, On ...
'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 ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
'Twas in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers, A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years; Which was meant ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
'Twas on Friday the 2nd of March, in the year of 1894, That the Storm Fiend did loudly laugh and ...
Margaret Simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of Ayr, With a comely figure, and face of ...
Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light, Thou seemest most charming to my sight; As I gaze upon thee in the ...
Success to Tommy Atkins, he's a very brave man, And to deny it there's few people can; And to face ...
There lived in Munich a poor, weakly youth, But for the exact date, I cannot vouch for the truth, And ...
In a humble room in London sat a pretty little boy, By the bedside of his sick mother her only ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken ...
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 ...
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, ...
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
'Twas on a sunny morning in the month of May, I met a pretty damsel on the banks o' the ...
'Twas in the United States of America some years ago An aged father sat at his fireside with his heart ...
'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November, Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember; ...
About a hundred and fifty years ago, History relates it happened so, A big ship sailed from the shores of ...
'Twas in the village of Ruily there lived a bonnie lass With red, pouting lips which few lasses could surpass, ...
A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease, In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
Mr. Smiggs was a gentleman, And he lived in London town; His wife she was a good kind soul, And ...
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