This selection of McGonagall's poetic works was first printed in 1890. Click on a title to read the poem.
An Ode to the Queen on her Jubilee Year The Death of Prince Leopold The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie The Funeral of the German Emperor The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir The Famous Tay Whale The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay The Newport Railway The Tay Bridge Disaster An Address to the New Tay Bridge The Late Sir John Ogilvy The Rattling Boy from Dublin The Burial of the Reverend Gilfillan The Battle of El-Teb The Battle of Abu Klea A Christmas Carol The Christmas Goose An Autumn Reverie The Wreck of the Steamer "London" while on her way to Australia The Wreck of the "Thomas Dryden" in Pentland Firth Attempted Assassination of the Queen Saving a Train The Moon The Beautiful Sun Grace Darling or The Wreck of the "Forfarshire" To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee The Battle of Bannockburn Edinburgh Glasgow Oban The Battle of Flodden Field Greenlands Icy Mountains A Tribute to Henry M. Stanley Jottings of New York Beautiful Monikie A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army Loch Katrine Forget-Me-Not The Royal Review The Nithsdale Widow and Her Son
Jack o' the Cudgel The Battle of Culloden The Battle of Sheriffmuir The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose Baldovan Loch Leven Montrose The Castle of Mains Broughty Ferry Robert Burns Adventures of King Robert the Bruce A Tale of the Sea Descriptive Jottings of London Annie Marshall the Foundling Bill Bowls the Sailor Young Munro the Sailor The Death of the Old Mendicant An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland The Clepington Catastrophe The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai Burning of the Exeter Theatre John Rouat the Fisherman The Sorrows of the Blind General Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum The Battle of Cressy The Wreck of the Barque "Wm. Paterson" of Liverpool Hanchen, the Maid of the Mill Wreck of the Schooner "Samuel Crawford" The First Grenadier of France The Tragic Death of the Rev. A.H. Mackonochie The Burning of the Steamer "City of Montreal" The Wreck of the Whaler "Oscar" Jenny Carrister, the Heroine of Lucknow-Mine The Horrors of Majuba The Miraculous Escape of Robert Allan, the Fireman The Battle of Shina, in Africa, fought in 1800 The Collision in the English Channel The Pennsylvania Disaster The Sprig of Moss
