{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Published Works by William McGonagall |- ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Year/month written{{cite book|last1=Watson|first1=Norman|title=Poet McGonagall: The Biography of William McGonagall|date=2010|publisher=Birlinn|location=Edinburgh|isbn=1841588849|pages=289-299|chapter=Chronology of William McGonagall's Poems and Songs}} ! scope="col" | First published in ! scope="col" | Publication year ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Subject |- |A Christmas Carol||1884-12||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay||1877-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[River Tay]] |- |A Humble Heroine||1899-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Agnes Reston]] |- |A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of my Departed Parents||1885-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |A New Year's Resolution to Leave Dundee||1893-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |A Requisition To The Queen||1877-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |A Soldier's Reprieve||1893-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[William Scott (The Sleeping Sentinel)]] |- |A Summary History of Lord Clive||1899-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Robert Clive]] |- |A Summary History of Sir William Wallace||1877-10||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[William Wallace]] |- |A Tale of Christmas Eve||1900-12||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |A Tale of Elsinore||1889-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |A Tale of the Sea||1886-05||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |A Tribute to Dr. Murison||1885-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |A Tribute to Henry M Stanley||1890-06||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Henry Morton Stanley]] |- |A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson, The World's Fair Judge||1893-03||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army||1882-01||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Francis Murphy (evangelist)]] |- |Adventures of King Robert the Bruce||1887-07||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Robert the Bruce]] |- |An Address to Shakespeare||1877-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[William Shakespeare]] |- |An Address to the New Tay Bridge||1887-06||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Tay Rail Bridge]] |- |An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan||1877-07||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[George Gilfillan]] |- |An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland||1887-11||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[James V of Scotland]] |- |An All Night Sea Fight||1901-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[HMS Blanche (1786)]] |- |An Autumn Reverie||1886-11||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay||1888-07||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |An Ode to the Queen||1877-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Queen Victoria]] |- |An Ode to the Queen on her Jubilee Year||1887-06||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria]] |- |Annie Marshall the Foundling||1888-02||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |Attempted Assassination of the Queen||1882-05||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Roderick Maclean]] |- |Baldovan Mansion||1886-12||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |Balmoral Castle||1878-07||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Balmoral Castle]] |- |Beautiful Aberfoyle||1893-03||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Aberfoyle, Stirling]] |- |Beautiful Balmerino||1898-??||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Balmerino]] |- |Beautiful Balmoral||1900-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Balmoral Castle]] |- |Beautiful Comrie||1899-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Comrie, Perth and Kinross]] |- |Beautiful Crieff||1899-04||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Crieff]] |- |Beautiful Edinburgh||1881-??||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Edinburgh]] |- |Beautiful Monikie||1890-07||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Monikie]] |- |Beautiful Nairn||1888-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Nairn]] |- |Beautiful Newport on the Braes o' the Silvery Tay||1892-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Newport-on-Tay]] |- |Beautiful North Berwick||1899-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[North Berwick]] |- |Beautiful Rothesay||1892-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[ Rothesay, Bute]] |- |Beautiful Torquay||1902-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Torquay]] |- |Bill Bowls the Sailor||1885-09||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |Bill Bowls, the Sailor||1885-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Bonnie Callander||1892-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Callander]] |- |Bonnie Dundee in 1878||1878-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Dundee]] |- |Bonnie Kilmany||1892-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Kilmany]] |- |Bonnie Montrose||1881-04||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Montrose, Angus]] |- |Broughty Ferry||1886-12||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Broughty Ferry]] |- |Burning of the Exeter Theatre||1887-09||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Theatre Royal, Exeter]] |- |Calamity in London||1898-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |Captain Teach alias "Black Beard"||1892-04||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Blackbeard]] |- |Death and Burial of Lord Tennyson||1892-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]] |- |Descriptive Jottings of London||1880-06||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[London]] |- |Edinburgh||1895-06||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Edinburgh]] |- |Farewell Address at the Argyle Hall||1880-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Forget-Me-Not||1879-03||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |General Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum||1885-03||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Charles George Gordon]] |- |General Roberts in Afghanistan||1900-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Peiwar Kotal]]
[[Battle of Kandahar (1880)|Battle of Kandahar]] |- |Glasgow||1883-??||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Glasgow]] |- |Grace Darling or The Wreck of the "Forfarshire"||1887-08||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Grace Darling]] |- |Greenland's Icy Mountains||1886-05||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Geography of Greenland]] |- |Grif, of the Bloody Hand||1887-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Hanchen, The Maid of the Mill||1886-10||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |Jack Honest, or the Widow and her Son||1889-11||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Jack o' the Cudgel||1885-06||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |Jack o' the Cudgel||1885-08||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |Jenny Carrister, The Heroine of Lucknow-Mine||1888-05||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |John Rouat the Fisherman||1888-02||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |Jottings of New York||1887-05||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[New York City]] |- |Lines in Defence of the Stage||1895-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |Lines in Memoriam Regarding the Entertainment I Gave on the 31st March, 1893, in Reform Street Hall, Dundee||1893-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Lines in Praise of Mr. J. Graham Henderson, Hawick||1893-03||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Lines in Praise of Professor Blackie||1895-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[John Stuart Blackie]] |- |Lines in Praise of the Lyric Club Banquet||1894-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins||1899-11||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Tommy Atkins]] |- |Lines in Reply to the Beautiful Poet who Welcomed News of McGonagall's Departure from Dundee||1893-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Little Jamie||1878-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |Little Pierre's Song||1887-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Little Popeet: The Lost Child||1893-11||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |Loch Katrine||1886-07||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Loch Katrine]] |- |Loch Leven||1886-12||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Loch Leven (Kinross)]] |- |Loch Ness||1878-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Loch Ness]] |- |Lord Roberts' Triumphal Entry into Pretoria||1900-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Lost on the Prairie||1893-12||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |Mary, the Maid of the Tay||1878-11||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |McGonagall's Ode to the King||1902-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Edward VII]] |- |Montrose||Unknown||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Montrose, Angus]] |- |Nora, The Maid of Killarney||1894-03||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |Oban||1886-06||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Oban]] |- |Richard Pigott, the Forger||1889-04||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Richard Pigott]] |- |Robert Burns||1877-09||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Robert Burns]] |- |Saved by Music||1884-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |Saving a Train||1883-02||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |Saving a Train||1899-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Albion Battleship Calamity||1898-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[HMS Albion (1898)]] |- |The Ancient Town of Leith||1899-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Leith]] |- |The Ashantee War||1902-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Anglo-Ashanti Wars]] |- |The Battle of Abu Klea||1885-02||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Battle of Abu Klea]] |- |The Battle of Alexandria||1885-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Alexandria (1801)]] |- |The Battle of Atbara||1898-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Atbara]] |- |The Battle of Bannockburn||1877-09||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Battle of Bannockburn]] |- |The Battle of Corunna||1900-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Corunna]] |- |The Battle of Cressy||1885-06||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Battle of Crécy]] |- |The Battle of Culloden||Unknown||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Battle of Culloden]] |- |The Battle of El-Teb||1884-03||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[First and Second Battles of El Teb]] |- |The Battle of Flodden Field||1884-08||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Battle of Flodden]] |- |The Battle of Glencoe||1899-11||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Battle of Talana Hill]] |- |The Battle of Gujrat||1901-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Gujrat]] |- |The Battle of Inkermann||1902-??||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Inkerman]] |- |The Battle of Omdurman||1898-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Omdurman]] |- |The Battle of Sheriffmuir||Unknown||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Battle of Sheriffmuir]] |- |The Battle of Shina, in Africa||1888-10||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir||1882-10||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Battle of Tell El Kebir]] |- |The Battle of the Alma||1885-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of the Alma]] |- |The Battle of the Modder River||1899-12||McGonagall and Tommy Atkins||1975||[[Battle of Modder River]] |- |The Battle of the Nile||1886-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of the Nile]] |- |The Battle of Toulouse||1902-??||McGonagall and Tommy Atkins||1975||[[Battle of Toulouse (1814)]] |- |The Battle of Waterloo||1884-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Battle of Waterloo]] |- |The Beautiful City of Perth||1894-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Perth, Scotland]] |- |The Beautiful Sun||1883-06||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Sun]] |- |The Beautiful Village of Penicuik||1900-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Penicuik]] |- |The Black Watch Memorial||1887-11||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Blind Girl||1893-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Bonnie Lass o' Dundee||1877-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Bonnie Lass of Ruily||1892-04||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Bonnie Sidlaw Hills||1892-08||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Sidlaws]] |- |The Burial of Mr Gladstone||1898-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[William Ewart Gladstone]] |- |The Burial of the Reverend George Gilfillan||1878-08||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[George Gilfillan]] |- |The Burning of the People's Variety Theatre, Aberdeen||1896-??||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Burning of the Ship "Kent"||1900-09||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Kent (1820 EIC ship)]] |- |The Burning of the Steamer "City of Montreal"||1888-01||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |The Burns Statue||1880-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Robert Burns (Steell)]] |- |The Capture of Havana||1900-07||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Siege of Havana]] |- |The Capture of Lucknow||1885-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Siege of Lucknow]] |- |The Castle of Mains||1878-05||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[Mains Castle]] |- |The Christmas Goose||1878-09||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |The City of Perth||1878-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Perth, Scotland]] |- |The Clepington Catastrophe||1884-03||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |The Collision in the English Channel||1888-11||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |The Convict's Return||1879-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Crucifixion of Christ||1890-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Crucifixion of Jesus]] |- |The Death of Captain Ward||1901-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Death of Captain Webb||1883-08||The Real McGonagall||1948||[[Matthew Webb]] |- |The Death of Fred Marsden, the American Playwright||1888-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Death of John Brown||1883-08||The Real McGonagall||1948||[[John Brown (servant)]] |- |The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie||1887-12||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[John Ramsay, 13th Earl of Dalhousie]] |- |The Death of Prince Leopold||1884-04||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany]] |- |The Death of the Old Mendicant||1879-06||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |The Death of the Queen||1901-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Queen Victoria]] |- |The Death of the Rev. Dr. Wilson||1888-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Demon Drink||1887-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Den o' Fowlis||1882-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Liff, Angus]] |- |The Destroying Angel||1889-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Disastrous Fire at Scarborough||1898-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Downfall of Delhi||1901-04||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Siege of Delhi]] |- |The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose||1898-??||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||[[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]] |- |The Fair Maid of Perth's House||1894-10||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |[[The Famous Tay Whale]]||1884-01||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Tay Whale]] |- |The First Grenadier of France||1887-08||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne]] |- |The Funeral of the German Emperor||1888-04||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[William I, German Emperor]] |- |The Funeral of the Late Ex-Provost Rough, Dundee||1888-12||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Funeral of the Late Prince Henry of Battenberg||1896-??||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Prince Henry of Battenberg]] |- |The Great Franchise Demonstration||1884-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Great Yellow River Inundation In China||1888-03||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[1887 Yellow River flood]] |- |The Heatherblend Club Banquet||1894-10||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Hero of Kalapore||1899-08||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[William Alexander Kerr]] |- |The Hero of Rorke's Drift||1899-02||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Henry Hook (VC)]] |- |The Horrors of Majuba||1888-08||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Battle of Majuba Hill]] |- |The Inauguration of the Hill o' Balgay||1878-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Inauguration of the University College, Dundee||1883-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[University of Dundee]] |- |The Irish Convict's Return||1878-??||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Kessack Ferry-Boat Fatality||1894-03||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Kessock Ferry]] |- |The Last Berkshire Eleven||1899-07||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Battle of Maiwand]] |- |The Late Sir John Ogilvy||1890-??||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Sir John Ogilvy, 9th Baronet]] |- |The Little Match Girl||1894-01||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Loss of the Victoria||1893-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[HMS Victoria (1887)]] |- |The Military Review by Lord Wolseley||1897-02||McGonagall and Tommy Atkins||1975||  |- |The Miraculous Escape of Robert Allan, the Fireman||1888-10||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |The Moon||1878-12||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Moon]] |- |The Newport Railway||1878-06||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Newport Railway, Scotland]] |- |The Nithsdale Widow and her Son||1891-12||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |The Pennsylvania Disaster||1889-07||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Johnstown Flood]] |- |The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Celebrations||1897-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay||1877-08||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Tay Rail Bridge]] |- |The Rattling Boy from Dublin||1878-10||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai||1885-04||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |The Relief of Ladysmith||1900-04||McGonagall and Tommy Atkins||1975||[[Relief of Ladysmith]] |- |The Relief of Mafeking||1900-06||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[Siege of Mafeking]] |- |The River of Leith||1895-09||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Water of Leith]] |- |The Royal Review||1881-09||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |The Siege of Seringapatam||1901-03||McGonagall and Tommy Atkins||1975||[[Siege of Seringapatam (1799)]] |- |The Sorrows of the Blind||1878-05||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |- |The Sprig of Moss||1889-12||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Alois Senefelder]] |- |The Storming of the Dargai Heights||1897-11||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Dargai]] |- |The Sunderland Calamity||1883-06||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Victoria Hall disaster]] |- |[[The Tay Bridge Disaster]]||1880-01||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[Tay Bridge disaster]] |- |The Terrific Cyclone of 1893||1893-12||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Tragic Death of the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie||1887-12||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Alexander Mackonochie]] |- |The Troubles of Matthew Mahoney||1892-08||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Village of Tayport and its Surroundings||1894-07||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Tayport]] |- |The Wreck of the "Abercrombie Robinson"||1892-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Wreck of the "Columbine"||1886-03||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Betty Mouat]] |- |The Wreck of the "Indian Chief"||1899-10||More Poetic Gems||1962||  |- |The Wreck of the "Thomas Dryden"||1881-10||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |The Wreck of the Barque "Lynton"||1886-01||Last Poetic Gems||1968||  |- |The Wreck of the Barque "Wm. Paterson" of Liverpool||1886-04||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |The Wreck Of The Steamer "London"||1882-11||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||[[SS London (1864)]] |- |The Wreck of the Steamer "Mohegan"||1898-11||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[SS Mohegan]] |- |The Wreck of the Steamer "Stella"||1899-05||More Poetic Gems||1962||[[SS Stella (1890)]] |- |The Wreck of the Steamer "Storm Queen"||1889-01||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |The Wreck of the Whaler "Oscar"||1888-04||Poetic Gems||1934||[[Sinking of the Oscar]] |- |To Mr James Scrymgeour, Dundee||1887-01||Poetic Gems [First Series]||1890||  |- |Women's Suffrage||1884-10||Last Poetic Gems||1968||[[Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom]] |- |Wreck of the Schooner "Samuel Crawford"||1887-01||Poetic Gems||1934||  |- |Young Munro the Sailor||1886-07||Poetic Gems [Second Series]||1891||  |} ==Bibliography== * {{cite book |title=Poetic Gems [First Series] |date=1890 |publisher=Winter, Duncan & Co |location=Dundee |oclc=316566087}} * {{cite book |title=Poetic Gems [Second Series] |date=1891 |publisher=David Winter |location=Dundee |oclc=316648533}} * {{cite book |title=Poetic Gems |date=1934 |publisher=David Winter |location=Dundee |oclc=181801214}} * {{cite book |title=The Real McGonagall |date=1948 |publisher=D. R. Burnside |location=Glasgow |oclc=181682664}} * {{cite book |title=More Poetic Gems |date=1962 |publisher=David Winter |location=Dundee |oclc=2219853}} * {{cite book |title=Last Poetic Gems |date=1968 |publisher=David Winter |location=Dundee |isbn=9780715604144}} * {{cite book |title=McGonagall and Tommy Atkins |date=1975 |publisher=David Winter |location=Dundee |oclc=810787452}} ==References== {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{cite web |url=http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/works/alphabetical-list-of-poems |title=Alphabetical List of Poems |website=McGonagall Online}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/works/chronological-list-of-poems |title=Chronological List of Poems |website=McGonagall Online}} {{DEFAULTSORT:McGonagall, William}} [[Category:Lists of poems|McGonagall, William]] [[Category:Bibliographies by writer]] [[Category:Bibliographies of British writers]]