The publisher Duckworth issued a new edition of McGonagall’s works in 1980, splitting the established three-volume set between seven titles. Their version of Last Poetic Gems contains about half the poems in the established title:
- Farewell Address at the Argyle Hall, Tuesday, June 22, 1880
- The Last Berkshire Eleven, The Heroes of Maiwand
- The Demon Drink
- Grif, of the Bloody Hand
- A Summary History of Lord Clive
- The Battle of the Nile
- Beautiful Aberfoyle
- The Convict’s Return
- The Battle of Alexandria, or the Reconquest of Egypt
- Saved by Music
- Beautiful Newport on the Braes o’ the Silvery Tay
- The Battle of Corunna
- A Tale of Christmas Eve
- The Battle of Gujrat
- Bill Bowls, the Sailor [Version 2]
- The Battle of the Alma, Fought in 1854
- Beautiful Rothesay
- The Battle of Inkermann
- Little Pierre’s Song
- The Capture of Lucknow
- The Burns Statue (A Fragment)
- The Hero of Kalapore
- Jack Honest, or the Widow and her Son
- The Downfall of Delhi
- The River of Leith
- The Ashantee War, The Fall of Coomassie
- The Beautiful City of Perth
- General Roberts in Afghanistan
- A Requisition To The Queen
