Poetic Gems [Duckworth 1989 Version]

This edition, first published by Duckworth in 1989, combined their previous book of Poetic Gems with their Still More Poetic Gems. It also includes a foreword by Billy Connolly.

• An Ode to the Queen on her Jubilee Year
• The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie
• The Death of Prince Leopold
• The Funeral of the German Emperor
• The Famous Tay Whale
• The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
• The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
• The Newport Railway
• An Address to the New Tay Bridge
• The Tay Bridge Disaster
• The Late Sir John Ogilvy
• The Rattling Boy from Dublin
• The Burial of the Reverend George 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”
• Attempted Assassination of the Queen
• Saving a Train [Version 1]
• The Moon
• The Beautiful Sun
• Grace Darling or The Wreck of the “Forfarshire”
• An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland
• The Clepington Catastrophe
• The Rebel Surprise Near Tamai
• The Battle of Cressy
• The Wreck of the Barque “Wm. Paterson” of Liverpool
• The Sorrows of the Blind
• General Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum
• Burning of the Exeter Theatre
• John Rouat the Fisherman
• 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 Collision in the English Channel
• The Battle of Shina, in Africa
• Beautiful Edinburgh
• Women’s Suffrage
• Lord Roberts’ Triumphal Entry into Pretoria
• A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson, The World’s Fair Judge
• The Wreck of the “Columbine”
• Balmoral Castle
• A New Temperance Poem, in Memory of my Departed Parents, who were Sober Living & God Fearing People
• The Sunderland Calamity
• The Inauguration of the University College, Dundee