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 Poetic Gems contained even fewer poems than the original first edition:
- 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
- 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”
