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William Topaz McGonagall Poems
- A Tale Of The Sea A pathetic tale of the sea I will ...
- A Descriptive Poem On The Silv... Beautiful silvery ...
- A Christmas Carol Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the ...
- An Address To Shakespeare Immortal! William Shakespeare, ...
- A Humble Heroine 'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the ...
- Women's Suffrage Fellow men! why should the lords try to ...
- The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Bridge of the ...
William Topaz McGonagall was born of rather poor Irish parents in Edinburgh, Scotland, in March 1825. In his nearly unreadable, rambling biographical notes1, one eventually learns that he sprang from a family of five children and that he worked with his father as a handloom weaver. His education appears to have been patchy, but, in his own words, 'William has been like the immortal Shakespeare he had learned more from nature than he ever learned at school'. The family settled in Dundee while William was still a boy, and he lived there for the rest of his life. He died in 1902.
As a grown man, he continued to work in the family trade, and married one Jean King in 1846. At about ... more »
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A Tale Of The Sea
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold,
Enough to make one's blood run cold;
Concerning four fishermen cast adrift in a dory.
As I've been told I'll relate the story.
T'was on the 8th April on the afternoon of that day
That the village of Louisburg was thrown into a wild state or dismay,
And the villagers flew to the beach in a state of wild uproar
And in a dory they found four men were cast ashore.
Then the villagers, in surprise assembled about the dory,
And they found that the bottom of the boat was gory;
Then their hearts were seized with sudden ...
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Just discovered William Topaz McGonagall. This man is a great poet. His writings, uniquely, are a good work.
Can barely wait to visit again.
Kayne West is a true poet
Just like other works of art or such
to each his own
For some think works of McGonagall not much
To others, the illumination is shown
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