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William Topaz McGonagall
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William Topaz McGonagall Poems
- A Descriptive Poem On The Silv... Beautiful silvery ...
- A Christmas Carol Welcome, sweet Christmas, blest be the ...
- The Tay Bridge Disaster Beautiful Railway Bridge of the ...
- Women's Suffrage Fellow men! why should the lords try to ...
- An Address To Shakespeare Immortal! William Shakespeare, ...
- A Humble Heroine 'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the ...
- A New Temperance Poem, In Memo...
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 Descriptive Poem On The Silvery Tay
Beautiful silvery Tay,
With your landscapes, so lovely and gay,
Along each side of your waters, to Perth all the way;
No other river in the world has got scenery more fine,
Only I am told the beautiful Rhine,
Near to Wormit Bay, it seems very fine,
Where the Railway Bridge is towering above its waters sublime,
And the beautiful ship Mars,
With her Juvenile Tare,
Both lively and gay,
Does carelessly lie By night and by day,
In the beautiful Bay
Of the silvery Tay.
Beautiful, beautiful silvery Tay,
Thy scenery is enchanting on a fine summer day,
Near ...
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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