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Subject: DUNDEE, SCOTLAND
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION TO LEAVE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome! Thrice welcome! To the year 1893
Last Line: And leave dundee some early day.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Holidays; New Year; Parting


A SUMMARY HISTORY OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sir william wallace of ellerslie
Last Line: Who had fought for scotland so well.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; History; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); Historians


A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison
Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors


A TRIBUTE TO HENRY M. STANLEY; THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPLORER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of dundee
Last Line: And play up, see the conquering hero comes!
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Explorers; Heroism; Stanley, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904); Travel; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Heroes; Heroines; Rowlands, John; Journeys; Trips


BONNIE MONTROSE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful town of montrose, I will now commence my lay
Last Line: Because you are one of the bonniest towns in scotland at the present day.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Tourists; Towns; Travel; Journeys; Trips


FAREWELL ADDRESS AT THE ARGYLE HALL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1880, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fellow citizens of dundee
Last Line: And prosper them in all their undertakings by night and by day.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Farewell; Parting


JOTTINGS OF NEW YORK; A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh mighty city of new york! You are wonderful to behold
Last Line: For bonnie dundee, my heart it felt as light as a cork.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; New York City; Travel; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips


THE BATTLE OF DUNDEE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "on the mountain-side the battle raged, there was no stop nor stay"
Last Line: That ''twas the english fought the dutch' at the battle of dundee
Subject(s): "dundee, Scotland;navy - Great Britain;war;" English Navy


THE BURNS STATUE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This statue, I must confess, is magnificent to see
Last Line: In fear of not getting such a beautiful statue after they die.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dundee, Scotland; Monuments; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


THE FAMOUS TAY WHALE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the month of december, and in the year 1883
Last Line: That is to say, if the people all are willing.
Subject(s): Boats; Dundee, Scotland; Fish & Fishing; Sea; Whales; Ocean


THE INAUGURATION OF THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good people of dundee, your voices raise
Last Line: And may all good angels guard her while living and hereafter when dead.
Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Inaugural Poem; Knowledge; Teaching & Teachers; Universities & Colleges - Faculty


THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE OF 1893, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of november
Last Line: And both these storms will be remembered for a very long time.
Subject(s): Cyclones; Death; Disasters; Dundee, Scotland; Wind; Dead, The