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# Half Hanged Maggie
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/half-hanged-maggie/
- Published: 2022-07-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The streets of Edinburgh, craggy deliver countless tales to swoon. Hear now the tale of half-hanged Maggie who didn't want to leave too soon. Maggie was sentenced for concealing a pregnancy -- still birth revealing ad...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Onegin Sonnet, Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The streets of Edinburgh, craggy  
deliver countless tales to swoon.  
Hear now the tale of half-hanged Maggie  
who didn't want to leave too soon.  
Maggie was sentenced for concealing  
a pregnancy -- still birth revealing  
adultery. Widow, she was,  
that -- in the day -- sufficient cause.  
They hung her. Put her in a coffin,  
and carted off for last respects  
but just when nobody expects  
(though in tall tales, this happens often)  
she wakes. And never hung again.  
They called it justice, now and then.

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**Author notes:** Onegin Sonnet https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/half-hangit-maggie-scots-woman-who-survived-hanging-622567