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In this poem, Morgan uses his acute skills of observation to describe the plight of a blind, infirm elderly man to make a social comment about how people treat those less fortunate than themselves.

In Trio, Morgan describes a scene on a city centre street in Glasgow on a winter’s evening. A trio of people (each carrying an object) is used to examine joy and goodwill.

In Winter, Edwin Morgan writes about death and the relentless passing of time. He borrows words and ideas from Tithonus by Tennyson, where the character is granted immortality but not eternal youth.

In this poem, the speaker is joined by a man on a bus on Good Friday, the Christian holiday which marks the day when Jesus was crucified on the cross. The stranger engages him in a conversation.

Glasgow 5 March 1971 is one of Edwin Morgan's "Instamatic poems" that captures a snapshot of couple pushed through a shop window during a robbery.

In Glasgow Sonnet (1), Edwin Morgan describes a slum-like tenement block and its inhabitants with a mix of love and anger.