Poems about History

• Dreamtime

  Here, at the invaders talk-talk place,
  We, who are the strangers now,

  by Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 29 lines, 9 comments
• Ain't I A Woman?

  Wall, chilern,
  whar dar is so much racket

  by Sojourner Truth 67 lines, 3 comments
• Clancy of the Overflow

  I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better
  Knowledge, sent to where I met him down the Lachlan, years ago,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 38 lines, 6 comments
• Ozymandias

  I met a traveler from an antique land
  Who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone

  by Percy Bysshe Shelley 13 lines, 14 comments
• The Last Of His Tribe

  He crouches, and buries his face on his knees,
  And hides in the dark of his hair;

  by Henry Kendall 40 lines, 9 comments
• Ballad Of The Drover

  Across the stony ridges,
  Across the rolling plain,

  by Henry Lawson 97 lines
• Beowulf

  LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
  of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,

  by Charles Baudelaire 3281 lines, 1 comment
• Jack and Jill

  Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water
  Jack fell down and broke his crown

  by Anonymous British 6 lines, 2 comments
• The Ballad of Dick Turpin

  The daylight moon looked quietly down
  Through the gathering dusk on London town

  by Alfred Noyes 182 lines, 2 comments
• Old Botany Bay

  "I'm old
  Botany Bay;

  by Dame Mary Gilmore DBE 31 lines, 1 comment
• Niggers Leap, New England

  The eastward spurs tip backward from the sun.
  Nights runs an obscure tide round cape and bay

  by Judith Wright 29 lines
• The Sleeping Stone

  I stopped to call a taxi in the heart of Babylon.
  At the pavement’s edge I stood - the traffic writhing on

  by Patience Strong 22 lines
• Our Own Flag

  They mustered us up with a royal din,
  In wearisome weeks of drought.

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 23 lines
• The Old Australian Ways

  The London lights are far abeam
  Behind a bank of cloud,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 78 lines, 1 comment
• The Roaring Days

  The night too quickly passes
  And we are growing old,

  by Henry Lawson 96 lines, 2 comments
• Dance Of The Hanged Men

  On the black gallows, one-armed friend,
  The paladins are dancing, dancing

  by Arthur Rimbaud 122 lines
• The Wreck Of The `Derry Castle'

  Day of ending for beginnings!
  Ocean hath another innings,

  by Henry Lawson 39 lines
• The Lights of Cobb & Co.

  Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men;
  A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then;

  by Henry Lawson 52 lines, 1 comment
• The Tay Bridge Disaster

  Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
  Alas! I am very sorry to say

  by William Topaz McGonagall 65 lines, 1 comment
• Sestina: Altaforte

  Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace.
  You whoreson dog, Papiols, come! Let's to music!

  by Ezra Pound 57 lines
• A Dream of the Melbourne Cup

  Bring me a quart of colonial beer
  And some doughy damper to make good cheer,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 103 lines, 2 comments
• Lepanto

  White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
  And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;

  by G K Chesterton 151 lines, 3 comments
• Jack Dunn of Nevertire

  It chanced upon the very day we'd got the shearing done,
  A buggy brought a stranger to the West-o'-Sunday Run;

  by Henry Lawson 78 lines, 1 comment
• The Star of Australasia

  We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime;
  Better a shred of a deep-dyed rag from the storms of the o

  by Henry Lawson 108 lines
• The Teams

  A cloud of dust on the long white road,
  And the teams go creeping on

  by Henry Lawson 46 lines, 2 comments
• Mogg Megone - Part I.

  Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone,
  Unmoving and tall in the light of the sky,

  by John Greenleaf Whittier 510 lines
• The Silent Shearer

  Weary and listless, sad and slow,
  Without any conversation,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 68 lines
• Voyage to Botany Bay

  Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove
  Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells,

  by Arthur Phillip 26 lines
• Eureka

  ROLL UP, Eureka’s heroes, on that grand Old Rush afar,
  For Lalor’s gone to join you in the big camp where you are;

  by Henry Lawson 89 lines, 3 comments
• Scots Wha Hae

  Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
  Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,

  by Robert Burns 28 lines

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