Poems about History

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Beowulf

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

by Charles Baudelaire 3281 lines
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
Ozymandias

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

by Percy Bysshe Shelley 13 lines, 12 comments
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
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
Voyage to Botany Bay

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

by Arthur Phillip 26 lines
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 Silent Shearer

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

by A B Banjo Paterson 68 lines
The Roaring Days

The night too quickly passes
And we are growing old,

by Henry Lawson 96 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
Scots Wha Hae

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

by Robert Burns 28 lines
Dance of the Hanged Men

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

by Arthur Rimbaud 122 lines
Convergence Of The Twain

I
In a solitude of the sea

by Thomas Hardy 64 lines, 2 comments
The Bastille: A Vision

"Drear cell! along whose lonely bounds,
Unvisited by light,

by Helen Maria Williams 139 lines
Black Harry's Team

No soft-skinned Durham steers are they,
No Devons plump and red,

by A B Banjo Paterson 52 lines
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
T.Y.S.O.N.

Across the Queensland border line
The mobs of cattle go;

by A B Banjo Paterson 54 lines
Song of the Federation

As the nations sat together, grimly waiting —
The fierce and ancient nations battle-scarred —

by A B Banjo Paterson 56 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
Caesar's Camp

Not for the wealth of thy teeming markets,
Roaring factory, thronging way,

by Cicely Fox Smith 40 lines, 1 comment
The Pilgrim Fathers

The breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and rock-bound coast,

by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 48 lines, 2 comments
Nemzeti Dal (Rise Up, Magnar)

Talpra magyar, hí a haza!
Itt az idõ, most vagy soha!

by Sandor Petofi 120 lines, 2 comments
The Ballad of That P.N.

The shades of night had fallen at last,
When through the house a shadow passed,

by A B Banjo Paterson 30 lines
The Fight Of The Caroline

It was the good ship Caroline,
That ploughed the Channel foam,

by Cicely Fox Smith 88 lines
England In China: 1897-98

Grey gloom the storm-clouds in the Orient far,
Foreshadowing dark and anxious hours to be,

by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines
When Erin First Rose

When Erin first rose from the dark swelling flood,
God bless'd the green island and saw it was good;

by William Drennan 52 lines
A Norseman

Beneath the golden eagle's shade
Gleam restless eyes of steely grey,

by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines
My Gentle Harp

My gentle Harp, once more I waken
The sweetness of thy slumbering strain;

by Thomas Moore 34 lines

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