Poems about History

• Mount Bukaroo

  Only one old post is standing -
  Solid yet, but only one -

  by Henry Lawson 61 lines
• Convergence Of The Twain

            I
      In a solitude of the sea

  by Thomas Hardy 64 lines, 2 comments
• Black Harry's Team

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

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 52 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 Veils; Book the First: The Castle

  Prologue:
  A YOUNG lady, one of the members of a small society which meets periodically for literary amusement, lost her Veil (by a g

  by Eleanor Anne Porden Franklin 1113 lines
• The Bastille: A Vision

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

  by Helen Maria Williams 139 lines
• The Fight Of The Caroline

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 88 lines
• A Norseman

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 26 lines
• Caesar's Camp

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 40 lines, 1 comment
• 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
• Cinderella

  A lonely child with toil o’ertaxed,
      Sits Cinderella by the fire;

  by Henry Lawson 34 lines
• A Home in Dakar

  When the African Arts,
  home again,

  by Margaret Danner 30 lines
• T.Y.S.O.N.

  Across the Queensland border line
  The mobs of cattle go;

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 54 lines
• 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
• Nemzeti Dal (Rise Up, Magnar)

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

  by Sandor Petofi 120 lines, 2 comments
• The Grey Wolf

  The grey wolf stood in the ruin hoar,
      The wolf that hunts alone:

  by Cicely Fox Smith 64 lines
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Prologue

  Behind this door
  Now buried in deep grass

  by Matsuo Basho 5 lines
• The Seas of England

  The seas of England are our old delight:
  Let the loud billow of the shingly shore

  by Walter de la Mare 23 lines
• The Image

  Brooding he dreams his age-long dream:
  He sees not London's pouring stream

  by Cicely Fox Smith 14 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
• 1805

  At Viscount Nelson’s lavish funeral,
  While the mob milled and yelled about St Paul’s,

  by Robert Graves 38 lines
• The Pilgrim Fathers

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

  by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 48 lines, 2 comments
• Coeur De Lion And His Horse

  “Ah, Fanuel, my noble horse, and art thou, art thou slain?
  Wilt thou never bear me to the chase or the battle-field again?

  by Menella Bute Smedley 82 lines, 1 comment
• The Spoilers

  Ye are the Great White People, masters and lords of the earth,
  Spreading your stern dominion over the world's wide girth.

  by C J Dennis 34 lines
• My Gentle Harp

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

  by Thomas Moore 34 lines
• Sonnet

        There was an Indian, who had known no change,
          Who strayed content along a sunlit b

  by John Collings Squire 14 lines
• The Loss of the 'Victoria'

  Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom,
  Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb;

  by William Topaz McGonagall 68 lines
• Australia's Forgotten Flag

  Oh! the Cross of deepest blue,
  With the bright stars shining through,

  by Henry Lawson 78 lines
• Ballad of the Armada

    King Philip had vaunted his claims;
      He had sworn for a year he would sack us;

  by Henry Austin Dobson 25 lines
• The Wild Geese

  How solemn sad by Shannon's flood
  The blush of morning sun appears!

  by William Drennan 21 lines

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