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Poems about History

• 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
• My Gentle Harp

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

  by Thomas Moore 34 lines
• The Grey Wolf

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 64 lines
• The Image

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

  by Cicely Fox Smith 14 lines
• 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 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
• 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 General Elliott

      He fell in victory's fierce pursuit,
      Holed through and through with shot,

  by Robert Graves 38 lines
• Sonnet

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

  by John Collings Squire 14 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 Burning of the Ship 'Kent'

  Good people of high and low degree,
  I pray ye all to list to me,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 87 lines
• Grace Darling or "The Wreck of the Forfarshire"

  As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day
  In the year of 1838, a steamer passed through the Fairway

  by William Topaz McGonagall 92 lines
• The Wreck of the Barque 'Wm. Paterson of Liverpool'

  Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale
  Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was lost in a tempestuous gale

  by William Topaz McGonagall 76 lines
• The Wreck of the Barque 'Lynton'

  A sad tale of the sea, I will unfold,
  About Mrs Lingard, that Heroine bold;

  by William Topaz McGonagall 98 lines
• The Wild Geese

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

  by William Drennan 21 lines
• The Wreck of the 'Indian Chief'

  'Twas on the 8th of January 1881,
  That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 58 lines
• Wreck of the Schooner 'Samuel Crawford'

  'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November,
  Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" will long remember,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 68 lines
• The Wreck of the 'Columbine'

  Kind Christians, all pay attention to me,
  And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye;

  by William Topaz McGonagall 98 lines
• The Burning of the Steamer 'City of Montreal'

  A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal
  Concerning the burning of the steamship "City of Montreal,"

  by William Topaz McGonagall 68 lines
• Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free)

  Die Gedanken sind frei
  My thoughts freely flower,

  by Anonymous European 34 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 Wreck of the Steamer 'London', while on her way to Australia

  'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day,
  That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 84 lines
• Brisbane Ladies

  Farewell and adieu to you, Brisbane ladies
  Farewell and adieu, you maids of Toowong

  by Anonymous Oceania 42 lines
• Our Forgotten Flag

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

  by Henry Lawson 78 lines
• 1805

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

  by Robert Graves 38 lines
• The Wreck of the Steamer 'Mohegan'

  Good people of high and low degree,
  I pray ye all to list to me,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 69 lines
• The Wreck of the 'Abercrombie Robinson'

  Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May
  That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with spirits light and gay,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 90 lines
• Sonnets on the Discovery of Botany Bay by Captain Cook

  The First Attempt to Reach the Shore
  Where is the painter who shall paint for you,

  by Henry Kendall 77 lines
• The Mountains of Mourne

  Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight
  With people here workin' by day and by night

  by Anonymous Irish 25 lines
• The Wreck of the Steamer 'Stella'

  'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899,
  Which will be remembered for a very long time;

  by William Topaz McGonagall 78 lines

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