Poems about History

• 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
• Frankie's Trade

  Old Horn to All Atlantic said:
        A-hay O! To me O!

  by Rudyard Kipling 56 lines
• The General Elliott

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

  by Robert Graves 38 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 Uplift

  When the drays are bogged and sinking, then it's no use sitting thinking,
    You must put the teams together and must double-ban

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 22 lines
• 'Possum' A Lay of New Chumland

  SO YER trav’lin’ for yer pleasure while yer writin’ for the press?
  An’ yer huntin’ arter “copy”?—well, I’ve heer’d o’ that. I guess

  by Henry Lawson 118 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 Seabolt's Volunteers'

  They towed the Seabolt down the stream,
      And through the harbour’s mouth;

  by Henry Lawson 53 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
• Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free)

  Die Gedanken sind frei
  My thoughts freely flower,

  by Anonymous European 34 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
• Castlebar

  Biddings good morrow to all our cares,
  Riding along with a joyful heart.

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 26 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
• 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 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
• Campin’ Round Coonamble

  Campin’ round Coonamble.
  Keepin’ up the strike,

  by A B 'Banjo' Paterson 61 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
• 'On the Summit of Mt. Clarence'

  On the summit of Mount Clarence rotting slowly in the air
  Stands a tall and naked flagstaff, relic of the Russian scare—

  by Henry Lawson 19 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
• 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 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 Oath of Eureka

  The workers of Kembla, those leaders of men,
  Those leaders of deed as in thought.

  by Bartlett Adamson 9 lines
• Lips Shut. Seen In Rome

  In Rome within the Sistine Chapel,
  Covered over with Christian signs,

  by Arthur Rimbaud 35 lines
• Brisbane Ladies

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

  by Anonymous Oceania 42 lines, 1 comment
• Amusing Trial, in Which a Yankee Lawyer Rendered a Just Verdict.

  A Slave sold at Auction.
  A time there was, when no one thought

  by Anonymous Americas 111 lines
• The Slave Auction

  The sale began—young girls were there,
    Defenseless in their wretchedness,

  by Frances Ellen Watkins 28 lines
• The Wreck of the Whaler 'Oscar'

  'Twas on the 1st of April, and in the year of Eighteen thirteen,
  That the whaler "Oscar" was wrecked not far from Aberdeen;

  by William Topaz McGonagall 93 lines
• Where The Early Settler Lingered

  Where the early settler lingered,
  Sometimes pitched his tent and stayed,

  by Nora Gwendolen Gardner 18 lines
• Great Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)

  Who were the builders of Great Zimbabwe?
  No man knows . . .

  by Cicely Fox Smith 54 lines

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