Poems about History

• 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
• Captain Teach alias Black Beard

  Edward Teach was a native of Bristol, and sailed from that port
  On board a privateer, in search of sport,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 59 lines
• The Lesser Craftsman

  Today I bought a warrior’s head
  Of carved and polished ebony,

  by Stella Wood 23 lines
• The Wreck of the Steamer 'Storm Queen'

  Ye landsmen, all pray list to me,
  While I relate a terrible tale of the sea,

  by William Topaz McGonagall 63 lines
• Eureka poem

  As I lay sleeping
  on Bakery Hill

  by Anonymous Oceania 28 lines
• They Built Ships

  Nigh the mouldering staithe
  Where the lads came to bathe,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 43 lines
• Jesse James

  Jesse James was a lad who killed many a man.
  He robbed the Glendale train.

  by Anonymous Americas 43 lines
• The Caves

  This is the cave of which I spoke,
  These are the blackened stones, and these

  by Michael Roberts 28 lines
• Carillon

  (The War Memorial of the University of Sydney)
  Death is an ocean, an uncharted deep.

  by Robert Steel Byrnes 15 lines
• Sutherland’s Grave

  ALL NIGHT long the sea out yonder—all night long the wailful sea,
  Vext of winds and many thunders, seeketh rest unceasingly!

  by Henry Kendall 26 lines
• They Made Sails

  In the old raftered loft
  Where the winds blow

  by Cicely Fox Smith 72 lines
• The ‘Sirius’ Anchor

  You lie at peace within a city square,
  Who sailed wide seas with Phillip to our shoe;

  by Robert Steel Byrnes 14 lines
• A Complete Account of the Various Colonizations of Ireland as Delivered by the Sage Fintan

  SHOULD any enquire about Eirinn,
  It is I who can tell him the truth,

  by Anonymous Irish 53 lines
• One of the Has-beens

  I’m one of the has-beens, a shearer I mean;
  I once was a ringer and used to shear clean;

  by Anonymous Oceania 17 lines
• Ellen Vale

  Have you never seen sweet Ellen Vale,
  Or roamed the spacious park?

  by Edwin A Underhill 63 lines
• The Ancient Banner

  In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,
  The bosom of his Father, and assumed

  by Anonymous Americas 643 lines
• [‘Cribs to be Cracked”]

  “Cribs to be cracked!
  There are cribs to be cracked;

  by Henry Lawson 11 lines
• The King (II)

  And now a son has come again
  To keep the peace or strike the blow,

  by Henry Lawson 25 lines
• Ship Models 1. Royal Yacht (Restoration Period)

  SAMUEL PEPYS, as all men know,
  Loved ladies and ships in the long ago;

  by Cicely Fox Smith 51 lines
• Little Guinever

  “When Queen Guinever of Britain was a little wench.”
  Love’s Labour’s Lost

  by Annie Adams Fields 27 lines
• For A Canberra Tablet

  Once on this historic site
    Wild men of a dusky shade,

  by C J Dennis 9 lines
• From: Black Thursday

  Yes, I remember, 'Twas in February,
  The sun for months had drunk and drunk from earth

  by Mitchell Kilgour Beveridge 115 lines
• 'The Defence Of Rorke's Drift': A Reverie In The Art Gallery

  “The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise.”
  HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,

  by Emily Mary Barton 103 lines

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