History poems

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A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diary Of An Old Soul - January

© George MacDonald

1.

LORD, what I once had done with youthful might,

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Under The Old Elm

© James Russell Lowell

Placid completeness, life without a fall
From faith or highest aims, truth's breachless wall, 
Surely if any fame can bear the touch,
His will say 'Here!' at the last trumpet's call,
The unexpressive man whose life expressed so much.

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Marmion: Canto VI. - The Battle

© Sir Walter Scott

I.

While great events were on the gale,

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Book Tenth {Residence in France continued]

© William Wordsworth

IT was a beautiful and silent day

That overspread the countenance of earth,

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Mediterranean Verses

© Robert Laurence Binyon

I
The desert sand at day's swift flight
Drank of the dew--cold vivid night
Where Nile flows as he flowed
When first men reaped and sowed

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Alfred. Book III.

© Henry James Pye

  Fix'd on the arid spot, whose scanty bounds
  On every side the deep morass surrounds,
  The monarch, and his martial friend, with care,
  'Gainst close surprise and bold attack prepare;
  Exert each art their safety to ensure,
  And every pass, with wary eye, secure.

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Song Of The Many

© Edgar Albert Guest

This is the song of the many

Who seldom are mentioned in praise,

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A Fable For Critics

© James Russell Lowell

  'Why, nothing of consequence, save this attack
On my friend there, behind, by some pitiful hack,
Who thinks every national author a poor one,
That isn't a copy of something that's foreign, 
And assaults the American Dick--'

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Unfinished History

© Archibald MacLeish

WE HAVE loved each other in this time twenty years

And with such love as few men have in them even for

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The Merchant Of Venice: A Legend Of Italy

© Richard Harris Barham

With a pack,
Like a sack
Of old clothes at his back,
And three hats on his head, Shylock came in a crack,
Saying, 'Rest you fair, Signior Antonio!- vat, pray,
Might your vorship be pleashed for to vant in ma vay!'

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To the Memory of my dear and ever honoured Father Thomas Dudley Esq; Who deceased, July 31. 1653. an

© Anne Bradstreet

By duty bound, and not by custome led

To celebrate the praises of the dead,

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Modern Athens

© Richard Monckton Milnes

If Fate, though jealous of the second birth
Of names in history raised to high degree,
Permits that Athens yet once more shall be,
Let her be placed as suits the thought and worth

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Don Juan: Canto The Ninth

© George Gordon Byron

Oh, Wellington! (or 'Villainton'--for Fame

Sounds the heroic syllables both ways;

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Amours De Voyage, Canto II

© Arthur Hugh Clough

P.S.
Mary has seen thus far.-I am really so angry, Louisa,-
Quite out of patience, my dearest! What can the man be intending?
I am quite tired; and Mary, who might bring him to in a moment,
Lets him go on as he likes, and neither will help nor dismiss him.

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The Ring And The Book - Chapter I - The Ring And The Book

© Robert Browning

DO you see this Ring?

  ’Tis Rome-work, made to match

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To The Royal Society

© Abraham Cowley

I.

Philosophy the great and only heir

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A Treatise On Poetry: IV Natura

© Czeslaw Milosz


The garden of Nature opens.
The grass at the threshold is green.
And an almond tree begins to bloom.

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Of Public Spirit In Regard To Public Works: An Epistle, To His Royal Highness Frederick Prince of Wa

© Richard Savage

Great Hope of Britain!-Here the Muse essays
A theme, which, to attempt alone, is praise.
Be Her's a zeal of Public Spirit known!
A princely zeal!-a spirit all your own!

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A Bride

© James Whitcomb Riley

"O I am weary!" she sighed, as her billowy

Hair she unloosed in a torrent of gold

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The Diverting History Of John Gilpin, Showing How He Went Farther Than He Intended, And Came Safe Ho

© William Cowper

John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown,
A train-band captain eke was he
Of famous London town.