Historical Poems
(Notes by
Peter Keating)
[October 19 2007]
The poems are listed in alphabetical order of first line; click
here
for a listing by title.
First line
Title
Notes
At Runnymede, at Runnymede
The Reeds of Runnymede
At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen
The Dawn Wind
England's on the anvil - hear the hammers ring
The Anvil (The Making of England)
Gay go up and gay go down
The Bells abd Queen Victoria
If wars were won by feasting
The Dutch in the Medway
In the days of lace-ruffles, perukes and brocade
'Brown Bess'
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
Danegeld
Legate, I had the news last night - my cohort ordered home
The Roman Centurion.s Song
'My son,' said the Norman Baron, 'I am dying, and you will be heir
Norman and Saxon
Naked and grey the Cotswolds stand
Edgehill Fight (The Civil Wars)
'Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers
Big Steamers
Once on a time was a King anxious to understand
The King's Job
Our England is a garden that is full of stately views
The Glory of the Garden
South and far south below the Line
With Drake in the Tropics
The boats of Newhaven and Folkestone and Dover
The French Wars
The child of Mary Queen of Scots
King James I
There are four good legs to my Father's Chair
My Father's Chair
'Twas not while England's sword unsheathed
The American Rebellion
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew
The River's Tale
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine
The Secret of the Machines
When Horse and Rider each can trust the other every-where
'Together'
When Rome was rotten-ripe to her fall
The Pirates in England