Best History Poems
Below are the all-time best History poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of history poems written by PoetrySoup members
Black Diamond Night Black Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
Forgotten Heroes of the SommeOver the top lads, for old Blighty! Hold the colours high!
Say a little prayer for me, for this summer day we die.
My brothers from the...
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Categories:
brother, death, history, life,
Form:
Rhyme
American Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling WolfAmerican Indian, Nightshades, Moonshadows And Howling Wolf
Thirsty for red moon, its sacred beams and eternal pull
howling-out to speak to this dark and blind world, without...
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Categories:
art, conflict, death, history,
Form:
Verse
A Crow's Command
I be a common salty once, no captain's bars, did bear,
Yet blessed was I to venture where few a skipper dared.
From steadfast...
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Categories:
adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
It was Beautiful Yesterday
Bha e brèagha an-de
(It was Beautiful Yesterday)
There was a sailing vessel
With many a sail proudly lapping in the wind
A flag of the Celtic honor, in...
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Categories:
history, angel, angst, bereavement, feelings,
Form:
Verse
Categories:
history, love, peace,
Form:
Concrete
White CaneHe walked down Goverment Road West
With a white cane, in shaking hand
Wearing Stevie wonder glasses
People called him the pop bottle man
With a white cane, in...
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Categories:
community, history, memory,
Form:
Pantoum
The Names of Jesus
_____________
(_____GOD_____)
(_____LORD_____)
(_____ JESUS _____)
(_______RABBI______)
(_______TRUTH_______)
(________SAVIOR________)
(________ MESSIAH________)
________(_______ HOLY SPIRIT_______)_______
___(_______________ KING OF KINGS_______________)___
(________________ EVERLASTING FATHER________________ )
(__________________ THE PRINCE OF PEACE___________________)
(__________________GOOD SHEPHERD__________________)
(_______________ LION OF JUDAH_______________)
(________ LORD OF ALL________)
(______MIGHTY ONE______)
(_______HOLY ONE_______)
(______...
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Categories:
faith, history, inspirational
Form:
Concrete
SoldThere is no difference,
the saints whisper and every enemy and ally
wake to forever’s difference,
that neither knee nor tongue will deny.
Doubt bit into Innocence and sold
the...
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Categories:
history, bible, christian, corruption, god,
Form:
Didactic
The Viking - repostGlory and honour oh man of the North
Valhalla waits to welcome thee
Spend a night of passion with thy Lady
For tomorrow death or conquest await
Come into...
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Categories:
history, death, dream, fantasy, hero,
Form:
Free verse
We the PeopleWe the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty
We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
Pagans and puritans, the...
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Categories:
discrimination, freedom, history, society,
Form:
Political Verse
Dear Gustav
Oh ...
Gustav, how you pique the senses
Captured passion's plural tenses
Lovers twined in percale folds
...
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Categories:
art, beauty, history, humanity,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Specters of SlavesNature trail extends for miles
Surrounded by wetlands and lakes
Each step I take brings me closer
To an old plantation, where I climb the stiles
For it was...
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Categories:
history,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rest is SilenceI left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...
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Categories:
history, remembrance day,
Form:
Free verse
The ProphetThe Prophet
I read the words of a poet
From the days of tomorrow
His verse flowed backwards in time
And rhyme
I, a fair maiden, doomed to a...
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Categories:
history, allah, beauty, eve, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
Memories Of Bygone DaysMemories Of Bygone Days
O' yes, how well I remember her still
giant black oak atop big wooded hill
Those treasured days now long flown by
our free...
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Categories:
history, emotions, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Nothing to write aboutI would like to talk about "nothing"
It is a most peculiar word
I have heard it used so often
The way it's used is often absurd...
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Categories:
history, philosophy, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Tartan and PipesTradition and dress
A nations finesse
Symbolic in style
By a country mile
The drone of the pipes
Tartan clad
Bonnie on the girls
Proud on the lads
Highland dancers
In kilted...
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Categories:
history, inspirational, passion, places
Form:
Rhyme
Dark Roses
Dark red was the bouquet in white gloved hands
foreshadowing the scarlet stains of dread.
If yellow be the rose of Texas land
why not give her the...
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Categories:
history, rose, violence,
Form:
Sonnet
At the Golden Dawn of UnderstandingIt was late in gorgeous springtime, and I was teaching my class,
A lesson in African history, and the events of time's hourglass.
My fourth graders were...
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Categories:
africa, christian, education, history,
Form:
Couplet
The Seamstress of TimeI have a special story I wish to share
About a seamstress beautiful and fair
She would fade away turning into smoke
Of her amazing beauty, no man...
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Categories:
dedication, devotion, faith, history,
Form:
Couplet
THE VAMPIREFor I am death, the personification of pure evil,
The grand godfather, of legions of unnumbered generations.
Behold thy disciples, baptized beneath my crimson waters,
Of blood.
Then reanimated...
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Categories:
history, dark, evil, fantasy, gothic,
Form:
Free verse
The Maid of OrleansReflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace...
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Categories:
history, christian, conflict, courage, england,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
allegory, history, political,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Bastille 2016Bastille
Many years ago
They stormed the Bastille
Two hundred and one lost their lives
The tennis court oath however survived
Jacques had his heart with the masses
Necker could not...
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Categories:
history, anniversary, death, dedication, evil,
Form:
Free verse