Get Your Premium Membership

History Old Poems

These History Old poems are examples of Old poems about History. These are the best examples of Old History poems written by international poets.


Premium Member An Old Year is Gone, So is Santa Claus
An old year is slowly winding down
Where every minute and second count
Don’t hold our breath, just count down
Gently and slowly. A new year, a new...

Read More
Categories: old, blessing, celebration, change, christmas,



Old Wood Stove
While in an antique shop, I came across a wood stove
The cast iron, covered in rust, had seen better times
I admired it as it stood...

Read More
Categories: old, childhood, family, growing up,

Premium Member Key
what, I wonder, did you unlock
winter songs of summer birds
in a dingy cell with clawed-at walls
in drawing rooms where princes died
and all the soldiers marching...

Read More
Categories: old, deep, history, metaphor, mystery,

The Old Covenant
The Old Testament
Is for the Physical Jews
Fighting life these views....

Read More
Categories: old, bible, history, humanity, identity,

Premium Member Old Goat Snagged Himself a Bride
Barnyard gossip was a buzz
Old goat had snagged himself a young bride
Farmer Jones wiped off chicken fuzz
And promptly ran back inside

Come see! He told his...

Read More
Categories: old, animal,



Premium Member Athelstan King of Albion
when Merlin 
knelte to Æthelstan
he bid'th wealthe
acrosse the lande
an' lo thy King
giveth his hande
presidin' o'er all Albion

from Alfred
in whose shadowe ran
emerg'd the court
of Æthelstan 
an'...

Read More
Categories: old, england, fun, history, language,

Premium Member A Snapshot of the Good Old Days
Nothing rivaled the lemonade in Georgia. 

Now, you could also find some damn good lemonade in the neighboring state of South Carolina. Virginians liked to...

Read More
Categories: old, america, history, mythology,

The Old Lock and Canal
There’s an old canal close by where I live,
and an empty lock made of stones massive,
traipsing around there, the place can amaze
just seeing how the...

Read More
Categories: old, america, appreciation, endurance, history,

Premium Member Trustworthy Cane
Trustworthy cane, beside me rests so near,
A steadfast friend, in every weather clear.
Through rain or shine, it lights my way,
A loyal guide, night and day.

In...

Read More
© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: old, age,

The Fort, In Days of Old
The paddlewheel unloads people,
tourists who were out on a cruise,
above the docks and the gift shops
the brown palisades come in view.

(The canoes draw up on...

Read More
Categories: old, history, imagery, memory, people,

The Tired Old Man
A tired old man sat quietly on his chair,
Seems he wasn’t happy with the way things were beginning to appear.
Unrest, turmoil, conspiracy, collusion, treason, and...

Read More
Categories: old, history, political,

The Old Ones
Look at those rocky hills,
how savage they are!
The old ones remain,
their tribal names
still imprinted upon the land.

We walk them
scrabble over them.
The human heart bounds up
pounding.
We...

Read More
Categories: old, poetry,

Premium Member Pencils In September
I smell like pencils in September.
After they’ve been brought to that…to the machine hanging on the closet wall where our coats, our boots, our bags,...

Read More
Categories: old, 3rd grade, america, betrayal,

Premium Member Old Belfast
OLD BELFAST

No hooters belch and screech in the mornings anymore
Industry has disappeared from the City’s working core
The Factories have all closed their gates a long,...

Read More
Categories: old, city, depression, history,

The Old Realm
In greener days, when all was harsh and wild,
our stories were sparse and our facts were few.
So much to grow - ev'ry zeitgeist a child...

Read More
Categories: old, age, culture, history, literature,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things