Historical Poems that Students Love
. . . and Other Favorite Verses
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Elementary | |
| Old Ironsides | by Oliver Wendel Holmes |
| The Marines Hymn | —Anonymous |
| Danegeld | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Charge of the Light Brigade | by Alfred Tennyson |
| The Twins | by Henry Sambrooke Leigh |
| The Story of Augustus | by Heinrich Hoffman |
| Tyger | by William Blake |
| Hildebrand | by Hilaire Belloc |
| Algernon | by Hilaire Belloc |
| B for Bear | by Hilaire Belloc |
| Ozymandias | by Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Young and Old | by Charles Kingsley |
Intermediate | |
| Jim | by Hilaire Belloc |
| Abul Abduldul Amir | by Percy French |
| Oonts | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Burial of Sir John Moore | by Charles Wolfe |
| The Cremation of Sam McGee | by Robert Service |
| Derelict | by Ewing Allison |
| Clancy Lowered the Boom | |
| Fuzzy Wuzzy | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Gettysburg Address | by Abraham Lincoln |
| All the World's a Stage | by Shakespeare |
| Advice of Polonius to Laertes | by Shakespeare |
| To-morrow and To-morrow | by Shakespeare |
| If— | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Three Witches | by Shakespeare |
| Ingratitude | by Shakespeare |
| O Captain! My Captain! | by Walt Whitman |
| Jabberwocky | by Lewis Carroll |
| The Siege of Belgrade | by A. A. Watts |
| The Pines | by Robert Service |
| Invictus | by William Henley |
Advanced | |
| Gunga Din | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Walrus and the Carpenter | by Lewis Carroll |
| The Spell of the Yukon | by Robert Service |
| Speech before the Battle of Agincourt | by Shakespeare |
| Mark Antony's Eulogy | by Shakespeare |
| Hamlet's Soliloquey | by Shakespeare |
| Casey at Bat | by Ernest Lawrence Thayer |
| Ballad of the East and West | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Gods of the Copybook Headings | by Rudyard Kipling |
| The Song of the Strange Ascetic | by G. K. Chesterton |
| Lepanto | by G. K. Chesterton |
| The Young British Soldier | by Rudyard Kipling |