Poems "about" Ancient History

[chanda7]

I would like to put together a list of famous poems (or at least poems written by famous poets) about ancient history subjects to round out our literature studies. This is what I have so far:

 

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

 

Ozymandias by Percy Shelley

 

The Nile by Leigh Hunt

 

The Sphinx by Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Very like a Whale by Ogden Nash

 

Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron

 

Does anyone have others to add? I know there are several regarding Greek/Roman mythology that I haven't fished out yet, and they are welcome additions to the list other than the more historical subjects.

 

 

[Twigs]

I think this counts: Arethusa - Shelley

 

The 1st few lines are quoted in

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[Sebastian (a lady)]

Sailing to Byzantium  Yeats

 

Kubla Khan Cooleridge

 

 

[Sebastian (a lady)]

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer  Keats

 

 

[Sebastian (a lady)]

Cargoes by Masefield

 

This is one of my favorites

[regentrude]

Friedrich Schiller:

The Ring of Polycrates (Herodotus tells the story of Polycrates in his Histories)

The Cranes of Ibycus

The Gods of Greece

[ElizaG]

Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, which includes "Horatius at the Bridge"

 

The Poems of Places anthology series also has many poems about ancient history, listed under Greece, Italy (Rome), Africa (Egypt), and other places.   

[chanda7]

Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions, and ElizaG, that anthology is a treasure trove!

[stephinsocal]

How about bits from plays? I make my kids memorize Mark Antony's funeral oration from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

[raptor_dad]

Ulysses by Tennyson 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45392

[Targhee]

Horatius at the Bridge by lord Macauley