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xxiv It is unnecessary to emphasize the value, as collateral reading, of historical poems and plays. To the brief list which follows should be added the material in Katharine Lee Bates and Katharine Coman, English History told by English Poets.
 * Brooke, Rupert, The Soldier.
 * Browning, Elizabeth B. The Cry of the Children, and The Forced Recruit.
 * Browning, Robert. Pheidippides, Herve Riel, and An Incident of the French Camp.
 * Burns, Robert. The Battle of Bannockburn.
 * Byron (Lord). Song of Saul before His Last Battle, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Belshazzar's Feast, The Isles of Greece (Don Juan, canto iii, between stanzas

86-87), "The Eve of Waterloo" (Childe Harold, canto iii, stanzas 21-28), and Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte.
 * Campbell, Thomas. Hohenlinden, The Battle of the Baltic, Rule Britannia, and Ye Mariners of England.
 * Cowper, William. Loss of the "Royal George."
 * Domett, Alfred. A Christmas Hymn.
 * Dryden, John. Alexander's Feast.
 * Halleck, Fitz-Greene. Marco Bozzaris.
 * Hemans, Felicia. The Landing of the Pilgrims.
 * Kipling, Rudyard. Recessional, and The White Man's Burden.
 * Longfellow, H. W. The Skeleton in Armor, The Norman Baron, The Belfry of Bruges, Nuremberg, and The White Czar.
 * Lowell, J. R. Kossuth, and Villafrajica.
 * Macaulay, T. B. Lays of Ancient Rome, The Armada, The Battle of Ivry, and The Battle of Naseby.
 * McCeae, John. In Flanders Fields.
 * Markham, Edwin. The Mam with the Hoe.
 * Miller, Joaquin. Columbus.
 * Milton, John. Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, and To the Lord General Cromwell.
 * Morris, William. The Day is Coming.
 * Norton, Caroline E.S. The Soldier from Bingen.
 * Rossetti, D. G. The White Ship.
 * Schiller, Friedrich. The Maid of Orleans, William Tell, Maria Stuart, and Wallenstein.
 * Scott, (Sir) Walter. "Flodden Field" (Marmion, canto vi, stanzas 19-27,33-35).
 * Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus, Julius Ccesar, Antony and Cleopatra, King John, Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth, parts i and ii, Henry the Fifth, Henry the Sixth, parts i, ii, and iii, Richard the Third, Henry the Eighth, and The Merchant of Venice.
 * Taylor, Bayard. The Song in Camp.
 * Tennyson, Alfred. Ulysses, Boadicea, St. Telemachus, St. Simeon Stylites, Sir Galahad, "The Revenge": A Ballad of the Fleet, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, The Charge of the Light Brigade, and The Defense of Lucknow.
 * Thackeray, W. M. King Canute.
 * Wolfe, Charles. The Burial of Sir John Moore.