The poems are listed in historical order, as they appear in A History of England by C R L Fletcher.
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| Title | First line | Notes |
| The River’s Tale | Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew |  |
| The Roman Centurion’s Song | Legate, I had the news last night – my cohort ordered home | |
| The Pirates in England | When Rome was rotten-ripe to her fall | |
| Danegeld | It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation | |
| The Anvil (The Making of England) | England’s on the anvil – hear the hammers ring | |
| Norman and Saxon | My son,’ said the Norman Baron, ‘I am dying, and you will be heir | |
| The Reeds of Runnymede | At Runnymede, at Runnymede | |
| My Father’s Chair | There are four good legs to my Father’s Chair | |
| The Dawn Wind | At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen | |
| The King’s Job | Once on a time was a King anxious to understand | |
| With Drake in the Tropics | South and far south below the Line | |
| ‘Together’ | When Horse and Rider each can trust the other every-where | |
| King James I | The child of Mary Queen of Scots | |
| Edgehill Fight (The Civil Wars) | Naked and grey the Cotswolds stand | |
| The Dutch in the Medway | If wars were won by feasting | |
| ‘Brown Bess’ | In the days of lace-ruffles, perukes and brocade | |
| The American Rebellion | Twas not while England’s sword unsheathed | |
| The French Wars | The boats of Newhaven and Folkestone and Dover | |
| The Bells and Queen Victoria | Gay go up and gay go down | |
| The Secret of the Machines | We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine | |
| Big Steamers | Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers | |
| The Glory of the Garden | Our England is a garden that is full of stately views | |