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