Drake's Drum has been the title and subject of poems by Sir Henry NewboltLouis Untermeyer (ed). Modern British Poetry, Bartleby.com Drake’s Drum and the Victorian poet Norah M. Holland.Drake’s Drum, the page on the website of The Celebration of Women Writers cites as a reference Spun-Yarn And Spindrift. by Norah M. Holland. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1918, p. 88. Newbolt's poem was set to music by Charles Villiers Stanford as part of his Songs of the Sea, op.91 suite2. It was popularised by Peter Dawson. The setting is in the key of D minor, with a dramatic resolution to D major.
