Matthías Jochumsson wrote a commemorative poem titled "Eggert Ólafsson" in his honour.

On the latter's death in that year Ben Brierley wrote a commemorative poem wondering where the "Missing Link" between chimpanzees and men was.

On the back of the photograph, as with the rowing club, someone has written a commemorative poem.

Mozart buried the creature in the back yard and wrote a commemorative poem for the occasion.

He had his break-through with a melodious and expressive commemorative poem at the death of King Frederick V (1766).

"The Voice of the North" (commemorative poem about the first visit of Queen Victoria to Scotland in 1842)

Another genre is the epigram that he mastered, especially his short, witty, impudent, precise and also self-ironic commemorative poems.

Gary Owens notes six commemorative poems and ballads, four in English and two in Irish, published in the following years.

When Pauwels Jr. like his father died at a relatively young age, Cornelis de Bie wrote a commemorative poem about him.

Quote from a commemorative poem from Pjaltetider, Borgen (1997):