War Poems

  poems about war

1. 1915: The Trenches, by Conrad Aiken

2. 1942, by Katherine Gallagher

3. After Our War, by John Balaban

4. After Visiting the Field of Waterloo, by William Wordsworth

5. Agincourt, by Michael Drayton

6. Among the Red Guns, by Carl Sandburg

7. And They Obey, by Carl Sandburg

8. Ares the Destroyer, by Sophocles

9. Arnold at Stillwater, by Thomas Dunn English

10. The Artilleryman's Vision, by Walt Whitman

11. Ashes of Soldiers, by Walt Whitman

12. A Ballad of Footmen, by Amy Lowell

13. The Barracks, by Jules Romains

14. The Battle Flag at Shenandoah, Joaquin Miller

15. The Battle of Naseby, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

16. The Battle of Otterburn, an anonymous poem

17. A Bomb-Blast Came out of the Dark, by Michael Cope

18. Buttons, by Carl Sandburg

19. By the Great Wall, by Li Bai

20. Cavalry Crossing a Ford, by Walt Whitman

21. The Centenarian's Story, by Walt Whitman

22. The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Tennyson

23. The Chariots Go Forth to War, by Du Fu

24. Come Up from the Fields Father, by Walt Whitman

25. The Defence of Lucknow, by Alfred Tennyson

26. Dirge for Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman

27. The Dying Veteran, by Walt Whitman

28. Fight, by Percy MacKaye

29. For the Missing in Action, by John Balaban

30. From the Deck of a Transport, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

31. Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

32. Iron, by Carl Sandburg

33. Jaws, by Carl Sandburg

34. Keenan's Charge, by George Parsons Lathrop

35. Killers, by Carl Sandburg

36. kosovan stories, by Ray Heinrich

37. The Last Redoubt, by Alfred Austin

38. Lipstick, by Maggie Butt

39. A March in the Ranks Hard Prest, and the Road Unknown, by Walt Whitman

40. Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

41. Not to Keep, by Robert Frost

42. Old War-Dreams, by Walt Whitman

43. Patterns, by Amy Lowell

44. Paul Revere's Ride, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

45. Prayer After World War, by Carl Sandburg

46. The Price of War, by Aeschylus

47. Ready to Kill, by Carl Sandburg

48. reconnaissance, by Ray Heinrich

49. Reconciliation, by Walt Whitman

50. The Reed-Nets of Suweira, by Michael Cope

51. A Returned Regiment, by Eliza Allen Starr

52. The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet, by Alfred Tennyson

53. Rosny, by Robert Browning

54. The Runners of Shih Hao, by Du Fu

55. Sergeant Death, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

56. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, by Walt Whitman

57. Sleep, by Arthur Rimbaud

58. Soldiers, by Maxwell Bodenheim

59. The Song of the Camp, by Bayard Taylor

60. A Song of War, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

61. That's War, by Kavita Jindal

62. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars, by Richard Lovelace

63. Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night, by Walt Whitman

64. The Volunteer, by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler

65. Wars, by Carl Sandburg

66. A War Wedding, by Mary Carolyn Davies

67. What They Are Watching, by David Ray

68. When War Came, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

69. The Wound-Dresser, by Walt Whitman

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