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. The Antiquary's Armory, by Isaac McLellan

9. Ares the Destroyer, by Sophocles

10. Arnold at Stillwater, by Thomas Dunn English

11. The Artilleryman's Vision, by Walt Whitman

12. Ashes of Soldiers, by Walt Whitman

13. Attack, by Siegfried Sassoon

14. A Ballad of Footmen, by Amy Lowell

15. Ball's Bluff, by Herman Melville

16. The Barracks, by Jules Romains

17. The Battle Flag at Shenandoah, Joaquin Miller

18. The Battle of Cuzzola, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

19. The Battle of Gaines' Hill, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

20. The Battle of Naseby, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

21. The Battle of Otterburn, an anonymous poem

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

23. Buttons, by Carl Sandburg

24. By the Great Wall, by Li Bai

25. Cavalry Crossing a Ford, by Walt Whitman

26. The Centenarian's Story, by Walt Whitman

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

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

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

30. The Defence of Lucknow, by Alfred Tennyson

31. Dirge for Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman

32. The Dying Veteran, by Walt Whitman

33. Enlistment, by Sean Barnett

34. The Family Has Been Informed, by Roger Elkin

35. Fight, by Percy MacKaye

36. The Flag, by Edith Matilda Thomas

37. For the Missing in Action, by John Balaban

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

39. Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

40. Iron, by Carl Sandburg

41. Jaws, by Carl Sandburg

42. Keenan's Charge, by George Parsons Lathrop

43. Killers, by Carl Sandburg

44. kosovan stories, by Ray Heinrich

45. The Last Redoubt, by Alfred Austin

46. Lipstick, by Maggie Butt

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

48. Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

49. Not to Keep, by Robert Frost

50. Occupation, by Roger Elkin

51. Oh, Stay at Home, My Lad, and Plough, by A. E. Housman

52. Old War-Dreams, by Walt Whitman

53. One Woman's Voice Against War, by Edith Matilda Thomas

54. On the Eve of War, by Edith Matilda Thomas

55. Paratrooper, by Sean Barnett

56. Patterns, by Amy Lowell

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

58. Prayer After World War, by Carl Sandburg

59. The Price of War, by Aeschylus

60. Ready to Kill, by Carl Sandburg

61. reconnaissance, by Ray Heinrich

62. Reconciliation, by Walt Whitman

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

64. The Return, 1918, by Carolyn Crosby Wilson

65. A Returned Regiment, by Eliza Allen Starr

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

67. Rosny, by Robert Browning

68. The Runners of Shih Hao, by Du Fu

69. Sergeant Death, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

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

71. Sleep, by Arthur Rimbaud

72. Soldiers, by Maxwell Bodenheim

73. The Soldier's Funeral, by Anne S. Bushby

74. The Soldier's Mother, by Amanda Theodocia Jones

75. A Soldier's Thoughts: Before Breakfast, by Sean Barnett

76. Songbooks of the War, by Siegfried Sassoon

77. The Song of the Camp, by Bayard Taylor

78. A Song of War, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

79. Suicide in the Trenches, by Siegfried Sassoon

80. Survivors, by Siegfried Sassoon

81. That's War, by Kavita Jindal

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

83. Vacant Chairs, by Mary T. Lathrap

84. The Veteran, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

86. The Volunteer, by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler

87. War, by Arthur Guiterman

88. War, by George Sterling

89. War!, by S. Moore

90. War, by Stephen Crane

91. War, by Witter Bynner

92. The War Fiend's Mission, by Anne S. Bushby

93. War Hero, by Sean Barnett

94. War is Kind, by Stephen Crane

95. Wars, by Carl Sandburg

96. A War Wedding, by Mary Carolyn Davies

97. What They Are Watching, by David Ray

98. When War Came, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

99. The Wound-Dresser, by Walt Whitman

100. Xerxes at the Hellespont, by Richard Chenevix Trench

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