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. A Ballad of Footmen, by Amy Lowell

14. Ball's Bluff, by Herman Melville

15. The Barracks, by Jules Romains

16. The Battle Flag at Shenandoah, Joaquin Miller

17. The Battle of Cuzzola, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

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

19. The Battle of Naseby, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

20. The Battle of Otterburn, an anonymous poem

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

22. Buttons, by Carl Sandburg

23. By the Great Wall, by Li Bai

24. Cavalry Crossing a Ford, by Walt Whitman

25. The Centenarian's Story, by Walt Whitman

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

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

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

29. The Defence of Lucknow, by Alfred Tennyson

30. Dirge for Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman

31. The Dying Veteran, by Walt Whitman

32. Fight, by Percy MacKaye

33. For the Missing in Action, by John Balaban

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

35. Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

36. Iron, by Carl Sandburg

37. Jaws, by Carl Sandburg

38. Keenan's Charge, by George Parsons Lathrop

39. Killers, by Carl Sandburg

40. kosovan stories, by Ray Heinrich

41. The Last Redoubt, by Alfred Austin

42. Lipstick, by Maggie Butt

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

44. Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

45. Not to Keep, by Robert Frost

46. Old War-Dreams, by Walt Whitman

47. Patterns, by Amy Lowell

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

49. Prayer After World War, by Carl Sandburg

50. The Price of War, by Aeschylus

51. Ready to Kill, by Carl Sandburg

52. reconnaissance, by Ray Heinrich

53. Reconciliation, by Walt Whitman

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

55. A Returned Regiment, by Eliza Allen Starr

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

57. Rosny, by Robert Browning

58. The Runners of Shih Hao, by Du Fu

59. Sergeant Death, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

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

61. Sleep, by Arthur Rimbaud

62. Soldiers, by Maxwell Bodenheim

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

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

65. The Song of the Camp, by Bayard Taylor

66. A Song of War, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

67. That's War, by Kavita Jindal

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

69. Vacant Chairs, by Mary T. Lathrap

70. The Veteran, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

72. The Volunteer, by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler

73. War!, by S. Moore

74. War, by Stephen Crane

75. War, by Witter Bynner

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

77. War is Kind, by Stephen Crane

78. Wars, by Carl Sandburg

79. A War Wedding, by Mary Carolyn Davies

80. What They Are Watching, by David Ray

81. When War Came, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

82. The Wound-Dresser, by Walt Whitman

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