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. The Barracks, by Jules Romains

15. The Battle Flag at Shenandoah, Joaquin Miller

16. The Battle of Cuzzola, by Sarah Knowles Bolton

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

18. The Battle of Naseby, by Thomas Babington Macaulay

19. The Battle of Otterburn, an anonymous poem

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

21. Buttons, by Carl Sandburg

22. By the Great Wall, by Li Bai

23. Cavalry Crossing a Ford, by Walt Whitman

24. The Centenarian's Story, by Walt Whitman

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

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

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

28. The Defence of Lucknow, by Alfred Tennyson

29. Dirge for Two Veterans, by Walt Whitman

30. The Dying Veteran, by Walt Whitman

31. Fight, by Percy MacKaye

32. For the Missing in Action, by John Balaban

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

34. Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

35. Iron, by Carl Sandburg

36. Jaws, by Carl Sandburg

37. Keenan's Charge, by George Parsons Lathrop

38. Killers, by Carl Sandburg

39. kosovan stories, by Ray Heinrich

40. The Last Redoubt, by Alfred Austin

41. Lipstick, by Maggie Butt

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

43. Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

44. Not to Keep, by Robert Frost

45. Old War-Dreams, by Walt Whitman

46. Patterns, by Amy Lowell

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

48. Prayer After World War, by Carl Sandburg

49. The Price of War, by Aeschylus

50. Ready to Kill, by Carl Sandburg

51. reconnaissance, by Ray Heinrich

52. Reconciliation, by Walt Whitman

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

54. A Returned Regiment, by Eliza Allen Starr

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

56. Rosny, by Robert Browning

57. The Runners of Shih Hao, by Du Fu

58. Sergeant Death, by Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

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

60. Sleep, by Arthur Rimbaud

61. Soldiers, by Maxwell Bodenheim

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

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

64. The Song of the Camp, by Bayard Taylor

65. A Song of War, by Antarah ibn Shaddad

66. That's War, by Kavita Jindal

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

68. Vacant Chairs, by Mary T. Lathrap

69. The Veteran, by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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

71. The Volunteer, by Elbridge Jefferson Cutler

72. War!, by S. Moore

73. War, by Stephen Crane

74. War, by Witter Bynner

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

76. War is Kind, by Stephen Crane

77. Wars, by Carl Sandburg

78. A War Wedding, by Mary Carolyn Davies

79. What They Are Watching, by David Ray

80. When War Came, by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

81. The Wound-Dresser, by Walt Whitman

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