120 War Poems
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American Civil War
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Bivouac On A Mountain Side - Walt Whitman Bivouac In The Snow - Margaret Junkin Preston Shiloh - A Requiem - Herman Melville
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Boer War 1899-1902
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Dauntless Dan - Maurice McGill Drummer Hodge - Thomas Hardy Ubique - Rudyard Kipling Untitled - Sergeant 4486 What Time the Bugle Blew - M Nalder
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World War One
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1914 (Peace Safety The Dead The Dead The Solider) - Rupert Brooke A Dead Boche - Robert Graves A Letter From the Front - Henry Newbolt All the Hills and Vales Along - Charles Sorley Anthem For Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen A Private - Edward Thomas Argonne Forest at midnight - German War Poet As the Team's Head-Brass - Edward Thomas Attack - Siegfried Sassoon A Working Party - Siegfried Sassoon Back - Wilfred Wilson Gibson Before Action - WN Hodgson Between the Lines - Wilfred Wilson Gibson Break of Day in the Trenches - Isaac Rosenberg Champagne 1914-15 - Alan Seeger Corporal Stare - Robert Graves Counter-Attack - Siegfried Sassoon Dead Man's Dump - Isaac Rosenberg Dulce Et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries - AE Housman Escape - Robert Graves Exposure - Wilfred Owen For All We Have and Are - Rudyard Kipling For the Fallen - Laurence Binyon Glory of Women - Siegfried Sassoon God - Isaac Rosenberg Gone, Gone Again - Edward Thomas Greater Love - Wilfred Owen How To Die - Siegfried Sassoon In Flanders Fields - John McCrae In Memoriam - Ewart Alan Mackintosh Insensibility - Wilfred Owen In The Pink - Siegfried Sassoon Into Battle - Julian Grenfell It's a Queer Time - Robert Graves Louse Hunting - Isaac Rosenberg MCMXIV - Philip Larkin No Man's Land - James H. Knight-Adkin Not to Keep - Robert Frost Rendezvous - Alan Seeger Resurrection - Hermann Hagedorn Retreat - Wilfred Wilson Gibson Returning, We Hear The Larks - Isaac Rosenberg Song of Winter Weather - Robert W. Service Spring Offensive - Wilfred Owen Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen Suicide in the Trenches - Siegfried Sassoon The Anxious Dead - John McCrae The Conscript - Wilfred Wilson Gibson The Cricketers of Flanders - James Norman Hall The Dead-Beat - Wilfred Owen The Dragon and the Undying - Siegfried Sassoon The Effect - Siegfried Sassoon The General - Siegfried Sassoon The Happy Warrior - Herbert Read The Man He Killed - Thomas Hardy The Messages - Wilfred Wilson Gibson The Parable of the Old Man and the Young - Wilfred Owen The Redeemer - Siegfried Sassoon The Silent One - Ivor Gurney The Wind on the Downs - Marian Allen To a Conscript of 1940 Sir Herbert Read To England - A Note - Ivor Gurney To Germany - Charles Sorley To His Love - Ivor Gurney Trench Poets - Edgell Rickwood Two Fusiliers - Robert Graves War - Woodbine Willy We Shall Keep the Faith - Moina Michael When I'm Killed - Robert Graves When You see Millions of the Mouthless Dead - Charles Sorley Wirers - Siegfried Sassoon
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Spanish Civil War
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Bombing Casualties: Spain - Herbert Read Instructions From England - Valentine Ackland Self-Destroyers - Miles Tomalin (Spanish Civil war) A Song for the Spanish Anarchists - Herbert Read |
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World War Two
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Actors Waiting In The Wings Of Europe - Keith Douglas All Day It Has Rained - Alun Lewis A Man of Few Words - Melville Hardiment A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London - Dylan Thomas Aristocrats - Keith Douglas At A War Grave - John Jarmain Beach Burial - Kenneth Slessor Beyond The Wire - John Cromer Braun Chindit - KN Batley Combat Report - John Pudney Conscript - FA Horn Desert Flowers - Keith Douglas Doodlebugs - Grace Griffiths German Prisoners of War - WG Holloway How To Kill - Keith Douglas Landscape: Western Desert - John Pudney Naming of Parts - Henry Reed Raiders' Dawn - Alun Lewis Simplify Me When I'm Dead - Keith Douglas Sniper - Bernard Gutteridge Vergissmeinnicht ('Forget-me-not') - Keith Douglas
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Vietnam War
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Green Beret - Ho Thein He Was A Mate - Lachlan Irvine Song of the Hammock - Tran Dang Khoa
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Falklands War
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No heroes - David Morgan We Shall Remember Them - Sheila Parry |
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Others
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My Son - Ada Tyrrell Mud - Richard Church Shot? So Quick, So Clean An Ending? - AE Housman The Lads In Their Hundreds - A. E. Housman What The Bullet Sang - Bret Harte War Song of the Saracens - James Elroy Flecker
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