120 War Poems
By War
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American Civil War

  Bivouac On A Mountain Side - Walt Whitman
Bivouac In The Snow - Margaret Junkin Preston
Shiloh - A Requiem - Herman Melville


Boer War 1899-1902

  Dauntless Dan - Maurice McGill
Drummer Hodge - Thomas Hardy
Ubique - Rudyard Kipling
Untitled - Sergeant 4486
What Time the Bugle Blew - M Nalder


World War One

  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


Spanish Civil War

  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

World War Two

  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


Vietnam War

  Green Beret - Ho Thein
He Was A Mate - Lachlan Irvine
Song of the Hammock - Tran Dang Khoa


Falklands War

  No heroes - David Morgan
We Shall Remember Them - Sheila Parry

Others

  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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