The Bible : from the Book of Exodus --
From The Second Book of Samuel --
Homer (c.900 BC) : from The Iliad --
Simonides (c.556-c.468 BC) : Thermopylae --
Anonymous (4th century BC) : Hymn to The Fallen --
Virgil (70-19 BC) : from The Aeneid --
Horace (65-8BC) : from The Odes --
Aneirin (6th century) : from The Gododdin --
Rihaku (8th century) : Lament of the Frontier Guard --
Anonymous (8th century) : The Finnesburh Fragment --
Anonymous (10th century) : The Battle of Brunanburh --
Anonymous (11th century) : The Battle of Maldon --
Anonymous (12th century) : from The Song of Roland --
Anonymous (12th century) : The Lament of Maev Leith-Dherg --
Miroslav Holub (1923-1988) : The Fly --
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) : from The Knight's Tale --
Michael Drayton (1563-1631) : To the Cambro-Britons, and their harp, his Ballad of Agincourt --
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) : from Astrophel, A Pastoral Elegie Upon the Death of the Most Noble and Valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney --
Samuel Daniel (1562-1619) : from The Civil Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and York --
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) : 'Norfolk sprang thee, Lambeth holds thee dead' --
George Gascoigne (?1525-1577) : from The Fruits of War --
George Peele (?1558-1596) : Farewell to Arms --
John Donne (1572-1631) : A Burnt Ship --
Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) : The Soldier Going to the Field --
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) : To Lucasta, Going to the Wars --
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) : An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland --
John Milton (1608-1674) : On the Late Massacre in Piedmont ; from Paradise Lost --
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706) : Song : Written at Sea in the First Dutch War, the night before an Engagement --
John Dryden (1631-1700) : from Annus Mirabilis --
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) : from The Spanish Descent --
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) : from The Campaign : A Poem to His Grace the Duke of Marlborough --
Robert Southey (1774-1843) : The Battle of Blenheim --
James Thomson (1700-1748) : Rule, Britania! Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) : from The Vanity of Human Wishes.
John Scott of Amwell (1730-1783) : The Drum --
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) : Ye Mariners of England ; Hohenlinden --
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1850) : Old Man Travelling ; 'It is not to be thought of that the flood' ; To the Men of Kent ; November, 1806 --
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) : from The Revolt of Islam --
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823) : The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna --
Joel Barlow (1754-1812) : Advice to a Raven in Russia --
Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) : The Year 1812 --
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) : Russia 1812 --
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803-1873) : At Vshchizh --
Robert Browning (1812-1889) : Incident of the French Camp --
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : from The Dynasts --
George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron (1788-1824) : The Destruction of Sennacherib ; from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ; from Don Juan ; On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year --
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) : from Horatius --
William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) : from Edinburgh after Flodden --
Matthew Arnold (1822-888) : from Sohrab and Rustum --
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) : The Revenge ; The Charge of the Light Brigade ; from Maud --
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) : The Due of the Dead --
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) : Concord Hymn --
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) : Beat! Beat! Drums! ; Come up from the Fields Father ; Virgil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night ; The Wound-Dresser ; Reconciliation --
Herman Melville (1819-1891) : The Portent ; Ball's Bluff ; Shiloh ; The College Colonel --
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) : 'My Portion is Defeat--today--' ; 'My Triumph lasted till the Drums' --
Stephen Crane (1871-1900) : 'Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind' --
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) : from Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration --
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) : The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Allen Tate (1889-1979) : Ode to the Confederate Dead --
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) : Last evening --
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) : from Eighteen-Seventy --
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Arithmetic on the Frontier ; Tommy --
Sir Henry Newbolt (1862-1938) : He Fell among Thieves ; Vitaï Lampada --
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Embarcation ; The Colonel's Soliloquy ; A Christmas Ghost-Story ; Drummer Hodge ; A Wife in London ; The Man He Killed --
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : 'On the idle hill of summer' : 'Soldier from the wars returning' ; Grenadier ; Lancer ; Astronomy --
T.W.H. Crosland (1865-1924) : Slain --
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) : War --
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Bridge-Guard in the Karroo : The Dykes --
Herbert Asquith (1881-1947) : The Volunteer --
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) : Men Who March Away ; In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations' --
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) : Peace ; The Dead ; The Soldier --
Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962) : Breakfast --
Patrick Shaw-Stewart (1888-1917) : 'I saw a man this morning' --
Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) : Into Battle --
John McCrae (1872-1918) : In Flanders Fields --
T.P. Cameron Wilson (1889-1918) : Magpies in Picardy --
Charles Sorley (1895-1915) : 'All the hills and vales along' ; 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead' --
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) : Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries --
Hugh MacDiardmid (1892-1978) : Another Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries --
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) : Grass --
Robert Frost (1874-1963) : Range-Finding --
Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) : The Death of a Soldier --
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) : Calligram, 15 May 1915 --
Benjamin Péret (1899-1959) : Little Song of the Maimed --
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) : On Being Asked for a War Poem ; Sixteen Dead Men ; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ; Reprisals ; The Second Coming --
Robert W. Service (1874-1958) : Only a Boche ; Tipperary Days --
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) : The Redeemer ; Christ and the Soldier ; 'They' ; The Hero ; The General ; Glory of Women ; Everyone Sang.
Edward Thomas (1878-1917) : In Memorian (Easter 1915) ; The Cherry Trees ; Rain ; As the team's head brass --
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) : To His Love ; Ballad of the Three Spectres ; First Time In ; The Silent One --
Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) : On Receiving News of the War ; August 1914 ; Break of Day in the Trenches ; Dead Man's Dump ; Returning, We Hear the Larks --
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) : Anthem for Doomed Youth ; Dulce Et Decorum Est ; Exposure ; Insensibility ; The Send-Off ; Futility ; Strange Meeting ; The Sentry ; Spring Offensive --
Robert Graves (1895-1985) : The Dead Fox hunter ; Sergeant-Major Money ; The Legion ; Recalling War ; The Persian Version --
Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) --
Two Voices ; The Zonnebeke Road ; Vlamertinghe : Passing the Château, July 1917 ; Report on Experience ; 1916 seen from 1921 --
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) : Battlefield --
Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) : Winter Warfare ; Trench Poets --
E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) : 'Me sweet old etcetera' ; 'Next to of course God America I' ; 'I sing of Olaf glad and big' --
John Peale Bishop (1892-1944) : In the Dordogne --
David Jones (1895-1974) : from In Parenthesis --
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) : For the Fallen --
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) : from Hugh Selwyn Mauberly --
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) : Triumphal March --
G.K. Chesterson (1874-1936) : Elegy in a Country Churchyard --
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) : Mesopotamia 1917 ; from Epitaphs of the War 1914-18 --
Elizabeth Daryush (1887-1977) : Subalterns --
May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) : August 1914 ; Rouen ; 'After the War' --
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) : MCMXIV --
Vernon Scannell (1922-1985) : The Great War --
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) : Six Young Men ; Platform One --
Douglas Dunn (1942- ) : War Blinded --
Michael Longley (1939- ) : Wounds --
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : from Autumn Journal --
John Cornford (1915-1936) : A Letter from Aragon ; Full Moon at Tierz : Before the Storming of Huesca ; To Margot Heinemann --
George Orwell (1903-1950) : 'The Italian soldier shook my hand' --
Anonymous : 'Eyes of men running, falling, screaming' --
Laurie Lee (1914-1997) : A Moment of War --
Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) : Benicasim --
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : Spain 1937.
Stephen Spender (1909-1995) : Two Armies ; Ultima Ratio Regum --
Bernard Spencer (1909-1963) : A Thousand Killed --
Herbert Read (1893-1968) : To a Conscript of 1940 --
Louis Aragon (1897-1983) : The Lilacs of the Roses --
C. Day Lewis (1904-1972) : The Stand-To ; Where are the War Poets? --
David Gascoyne (1916-2001) : Ecce Homo ; Spring MCMXL --
Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) : A book in the Ruins --
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) : Still Falls the Rain --
H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] (1886-1961) : from The Walls Do Not Fall --
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) : The Streets of Laredo --
R.N. Currey (1907-2001) : Unseen Fire --
Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) : Prize for Good Conduct --
Henry Reed (1914-1986) : Lessons of the War --
Alun Lewis (1915-1944) : All day it has rained ... ; Dawn on the East Coast ; Goodbye ; Song --
Sidney Keyes (1922-1943) : from The Foreign Gate ; Timoshenko ; from The Wilderness --
John Manifold (1915-1985) : The Tomb of Lt John Learmonth, AIF --
Keith Douglas (1920-1944) : John Anderson ; Gallantry ; Vergissmeinnicht ; Aristocrats --
John Jarmain (1911-1944) : El Alamein --
Norman Cameron (1905-1953) : Green, Green is El Aghir --
F.T. Prince (1912-2003) : Soldiers Bathing --
Roy Fuller (1912-1991) : The Middle of a War --
Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) : Careless Love --
Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : In Idstrust of Merits --
Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) : The Fury of Aerial Bombardment --
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) : Eighth Air Force ; The Death of the Ball Turret Gunn ; A Camp in the Prussian Forest ; A Front --
W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) : 'After Experience Taught Me ... ' ; Returned to Frisco, 1946 --
Louis Simpson (1923-2012) : Carentan O Carentan ; Memories of a Lost War ; The Battle ; The Heroes --
Richard Wilbur (1921- ) ; First Snow in Alsace ; Terza Rima --
Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) : Rank --
Vernon Scannell (1922-2007) : Walking Wounded --
Paul Dehn (1912-1976) : St Aubin D'Aubigné --
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) : The hand that signed the paper --
James Dickey (1923-1997) : The Firebombing --
Ephim Fogel (1920-1992) : Shipment to Maidanek --
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : from Sonnets from China --
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) : 'More Light! More Light!' ; The Book of Yolek --
Thom Gunn (1929-2004) : Claus Von Stauffenberg --
Charles Causley (1917-2003) : Armistice Day ; At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux.
Sir John Betjeman (1906-1984) : In Memory of Basil, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava --
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) : The War in the Air ; Redeployment --
Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) : Memorial Rain --
John Pudney (1909-1977) : For Johnny --
James Tate (1943- ) : The Lost Pilot --
George MacBeth (1932-1992) : The Land-Mine --
Alan Ross (1922-2001) : Off Brighton Pier --
Andrew Motion (1952- ) : Now Then --
Geoffrey Hill (1932) : September Song --
W.H. Auden (1907-1973) : The Shield of Achilles --
Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) : I Am Goya --
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) : Fall 1961 ; For the Union Dead --
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) : A Vow --
Denise Levertov (1923-1997) : What Were They Like? --
Adrian Mitchell (1932-2008) : To Whom It May Concern --
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947- ) : Facing It ; Starlight Scope Myopia --
W.D. Ehrhart (1948- ) : Beautiful Wreckage --
Bruce Weigl (1949- ) : Song of Napalm --
John Balaban (1943- ) : After Our War ; In Celebration of Spring --
Ngo Vinh Long (1944- ) : Untitled --
James Fenton (1949- ) : Dead Soldiers --
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) : Requiem for the Croppies ; Whatever You Say Say Nothing ; The Strand at Lough Beg --
Carolyn Forché (1951- ) : The Colonel --
David Harsent (1942- ) : Snapshots (I) ; The Piss-pail --
Peter Wyton (1944- ) : Unmentioned in Dispatches --
Richard Wilbur (1921- ) : Advice to a Prophet --
William Stafford (1914-1993) : At the Bomb Testing Site --
Peter Porter (1929-2010) : Your Attention Please.