There are 466 Poems about War & Conflict

"I am the last . . ."
By Charles Simic

“After Experience Taught Me ...”
By W. D. Snodgrass

“I never seen such days as this”
By Sholeh Wolpé

 The Gift Outright
By Robert Frost

1866
By Henry Timrod

1914 II. Safety
By Rupert Brooke

1914 IV. The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

1926
By Weldon Kees

23
By Jane Miller

28
By Jane Miller

40 Days
By Tom Clark

Song of Myself: 35
By Walt Whitman

Song of Myself: 36
By Walt Whitman

A Burnt Ship
By John Donne

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Felicitous Life
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Historical Footnote to Consider Only When All Else Fails
By Nikki Giovanni

A Mad Fight Song for William S. Carpenter, 1966
By James Wright

A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
By Walt Whitman

A Pathological Case in Pliny
By John Logan

A Pict Song
By Rudyard Kipling

A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto
By Czeslaw Milosz

A Shropshire Lad XXXV: On the idle hill of summer
By A. E. Housman

A Tapestry for Bayeux
By George Starbuck

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay

Advent 1966
By Denise Levertov

Advice to a Prophet
By Richard Wilbur

Affekt Funereal / Affekt Jamboree
By Rodrigo Toscano

Africadian Petition (1783)
By George Elliott Clarke

After the Industrial Revolution, All Things Happen at Once
By Robert Bly

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

Al Croom
By Walter McDonald

Alexander's Feast
By John Dryden

All the Dead Soldiers
By Thomas McGrath

America
By Allen Ginsberg

An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne

An Answer
By Zbigniew Herbert

An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland
By Andrew Marvell

Anniversaries
By Thomas McGrath

Anthem for Doomed Youth
By Wilfred Owen

Anthology of Rapture
By James Scully

Apologies to All the People in Lebanon
By June Jordan

Apparition of the Exile
By Bruce Weigl

Armistice
By Sophie Jewett

Arms and the Boy
By Wilfred Owen

Artificer
By Czeslaw Milosz

as i fly over this time
By Thulani Davis

As My Life is a Dream
By Chungmi Kim

Aside
By Karl Shapiro

At a VA Hospital in the Middle of the United States of America: An Act in a Play
By Etheridge Knight

At the Bomb Testing Site
By William E. Stafford

At the Grave of My Guardian Angel: St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans
By Larry Levis

At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
By William E. Stafford

At the Vietnam Memorial
By George Bilgere

Autobiography
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Ballad of Birmingham
By Dudley Randall

Ballad of the Dream That Was Not Dreamed
By A. M. Klein

Ballad of the Salvation Army
By Kenneth Fearing

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Bat Cave
By Eleanor Wilner

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

Battle of Brunanburh
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Battlefield
By Mark Turcotte

Beautiful Wreckage
By W.D. Ehrhart

Belief
By Josephine Miles

Belleau Wood
By Paul Engle

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Beowulf (Old English version)
By Anonymous

Between the Wars
By Robert Hass

Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
By Sharon Olds

Blood
By Naomi Shihab Nye

Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Bottles in the Bombed City
By Les Murray

Break of Day in the Trenches
By Isaac Rosenberg

Cameo Appearance
By Charles Simic

Camouflage
By Henry Carlile

Camouflaging the Chimera
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Campo dei Fiori
By Czeslaw Milosz

Captivity
By Louise Erdrich

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Casualty
By Seamus Heaney

Cavalier Tunes: Boot and Saddle
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse
By Robert Browning

Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along
By Robert Browning

Champs d’Honneur
By Ernest M. Hemingway

Channel Firing
By Thomas Hardy

Chicago
By Carl Sandburg

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Third
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Choose
By Carl Sandburg

Christ Among the Moneychangers, 1929
By William Logan

Clear-seeing
By Edgar Bowers

Clothes
By Edgar Bowers

Cold Calls: War Music, Continued
By Christopher Logue

Come Up from the Fields Father
By Walt Whitman

Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conscription Camp
By Karl Shapiro

Daffodils
By Alicia Ostriker

Danny Deever
By Rudyard Kipling

Dead Man’s Dump
By Isaac Rosenberg

Deathfugue
By Paul Celan

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

Defense Mechanism
By Calvin Thomas

Definition of the Frontiers
By Archibald MacLeish

Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
By Jerome Rothenberg

Digging in a Footlocker
By Walter McDonald

Disappointments of the Apocalypse
By Mary Karr

Don Juan: Canto the Eighth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Don Juan: Canto the Fourth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Done
By Michelle Boisseau

Done is a Battle
By William Dunbar

Dr. Joseph Goebbels (22 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Drake in the Southern Sea
By Ernesto Cardenal

Dreamers
By Siegfried Sassoon

Drill
By Michael Collier

Driving through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings
By Robert Bly

Driving West in 1970
By Robert Bly

Dulce et Decorum Est
By Wilfred Owen

Dupont’s Round Fight (November, 1861)
By Herman Melville

Durban, South Africa—Some Notations of Value
By Chris Abani

During the War
By Philip Levine

Easter, 1916
By William Butler Yeats

Eighth Air Force
By Randall Jarrell

Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker

Empire of Dreams
By Charles Simic

Encounter
By Thomas McGrath

Epilogue
By Robert Browning

Epithalamion
By David Jones

Estrangement in Athens
By Brian Culhane

Eternity
By Tom Clark

Ethnogenesis
By Henry Timrod

Exiles
By C. P. Cavafy

Fable
By Tom Sleigh

Fable for a War
By Thomas James Merton

Fabrication of Ancestors
By Alan Dugan

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Family History
By Irving Feldman

First Song
By Miguel Hernández

For a War Memorial
By G. K. Chesterton

For Laurel and Hardy on My Workroom Wall
By David Wagoner

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

France: An Ode
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Mythology
By Zbigniew Herbert

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

Funeral Music
By Geoffrey Hill

Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot

Gethsemane
By Rudyard Kipling

Grafik
By Juan Felipe Herrera

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Greek
By T.R. Hummer

Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kipling

Heart’s Needle
By W. D. Snodgrass

Helen
By George Seferis

Hellas: Chorus
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag
By Bruce Weigl

High Noon at Los Alamos
By Eleanor Wilner

Holy Cussing
By Robert Morgan

How We Heard the Name
By Alan Dugan

How We Made a New Art on Old Ground
By Eavan Boland

Hyperion
By John Keats

I Dreamed that in a City Dark as Paris
By Louis Simpson

I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
By Mahmoud Darwish

I Sit and Sew
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

If We Must Die
By Claude McKay

Impromptus
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In Defiance of Fortune
By Elizabeth I

In Jerusalem
By Mahmoud Darwish

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
By June Jordan

In Sparta
By C. P. Cavafy

In the Absence of Bliss
By Maxine W. Kumin

In The Summer After “Issue Year” Winter (1873)
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Incandescent War Poem Sonnet
By Bernadette Mayer

Innocence and Experience
By Anne Stevenson

Invocation to the Social Muse
By Archibald MacLeish

Iraqi Boy
By Elizabeth Arnold

It was a' for our Rightful King
By Robert Burns

January 1919
By Christopher Middleton

January 22nd, Missolonghi
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

from John Brown's Body: "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave"
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Johnson’s Cabinet Watched by Ants
By Robert Bly

Judith of Bethulia
By John Crowe Ransom

King’s Daughters, Home for Unwed Mothers, 1948
By C. D. Wright

Kubla Khan
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Last Century
By Wyatt Prunty

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Letter to Martín Espada
By Doug Anderson

Life at War
By Denise Levertov

Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lime
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

Litany for Dictatorships
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson

Look to the Future
By Ruth Stone

Looking into History
By Richard Wilbur

Louse Hunting
By Isaac Rosenberg

Love among the Ruins
By Robert Browning

Love Poem for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

Madrigal in Time of War
By John Frederick Nims

Magda Goebbels (30 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Massachusetts
By Terry Wolverton

Mementos, 1
By W. D. Snodgrass

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Day
By Gregory Orr

Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell

Middle Passage
By Robert E. Hayden

Military Mind
By Charlie Smith

Momus
By Carl Sandburg

from Monologues of the Son of Saul
By John Logan

More Females of the Species
By Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman

More Sonnets At Christmas
By Allen Tate

Morning News
By Marilyn Hacker

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Mrs. Krikorian
By Sharon Olds

My Century
By Alan Feldman

My God
By Susan Rolston

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Navy Field
By William Meredith

Near Antietam
By Norman Williams

Night Music
By Linda Gregg

Night of Battle
By Yvor Winters

Night Without Sleep
By Robinson Jeffers

Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady

Nineteen-Fourteen: Peace
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Dead
By Rupert Brooke

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke

No Moon Floods the Memory of That Night
By Etheridge Knight

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Nocturne Militaire
By Thomas McGrath

Nogi
By Harriet Monroe

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

Notes on the Capitalist Persuasion
By John Haines

November, 1806
By William Wordsworth

Occupation 1943
By Saadi Youssef

Octaves
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

October, 1803
By William Wordsworth

Ode
By Henry Timrod

Ode for the American Dead in Asia
By Thomas McGrath

Ode, Inscribed to William H. Channing
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of Late
By George Starbuck

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

On Looking East to the Sea with a Sunset Behind Me
By John Ciardi

On the Civil War on the East Coast of the United States of North America 1860-64
By Alan Dugan

On the Crash of an Airliner at Takeoff
By Calvin Thomas

On the Lawn at the Villa
By Louis Simpson

On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester
By John Milton

On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper

On The Western Front
By Alfred Noyes

Opus
By George Bradley

Our Fear
By Zbigniew Herbert

Our Sun
By George Seferis

Ovid in the Third Reich
By Geoffrey Hill

Pacific Epitaphs
By Dudley Randall

Parable of the Hostages
By Louise Glück

Parsley
By Rita Dove

Past-Lives Therapy
By Charles Simic

Patterns
By Amy Lowell

Peggy's Cove
By George Elliott Clarke

Pentecost
By David Wojahn

Phases
By Wallace Stevens

Philadelphia Flowers
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Please
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Poem about My Rights
By June Jordan

Poem for Nana
By June Jordan

Poem of Disconnected Parts
By Robert Pinsky

Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton

Port of Aerial Embarkation
By John Ciardi

Portrait from the Infantry
By Alan Dugan

Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942
By Peter Balakian

Praise
By Stanley Moss

Prisoner in a Hole
By Sholeh Wolpé

Prodigy
By Charles Simic

Quaker Meeting, The Sixties
By Robin Becker

Range-finding
By Robert Frost

Reaching Yellow River
By Roberta Hill Whiteman

Ready to Kill
By Carl Sandburg

Recessional
By Rudyard Kipling

Red String
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (1 April 1945)
By W. D. Snodgrass

Requiem for the First Half of Split
By Alice Notley

Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill

Retirement
By Henry Timrod

Revolution
By Anne Waldman

Rule Britannia
By James Thomson

Rwanda: Where Tears Have No Power
By Haki Madhubuti

Sanctuary
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

School
By Jane Miller

Scots Wha Hae
By Robert Burns

Selective Service
By Carolyn Forché

September Song
By Geoffrey Hill

September, 1918
By Amy Lowell

Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)
By Herman Melville

Shine, Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Singing School
By Seamus Heaney

Smothered Fires
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

So they stood
By Samuel Menashe

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

Something Whispered in the Shakuhachi
By Garrett Hongo

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle upon the Restoration of Lord Clifford, the Shepherd, to the Estates and Honours of his Ancestors
By William Wordsworth

Song of Myself
By Walt Whitman

Song of Napalm
By Bruce Weigl

Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII: On the Late Massacre in Piemont
By John Milton

Sonnets of the Blood
By Allen Tate

sorrow song
By Lucille Clifton

Sower
By Bei Dao

Soweto
By Edward Brathwaite

Spring before a War
By Dudley Randall

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold

Strange Meeting
By Wilfred Owen

Stripped Car
By Chase Twichell

Success is counted sweetest (112)
By Emily Dickinson

Sunday: New Guinea
By Karl Shapiro

Sweeney Erect
By T. S. Eliot

Swifts
By Gerald Stern

Temperance Poems
By William Pitt Root

The Amen Stone
By Yehuda Amichai

The Answer
By Robinson Jeffers

The Armada
By Anne Winters

The Arsenal at Springfield
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Asians Dying
By W. S. Merwin

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke

the attack could not be seen by night
By Thulani Davis

The Ballad of Nat Turner
By Robert E. Hayden

The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Battle of Omdurman
By William McGonagall

The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
By William McGonagall

The Benefactors
By Rudyard Kipling

The Bloody Sire
By Robinson Jeffers

The Book of Urizen
By William Blake

The Calm
By John Donne

The Chant of the Vultures
By Edwin Markham

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Cloud Confines
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Colonel
By Carolyn Forché

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Conscientious Objector
By Karl Shapiro

The Curator
By Miller Williams

The Curtain
By Hayden Carruth

The Dance in Jinotega
By Grace Paley

The Day is a Poem
By Robinson Jeffers

The Deodand
By Anthony Hecht

The Destruction of Sennacherib
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Doubt of Future Foes
By Elizabeth I

The Dust Covers My Shoes
By Hilda Morley

The Eager Interpreter
By Reginald Gibbons

The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska

The Fact of the Garden
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Fat Old Couple Whirling Around
By Robert Bly

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray

The French Revolution
By William Blake

The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement
By William Wordsworth

The General’s Briefing
By Jane Miller

The Great Pax Whitie
By Nikki Giovanni

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Horse
By Philip Levine

The Iliad
By Alexander Pope

The Israeli Navy
By Marvin Bell

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi
By William Meredith

from The Lady of the Lake: Boat Song
By Sir Walter Scott

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg

The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Last Attack. To Klaus
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Last Laugh
By Wilfred Owen

The Laurel Tree
By Louis Simpson

The Laws of Motion
By Nikki Giovanni

The Little Walls Before China
By A. F. Moritz

The Loneliness of the Military Historian
By Margaret Atwood

The Lyric In A Time of War
By Eloise Klein Healy

The Man He Killed
By Thomas Hardy

The Man in the Dead Machine
By Donald Hall

The March into Virginia Ending in the First Manassas (July, 1861)
By Herman Melville

The Meaning of the Shovel
By Martín Espada

The Measure
By Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Memory of Elena
By Carolyn Forché

The Misanthropist
By James Monroe Whitfield

The Nail
By C. K. Williams

The Orange Alert
By Douglas Kearney

The Others
By Michael Ryan

The People of the Other Village
By Thomas Lux

from The People, Yes
By Carl Sandburg

The Performance
By James L. Dickey

The Pilot in the Jungle
By John Ciardi

The Planet Krypton
By Lynn Emanuel

The Portent
By Herman Melville

The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
By William Wordsworth

The Powwow at the End of the World
By Sherman Alexie

The Princess: Thy Voice is Heard
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert

The Rebel
By Hilaire Belloc

The Redeemer
By Siegfried Sassoon

The Reeve's Prologue and Tale from the Hengwrt Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Return
By Frank Bidart

The Room
By Conrad Aiken

The Secular Masque
By John Dryden

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Sixth Book Of Homer's Iliads
By George Chapman

The Skeleton in Armor
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Small Vases from Hebron
By Naomi Shihab Nye

The Soldier and the Snow
By Miguel Hernández

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Song of the Banjo
By Rudyard Kipling

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Spool
By Ben Belitt

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

The Stoic: For Laura Von Courten
By Edgar Bowers

The Stone Axe
By Robinson Jeffers

The Swamp Angel
By Herman Melville

The Tartar Swept
By August Kleinzahler

from The Task, Book IV: The Winter Evening
By William Cowper

from The Task, Book VI: The Winter Walk at Noon
By William Cowper

The True Born Englishman
By Daniel Defoe

The Twins
By Robert W. Service

The Uniform
By Marvin Bell

The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod

The Unruly Child
By Bob Perelman

The Voyage Home
By Philip Appleman

The War Horse
By Eavan Boland

The War in the Air
By Howard Nemerov

The Waste Land
By T. S. Eliot

The Window, at the Moment of Flame
By Alicia Ostriker

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

They Clapped
By Nikki Giovanni

Thinking About the Enemy
By J. P. White

Three Haiku, Two Tanka
By Philip Appleman

Through these Pale Cold Days
By Isaac Rosenberg

To E. T.
By Robert Frost

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
By Richard Lovelace

To Our Land
By Mahmoud Darwish

To the King on his Navy
By Edmund Waller

Tomahawk
By Mark Rudman

Tomorrow
By Bernadette Mayer

Toys in a Field
By Yusef Komunyakaa

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Two Poems from “The Day”
By Kenneth Goldsmith

Up Rising (Passages 25)
By Robert Duncan

Us and Them
By Nomi Stone

V-J Day
By John Ciardi

Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond
By Galway Kinnell

Venetian Coda
By John Koethe

Vietnam
By Michael Collier

Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field one Night
By Walt Whitman

Villanelle of Change
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Waiter in a California Vietnamese Restaurant
By Clarence Major

Waiting for the Barbarians
By C. P. Cavafy

Walking Down Park
By Nikki Giovanni

Walt, the Wounded
By W. S. Di Piero

War Ballad
By Stanley Moss

War Bird: A Journal
By David Gewanter

from War is Kind ["Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind"]
By Stephen Crane

War Voyeurs
By Juan Felipe Herrera

War Widow
By Chris Abani

Warning from a Visitor in the Control Tower
By Calvin Thomas

We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa

What He Thought
By Heather McHugh

What the Birds Said
By John Greenleaf Whittier

What the End Is For
By Jorie Graham

When Life
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman

When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

[The bird’s-eye view]
By Ben Lerner