There are 169 Poems about Heroes & Patriotism

1492
By Emma Lazarus

Song of Myself: 35
By Walt Whitman

A Dialogue between Old England and New
By Anne Bradstreet

A Farmer Remembers Lincoln
By Witter Bynner

A History of Sexual Preference
By Robin Becker

A Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa
By Richard Crashaw

A Leak in the Dike
By Phoebe Cary

A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
By A. E. Housman

A Tribute to Chief Joseph (1840?-1904)
By Duane Niatum

A Twenty-fourth Poem about Horses
By John Peck

A Valentine for Ben Franklin Who Drives a Truck in California
By Diane Wakoski

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
By Vachel Lindsay

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

After the Wilderness
By Andrew Hudgins

America
By Allen Ginsberg

America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity
By Gregory Corso

America Remembers
By Paul Engle

American Names
By Stephen Vincent Benét

Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters
By Edmund Spenser

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

Anne Rutledge
By Edgar Lee Masters

Aspecta Medusa (for a Drawing)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Attempted Assassination of the Queen
By William McGonagall

“The female seer will burn upon this pyre”
By Elizabeth Alexander

Ballad of the Salvation Army
By Kenneth Fearing

Banneker
By Rita Dove

Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Battle Hymn of the Republic
By Julia Ward Howe

Beowulf (modern English translation)
By Anonymous

Beowulf (Old English version)
By Anonymous

Bronzes
By Carl Sandburg

By the Waters of Babylon
By Emma Lazarus

Captain Carpenter
By John Crowe Ransom

Carentan O Carentan
By Louis Simpson

Casualty
By Seamus Heaney

Character of the Happy Warrior
By William Wordsworth

Concord Hymn
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confession
By Reginald Gibbons

Count Gismond—Aix in Provence
By Robert Browning

Crash
By Elizabeth Alexander

Debridement
By Michael S. Harper

Defense Mechanism
By Calvin Thomas

Digging in a Footlocker
By Walter McDonald

Eagle Plain
By Robert Francis

Easter Week
By Joyce Kilmer

Facing It
By Yusef Komunyakaa

For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers

For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker

For Malcolm, A Year After
By Etheridge Knight

For You O Democracy
By Walt Whitman

Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden

From Lines to William Simson
By Robert Burns

From the Headland at Cumae
By John Peck

General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
By Vachel Lindsay

Gitanjali 35
By Rabindranath Tagore

Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kipling

Hellas: Chorus
By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Here Where Coltrane Is
By Michael S. Harper

Hutch
By Atsuro Riley

I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
By Mahmoud Darwish

I, Too
By Langston Hughes

In a Bar Near Shibuya Station, Tokyo
By Paul Engle

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet

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

It is not to be Thought of
By William Wordsworth

Itinerary
By James McMichael

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

John Brown: A Paradox
By Louise Imogen Guiney

Learning to Love America
By Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Lepanto
By G. K. Chesterton

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lift Every Voice and Sing
By James Weldon Johnson

Lime
By Yusef Komunyakaa

Lincoln
By Delmore Schwartz

Lincoln
By Vachel Lindsay

Lincoln, Man of the People
By Edwin Markham

London, 1802
By William Wordsworth

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Memorial Day
By Gregory Orr

from Mercian Hymns
By Geoffrey Hill

Mother and Poet
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My Country ’Tis of Thee
By W. E. B. Du Bois

Natal Command
By Peter Sacks

Navy Field
By William Meredith

Nineteen-Fourteen: The Soldier
By Rupert Brooke

Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith

November, 1806
By William Wordsworth

O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman

O Heart Uncovered
By Joseph Ceravolo

Ode
By Henry Timrod

Of History and Hope
By Miller Williams

Of Lincoln
By Cynthia Zarin

Old Ironsides
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor
By William Lisle Bowles

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

Port of Aerial Embarkation
By John Ciardi

Prayer of a Soldier in France
By Joyce Kilmer

Proem to American Song
By Paul Engle

Remembering Frost at Kennedy’s Inauguration
By Linda Pastan

Robeson at Rutgers
By Elizabeth Alexander

Runagate Runagate
By Robert E. Hayden

Scots Wha Hae
By Robert Burns

Shine, Republic
By Robinson Jeffers

Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
By William Wordsworth

Sir Humphrey Gilbert
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sohrab and Rustum
By Matthew Arnold

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

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq.
By William Cowper

Sonnet XCIV: They that have Power to Hurt and will do None
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet XXV: Let those who are in Favour with their Stars
By William Shakespeare

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
By Matthew Arnold

Superhero Pregnant Woman
By Jessy Randall

The American Way
By Gregory Corso

The Battle of Omdurman
By William McGonagall

The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir
By William McGonagall

The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue
By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle

The Confession of St. Jim-Ralph
By Denis Johnson

The Eagle That Is Forgotten
By Vachel Lindsay

The Eternal Rebel
By Eva Gore-Booth

The Fatal Sisters: An Ode
By Thomas Gray

The Father of My Country
By Diane Wakoski

The Fifth Fact
By Sarah Browning

The Fisherman
By William Butler Yeats

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

The Guards Came Through
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

The Knight's Tomb
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The Long Shadow of Lincoln: A Litany
By Carl Sandburg

The Lost Leader
By Robert Browning

The Lowering
By May Swenson

The Man He Killed
By Thomas Hardy

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

The Monument and the Shrine
By John Logan

The New Colossus
By Emma Lazarus

from The People, Yes
By Carl Sandburg

The Performance
By James L. Dickey

The Piper
By Joseph Campbell

The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing
By William Wordsworth

The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
By Bob Hicok

The Soldiers in the Garden
By Martín Espada

The Song of the Bow
By Arthur Conan Doyle

The Steel Glass
By George Gascoigne

from The Task, Book II: The Time-Piece
By William Cowper

from The Theatre of Illusion
By Pierre Corneille

The True Born Englishman
By Daniel Defoe

The True-Blue American
By Delmore Schwartz

The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith

Things We Dreamt We Died For
By Marvin Bell

Thomas Jefferson
By Lorine Niedecker

Those Being Eaten by America
By Robert Bly

To Madame Curie
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

To the Virginian Voyage
By Michael Drayton

Toussaint L’Ouverture
By Henrietta Cordelia Ray

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book II
By Geoffrey Chaucer

from Troilus and Criseyde: Book V
By Geoffrey Chaucer

Troop Train
By Karl Shapiro

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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

Why We Are Truly a Nation
By William Matthews

You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill at Ease
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

You Say, Columbus with his Argosies
By Trumbull Stickney

[Buffalo Bill 's]
By E. E. Cummings