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Famous War Poems | Examples of Famous War Poetry

These are examples of famous War poems written by famous poets. PoetrySoup is a great resource of famous War poems about War. These examples illustrate what famous War poems looks like and its form.

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Famous PoemPoet
Sonnet 55 William Shakespeare
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives Fleda Brown
Kubla Khan
On the Pulse of Morning Maya Angelou
Song of the Lotos-Eaters Alfred Lord Tennyson
Death John Donne
In the waiting Room Elizabeth Bishop
Man and Wife Robert Lowell
Inaugural Poem Maya Angelou
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Robert Browning
DON JUAN George (Lord) Byron
Gawain and the Green Knight Thomas Stearns Eliot (T S) Eliot
To E.T. Robert Frost
The Song of Hiawatha: X Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
War-Music Henry Van Dyke
The Knight's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer
The Wife of Bath's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer
"It was wrong to do this," said the angel Stephen Crane
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind Stephen Crane
shapeshifter poems Lucille Clifton
The Worlds in this World Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Self-Interrogation Emily Bronte
Our Two Opinions Eugene Field
Sonnet XV William Shakespeare
Siege and Conquest of Alhama, The George (Lord) Byron
The Isles of Greece George (Lord) Byron
The Giaour George (Lord) Byron
Bride of Abydos, The George (Lord) Byron
The Siege of Corinth George (Lord) Byron
Isles of Greece, The George (Lord) Byron
The Siege and Conquest of Alhama George (Lord) Byron
Lara George (Lord) Byron
The Prisoner of Chillon George (Lord) Byron
The Vision of Judgment George (Lord) Byron
The Dream George (Lord) Byron
Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments William Shakespeare
The Glove Robert Browning
In Snow William Allingham
Strayed Reveller, The Matthew Arnold
The Strayed Reveller Matthew Arnold
Sohrab and Rustum Matthew Arnold
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold
A Challenge To The Dark Charles Bukowski
The Genius Of The Crowd Charles Bukowski
A Man In His Life Yehuda Amichai
Temporary Poem Of My Time Yehuda Amichai
Memorial Day For The War Dead Yehuda Amichai
Hymn 58 Isaac Watts
Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot Alexander Pope
A Western Ballad Allen Ginsberg
Goliath Of Gath Phillis Wheatley
The Princess (part 5) Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Princess (part 3) Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson - The Coming Of Arthur Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Princess (part 2) Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Passing Of Arthur Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dedication Rainer Maria Rilke
To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias Alfred Lord Tennyson
Gareth And Lynette Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Revenge - A Ballad of the Fleet Alfred Lord Tennyson
To The Queen Alfred Lord Tennyson
Howl Allen Ginsberg
September On Jessore Road Allen Ginsberg
Crossing Nation Allen Ginsberg
War Profit Litany Allen Ginsberg
A Dead Boche Robert Graves
To Lucasta on Going to the War - For the Fourth Time Robert Graves
Two Fusiliers Robert Graves
The Next War Robert Graves
Freedoms Plow Langston Hughes
The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy
Channel Firing Thomas Hardy
An Autumn Rain-Scene Thomas Hardy
Then And Now Thomas Hardy
The Dance At The Phoenix Thomas Hardy
At a Lunar Eclipse Thomas Hardy
At the War Office, London Thomas Hardy
The Peasant's Confession Thomas Hardy
San Sebastian Thomas Hardy
Leipzig Thomas Hardy
Valenciennes Thomas Hardy
Buried Life, The Matthew Arnold
In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Gerard Manley Hopkins
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez Gerard Manley Hopkins
On The Victory Obtained By Blake Over the Spaniards, In The Bay Of Scanctacruze, In The Island Of teneriff.1657 Andrew Marvell
The Welsh Marches A E Housman
If I Were King William Ernest Henley
Ballade of Dead Actors William Ernest Henley
Rune of the Finland Woman Marilyn Hacker
Year's End Marilyn Hacker
Equinox Joy Harjo
Eighth Air Force Randall Jarrell
The Broken Balance Robinson Jeffers
Contemplation Of The Sword Robinson Jeffers
Time Of Disturbance Robinson Jeffers
The Black Cottage Robert Frost
The Bonfire Robert Frost
Hyperion John Keats
Paradise Lost: Book 06 John Milton