War

My Father on His Shield by Walt McDonald
Shiny as wax, the cracked veneer Scotch-taped
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-15 by Homer
RAGE: / Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Memorial Day for the War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals by Norman Dubie
You were never told, Mother, how old Illya was drunk
The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
The piers are pummelled by the waves;
For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
The old South Boston Aquarium stands
Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell
If, in an odd angle of the hutment,
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] by Christopher Logue
Down on your knees, Achilles. Farther down.
War Is Kind [excerpt] by Stephen Crane
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.
Death Fugue by Paul Celan
Black milk of morning we drink you at dusktime
Spoken From the Hedgerows by Jorie Graham
To bring back a time and place
The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail
How magnificent the war is
Woman Martyr by Agi Mishol
You are only twenty
April 27, 1937 by Timothy Steele
General Ludendorff, two years before
I Hear an Army by James Joyce
I hear an army charging upon the land
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger
I have a rendezvous with Death
Romance by Charles Reznikoff
The troopers are riding, are riding by
For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children
Peace by Henry Vaughan
My soul, there is a country
Some People by Wislawa Szymborska
Some people fleeing some other people
Waiting for the Barbarians by C. P. Cavafy
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum?
Peace by Gerard Manley Hopkins
When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut
Grass by Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo
Ships That Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing
Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 by Marvin Bell
The interrogation celebrated spikes and cuffs