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