War

The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail How magnificent the war is

For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell The old South Boston Aquarium stands

Spoken From the Hedgerows by Jorie Graham To bring back a time and place

The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals by Norman Dubie You were never told, Mother, how old Illya was drunk

War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] by Christopher Logue Down on your knees, Achilles. Farther down.

The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-15 by Homer RAGE: / Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,

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

The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves;

Memorial Day for the War Dead by Yehuda Amichai Memorial day for the war dead. Add now

Henry V, Act III, Scene I [One more unto the breach, dear friends] by William Shakespeare Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars under sacks

Peace by Gerard Manley Hopkins When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut

War and Hell, XVI [I am a great inventor] by Ernest Crosby I am a great inventor, did you but know it

Peace by Henry Vaughan My soul, there is a country

i sing of Olaf glad and big by E. E. Cummings i sing of Olaf glad and big

Bagram, Afghanistan, 2002 by Marvin Bell The interrogation celebrated spikes and cuffs

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

I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger I have a rendezvous with Death

Eighth Air Force by Randall Jarrell If, in an odd angle of the hutment,

The Mask of Anarchy [Excerpt] by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stand ye calm and resolute

Before the Deployment by Jehanne Dubrow He kisses me before he goes. While I

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

Grass by Carl Sandburg Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo

The Coming of War: Actæon by Ezra Pound An image of Lethe

The War After the War by Debora Greger Where were the neighbors? Out of town

Phantom Noise by Brian Turner There is this ringing hum this

Ships That Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing

Some People by Wislawa Szymborska Some people fleeing some other people

A Wedding at Cana, Lebanon, 2007 by Tom Sleigh He said, It is terrible what happens

Mosul by David Hernandez The donkey. The donkey pulling the cart

Untitled [1950 June 27] by Don Mee Choi 1950 June 27: my father heard the sound of the engine of a North Korean fighter plane

Veterans of Foreign Wars by Edward Hirsch Let's not forget the General

The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

My Father on His Shield by Walt McDonald Shiny as wax, the cracked veneer Scotch-taped

Web Prayer for Milosz by David Wojahn From euphoria at the blossom's destruction

The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman An old man bending I come among new faces