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Poems by James Joyce
Ecce Puer
Poems About War
From War Is Kind
by Stephen Crane
The Iliad, Book I, Lines 1-15
by Homer
April 27, 1937
by Timothy Steele
Death Fugue
by Paul Celan
Dulce et Decorum Est
by Wilfred Owen
Eighth Air Force
by Randall Jarrell
For the Union Dead
by Robert Lowell
from War Music (an account of books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad)
by Christopher Logue
I Have a Rendezvous with Death
by Alan Seeger
Memorial Day for the War Dead
by Yehuda Amichai
My Father on His Shield
by Walt McDonald
Spoken From the Hedgerows
by Jorie Graham
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals
by Norman Dubie
The Fall of Rome
by W. H. Auden
The Star-Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key
The War Works Hard
by Dunya Mikhail
Woman Martyr
by Agi Mishol
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Poems about War
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I Hear an Army  
by James Joyce

I hear an army charging upon the land,   
  And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:   
Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,   
  Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers.   
   
They cry unto the night their battle-name:        
  I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.   
They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,   
  Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.   
   
They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair:   
  They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore. 
My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?   
  My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
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