Poetry about War

Not just by war poets but by the women they left behind too. Poetry from both World Wars and several other conflicts. What I have tried to do is get over the message of the utter futility of war.

Anthem For A Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

A Petition by Robert Ernest Vernede

Ball's Bluff by Herman Melville

Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman

Before Action by W. N. Hodgson

Bomb Incident by Barbara Catherine Edwards

The Burial Of Sir John Moore At Corunna by Charles Wolfe

Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Elergy In A Country Churchyard by G. K. Chesterton

For All We Have And Are by Rudyard Kipling

For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon

Grass by Carl Sandburg

Gut Catcher by Stan Platke

How To Die by Seigfried Sassoon

In Flanders Field's by John McCrae

Into Battle by Julian Grenfell

The Man I Killed byThomas Hardy

No Man's Land by James H. Knight-Adkin

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke