Portal:War poetry

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War poetry

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Poems written about and during wars.

A field of poppies — Poppies

War of the Spanish Succession edit

The Battle of Blenheim, 1798 by Robert Southey

Crimean War poetry edit

The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1854 by Alfred Tennyson
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava, 1885 by Alfred Tennyson

American Civil War poetry edit

Collections edit

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, 1866 collection by Herman Melville
War Pictures, 1866 by James G. Gregory & illustrated by Felix Octavius Carr Darley

Individual poems edit

All Quiet along the Potomac, 1866 by Ethel Lynn Beers
The Cavalry Charge, 1866 by Edmund Clarence Stedman
The Color-Sergeant, 1866 by Anson Davies Fitz Randolph
Company K, 1866 by Ethel Lynn Beers
The Little Drummer, 1866 by Richard Henry Stoddard
On Board the Cumberland, 1862 by George Henry Boker
On the Shores of Tennessee, 1866 by Ethel Lynn Beers
Our Folks, 1866 by Ethel Lynn Beers
Picciola, 1866 by an anonymous author
Whisper Softly, Stainless Lilies, 1866 by Ethel Lynn Beers

World War One poetry edit

Collections edit

Poems of the Great War (1914) by various
Poems of the Great War ed. John William Cunliffe (1916) (transcription project)
Flower of youth, poems in war time (1915) by Katharine Tynan
Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man (1916) by Robert William Service
Soldier poets, songs of the fighting men (1916) by various
The volunteer, and other poems (1916) by Herbert Asquith
Marching Men: War Verses (1917) by Helena Jane Coleman
More songs by the fighting men. Soldiers poets: second series (1917) by various
The Muse in Arms (1917) by various
Pro Patria (1917) by Florence Earle Coates
A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919 (1917) by various; edited by George Herbert Clarke
Fifes and Drums (1917) by The Vigilantes
Patriotic pieces from the Great War (1918) by various; edited by Edna D. Jones
Counter-Attack and Other Poems (1918) by Siegfried Sassoon
The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (1919) by Siegfried Sassoon [incomplete]
Battle-Retrospect and Other Poems (1923) by Amos Niven Wilder
Armistice Day (1927) by various

Collections containing war poetry edit

1914 and other poems (1915) section: "1914" by Rupert Brooke
Poems (1916) by Alan Seeger
Marlborough and other poems (1916) by Charles Hamilton Sorley
Main Street and other poems (1917) by Joyce Kilmer
A Highland Regiment and Other Poems (1917) by Ewart Alan Mackintosh
War, the Liberator, and Other Pieces (1918) by Ewart Alan Mackintosh
The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge (1919) by Francis Ledwidge
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (1919) by John McCrae
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) by William Butler Yeats containing: In Memory of Major Robert Gregory and An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Poems (1920) by Wilfred Owen
The roamer and other poems (1920) section: "Poems of the Great War" by George Edward Woodberry
Poems by Isaac Rosenberg (1922) by Isaac Rosenberg section: Poems from Camp and Trench

Individual poems edit

Poetry not contained in any of the above collections

By participants edit

Winterbotham, Cyril:

"A Christmas Prayer"

Rosenberg, Isaac

"Through these Pale Cold Days"

By non-participants edit

Coates, Florence Earle:

An Appeal
Art and War
Belgium
The Brave
Britannia
Captain Guynemer
The Comrade
The Gods Remember
How Long?
In Memory of an American Soldier
In Plains of Picardy
In War-Time (Gazing Seaward)
In War-Time (An American Homeward Bound)
The Infantry that Would Not Yield
A Love-Song
The New Mars
Our Land
Place de la Concorde
Requiem for a Young Soldier
Rheims
A Russian's Prayer for his Horse, before going into Battle
Sedan
Serbia
The Smile of Reims
A Soldier
Their Victory Won
War ("The serpent-horror writhing in her hair")

Howard, Robert Ervin:

"Private Magrath of the A.E.F"

Kipling, Rudyard:

Epitaphs of the War (1919)

Mastin, Florence Ripley:

"At the Movies" in A Treasury of War Poetry (2nd Series)

Newbolt, Henry:

"St. George's Day" in A Treasury of War Poetry (2nd Series)

Orwell, George:

Phelps, Arthur L.:

"Old War" in A Treasury of War Poetry (2nd Series)

Yeats, William Butler

"A Reason for Keeping Silent" in The Book of the Homeless

Biography edit

For remembrance: soldier poets who have fallen in the war (1920) by A. St. John Adcock
Some soldier poets (1920) by Thomas Sturge Moore

Other war poetry edit

Collections edit

In War Time, and Other Poems, 1864 by John Greenleaf Whittier
Barrack-Room Ballads, 1892 (1st series) and 1896 (2nd series) by Rudyard Kipling

Individual poems edit

Cameron, George Frederick:

Leo, the Royal Cadet (1889)

Coates, Florence Earle:

"So war has begun"
"Victi Resurgunt"
War ("In the beginning was I born")
Poems of the War for the Liberation of Cuba:

America ("Thy children are inspired by thee")

To the Returning Brave (as "Welcome" in Mine and Thine)

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth

Io Triumphe (1826)

Newbolt, Henry:

Vitaï Lampada in Admirals All and Other Verses (1898)

Woods, William Hervey:

The House of Broken Swords (1910)

War poets edit

List not exhaustive

See also edit

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