Poems About War

Anthem for Doomed YouthWhat passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Wilfred Owen Sonnet BootsWe’re foot—slog—slog—slog—sloggin’ over Africa! Rudyard Kipling Dramatic Monologue Christmas Bells (I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day)I heard the bells on Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lyric Dulce et Decorum EstBent double, like old beggars under sacks, Wilfred Owen For the FallenWith proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, Laurence Binyon Elegy GrassPile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Carl Sandburg In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders fields the poppies blow John McCrae Rondeau On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’T is time this heart should be unmoved, Lord Byron Lyric Strange MeetingIt seemed that out of the battle I escaped Wilfred Owen The Man He Killed“Had he and I but met Thomas Hardy Dramatic Monologue The Second ComingTurning and turning in the widening gyre W. B. Yeats Blank Verse The SoldierIf I should die, think only this of me: Rupert Brooke Sonnet There Will Come Soft RainsThere will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, Sara Teasdale Lyric