War
146 poems
Trenches, exile, grief, resistance: war poems, often written by those who lived through it. Read them on Loëly.
The Waiting
John Greenleaf Whittier
“No one cares less than I” [Bugle Call]
Edward Thomas
A Cinque Port
John Davidson
A Dirge For McPherson
Herman Melville
A Letter From the Trenches to a School Friend
Charles Sorley
A New Year's Eve in War Time
Thomas Hardy
A Poem To His Majesty, Presented To The Lord Keeper. To The Right Hon. Sir John Somers, Lord Keeper
Joseph Addison
A Poem Written In Time Of Trouble By An Irish Priest Who Had Taken Orders In France
Isabella Augusta Gregory
A Private
Edward Thomas
Accurs'D Be He That First Invented War
Christopher Marlowe
Ah! Where Is Palafox? Nor Tongue Nor Pen
William Wordsworth
Alas! What Boots The Long Laborious Quest
William Wordsworth
All Day It Has Rained
Alun Lewis
All the Hills and Vales Along
Charles Sorley
America
Gertrude Stein
Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred
Dylan Thomas
An Ode
Percy Bysshe Shelley
An Ode in Time of Hesitation
William Vaughn Moody
And There Was a Great Calm
Thomas Hardy
Apostrophe To Man
Edna St. Vincent Millay
As the Team's Head Brass
Edward Thomas
Barbury Camp
Charles Sorley
Battle
John Davidson
Before Marching and After
Thomas Hardy
Belgium
Edith Wharton
Book I
Publius Virgile
L’ÉNÉIDE
Book I - O tyrant, armed with insolence and pride
Homère
L'iliade
Book I - The trembling priest along the shore
Homère
L'iliade
Book I - The wrath of Peleus' son
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - As on some mountain, through the lofty grove
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - Fly hence, deluding Dream
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - Say, Virgins, seated round the throne divine
Homère
L'iliade
Book II - The phantom said; then vanished from his sight
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Ajax the great, the beauteous queen replied
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Approach, my child, and grace thy father's side
Homère
L'iliade
Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares
Homère
L'iliade
Book IV - All that you have been saying, my dear wife, is true
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book IV - Seized with affright the boldest foes appear
Homère
L'iliade
Book IV - Your discretion, my friend, is beyond your years
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book V - But Pallas now Tydides' soul inspires
Homère
L'iliade
Book XIX - Soon as Aurora heaved her orient head
Homère
L'iliade
Book XV - First of the field, great Ajax strikes their eyes
Homère
L'iliade
Book XVI - Lie there, Patroclus
Homère
L'iliade
Book XVIII - A flood of tears, at this, the goddess shed
Homère
L'iliade
Book XVIII - Stood Nestor's son, the messenger of woe
Homère
L'iliade
Book XX - When Hector viewed the unhappy Polydore
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Not so Achilles, to grief resigned
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Sad Helen next in pomp of grief appears
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - The sacred sire of gods and mortal man
Homère
L'iliade
Book XXIV - Think of thy father's age, and pity mine
Homère
L'iliade
Boots
Rudyard Kipling
Canto III - The isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!
George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
Casabianca
Felicia Hemans
Channel Firing
Thomas Hardy
Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dirge Of The Dead Sisters
Rudyard Kipling
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
Stephen Crane
England to Germany in 1914
Thomas Hardy
Eutaw Springs
Philip Freneau
flash
Unknown