Bars fight / Lucy Terry [Prince] --
The song of Braddock's men / Anonymous --
"Progress of the colonies. Troubles with the natives" / Joel Barlow, from the Columbiad, book --
"Hostilities between France and England extened to America. Braddock's defeat" / Joel Barlow, from the Columbiad, book.
Liberty tree / Thomas Paine --
The American soldier / Philip Freneau --
Jeffery, or, the soldier's progress / Philip Freneau --
A New York tory, to his friend in Philadelphia / Philip Freneau --
Burrowing Yankees / Anonymous --
To his excellency General Washington / Phillis Wheatley --
Warren's address to the American soldiers / John Pierpont --
Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Black Samson of Brandywine / Paul Laurence Dunbar.
On the conflagrations at Washington / Philip Freneau --
Defence of Fort McHenry / Francis Scott Key --
The battle of Niagara, from canto IV / John Neal --
Advice to a raven in Russia / Joel Barlow --
Old ironsides / Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The defense of the Alamo / Joaquin Miller --
The other Alamo / Martin Espada --
Ode, inscribed to W.H. Channing / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The angels of Buena Vista / John Greenleaf Whittier --
From the Biglow papers / James Russell Lowell --
"When with pale cheek and sunken eye I sang" / Henry David Thoreau.
The voice of memory in exile, from a home in ashes / William Gilmore Simms --
The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Barbara Frietchie / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The battle autumn of 1862 / John Greenleaf Whittier --
The march into Virginia, ending in the first Manassas / Herman Melville --
Ball's bluff / Herman Melville --
A utilitarian view of the monitor's fight / Herman Melville --
Shiloh / Herman Melville --
The college colonel / Herman Melville --
The battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe --
Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman --
By the bivouac's fitful flame / Walt Whitman --
Come up from the fields father / Walt Whitman --
A march in the ranks hard-pest, and the road unknown / Walt Whitman --
The wound-dresser / Walt Whitman --
Reconciliation / Walt Whitman --
O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman --
Charleston / Henry Timrod --
The unknown dead / Henry Timrod --
In Louisiana / John William de Forest --
"It feels a shame to be alive" / Emily Dickinson --
Accomplices / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
Fredericksburg / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
The rebel / Innes Randolph --
The gathering of the grand army / Charlotte Forten Grimke --
Laughter in the senate / Sidney Lanier --
The Confederate flags / Ambrose Bierce --
A war memory / Lizette Woodworth Reese --
The unsung heroes / Paul Laurence Dunbar --
Ode to the Confederate dead / Allen Tate --
From Trollope's journal / Elizabeth Bishop --
A Confederate veteran tries to explain the event / Robert Penn Warren --
For the Union dead / Robery Lowell --
Fabrication of ancestors / Alan Dugan --
Hunting Civil War relics at Nimblewill Creek / James Dickey --
The road home / Andrew Hudgins.
The disinterred warrior / William Cullen Bryant --
Metacom / John Whittier --
"Prayer of a warrior" (Assiniboine) / Anonymous --
"Cherokee war-song, " version 1 / Anonymous --
"Cherokee war-song, " version 2 / Anonymous --
"Song for a fallen warrior" (Blackfeet) / Anonymous --
"I will arise with my tomahawk" (Passamaquoddy) / Anonymous --
"Warpath song" / Anonymous --
"Last song of Sitting Bull" (Teton Sioux) / Anonymous --
From far Dakota's canons / Walt Whitman --
"The taking of life brings serious thoughts" (Pima) / Anonymous --
"War song" (Papago) / Anonymous --
Wildwest / Archibald Macleish --
A centenary ode / James Wright --
Parading with the V.F.W. / Carter Revard --
A tribute to Chief Joseph / Duane Niatum --
The steadying / William Heyen --
I give you back / Joy Harjo --
Coosaponakeesa (Mary Mathews Musgrove Bosomsworth) / Rayna Green --
Three thousand dollar death song / Wendy Rose --
Dear John Wayne / Louise Erdich --
Captivity / Louise Erdich.
War is kind / Stephen Crane --
The battle hymn / Stephen Crane --
The conquerors: The black troops in Cuba / Paul Laurence Dunbar.
On a soldier fallen in the Philippines / William Vaughan Moody --
From ode in a time of hesitation / William Vaughan Moody --
Harry Wilmans / Edgar Lee Masters.
Not to keep / Robert Frost --
Buttons / Carl Sandburg --
The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens --
From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, IV, V / Ezra Pound --
There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale --
Triumphal March-1931, from Coriolan / T.S. Eliot --
I have a rendevous with death / Alan Seeger --
The aisne (1914-15) / Alan Seeger --
Memorial rain / Archibald Macleish --
I sing of Olaf / E.E. Cummings --
To my brother killed: Haumont Wood: October, 1918 / Louise Bogan --
Chateau de soupir, 1917 / Malcom Cowley --
Champs d'Honneur / Ernest Hemingway --
Riparto d'Assalto / Ernest Hemingway --
From poem out of childhood / Muriel Rukeyser.
Sinverguenza / Robinson Jeffers --
Say that we saw Spain die / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
To the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade / Genevieve Taggard --
To Eugene P. Loveman / Alexander Bergman --
City of anguish / Edwin Rolfe [Fishman] --
First love / Edwin Rolfe [Fishman] --
Sestina, from Letter to the front / Muriel Rukeyser --
On the murder of Lieutenant Jose del Castillo / Philip Levine.
From notes toward a supreme fiction / Wallace Stevens --
From Trilogy / H.D. [Hilda Doolittle] --
In distrust of merits / Marianne Moore --
Beaumont to Detroit: 1943 / Langston Hughes --
The fury of Aerial Bombardment / Richard Eberhart --
Snatch / Lincoln Kirstein --
DP's / Lincoln Kirstein --
Survival: Infantry / George Oppen --
From Of being numerous, 14, 18, 19, 20 / George Oppen --
Troop train / Karl Shapiro --
Losses / Randall Jarrell --
Prisoners / Randall Jarrell --
The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell --
Protocols / Randall Jarrell --
The truth / Randall Jarrell --
Elegy just in case / John Ciardi --
A box comes home / John Ciardi --
Remebering that island / Thomas McGrath --
Negro hero / Gwendolyn Brooks --
Memories of West Street and Lepke / Robert Lowell --
Grand Central with soldiers, early morning / Howard Nemerov --
A fable of war / Howard Nemerov --
Redeployment / Howard Nemerov --
After twenty years / Eleanor Ross Taylor --
First snow in Alsace / Richard Wilbur --
The firebombing / James Dickey --
The faithful / Jane Cooper --
Still life / Anthony Hecht --
Portrait from the infantry / Alan Dugan --
The pit / Lucien Stryk --
Carentan o Carentan / Louis Simpson --
Memories of a lost war / Louis Simpson --
The battle / Louis Simpson --
The Dachau shoe / W.S. Merwin --
Dos oysleydikn (The emptying) / Jerome Rothenberg --
From Legends from camp, VI, X, XV / Lawson Fusao Inada --
Prodigy / Charles Simic --
The lost pilot / James Tate --
Aubade of the singer and saboteur, Marie Triste: 1941 / Norman Dubie --
Welcome to Hiroshima / Mary Jo Salter --
Hiroshima maiden / Lee Ann Roripaugh --
From Heart Mountain, 1943 / Lee Ann Roripaugh --
The minefield / Diane Thiel.
Ode for the American dead in Asia / Thomas McGrath --
A Korean woman seated by a wall / William Meredith --
On a certain engagement south of Seoul / Hayden Carruth --
The circle / Keith Wilson --
Waterfront bars / Keith Wilson --
Memory of a victory / Keith Wilson --
Flag memoir / Reg Saner --
Trying to remember people I never really knew / William Childress --
The January-May 1951 slaughter / Rolando Hinojosa --
Jacob Mosqueda wrestles with the angels / Rolando Hinojosa --
Under flag / Myung Mi Kim --
The chasm / Suji Kwock Kim --
Fragments of the forgotten war / Suji Kwock Kim.
The March 1 / Robert Lowell --
The March 2 / Robert Lowell --
On being asked to write a poem against the war in Vietnam / Hayden Carruth --
On hearing a new escalation / Richard Hugo --
Weeping woman / Denise Levertov --
At the Justice Department / Denise Levertov --
Peace with honor / Philip Appleman --
Counting small-boned bodies / Robert Bly --
From Iron horse / Allen Ginsberg --
The Asians dying / W.S. Merwin --
Of late / George Starbuck --
Hauling over Wolf Creek Pass in winter / Walter McDonald --
Haircut / David Huddle --
Vermont / David Huddle --
May 1968 / Sharon Olds --
Infantry assault / Doug Anderson --
Papasan / Doug Anderson --
Purification / Doug Anderson --
Thoughts before dawn / John Balaban --
April 30, 1975 / John Balaban --
OK Corral East / Horace Coleman --
Basket case / Basil Paquet --
It is monsoon at last / Basil Paquet --
Peace, so that / Greg Kuzma --
Black winter / Frank Stewart --
Choppers / Dale Ritterbusch --
The hooded legion / Gerald McCarthy --
Starlight scope myopia / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Tu Do Street / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Bui doi, dust of life / Yusef Komunyakaa --
Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa --
When I am 19 I was a medic / D.F. Brown --
The little man / David Connolly --
Beautiful wreckage / W.D. Ehrhart --
How it all comes back / W.D. Ehrhart --
Finding my old battalion command post / W.D. Ehrhart --
What saves us / Bruce Weigl --
Burning shit at An Khe / Bruce Weigl --
The last lie / Bruce Weigl --
Wa ta se Na ka mo ni, Vietnam Memorial / Ray A. Young Bear --
The women next door / Barbara Tran --
Mother's pearls / Bao-Long Chu.
The colonel / Carolyn Forche --
The day they cleaned up the border: El Salvador, February 1981 / Wendy Rose --
Bosnia tune / Joseph Brodsky --
Bogomil in Languedoc / John Mathias --
A thousand cranes / Dale Ritterbusch --
"It was an open-air market" / Adrian Oktenberg --
Night vision of the Gulf War / Dale Jacobson --
Mondrian's forest / Wendy Battin --
From The ribbon on Hell's Tree, X / Kristi Garboushian --
Jihad / J.D. McClatchy --
When the towers fell / Galway Kinnell --
The school among the ruins / Adrienne Rich --
The kind of shadow that calls out fate / Tony Hoagland --
Shrapnel / C.K. Williams --
Found in the free library / Eleanor Wilner --
Here, bullet / Brian Turner.