The Best War Poems
An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry
Poetry about war, from celebration to pathos.
- WH Auden - The Shield of Achilles
- Rupert Brooke - The Soldier
- James Graham - On the death of a soldier
- Rudyard Kipling - Tommy
- Robert Lowell - For the Union Dead
- John Gillespie Magee - High Flight
- John McCrae - In Flanders Fields
- Robert Graves - A Dead Boche
- Adrian Mitchell - Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
- Wilfred Owen - Anthem For Doomed Youth
- Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Wilfred Owen - Futility
- Wilfred Owen - Parable of the Old Man and the Young
- Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting
- Henry Reed - Lessons of the War
- Siegfried Sassoon - Atrocities
- Siegfried Sassoon - Everyone Sang
- Siegfried Sassoon - The General
- Stephen Spender - Two Armies
- Alfred Tennyson - The Charge of the Light Brigade
- WB Yeats - An Irish Airman forsees his Death