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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
Strange Meeting Wilfred Owen 1919
Blackout Faiz Ahmed Faiz 1987
April 27, 1937 Timothy Steele 2006
i sing of Olaf glad and big E. E. Cummings 1931
The Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals Norman Dubie 1983
The Soldier Rupert Brooke 1914
Memorial Day for the War Dead Yehuda Amichai 1977
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Eighth Air Force Randall Jarrell 1969
Ode to the Confederate Dead Allen Tate 1937
The War Works Hard Dunya Mikhail 2005
Spoken from the Hedgerows Jorie Graham 2005
Bomb Crater Sky Lam Thi My Da 2005
War Is Kind [excerpt] Stephen Crane 1899
War Photograph Kate Daniels 2002
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
The Fall of Rome W. H. Auden 1940
For the Union Dead Robert Lowell 1964
the sonnet-ballad Gwendolyn Brooks 1949
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998

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