War Poems Classic and Modern War Poems Classic War Horrors of War The Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALAKLAVA by Alfred Lord Tennyson Fast rode the knight by Stephen Crane The Soldier by Rupert Brooke The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Soldier by Rupert Brooke The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats Exposure by Wilfred Owen The Send-off by Wilfred Owen WIRERS by Siegfried Sassoon COUNTER-ATTACK by Siegfried Sassoon Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen HOW TO DIE by Siegfried Sassoon Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim by Walt Whitman The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon Dulce Et Decorum Est–Wilfred Owen Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon Loss from War Memorial The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon The Hero by Siegfried Sassoon HUSH’D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY by Walt Whitman Success by Emily Dickinson A REBEL by John Gould Fletcher The Soldier’s Wife by Robert Southey Memorial Day by Joyce Kilmer In Flanders Fields by John McCrae Love’s Lantern by Joyce Kilmer Wild with all Regrets by Wilfred Owen O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman Contemporary War On the border line by Inas Essa