American war poetry : an anthology
American War Poetry spans the history of the nation. Beginning with the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and ending with the Gulf Wars, this original and significant anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. American War Poetry opens with a ballad by a freed African American slave commenting on a skirmish with Indians in a Massachusetts meadow. Poems on the American Revolution follow, as well as poems on "minor" conflicts like the Mexican War and the Spanish-American Wars. This compact anthology has generous selections on the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese-American War, but it also includes an unusually large offering on American participation in the Spanish Civil War. Another section covers four hundred years of conflict with Native Americans, ending with poems by contemporary Indians who respond passionately and directly to their difficult history. The collection also reaches into current reaction to American involvement in Latin America, Bosnia, and the Gulf Wars. Showing the depth of feeling and the range of thinking with which Americans have confronted war, American War Poetry expands our sense of what poetry is made to do. While the birth of a national identity is documented in early poems, the anthology also conveys the growing sophistication of a uniquely American style. Although early war poems show that the first justification for war was purely defensive, as American global ambitions matured, American writers moved increasingly to deplore a homegrown imperialism and its terrible costs. While many familiar poems of patriotic ardor have been chosen, other poems show a steady interest in antiwar themes
Poetry
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The Colonial Wars, 1746-1763
Bars fight / Lucy Terry (Prince)
The song of Braddock's men / Anonymous
"Progress of the Colonies. Troubles with the natives" ; "Hostilities between France and England extended to America. Braddock's defeat" / Joel Barlow, from Columbiad, book 5
The Revolutionary War, 1776-1783
Liberty tree / Thomas Paine
The American soldier ; Jeffery, or the soldier's progress ; 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. The War of 1812
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 Alamo and the Mexican-American War, 1836 and 1846-1848
The defense of the Alamo / Joaquin Miller
The other Alamo / Martín 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 Civil War, 1861-1865
The voice of memory in exile, from a Home in Ashes / William Gilmore Simms
The arsenal at Springfield / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Barbara Frietchie ; The battle autumn of 1862 / John Greenleaf Whittier
The march into Virginia, ending in the First Manassas ; Ball's bluff ; A utilitarian view of the Monitor's fight ; Shiloh ; The college colonel / Herman Melville
The Battle Hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe
Cavalry crossing a ford ; By the bivouac's fitful flame ; Come up from the fields Father ; A march in the ranks hard-prest, and road unknown ; The wound-dresser ; Reconciliation ; O Captain! My Captain! / Walt Whitman
The unknown dead / Henry Timrod
In Louisiana / John William De Forest
"It feels a shame to be alive" / Emily Dickinson
Accomplices ; 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 / Robert Lowell
Fabrication of ancestors / Alan Dugan
Hunting Civil War relics at Nimblewill Creek / James Dickey
The road home / Andrew Hudgins. The Indian Wars, 1620-1911
The disinterred warrior / William Cullen Bryant
Metacom / John Greenleaf Whittier
"Prayer of a warrior" (Assiniboine) ; "Cherokee war-song," version 1 ; "Cherokee war-song," version 2 ; "Song for a fallen warrior (Blackfeet) ; "I will arise with my tomahawk" (Passamaquoddy) ; "Warpath song" ; "Last song of Sitting Bull" (Teton Sioux) / Anonymous
From far Dakota's cañons / Walt Whitman
"The taking of life brings serious thoughts" (Pima) ; "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 ; Captivity / Louise Erdrich
The Spanish-American War, 1898
War is kind ; The battle hymn / Stephen Crane
The conquerors : the Black troops in Cuba
The War of the Philippines, 1899-1902
On a soldier fallen in the Philippines ; from Ode in a time of hesitation / William Vaughan Moody
Harry Wilmans / Edgar Lee Masters. World War I, 1917-1918
Patterns / Amy Lowell
Not to keep / Robert Frost
Buttons ; Grass / Carl Sandburg
The death of a soldier / Wallace Stevens
from Hugh Selwyn Mauberlye, IV, V / Ezra Pound
There will come soft rains / Sara Teasdale
Triumphal march : 1931, from Coriolan / T.S. Eliot
I have a rendezvous with death / 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 / Malcolm Cowley
Champs d'honneur ; Riparto d'assalto / Ernest Hemingway
Poem out of childhood / Muriel Rukeyser
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
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 ; First love / Edwin Rolfe (Fishman)
Sestina, from Letter to the Front / Muriel Rukeyser
On the murder of Lieutenant Jose del Castillo / Philip Levine. World War II, 1941-1945
Notes toward a supreme fiction / Wallace Stevens
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 ; DP's / Lincoln Kirstein
Survival : infantry ; Of being numerous, 14, 18, 19, 20 / George Oppen
Troop train / Karl Shapiro
Losses ; Prisoners ; The death of the ball turret gunner ; Protocols ; The truth / Randall Jarrell
Elegy just in case ; A box comes home / John Ciardi
Remembering that island / Thomas McGrath
Negro hero / Gwendolyn Brooks
Memories of West Street and Lepke / Robert Lowell
Grand Central with soldiers, early morning ; A fable of the war ; IFF ; 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 ; Memories of a lost war ; The battle / Louis Simpson
The Dachau shoe / W.S. Merwin
Dos oysleydikn (The emptying) / Jerome Rothenberg
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 ; Heart Mountain, 1943 / Lee Ann Roripaugh
The minefield / Diane Thiel. The Korean War, 1950-1953
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 ; Waterfront bars ; Memory of a victory / Keith Wilson
The said ; Flag memoir / Reg Saner
Trying to remember people I never really knew / William Childress
The January-May 1951 slaughter ; Jacob Mosqueda wrestles with the angels / Rolando Hinojosa
Under flag / Myung Mi Kim
The chasm ; Fragments of the forgotten war / Suji Kwock Kimi. The Vietnam War, 1964-1975
The march 1 ; 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 ; At the Justice Department / Denise Levertov
Peace with honor / Philip Appleman
Counting small-boned bodies / Robert Bly
Iron horse / Allen Ginsberg
The Asians dying / W.S. Merwin
Of late / George Starbuck
Hauling over Wolf Creek Pass in winter / Walter McDonald
Dead weight / Jim Nye
Work ; Haircut ; Vermont / David Huddle
May 1968 / Sharon Olds
Infantry assault ; Papasan ; Purification / Doug Anderson
Thoughts before dawn ; April 30, 1975 / John Balaban
OK Corral East / Horace Coleman
Basket case ; 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 ; Tu Do Street ; Dui doi, dust of life ; Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa
When I am 19 I was a medic / D.F. Brown
The little man / David Connolly
Beautiful wreckage ; How it all comes back ; Finding my old battalion command post / W.D. Ehrhart
What saves us ; Burning shit an An Khe ; 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. El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf
The colonel / Carolyn Forché
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
The ribbon the 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
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