List of war poets

• King David, traditionally credited with Biblical poetry in the Book of Psalms

• Homer: The Iliad

• Quintus of Smyrna: Posthomerica

• Ferdowsi: Shahnameh

• Aneirin: Y Gododdin

• John Barbour: The Brus

• Blind Harry: The Wallace

• Jean Elliot: The Flowers of the Forest

• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh: Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib

• Brne Karnarutić: Vazetje Sigeta grada

• Miklós Zrínyi: Szigeti veszedelem

• Pavao Ritter Vitezović: Odiljenje sigetsko

• Andreas Gryphius

• Sìleas na Ceapaich: Là Sliabh an t-Siorraim, Alistair à Gleanna Garadh

• Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair

• John Roy Stewart

• Seán "Clárach" Mac Domhnaill: Mo Ghile Mear

• Walter Scott

• Carolina Nairne

• Agnes Maxwell MacLeod

• Allan Cunningham

• William Hamilton

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Paul Revere's Ride

• Ralph Waldo Emerson: Concord Hymn

• David Humphreys

• Iain mac Mhurchaidh^[1]

• Cionneach MacCionnich^[2]

• Haxhi Shehreti: Alipashiad

• Lord Byron

• Rigas Feraios
• Dionysios Solomos
• Georg Herwegh

• Sándor Petőfi

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

• Walt Whitman: "Beat! Beat! Drums!"

• Herman Melville

• Awenydd

• Abram Ryan

• Rudyard Kipling: "Lichtenberg"^[3]

• Thomas Hardy

• Hristo Botev: "My Prayer", "Hadzhi Dimitar", "At Farewell"^[4]

• John Allan Wyeth^[5]

• Wilfred Owen

• Robert Graves

• Siegfried Sassoon

• David Jones

• Ivor Gurney

• Rupert Brooke
• Edward Thomas

• Isaac Rosenberg

• Charles Peguy

• Guillaume Apollinaire

• Blaise Cendrars

• Eugenio Montale

• Giuseppe Ungaretti

• Gabriele D'Annunzio

• Georg Trakl

• August Stramm

• Gottfried Benn

• Géza Gyóni
• August Stramm

• Walter Flex: Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht

• Yvan Goll: Requiem. Für die Gefallenen von Europa

• Stefan George
• Reinhard Sorge

• Anton Schnack
• Guillaume Apollinaire

• Adrien Bertrand

• Yvan Goll

• Charles Péguy

• Blaise Cendrars
• Jean de La Ville de Mirmont
• Yann-Ber Kalloc'h

• Alexander Blok

• Ilya Ehrenburg

• Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov

• Nikolay Gumilyov
• Anna Akhmatova

• Leon Gellert
• John O'Donnell
• John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
• Robert W. Service: Rhymes of a Red-Cross Man

• William Butler Yeats: "On being asked for a War Poem"

• Allan MacDonald

• Tom Kettle

• Charles Sorley

• John Munro

• Pàdraig Moireasdan
• Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna
• Hedd Wyn

• Cynan

• Alan Seeger

• Joyce Kilmer: "Rouge Bouquet"

• Moina Michael: We Shall Keep the Faith^[6]

• Roy Campbell
• Uys Krige
• Federico García Lorca
• José María Hinojosa Lasarte
• Antonio Machado
• Manuel Machado

• Czesław Miłosz

• Hirsh Glick

• Anna Świrszczyńska

• Miklós Radnóti

• Anna Akhmatova
• Alexander Solzhenitsyn^[7]

• Desanka Maksimović

• Yrjö Jylhä

• John Gillespie Magee Jr.

• Alun Lewis

• Keith Douglas

• Sidney Keyes

• Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

• H. W. Gretton

• Hamish Henderson

• Duncan Livingstone

• Sorley MacLean

• Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna

• Aonghas Caimbeul

• Calum MacNeacail

• Dylan Thomas

• Alun Lewis

• Richard Wilbur

• Anthony Hecht
• Dunstan Thompson

• Karl Shapiro
• Randall Jarrell

• Paul Celan: "Todesfuge"
• Tristan Tzara

• Ryuichi Tamura
• Sadako Kurihara

• Tadamichi Kuribayashi