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Sestina — What is a sestina Created: Thursday, January 13, 2005 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
The sestina defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to examples of classic sestinas.
Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson Created: Saturday, October 22, 2011 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, in chronological order.
Sestina of the Tramp-Royal by Robert Louis Stevenson Created: Saturday, May 26, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
“Sestina of the Tramp-Royal” by Robert Louis Stevenson (1896)
Pantoum — What is a pantoum Created: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 Updated: Thursday, May 24, 2012
The pantoum defined, in our glossary of poetic forms, with links to read examples of pantoums written in English.
Remembering That Island by Thomas McGrath Created: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: Selection from “Remembering That Island” by Thomas McGrath (1972)
On Being Asked for a War Poem by William Butler Yeats Created: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “On Being Asked for a War Poem” by William Butler Yeats (1928)
Country at War by Robert Graves Created: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Country at War” by Robert Graves (1920)
Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon Created: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Aftermath” by Siegfried Sassoon (1919)
Not to Keep by Robert Frost Created: Thursday, May 22, 2008 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Not to Keep” by Robert Frost (1917)
I Have a Rendezvous with Death by Alan Seeger Created: Thursday, May 22, 2008 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” by Alan Seeger (1917)
Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen Created: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen (1917)
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Created: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen (1917)
Iron and Grass by Carl Sandburg Created: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Iron” (1916) and “Grass” (1918) by Carl Sandburg
Patterns by Amy Lowell Created: Friday, April 09, 2010 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “Patterns” by Amy Lowell (1916)
War Poems - Poems of War and Remembrance – A Collection of Classic War Poems Created: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
A collection of classic war poems, by Li Po, William Shakespeare, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Herman Melville, Stephen Crane, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Wilfri...
A Ballad of Footmen by Amy Lowell Created: Monday, May 14, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: “A Ballad of Footmen” by Amy Lowell (1916)
Poems by Amy Lowell Created: Thursday, September 22, 2011 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Our library of poem texts – selected poems by Amy Lowell, in chronological order.
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke Created: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Poems of War: Sonnet V., “The Soldier” from the sonnet sequence 1914 by Rupert Brooke (1915)">