War poetry

The Iliad (; , ; ) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. Like the Odyssey, the poem is divided into 24 books and was written in dactylic hexameter. It contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version. The Iliad is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature and is a central part of the Epic Cycle.

poem by the English poet Rudyard Kipling

right|thumb|350px|The triumph of Dionysus, depicted on a 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus. Dionysus rides in a chariot drawn by panthers; his procession includes elephants and other exotic animals. The Dionysiaca (, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus. It is an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity at 20,426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.

poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1854)

Quote from Horace's Odes

2012 prose poem by Günter Grass

poet involved in or associated with a war

Kassassin () is a town in Lower Egypt by rail west of Ismailia, a major city on the Suez Canal.

English poem by Felicia Hemans

the earliest securely datable (circa 1198) text in an Venetian vernacular

book by Basílio da Gama

American writer