Poetry on Peace

Poetry on Peace
Edited by Peter Y. Chou
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Saint Isaac of Nineveh (7th century)
Be at Peace with Your Own Soul
(circa 680 A.D.)

Han Yü (768-824)
Late Spring
Grand Unity (805)

Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
Prayer of Peace

Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
A Garden Beyond Paradise

Yunus Emre (1238-1321)
Find Perfect Peace
A Single Word
The Inner Man
(circa 13th century)

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Peace in Paradiso (1321)
Peace in Purgatorio (1321)

Hafiz (c. 1310-1369)
Look at This Beauty
Great Poems
(circa 14th century)

Kabir (c. 1440-1518)
Garden of Flowers
Of Love and Affection
Peace, Contentment
Of the Universal
(circa 15th century)

Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Travel Sketches (1684)
Narrow Road to the Deep North (1689)

William Blake (1757-1827)
The French Revolution (1791)
A Cradle Song (1791)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Wayfarer's Night Song (1780)
Scene III from Faust (1808)

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837)
The Infinite (1819)
To the Moon (1819)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Concord Hymn (1837)

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Locksley Hall (1842)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Sun of Real Peace (1860)
Look Down Fair Moon (1865)
Reconciliation (1865)
Spirit Whose Work Is Done (1865)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Poems 444, 739, 912 (1862-1865)

Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
God's Grandeur (Feb. 23, 1877)
Peace (1879)

James Joyce (1882-1941)
Chamber Music, I, III, XIV, XXXIV (1907)

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Gitanjali: Verses 35, 44, 67 (1912)

A.E. (George William Russell) (1867-1935)
Oversoul (1913)
Rest (1913)
By the Margin of the Great Deep (1913)

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Peace on Earth (1913)
Peace (1914)

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)
Un Oiseau Chante (A Bird Is Singing) (1915)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (1893)
Peace (1916)

Rupert Brooke (187-1915)
War Sonnets: I. Peace (1914)
War Sonnets: V. The Soldier (1914)
The South Seas: Sonnet 12 (1914)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
O World of Many Worlds (1913)
1914 (1914)
Asleep (1917)
Futility (1918)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
The Dragon and the Undying (Feb. 1916)
Before the Battle (June 25, 1916)
Everyone Sang (April 1919)

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
Peace (1917)
There Will Come Soft Rains (1920)
The Wind in the Hemlock (1920)

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
Afternoon on a Hill (1917)
The Blue-Flag in the Bog (1921)

Rainer Maria Rilke (1892-1950)
Sonnet to Orpheus Part II, 29 (1921)

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Song of the Motionless Gardener (1921)

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
Peace (1929)
The Secret Waters (1929)

Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
Peace (1938)
Peace (1970)

H. D. (Hilda Dolittle) (1892-1950)
Tribute to the Angels #4 & #16 (1944)

Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
Examination of the Hero in a Time of War (1942)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942)
Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself (1954)

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
And I can be tranquil (1944)
Seaside Sonnet (1958)

Kathleen Raine (born 1908)
Nocturne (1943)
Tree of Heaven (1946)
Peace of Mind (1949)

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Keeping Quiet (1958)
Prayers for the Earth (DATE)

e. e. cummings (1894-1962)
love is a place (1935)
these children singing in stone (1940)
silence (1958)
i am a little church (1958)
enter no(silence (1963)

James Merrill (1926-1995)
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace (1959)

Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Prayer for Peace (1962)

Saint-John Perse (1887-1975)
Oiseaux (Birds) (1962)

George Oppen (1908-1984)
Chartres (1962)
Psalm (1965)

Mary Oliver (born 1935)
Five A.M. in the Pinewoods (1962)
Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me (2002)

Thich Nhat Hanh (born 1926)
Peace (1964)
Letter to Martin Luther King Jr. (1965)
Walking Meditation (1999)

Wendell Berry (born 1934)
The Peace of Wild Things (1968)
Window Poems #19 (1968)

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)
The Pleasure of Peace (1969)

Robert L. Barth (DATES)
Looking for Peace (1981)

Oliver Bernard (DATES)
Peace Poem (June 1982)
Lesson (July 1983)

Ada Aharoni (born in Cairo)
A Bridge of Peace (1997)

Pattiann Rogers (born 1940)
Peace All Seasons, Each Night (2001)

Stephen Mitchell (born 1943)
Vermeer (1990)

Cat Stevens (born 1948)
Morning Has Broken (1981)