His most popular work was A Victory Ball, a symphonic poem for orchestra based on an anti-war poem by Alfred Noyes.

The collection includes a number of satirical and anti-war poems, perhaps influenced by Cummings' time spent as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War.

The anti-war poem described the rows of finished guns, by that point 1,000,000 stockpiled there, stored vertically in open racks: "Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms."

In 1913, when it seemed that war might yet be avoided, he published a long anti-war poem called The Wine Press.

Written as an elegy for anonymous soldiers, "Homecoming" is an anti-war poem protesting Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War during the 1960s.

Another example of literature during this time is the anti-war poem "Dulce et Decorum Est.", written by Wilfred Owen.

Setting of anti-war poems by Siegfried Sassoon for baritone and string orchestra with snare drum and tympani.

Siegfried Sassoon makes reference to the battle in his famous anti-war poem The General in which is derided the incompetence of the British military staff.

"Wichita Vortex Sutra" is an anti-war poem by Allen Ginsberg, written in 1966.