Does anyone know of any good poems that depict the theme of courage?

Question:It's a thing for 10th grade English, so its gotta be a fairly complex poem, nothing simple.....

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the road not taken - frost.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Henry V
Act IV, scene III
The Saint Crispin's Day speech in which Henry urges anyone with no stomach for the fight to leave. This is gutsy because the English are out-numbered 5 to 1. He offers safe passage and payment for travel of those wishing to leave. But goes on to describe the glory that will be the share of those who stay. He also proclaims, " For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother..."

...and gentlemen in England now abed will think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speak that fought with us upon St. Crispin's Day!

Everytime I read this portion of the play I want to mount up, ride out, and wade into the thick of battle.

How They Brought the Good News
Robert Browning