For your consideration:

"September 1, 1939" by W. H. Auden
    http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1391

"Auden on Bin Laden" by Eric McHenry
    http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-09-20_115900.asp

Four poems compiled by Robert Pinsky
    http://slate.msn.com/Poem/01-09-20/Poem.asp

    Many people have sought poetry in response to the death, terror,
    courage, and disruption following the recent attack and massacre. Here
    are four poems: Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The House on the Hill,"
    which meditates on absolute loss and the inadequacy of words; Marianne
    Moore's "What Are Years?" on the subject of courage; Carlos Drummond
    de Andrade's "Souvenir of the Ancient World," in which it is normal life
    that becomes the remote, ancient time; and Czeslaw Milosz's defiant
    invocation of the good, "Incantation."

Regards,
   Rick Parker