As a prominent form of intangible culture, elegiac poetry plays a notable role in transmitting cultural values of a particular city to others, as well as raising awareness about the war and its aftermath through lamenting this city. This research previews the elegiac poetry lamenting the city of Aleppo during the devastating war it suffered from in the second decade of 21st century. Poems are composed by hundreds of poets from variable cultures, ethnicities and languages, reflecting the various views of Aleppo as an “authentic” and cosmopolitan city, as the oldest inhabited city in the world that still alive, and as one of the richest cities in terms of culture and heritage. The research engages two intertwined approaches, in line with its nature: archival research and textual analysis methodologies. depending on 500+ sources (poetry collections, history studies, literary critiques, biographies, periodicals, specialized websites, symposiums and videos), the research includes five sections: introduction, overview of Aleppo in history and literary and overview of elegiac poetry lamenting cities, while the narration of the contemporary elegiac poetry on Aleppo begins in section 4, involving Arabic poems (classical qaṣīdas, blank verse and prose) and world poems from 5 continents. 1st part tackles the impressions about Aleppo before the war (ancient history, glorification, describing Aleppo’s virtues and Aleppians, longing, landmarks and figures). 2nd part covers war and its aftermath (destruction, sadness, helplessness, blaming culprits and laggards, patience and steadfastness, praying and optimism). The research doesn’t rehash Syrian war scenes through poets’ eyes, but rather aims to explore the actual and symbolic value of Aleppo to these poets, as reflected in their poems. Conclusions discuss the objective and quantitative aspects of those poems according to the relationship of poets to Aleppo, as we find that all poets, who come from Aleppo, reside in it, visited it or just know it, mention the city in a positive context of praise and glorification, first two categories write sentimentally and extensively, third and fourth are more figurative and declarative. Conclusions also discuss the spatial dimensions of Aleppo, due to the rare peculiarity of its geographical, historic, urban, civilized, humane, economic and cultural spaces, which conveys multiple facets of the city in the imagination of poets, fulfilling numerous functions, whether descriptive, emotional, realistic or symbolic, as poets had described the various aesthetic material and intangible qualities of Aleppo, such as art, architecture, music, literature, nature, cuisine, and people.