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The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)

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The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes poems about the upheaving times of war and the calls for peace. - Summary by Sonia

Genre(s): Anthologies

Language: English

Keyword(s): poetry (1809), war (234), slavery (145), peace (28), Ballads (15), antiquity (15), Scottish (13), battles (7), secession (2)

Group: World's Best Poetry

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton Tomas Peter
 00:06:36
Play 02 The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron Adrian Stephens
 00:02:05
Play 03 The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe Group 00:05:43
Play 04 Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly Group 00:02:55
Play 05 Caractacus, by Bernard Barton Sonia
Adrian Stephens
 00:04:29
Play 06 Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison Craig Franklin
 00:01:47
Play 07 The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly Sonia
 00:04:33
Play 08 Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell Tomas Peter
 00:03:07
Play 09 Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck Group 00:05:59
Play 10 Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench Group 00:02:19
Play 11 Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby Tomas Peter
Craig Franklin
 00:01:58
Play 12 The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart Tomas Peter
Adrian Stephens
 00:02:29
Play 13 Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles Group 00:08:22
Play 14 A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave Sonia
 00:02:25
Play 15 Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Sonia
Adrian Stephens
 00:02:05
Play 16 The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg Craig Franklin
 00:01:40
Play 17 Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks Sonia
Tomas Peter
 00:03:42
Play 18 The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond Adrian Stephens
 00:01:34
Play 19 Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Sonia
Adrian Stephens
 00:05:19
Play 20 Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell Sonia
 00:02:06
Play 21 Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay Tomas Peter
Craig Franklin
 00:05:51
Play 22 Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning Group 00:02:25
Play 23 The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier Craig Franklin
 00:08:39
Play 24 On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington Tomas Peter
 00:01:55
Play 25 Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling Group 00:08:01
Play 26 Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous Group 00:13:02
Play 27 Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous Group 00:05:18
Play 28 The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous Group 00:05:13
Play 29 The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) Group 00:03:22
Play 30 The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton Sonia
Tomas Peter
 00:04:47
Play 31 The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare Craig Franklin
 00:02:33
Play 32 The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell Sonia
 00:01:36
Play 33 Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning Tomas Peter
 00:01:24
Play 34 Naseby, June 1645, by Obadiah Bind-Their-Kings-In-Chains-And-Their-Nobles-With-Links-Of-Iron, Sergeant in Ireton's Regiment, by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay Adrian Stephens
 00:05:42
Play 35 The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury Craig Franklin
 00:01:46
Play 36 Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis Group 00:05:42
Play 37 Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell Sonia
Craig Franklin
 00:03:37
Play 38 Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe Tomas Peter
 00:02:10
Play 39 "Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell Group 00:03:25
Play 40 Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron Adrian Stephens
 00:08:40
Play 41 By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Sonia
 00:03:04
Play 42 Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tomas Peter
 00:02:20
Play 43 The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell Sonia
Craig Franklin
 00:04:03
Play 44 Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling Group 00:02:54
Play 45 Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant Craig Franklin
 00:01:35
Play 46 Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton Sonia
 00:02:49
Play 47 Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns Adrian Stephens
 00:01:35
Play 48 Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott Craig Franklin
 00:03:03
Play 49 Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott Group 00:06:17
Play 50 Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott Tomas Peter
 00:01:57
Play 51 Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott Group 00:15:04
Play 52 The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott Group 00:04:15
Play 53 Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine Sonia
 00:02:12
Play 54 Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Adrian Stephens
 00:01:22
Play 55 Warren's Address, by John Pierpont Tomas Peter
 00:01:37
Play 56 "The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen Craig Franklin
 00:01:09
Play 57 Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch Sonia
 00:03:08
Play 58 Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant Adrian Stephens
 00:03:14
Play 59 Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master Tomas Peter
 00:02:09
Play 60 The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous Craig Franklin
 00:02:45
Play 61 Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman Sonia
 00:01:58
Play 62 Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell Adrian Stephens
 00:01:04
Play 63 In State, by Forceythe Willson Sonia
Tomas Peter
 00:07:28
Play 64 Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Craig Franklin
 00:02:57
Play 65 Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell Craig Franklin
Adrian Stephens
 00:05:57
Play 66 All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers Tomas Peter
 00:02:48
Play 67 The Countersign, by Anonymous Sonia
 00:02:26
Play 68 Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly Group 00:02:00
Play 69 The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells Sonia
 00:01:39
Play 70 Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous Adrian Stephens
 00:02:23
Play 71 The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley Tomas Peter
Adrian Stephens
 00:03:40
Play 72 Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer Craig Franklin
Adrian Stephens
 00:02:47
Play 73 Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier Group 00:03:12
Play 74 Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman Craig Franklin
 00:01:41
Play 75 Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond Tomas Peter
 00:02:07
Play 76 Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman Sonia
Adrian Stephens
 00:02:47
Play 77 The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor Craig Franklin
 00:01:21
Play 78 Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker Adrian Stephens
 00:01:55
Play 79 Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway Tomas Peter
 00:05:29
Play 80 Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson Craig Franklin
 00:04:12
Play 81 Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte Sonia
 00:02:31
Play 82 Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous Adrian Stephens
 00:02:15
Play 83 Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe Sonia
 00:01:39
Play 84 When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous Sonia
 00:02:24
Play 85 Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read Tomas Peter
 00:03:40
Play 86 Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton Sonia
 00:02:41
Play 87 Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt Craig Franklin
 00:01:33
Play 88 Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson Tomas Peter
 00:03:38
Play 89 Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston Adrian Stephens
 00:02:32
Play 90 The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker Group 00:03:26
Play 91 The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon Adrian Stephens
 00:03:18
Play 92 The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson Craig Franklin
 00:04:08
Play 93 Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson Group 00:04:55
Play 94 Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood Adrian Stephens
 00:02:50
Play 95 Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers Craig Franklin
 00:03:23
Play 96 Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend Tomas Peter
Craig Franklin
 00:04:36
Play 97 The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous Adrian Stephens
 00:02:49
Play 98 The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan Tomas Peter
 00:02:48
Play 99 All, by Francis Alexander Durivage Sonia
 00:01:19
Play 100 The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read Sonia
 00:05:01
Play 101 The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney Craig Franklin
 00:02:52
Play 102 The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey Adrian Stephens
 00:02:17
Play 103 Ode to Peace, by William Tennant Sonia
 00:02:05
Play 104 End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare Tomas Peter
 00:01:16
Play 105 Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier Group 00:02:29
Play 106 Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay Group 00:03:03
Play 107 The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Craig Franklin
 00:01:08
Play 108 Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont Adrian Stephens
 00:03:55
Play 109 The Day is Coming, by William Morris Tomas Peter
 00:04:54
Play 110 The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath Adrian Stephens
 00:02:12
Play 111 The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey Group 00:03:42
Play 112 At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry Tomas Peter
 00:02:08
Play 113 The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara Craig Franklin
 00:04:45
Play 114 The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Adrian Stephens
 00:03:26
Play 115 An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton Tomas Peter
 00:01:08
Play 116 The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant Sonia
 00:02:44
Play 117 How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins Adrian Stephens
 00:01:02
Play 118 Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith Tomas Peter
 00:02:01
Play 119 The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan Sonia
 00:02:10
Play 120 Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan Craig Franklin
 00:02:20
Play 121 Ode, by Henry Timrod Adrian Stephens
 00:01:31
Play 122 The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch Sonia
 00:02:47
Play 123 Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier Craig Franklin
 00:02:16
Play 124 Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman Tomas Peter
 00:02:55