The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)


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The eighth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes poems of national pride, heroism and the quest for freedom. The collection also includes an introductory essay by American scholar Francis Hovey Stoddard (1847-1936). - Summary by Tomas Peter

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The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard 29:14 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones 2:08 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 1:16 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
My Country, by James Montgomery 2:44 Gelesen von Sonia
Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover 1:35 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith 2:28 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Gifts, by Emma Lazarus 2:53 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper 2:23 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson 2:22 Gelesen von Sonia
The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1:29 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge 2:15 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin 3:22 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury 1:53 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
God Save the King, by Henry Carey 1:47 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell 1:33 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle 2:55 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson 1:16 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde 7:34 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston 2:17 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 3:34 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling 1:56 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
England and her Colonies, by William Watson 1:18 Gelesen von Sonia
Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 1:31 Gelesen von Sonia
The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray 9:13 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns 1:27 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson 3:58 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton 10:53 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott 1:16 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan 1:43 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Irishman, by James Orr 2:28 Gelesen von Sonia
Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) 2:40 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell 1:54 Gelesen von Sonia
The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous 2:17 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly 2:20 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy 2:50 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy 4:36 Gelesen von Sonia
Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt 1:39 Gelesen von Sonia
Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell 3:14 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell 1:50 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall 3:08 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts 3:08 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt 3:15 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt 2:21 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks 3:53 Gelesen von Sonia
The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger 2:05 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford 5:27 Gelesen von Sonia
Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4:06 Gelesen von Sonia
America, by William Cullen Bryant 2:36 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Columbia, by Timothy Dwight 3:26 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley 1:56 Gelesen von Sonia
England to America, by Sydney Dobell 1:21 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier 1:55 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1:31 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith 2:26 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes 1:33 Gelesen von Sonia
Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard 1:33 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant 3:14 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod 2:35 Gelesen von Sonia
The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy 1:47 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall 3:13 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike 2:40 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett 1:35 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read 1:38 Gelesen von Sonia
The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry 2:10 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Liberty, by John Hay 2:01 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton 1:56 Gelesen von Sonia
The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant 4:30 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell 4:50 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright 3:15 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford 3:24 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron 2:47 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron 4:51 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron 5:31 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace 1:43 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper 2:52 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker 2:26 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore 1:18 Gelesen von Sonia
As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore 1:00 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown 1:08 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles 1:18 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgomery 5:25 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell 2:49 Gelesen von Sonia
The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 3:23 Gelesen von Sonia
A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4:54 Gelesen von Sonia
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans 2:01 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake 3:19 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key 3:07 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan 2:33 Gelesen von Sonia
The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier 4:43 Gelesen von LibriVox Volunteers
Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison 1:33 Gelesen von Sonia
The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell 7:53 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant 2:23 Gelesen von Adrian Stephens
Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:22 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell 2:34 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe 3:14 Gelesen von Sonia
John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:20 Gelesen von Craig Franklin
Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor 2:41 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:45 Gelesen von Tomas Peter
A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf 1:32 Gelesen von Sonia