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 (5 hr 6 min)

Chapitres

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