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)

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