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

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Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton 6:36 Lu par Tomas Peter
The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron 2:05 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe 5:43 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly 2:55 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Caractacus, by Bernard Barton 4:29 Lu par Sonia
Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison 1:47 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly 4:33 Lu par Sonia
Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell 3:07 Lu par Tomas Peter
Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck 5:59 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench 2:19 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby 1:58 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart 2:29 Lu par Tomas Peter
Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles 8:22 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave 2:25 Lu par Sonia
Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2:05 Lu par Sonia
The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg 1:40 Lu par Craig Franklin
Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks 3:42 Lu par Sonia
The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond 1:34 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 5:19 Lu par Sonia
Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell 2:06 Lu par Sonia
Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay 5:51 Lu par Tomas Peter
Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning 2:25 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier 8:39 Lu par Craig Franklin
On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington 1:55 Lu par Tomas Peter
Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling 8:01 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous 13:02 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous 5:18 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous 5:13 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) 3:22 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton 4:47 Lu par Sonia
The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare 2:33 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell 1:36 Lu par Sonia
Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning 1:24 Lu par Tomas Peter
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 5:42 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury 1:46 Lu par Craig Franklin
Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis 5:42 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell 3:37 Lu par Sonia
Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe 2:10 Lu par Tomas Peter
"Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell 3:25 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron 8:40 Lu par Adrian Stephens
By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 3:04 Lu par Sonia
Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2:20 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell 4:03 Lu par Sonia
Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling 2:54 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant 1:35 Lu par Craig Franklin
Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton 2:49 Lu par Sonia
Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns 1:35 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott 3:03 Lu par Craig Franklin
Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 6:17 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott 1:57 Lu par Tomas Peter
Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 15:04 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott 4:15 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine 2:12 Lu par Sonia
Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1:22 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Warren's Address, by John Pierpont 1:37 Lu par Tomas Peter
"The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen 1:09 Lu par Craig Franklin
Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch 3:08 Lu par Sonia
Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant 3:14 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master 2:09 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous 2:45 Lu par Craig Franklin
Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman 1:58 Lu par Sonia
Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell 1:04 Lu par Adrian Stephens
In State, by Forceythe Willson 7:28 Lu par Sonia
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2:57 Lu par Craig Franklin
Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell 5:57 Lu par Craig Franklin
All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers 2:48 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Countersign, by Anonymous 2:26 Lu par Sonia
Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly 2:00 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells 1:39 Lu par Sonia
Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous 2:23 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley 3:40 Lu par Tomas Peter
Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer 2:47 Lu par Craig Franklin
Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier 3:12 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman 1:41 Lu par Craig Franklin
Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond 2:07 Lu par Tomas Peter
Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2:47 Lu par Sonia
The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor 1:21 Lu par Craig Franklin
Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker 1:55 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway 5:29 Lu par Tomas Peter
Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson 4:12 Lu par Craig Franklin
Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte 2:31 Lu par Sonia
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous 2:15 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe 1:39 Lu par Sonia
When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous 2:24 Lu par Sonia
Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read 3:40 Lu par Tomas Peter
Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton 2:41 Lu par Sonia
Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt 1:33 Lu par Craig Franklin
Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson 3:38 Lu par Tomas Peter
Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston 2:32 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker 3:26 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon 3:18 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson 4:08 Lu par Craig Franklin
Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson 4:55 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood 2:50 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers 3:23 Lu par Craig Franklin
Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend 4:36 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous 2:49 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan 2:48 Lu par Tomas Peter
All, by Francis Alexander Durivage 1:19 Lu par Sonia
The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read 5:01 Lu par Sonia
The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney 2:52 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey 2:17 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Ode to Peace, by William Tennant 2:05 Lu par Sonia
End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare 1:16 Lu par Tomas Peter
Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:29 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay 3:03 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1:08 Lu par Craig Franklin
Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont 3:55 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Day is Coming, by William Morris 4:54 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath 2:12 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey 3:42 Lu par LibriVox Volunteers
At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry 2:08 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara 4:45 Lu par Craig Franklin
The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3:26 Lu par Adrian Stephens
An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton 1:08 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant 2:44 Lu par Sonia
How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins 1:02 Lu par Adrian Stephens
Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith 2:01 Lu par Tomas Peter
The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan 2:10 Lu par Sonia
Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan 2:20 Lu par Craig Franklin
Ode, by Henry Timrod 1:31 Lu par Adrian Stephens
The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch 2:47 Lu par Sonia
Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2:16 Lu par Craig Franklin
Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2:55 Lu par Tomas Peter