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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)

Chapters

The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard

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What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones

2:08

Read by Craig Franklin

Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Wal…

1:16

Read by Adrian Stephens

My Country, by James Montgomery

2:44

Read by Sonia

Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover

1:35

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East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith

2:27

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Gifts, by Emma Lazarus

2:52

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England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper

2:23

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Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson

2:22

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The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1:29

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The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Ri…

2:14

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The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin

3:21

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The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury

1:53

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God Save the King, by Henry Carey

1:46

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Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell

1:33

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The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hasti…

2:54

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The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson

1:16

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Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde

7:34

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America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston

2:16

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Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

3:33

Read by Adrian Stephens

Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling

1:55

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England and her Colonies, by William Watson

1:18

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Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

1:31

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The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray

9:13

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My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns

1:27

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Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson

3:58

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The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton

10:53

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Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott

1:16

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The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan

1:43

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The Irishman, by James Orr

2:28

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Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)

2:39

Read by Craig Franklin

A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell

1:54

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The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous

2:16

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My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly

2:20

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Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy

2:50

Read by Craig Franklin

Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy

4:36

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Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt

1:39

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Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell

3:13

Read by Adrian Stephens

After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell

1:50

Read by Craig Franklin

Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall

3:08

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Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts

3:08

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What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt

3:14

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Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt

2:20

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Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Ti…

3:53

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The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger

2:04

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Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from…

5:27

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Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4:06

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America, by William Cullen Bryant

2:35

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Columbia, by Timothy Dwight

3:26

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On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berk…

1:56

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England to America, by Sydney Dobell

1:20

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Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier

1:54

Read by Craig Franklin

The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1:31

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America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith

2:25

Read by Adrian Stephens

"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes

1:33

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Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard

1:32

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Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant

3:14

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A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod

2:35

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The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy

1:46

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My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall

3:13

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Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike

2:40

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The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett

1:35

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The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read

1:38

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The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry

2:10

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Liberty, by John Hay

2:00

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Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton

1:55

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The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant

4:30

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Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell

4:49

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The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of El…

3:15

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Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford

3:23

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Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron

2:47

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Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron

4:51

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Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron

5:31

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To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace

1:42

Read by Craig Franklin

Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper

2:51

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Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker

2:26

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The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore

1:18

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As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore

0:59

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The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown

1:08

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Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles

1:17

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Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgome…

5:24

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Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell

2:49

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The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

3:23

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A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4:53

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The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans

2:01

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The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake

3:18

Read by Craig Franklin

The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key

3:06

Read by Adrian Stephens

New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan

2:33

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The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier

4:42

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Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-…

1:33

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The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell

7:53

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The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant

2:22

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Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:21

Read by Craig Franklin

Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell

2:33

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Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe

3:13

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John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:19

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Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor

2:40

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Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:45

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A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf

1:31

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