World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
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99 chapters · 5 h 7 min · English
Read by Sonia, Tomas Peter, Craig Franklin, Adrian Stephens
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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
Chapters
1 The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard 29 min 2 What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones 2 min 3 Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 1 min 4 My Country, by James Montgomery 3 min 5 Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover 2 min 6 East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith 2 min 7 Gifts, by Emma Lazarus 3 min 8 England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper 2 min 9 Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson 2 min 10 The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1 min 11 The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge 2 min 12 The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin 3 min 13 The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury 2 min 14 God Save the King, by Henry Carey 2 min 15 Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell 2 min 16 The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle 3 min 17 The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson 1 min 18 Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde 8 min 19 America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston 2 min 20 Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 4 min 21 Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling 2 min 22 England and her Colonies, by William Watson 1 min 23 Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 24 The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray 9 min 25 My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns 1 min 26 Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson 4 min 27 The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton 11 min 28 Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott 1 min 29 The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan 2 min 30 The Irishman, by James Orr 2 min 31 Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) 3 min 32 A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell 2 min 33 The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous 2 min 34 My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly 2 min 35 Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy 3 min 36 Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy 5 min 37 Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt 2 min 38 Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell 3 min 39 After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell 2 min 40 Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall 3 min 41 Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts 3 min 42 What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt 3 min 43 Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt 2 min 44 Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks 4 min 45 The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger 2 min 46 Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford 5 min 47 Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 4 min 48 America, by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 49 Columbia, by Timothy Dwight 3 min 50 On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley 2 min 51 England to America, by Sydney Dobell 1 min 52 Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 53 The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 54 America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith 2 min 55 "Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes 2 min 56 Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard 2 min 57 Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 58 A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod 3 min 59 The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy 2 min 60 My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall 3 min 61 Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike 3 min 62 The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett 2 min 63 The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read 2 min 64 The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry 2 min 65 Liberty, by John Hay 2 min 66 Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton 2 min 67 The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant 4 min 68 Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell 5 min 69 The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright 3 min 70 Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford 3 min 71 Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron 3 min 72 Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron 5 min 73 Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron 6 min 74 To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace 2 min 75 Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper 3 min 76 Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker 2 min 77 The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore 1 min 78 As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore 1 min 79 The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown 1 min 80 Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles 1 min 81 Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgomery 5 min 82 Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell 3 min 83 The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle 3 min 84 A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5 min 85 The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans 2 min 86 The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake 3 min 87 The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key 3 min 88 New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan 3 min 89 The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier 5 min 90 Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison 2 min 91 The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell 8 min 92 The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant 2 min 93 Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 94 Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell 3 min 95 Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe 3 min 96 John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 97 Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor 3 min 98 Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier 3 min 99 A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf 2 min
