World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)
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124 chapters · 6 h 55 min · English
Read by Tomas Peter, Adrian Stephens, Sonia, Craig Franklin
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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
Chapters
1 Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton 7 min 2 The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron 2 min 3 The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe 6 min 4 Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly 3 min 5 Caractacus, by Bernard Barton 4 min 6 Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison 2 min 7 The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly 5 min 8 Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell 3 min 9 Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck 6 min 10 Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench 2 min 11 Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby 2 min 12 The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart 2 min 13 Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles 8 min 14 A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave 2 min 15 Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 2 min 16 The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg 2 min 17 Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks 4 min 18 The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond 2 min 19 Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton 5 min 20 Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell 2 min 21 Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay 6 min 22 Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning 2 min 23 The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier 9 min 24 On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington 2 min 25 Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling 8 min 26 Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous 13 min 27 Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous 5 min 28 The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous 5 min 29 The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) 3 min 30 The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton 5 min 31 The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare 3 min 32 The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell 2 min 33 Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning 1 min 34 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 6 min 35 The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury 2 min 36 Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis 6 min 37 Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell 4 min 38 Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe 2 min 39 "Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell 3 min 40 Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron 9 min 41 By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 3 min 42 Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 2 min 43 The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell 4 min 44 Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling 3 min 45 Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant 2 min 46 Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton 3 min 47 Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns 2 min 48 Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott 3 min 49 Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 6 min 50 Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott 2 min 51 Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott 15 min 52 The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott 4 min 53 Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine 2 min 54 Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 min 55 Warren's Address, by John Pierpont 2 min 56 "The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen 1 min 57 Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch 3 min 58 Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 59 Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master 2 min 60 The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous 3 min 61 Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman 2 min 62 Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell 1 min 63 In State, by Forceythe Willson 7 min 64 Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes 3 min 65 Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell 6 min 66 All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers 3 min 67 The Countersign, by Anonymous 2 min 68 Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly 2 min 69 The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells 2 min 70 Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous 2 min 71 The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley 4 min 72 Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer 3 min 73 Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier 3 min 74 Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman 2 min 75 Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond 2 min 76 Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman 3 min 77 The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor 1 min 78 Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker 2 min 79 Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway 5 min 80 Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson 4 min 81 Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte 3 min 82 Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous 2 min 83 Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe 2 min 84 When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous 2 min 85 Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read 4 min 86 Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton 3 min 87 Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt 2 min 88 Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson 4 min 89 Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston 3 min 90 The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker 3 min 91 The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon 3 min 92 The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson 4 min 93 Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson 5 min 94 Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood 3 min 95 Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers 3 min 96 Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend 5 min 97 The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous 3 min 98 The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan 3 min 99 All, by Francis Alexander Durivage 1 min 100 The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read 5 min 101 The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney 3 min 102 The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey 2 min 103 Ode to Peace, by William Tennant 2 min 104 End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare 1 min 105 Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 106 Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay 3 min 107 The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1 min 108 Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont 4 min 109 The Day is Coming, by William Morris 5 min 110 The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath 2 min 111 The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey 4 min 112 At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry 2 min 113 The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara 5 min 114 The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3 min 115 An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton 1 min 116 The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant 3 min 117 How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins 1 min 118 Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith 2 min 119 The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan 2 min 120 Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan 2 min 121 Ode, by Henry Timrod 2 min 122 The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch 3 min 123 Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier 2 min 124 Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman 3 min
