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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 (6 hr 55 min)

Chapters

Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton

6:36

Read by Tomas Peter

The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron

2:05

Read by Adrian Stephens

The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe

5:43

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly

2:55

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Caractacus, by Bernard Barton

4:29

Read by Sonia

Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison

1:47

Read by Craig Franklin

The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly

4:33

Read by Sonia

Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell

3:07

Read by Tomas Peter

Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck

5:59

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench

2:19

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby

1:58

Read by Tomas Peter

The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart

2:29

Read by Tomas Peter

Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob…

8:22

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A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave

2:25

Read by Sonia

Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

2:05

Read by Sonia

The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg

1:40

Read by Craig Franklin

Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timoth…

3:42

Read by Sonia

The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W.…

1:34

Read by Adrian Stephens

Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

5:19

Read by Sonia

Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell

2:06

Read by Sonia

Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay

5:51

Read by Tomas Peter

Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

2:25

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier

8:39

Read by Craig Franklin

On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harri…

1:55

Read by Tomas Peter

Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling

8:01

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Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous

13:02

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Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous

5:18

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The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous

5:13

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes)

3:22

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The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton

4:47

Read by Sonia

The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III S…

2:33

Read by Craig Franklin

The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell

1:36

Read by Sonia

Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning

1:24

Read by Tomas Peter

Naseby, June 1645, by Obadiah Bind-Their-Kings-In-Chains-And-Their-Nobles-With-…

5:42

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury

1:46

Read by Craig Franklin

Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis

5:42

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell

3:37

Read by Sonia

Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe

2:10

Read by Tomas Peter

"Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell

3:25

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron

8:40

Read by Adrian Stephens

By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

3:04

Read by Sonia

Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2:20

Read by Tomas Peter

The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell

4:03

Read by Sonia

Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling

2:54

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant

1:35

Read by Craig Franklin

Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton

2:49

Read by Sonia

Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns

1:35

Read by Adrian Stephens

Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott

3:03

Read by Craig Franklin

Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Sco…

6:17

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott

1:57

Read by Tomas Peter

Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

15:04

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The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott

4:15

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Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine

2:12

Read by Sonia

Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph …

1:22

Read by Adrian Stephens

Warren's Address, by John Pierpont

1:37

Read by Tomas Peter

"The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bu…

1:09

Read by Craig Franklin

Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch

3:08

Read by Sonia

Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant

3:14

Read by Adrian Stephens

Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master

2:09

Read by Tomas Peter

The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous

2:45

Read by Craig Franklin

Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman

1:58

Read by Sonia

Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell

1:04

Read by Adrian Stephens

In State, by Forceythe Willson

7:28

Read by Sonia

Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina h…

2:57

Read by Craig Franklin

Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell

5:57

Read by Craig Franklin

All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers

2:48

Read by Tomas Peter

The Countersign, by Anonymous

2:26

Read by Sonia

Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly

2:00

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells

1:39

Read by Sonia

Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous

2:23

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley

3:40

Read by Tomas Peter

Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer

2:47

Read by Craig Franklin

Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

3:12

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman

1:41

Read by Craig Franklin

Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond

2:07

Read by Tomas Peter

Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

2:47

Read by Sonia

The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor

1:21

Read by Craig Franklin

Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker

1:55

Read by Adrian Stephens

Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway

5:29

Read by Tomas Peter

Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson

4:12

Read by Craig Franklin

Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte

2:31

Read by Sonia

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous

2:15

Read by Adrian Stephens

Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe

1:39

Read by Sonia

When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous

2:24

Read by Sonia

Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read

3:40

Read by Tomas Peter

Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton

2:41

Read by Sonia

Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt

1:33

Read by Craig Franklin

Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

3:38

Read by Tomas Peter

Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston

2:32

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker

3:26

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon

3:18

Read by Adrian Stephens

The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson

4:08

Read by Craig Franklin

Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson

4:55

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood

2:50

Read by Adrian Stephens

Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers

3:23

Read by Craig Franklin

Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Tow…

4:36

Read by Tomas Peter

The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous

2:49

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan

2:48

Read by Tomas Peter

All, by Francis Alexander Durivage

1:19

Read by Sonia

The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read

5:01

Read by Sonia

The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney

2:52

Read by Craig Franklin

The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey

2:17

Read by Adrian Stephens

Ode to Peace, by William Tennant

2:05

Read by Sonia

End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare

1:16

Read by Tomas Peter

Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:29

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay

3:03

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1:08

Read by Craig Franklin

Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont

3:55

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Day is Coming, by William Morris

4:54

Read by Tomas Peter

The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath

2:12

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey

3:42

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry

2:08

Read by Tomas Peter

The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara

4:45

Read by Craig Franklin

The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

3:26

Read by Adrian Stephens

An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton

1:08

Read by Tomas Peter

The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant

2:44

Read by Sonia

How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins

1:02

Read by Adrian Stephens

Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith

2:01

Read by Tomas Peter

The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan

2:10

Read by Sonia

Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan

2:20

Read by Craig Franklin

Ode, by Henry Timrod

1:31

Read by Adrian Stephens

The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch

2:47

Read by Sonia

Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier

2:16

Read by Craig Franklin

Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

2:55

Read by Tomas Peter