World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)
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Length 5 h 7 min
Chapters 99
First published 1904
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 Read by Sonia and 3 others 29:14
2
What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones Read by Craig Franklin 2:08
3
Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Adrian Stephens 1:16
4
My Country, by James Montgomery Read by Sonia 2:44
5
Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover Read by Tomas Peter 1:35
6
East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith Read by Adrian Stephens 2:28
7
Gifts, by Emma Lazarus Read by Sonia and 3 others 2:53
8
England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper Read by Adrian Stephens 2:23
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Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson Read by Sonia 2:22
10
The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Adrian Stephens 1:29
11
The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge Read by Tomas Peter 2:15
12
The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:22
13
The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 1:53
14
God Save the King, by Henry Carey Read by Craig Franklin 1:47
15
Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 1:33
16
The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle Read by Adrian Stephens 2:55
17
The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson Read by Tomas Peter 1:16
18
Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde Read by Adrian Stephens 7:34
19
America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston Read by Craig Franklin 2:17
20
Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Adrian Stephens 3:34
21
Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling Read by Tomas Peter 1:56
22
England and her Colonies, by William Watson Read by Sonia 1:18
23
Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Sonia 1:31
24
The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray Read by Sonia and 2 others 9:13
25
My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns Read by Adrian Stephens 1:27
26
Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:58
27
The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton Read by Sonia and 2 others 10:53
28
Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Craig Franklin 1:16
29
The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan Read by Tomas Peter 1:43
30
The Irishman, by James Orr Read by Sonia 2:28
31
Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) Read by Craig Franklin 2:40
32
A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell Read by Sonia 1:54
33
The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous Read by Adrian Stephens 2:17
34
My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly Read by Tomas Peter 2:20
35
Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy Read by Craig Franklin 2:50
36
Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy Read by Sonia 4:36
37
Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt Read by Sonia and 1 other 1:39
38
Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell Read by Adrian Stephens 3:14
39
After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell Read by Craig Franklin 1:50
40
Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall Read by Tomas Peter 3:08
41
Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts Read by Tomas Peter 3:08
42
What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt Read by Adrian Stephens 3:15
43
Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt Read by Craig Franklin 2:21
44
Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks Read by Sonia 3:53
45
The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 2:05
46
Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford Read by Sonia 5:27
47
Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Sonia 4:06
48
America, by William Cullen Bryant Read by Craig Franklin 2:36
49
Columbia, by Timothy Dwight Read by Tomas Peter 3:26
50
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley Read by Sonia 1:56
51
England to America, by Sydney Dobell Read by Adrian Stephens 1:21
52
Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Craig Franklin 1:55
53
The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Tomas Peter 1:31
54
America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith Read by Adrian Stephens 2:26
55
"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Sonia 1:33
56
Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard Read by Tomas Peter 1:33
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Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant Read by Craig Franklin 3:14
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A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod Read by Sonia 2:35
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The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy Read by Adrian Stephens 1:47
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My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall Read by Tomas Peter 3:13
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Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike Read by Craig Franklin 2:40
62
The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett Read by Tomas Peter 1:35
63
The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read Read by Sonia 1:38
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The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry Read by Adrian Stephens 2:10
65
Liberty, by John Hay Read by Tomas Peter 2:01
66
Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton Read by Sonia 1:56
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The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant Read by Craig Franklin 4:30
68
Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell Read by Adrian Stephens 4:50
69
The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:15
70
Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford Read by Tomas Peter 3:24
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Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron Read by Craig Franklin 2:47
72
Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron Read by Tomas Peter 4:51
73
Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron Read by Adrian Stephens 5:31
74
To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace Read by Craig Franklin 1:43
75
Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper Read by Tomas Peter 2:52
76
Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker Read by Craig Franklin 2:26
77
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore Read by Sonia 1:18
78
As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore Read by Adrian Stephens 1:00
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The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown Read by Craig Franklin 1:08
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Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles Read by Tomas Peter 1:18
81
Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgomery Read by Adrian Stephens 5:25
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Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:49
83
The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle Read by Sonia 3:23
84
A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Read by Sonia and 1 other 4:54
85
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans Read by Tomas Peter 2:01
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The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake Read by Craig Franklin 3:19
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The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key Read by Adrian Stephens 3:07
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New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan Read by Sonia 2:33
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The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia and 3 others 4:43
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Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison Read by Sonia 1:33
91
The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin 7:53
92
The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant Read by Adrian Stephens 2:23
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Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Craig Franklin 2:22
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Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell Read by Tomas Peter 2:34
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Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe Read by Sonia 3:14
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John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Craig Franklin 2:20
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Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 2:41
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Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Tomas Peter 2:45
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A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf Read by Sonia 1:32
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