World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)
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Length 6 h 55 min
Chapters 124
First published 1904
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 Read by Tomas Peter 6:36
2
The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron Read by Adrian Stephens 2:05
3
The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:43
4
Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly Read by Sonia and 3 others 2:55
5
Caractacus, by Bernard Barton Read by Sonia and 1 other 4:29
6
Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison Read by Craig Franklin 1:47
7
The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly Read by Sonia 4:33
8
Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell Read by Tomas Peter 3:07
9
Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:59
10
Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 2:19
11
Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 1:58
12
The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 2:29
13
Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles Read by Sonia and 2 others 8:22
14
A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave Read by Sonia 2:25
15
Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:05
16
The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg Read by Craig Franklin 1:40
17
Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks Read by Sonia and 1 other 3:42
18
The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond Read by Adrian Stephens 1:34
19
Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton Read by Sonia and 1 other 5:19
20
Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell Read by Sonia 2:06
21
Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 5:51
22
Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 2:25
23
The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier Read by Craig Franklin 8:39
24
On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington Read by Tomas Peter 1:55
25
Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling Read by Sonia and 3 others 8:01
26
Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 3 others 13:02
27
Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:18
28
The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:13
29
The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:22
30
The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton Read by Sonia and 1 other 4:47
31
The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare Read by Craig Franklin 2:33
32
The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell Read by Sonia 1:36
33
Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning Read by Tomas Peter 1:24
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 Read by Adrian Stephens 5:42
35
The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury Read by Craig Franklin 1:46
36
Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis Read by Sonia and 3 others 5:42
37
Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell Read by Sonia and 1 other 3:37
38
Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe Read by Tomas Peter 2:10
39
"Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:25
40
Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron Read by Adrian Stephens 8:40
41
By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Read by Sonia 3:04
42
Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Tomas Peter 2:20
43
The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell Read by Sonia and 1 other 4:03
44
Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:54
45
Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant Read by Craig Franklin 1:35
46
Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton Read by Sonia 2:49
47
Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns Read by Adrian Stephens 1:35
48
Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Craig Franklin 3:03
49
Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 6:17
50
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Tomas Peter 1:57
51
Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Sonia and 3 others 15:04
52
The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott Read by Sonia and 3 others 4:15
53
Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine Read by Sonia 2:12
54
Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson Read by Adrian Stephens 1:22
55
Warren's Address, by John Pierpont Read by Tomas Peter 1:37
56
"The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen Read by Craig Franklin 1:09
57
Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch Read by Sonia 3:08
58
Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant Read by Adrian Stephens 3:14
59
Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master Read by Tomas Peter 2:09
60
The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous Read by Craig Franklin 2:45
61
Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman Read by Sonia 1:58
62
Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell Read by Adrian Stephens 1:04
63
In State, by Forceythe Willson Read by Sonia and 1 other 7:28
64
Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Read by Craig Franklin 2:57
65
Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell Read by Craig Franklin and 1 other 5:57
66
All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers Read by Tomas Peter 2:48
67
The Countersign, by Anonymous Read by Sonia 2:26
68
Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly Read by Sonia and 2 others 2:00
69
The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells Read by Sonia 1:39
70
Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous Read by Adrian Stephens 2:23
71
The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 3:40
72
Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer Read by Craig Franklin and 1 other 2:47
73
Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:12
74
Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Craig Franklin 1:41
75
Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond Read by Tomas Peter 2:07
76
Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Sonia and 1 other 2:47
77
The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor Read by Craig Franklin 1:21
78
Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker Read by Adrian Stephens 1:55
79
Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway Read by Tomas Peter 5:29
80
Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson Read by Craig Franklin 4:12
81
Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte Read by Sonia 2:31
82
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous Read by Adrian Stephens 2:15
83
Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe Read by Sonia 1:39
84
When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous Read by Sonia 2:24
85
Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read Read by Tomas Peter 3:40
86
Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton Read by Sonia 2:41
87
Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt Read by Craig Franklin 1:33
88
Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson Read by Tomas Peter 3:38
89
Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston Read by Adrian Stephens 2:32
90
The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker Read by Tomas Peter and 2 others 3:26
91
The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon Read by Adrian Stephens 3:18
92
The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson Read by Craig Franklin 4:08
93
Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson Read by Sonia and 2 others 4:55
94
Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood Read by Adrian Stephens 2:50
95
Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers Read by Craig Franklin 3:23
96
Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend Read by Tomas Peter and 1 other 4:36
97
The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous Read by Adrian Stephens 2:49
98
The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan Read by Tomas Peter 2:48
99
All, by Francis Alexander Durivage Read by Sonia 1:19
100
The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read Read by Sonia 5:01
101
The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney Read by Craig Franklin 2:52
102
The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey Read by Adrian Stephens 2:17
103
Ode to Peace, by William Tennant Read by Sonia 2:05
104
End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare Read by Tomas Peter 1:16
105
Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Sonia and 3 others 2:29
106
Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay Read by Sonia and 2 others 3:03
107
The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read by Craig Franklin 1:08
108
Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont Read by Adrian Stephens 3:55
109
The Day is Coming, by William Morris Read by Tomas Peter 4:54
110
The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath Read by Adrian Stephens 2:12
111
The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey Read by Sonia and 3 others 3:42
112
At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry Read by Tomas Peter 2:08
113
The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara Read by Craig Franklin 4:45
114
The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Read by Adrian Stephens 3:26
115
An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton Read by Tomas Peter 1:08
116
The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant Read by Sonia 2:44
117
How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins Read by Adrian Stephens 1:02
118
Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith Read by Tomas Peter 2:01
119
The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan Read by Sonia 2:10
120
Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan Read by Craig Franklin 2:20
121
Ode, by Henry Timrod Read by Adrian Stephens 1:31
122
The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch Read by Sonia 2:47
123
Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier Read by Craig Franklin 2:16
124
Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman Read by Tomas Peter 2:55
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