World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)

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99 chapters5h 6mEnglish1904

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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 (99)

1The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard

1754

2What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones

128

3Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

4My Country, by James Montgomery

164

5Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover

6East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith

148

7Gifts, by Emma Lazarus

173

8England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper

143

9Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson

142

10The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

11The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge

135

12The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin

202

13The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury

113

14God Save the King, by Henry Carey

107

15Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell

16The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle

175

17The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson

18Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde

454

19America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston

137

20Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

214

21Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling

116

22England and her Colonies, by William Watson

23Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

24The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray

553

25My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns

26Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson

238

27The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton

653

28Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott

29The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan

103

30The Irishman, by James Orr

148

31Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)

160

32A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell

114

33The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous

137

34My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly

140

35Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy

170

36Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy

276

37Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt

38Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell

194

39After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell

110

40Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall

188

41Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts

188

42What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt

195

43Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt

141

44Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks

233

45The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger

125

46Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford

327

47Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

246

48America, by William Cullen Bryant

156

49Columbia, by Timothy Dwight

206

50On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley

116

51England to America, by Sydney Dobell

52Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier

115

53The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

54America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith

146

55"Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes

56Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard

57Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant

194

58A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod

155

59The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy

107

60My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall

193

61Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike

160

62The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett

63The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read

64The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry

130

65Liberty, by John Hay

121

66Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton

116

67The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant

270

68Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell

290

69The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright

195

70Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford

204

71Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron

167

72Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron

291

73Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron

331

74To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace

103

75Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper

172

76Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker

146

77The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore

78As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore

79The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown

80Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles

81Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgomery

325

82Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell

169

83The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

203

84A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

294

85The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans

121

86The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake

199

87The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key

187

88New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan

153

89The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier

283

90Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison

91The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell

473

92The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant

143

93Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

142

94Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell

154

95Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe

194

96John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier

140

97Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor

161

98Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier

165

99A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf

World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 1)

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