World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)

by Various

124 chapters6h 55mEnglish1904

About this book

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 (124)

1Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton

396

2The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron

125

3The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe

343

4Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly

175

5Caractacus, by Bernard Barton

269

6Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison

107

7The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly

273

8Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell

187

9Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck

359

10Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench

139

11Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby

118

12The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart

149

13Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles

502

14A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave

145

15Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

125

16The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg

100

17Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks

222

18The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond

19Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

319

20Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell

126

21Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay

351

22Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

145

23The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier

519

24On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington

115

25Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling

481

26Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous

782

27Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous

318

28The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous

313

29The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes)

202

30The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton

287

31The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare

153

32The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell

33Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning

34Naseby, 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

342

35The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury

106

36Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis

342

37Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell

217

38Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe

130

39"Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell

205

40Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron

520

41By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

184

42Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

140

43The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell

243

44Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling

174

45Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant

46Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton

169

47Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns

48Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott

183

49Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

377

50Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott

117

51Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

904

52The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott

255

53Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine

132

54Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

55Warren's Address, by John Pierpont

56"The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen

57Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch

188

58Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant

194

59Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master

129

60The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous

165

61Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman

118

62Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell

63In State, by Forceythe Willson

448

64Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

177

65Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell

357

66All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers

168

67The Countersign, by Anonymous

146

68Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly

120

69The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells

70Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous

143

71The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley

220

72Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer

167

73Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

192

74Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman

101

75Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond

127

76Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

167

77The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor

78Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker

115

79Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway

329

80Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson

252

81Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte

151

82Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous

135

83Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe

84When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous

144

85Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read

220

86Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton

161

87Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt

88Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

218

89Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston

152

90The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker

206

91The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon

198

92The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson

248

93Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson

295

94Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood

170

95Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers

203

96Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend

276

97The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous

169

98The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan

168

99All, by Francis Alexander Durivage

100The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read

301

101The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney

172

102The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey

137

103Ode to Peace, by William Tennant

125

104End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare

105Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier

149

106Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay

183

107The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

108Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont

235

109The Day is Coming, by William Morris

294

110The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath

132

111The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey

222

112At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry

128

113The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara

285

114The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

206

115An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton

116The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant

164

117How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins

118Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith

121

119The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan

130

120Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan

140

121Ode, by Henry Timrod

122The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch

167

123Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier

136

124Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

175

World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)

About this book

Chapters (124)

Comments