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

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Authors: Various In Year : 1904

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

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