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

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  • Battle of the Angels, from "Paradise Lost", Book VI, by Milton
  • The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron
  • The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe
  • Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly
  • Caractacus, by Bernard Barton
  • Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison
  • The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly
  • Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell
  • Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck
  • Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench
  • Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby
  • The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart
  • Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles
  • A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave
  • Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
  • The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg
  • Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks
  • The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond
  • Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
  • Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell
  • Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay
  • Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning
  • The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier
  • On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington
  • Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling
  • Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous
  • Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous
  • The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous
  • The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes)
  • The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton
  • The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare
  • The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell
  • Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning
  • 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
  • The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury
  • Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis
  • Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell
  • Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe
  • "Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell
  • Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron
  • By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
  • Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell
  • Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling
  • Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant
  • Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton
  • Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns
  • Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott
  • Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott
  • Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott
  • Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott
  • The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott
  • Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine
  • Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Warren's Address, by John Pierpont
  • "The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen
  • Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch
  • Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant
  • Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master
  • The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous
  • Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman
  • Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell
  • In State, by Forceythe Willson
  • Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell
  • All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers
  • The Countersign, by Anonymous
  • Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly
  • The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells
  • Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous
  • The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer
  • Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond
  • Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor
  • Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker
  • Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway
  • Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson
  • Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte
  • Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous
  • Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe
  • When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous
  • Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read
  • Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton
  • Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt
  • Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson
  • Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston
  • The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker
  • The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon
  • The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson
  • Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson
  • Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood
  • Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers
  • Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend
  • The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous
  • The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan
  • All, by Francis Alexander Durivage
  • The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read
  • The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney
  • The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey
  • Ode to Peace, by William Tennant
  • End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare
  • Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay
  • The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont
  • The Day is Coming, by William Morris
  • The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath
  • The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey
  • At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry
  • The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara
  • The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton
  • The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant
  • How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins
  • Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith
  • The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan
  • Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan
  • Ode, by Henry Timrod
  • The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch
  • Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman
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

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