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