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

Episodes

• The Study of Poetry, by Francis Hovey Stoddard

  Episode 1 · 29:14
• What Constitutes a State?, by Sir William Jones

  Episode 2 · 2:08
• Breathes There a Man? From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 3 · 1:16
• My Country, by James Montgomery

  Episode 4 · 2:44
• Father Land and Mother Tongue, by Samuel Lover

  Episode 5 · 1:35
• East, West, Home's Best: From "The Traveller," by Oliver Goldsmith

  Episode 6 · 2:28
• Gifts, by Emma Lazarus

  Episode 7 · 2:53
• England: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper

  Episode 8 · 2:23
• Rule, Britannia: From "Alfred," Act II Scene 5, by James Thomson

  Episode 9 · 2:22
• The Bowman's Song: From "The White Company," by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  Episode 10 · 1:29
• The Roast Beef of Old England, by Henry Fielding, with four added stanzas by Richard Loveridge

  Episode 11 · 2:15
• The Snug Little Island, by Thomas Dibdin

  Episode 12 · 3:22
• The Jacobite on Tower Hill, by George Walter Thornbury

  Episode 13 · 1:53
• God Save the King, by Henry Carey

  Episode 14 · 1:47
• Veteran and Recruit, by Edward Wentworth Hazewell

  Episode 15 · 1:33
• The Private of the Buffs; or The British Soldier in China, by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle

  Episode 16 · 2:55
• The Turk in Armenia: From "The Purple East," by William Watson

  Episode 17 · 1:16
• Ave Imperatrix, by Oscar Wilde

  Episode 18 · 7:34
• America to Great Britain, by Washington Allston

  Episode 19 · 2:17
• Hands All Round, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 20 · 3:34
• Recessional, by Rudyard Kipling

  Episode 21 · 1:56
• England and her Colonies, by William Watson

  Episode 22 · 1:18
• Scotland: From "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 23 · 1:31
• The Bard: A Pindaric Ode, by Thomas Gray

  Episode 24 · 9:13
• My Heart's in the Highlands, by Robert Burns

  Episode 25 · 1:27
• Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend, by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Episode 26 · 3:58
• The Execution of Montrose, by William Edmondstoune Ayton

  Episode 27 · 10:53
• Border Ballad, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 28 · 1:16
• The Exile's Song, by Robert Gilfillan

  Episode 29 · 1:43
• The Irishman, by James Orr

  Episode 30 · 2:28
• Turlough MacSweeney, by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery)

  Episode 31 · 2:40
• A Spinning Song, by John Francis O'Donnell

  Episode 32 · 1:54
• The Wearing of the Green, by Anonymous

  Episode 33 · 2:17
• My Native Land, by John Boyle O'Reilly

  Episode 34 · 2:20
• Bless the Dear Old Verdant Land, by Denis Florence MacCarthy

  Episode 35 · 2:50
• Ireland (1847), by Denis Florence MacCarthy

  Episode 36 · 4:36
• Ireland: A Seaside Portrait, by John James Piatt

  Episode 37 · 1:39
• Exile of Erin, by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 38 · 3:14
• After Death, by Frances Isabel Parnell

  Episode 39 · 1:50
• Canada Not Last, by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall

  Episode 40 · 3:08
• Canada, by Charles G. D. Roberts

  Episode 41 · 3:08
• What is the German's Fatherland?, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Episode 42 · 3:15
• Patriotic Song, from the German of Ernst Moritz Arndt

  Episode 43 · 2:21
• Men and Boys, from the German of Karl Theodor Körner, translation of Charles Timothy Brooks

  Episode 44 · 3:53
• The Watch on the Rhine, from the German of Max Schneckenburger

  Episode 45 · 2:05
• Proem: From "The Kalevala" (Land of Heroes), the National Epic of Finland, from the Finnish, translation of John Martin Crawford

  Episode 46 · 5:27
• Parting Lovers, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 47 · 4:06
• America, by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 48 · 2:36
• Columbia, by Timothy Dwight

  Episode 49 · 3:26
• On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America, by Bishop George Berkeley

  Episode 50 · 1:56
• England to America, by Sydney Dobell

  Episode 51 · 1:21
• Our State, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 52 · 1:55
• The Republic: From "The Building of the Ship," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 53 · 1:31
• America (1832), by Samuel Francis Smith

  Episode 54 · 2:26
• "Old Ironsides," by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 55 · 1:33
• Men of the North and West (April, 1861), by Richard Henry Stoddard

  Episode 56 · 1:33
• Our Country's Call (1861), by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 57 · 3:14
• A Cry to Arms (1861), by Henry Timrod

  Episode 58 · 2:35
• The Nation's Prayer (1861), by Crammond Kennedy

  Episode 59 · 1:47
• My Maryland (1861), by James Ryder Randall

  Episode 60 · 3:13
• Dixie (1861), by Albert Pike

  Episode 61 · 2:40
• The Flag Goes By, by Henry Holcomb Bennett

  Episode 62 · 1:35
• The Brave at Home, by Thomas Buchanan Read

  Episode 63 · 1:38
• The Place Where Man Should Die, by Michael Joseph Barry

  Episode 64 · 2:10
• Liberty, by John Hay

  Episode 65 · 2:01
• Patience: From "Poems of Freedom," by William James Linton

  Episode 66 · 1:56
• The Antiquity of Freedom, by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 67 · 4:30
• Hallowed Ground, by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 68 · 4:50
• The Wolf and the Dog, from the French of Jean de la Fontaine, translation of Elizur Wright

  Episode 69 · 3:15
• Rienzi to the Romans: From "Rienzi," by Mary Russell Mitford

  Episode 70 · 3:24
• Fallen Greece: From "The Giaour," by Lord Byron

  Episode 71 · 2:47
• Greece Enslaved: From "Childe Harold," Canto II, by Lord Byron

  Episode 72 · 4:51
• Song of the Greek Poet: From "Don Juan," Canto III, by Lord Byron

  Episode 73 · 5:31
• To Althea from Prison, by Richard Lovelace

  Episode 74 · 1:43
• Slavery: From "The Timepiece": "The Task," Book II, by William Cowper

  Episode 75 · 2:52
• Song of the Western Men, by Robert Stephen Hawker

  Episode 76 · 2:26
• The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls, by Thomas Moore

  Episode 77 · 1:18
• As by the Shore at Break of Day, by Thomas Moore

  Episode 78 · 1:00
• The Hills Were Made for Freedom, by William Goldsmith Brown

  Episode 79 · 1:08
• Switzerland: From "William Tell," by James Sheridan Knowles

  Episode 80 · 1:18
• Make Way for Liberty (Battle of Sempach, fourteenth century), by James Montgomery

  Episode 81 · 5:25
• Poland: From "The Pleasures of Hope," Part I, by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 82 · 2:49
• The Marseillaise, from the French of Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

  Episode 83 · 3:23
• A Court Lady, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Episode 84 · 4:54
• The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England, by Felicia Hemans

  Episode 85 · 2:01
• The American Flag, by Joseph Rodman Drake

  Episode 86 · 3:19
• The Star-Spangled Banner, by Francis Scott Key

  Episode 87 · 3:07
• New England's Dead, by Isaac M'Lellan

  Episode 88 · 2:33
• The Reformer, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 89 · 4:43
• Freedom of the Mind: Written while in Prison for Denouncing the Domestic Slave-Trade, by William Lloyd Garrison

  Episode 90 · 1:33
• The Present Crisis, by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 91 · 7:53
• The Little Cloud (1853), by John Howard Bryant

  Episode 92 · 2:23
• Brown of Ossawatomie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 93 · 2:22
• Words for the "Hallelujah Chorus," by Henry Howard Brownell

  Episode 94 · 2:34
• Battle-Hymn of the Republic, by Julia Ward Howe

  Episode 95 · 3:14
• John Charles Frémont, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 96 · 2:20
• Heroes, by Edna Dean Proctor

  Episode 97 · 2:41
• Laus Deo!, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 98 · 2:45
• A Holy Nation, by Richard Realf

  Episode 99 · 1:32