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

Episodes

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

  Episode 1 · 6:36
• The destruction of Sennacherib, from "Hebrew Melodies", by Lord Byron

  Episode 2 · 2:05
• The School of War, from "Tamburlaine", by Christopher Marlowe

  Episode 3 · 5:43
• Catiline to the Roman Army, from "Catiline", Act V. Scene 2, by George Croly

  Episode 4 · 2:55
• Caractacus, by Bernard Barton

  Episode 5 · 4:29
• Sempronius' Speech for War, from "Cato", Act II. Scene 1, by Joseph Addison

  Episode 6 · 1:47
• The Death of Leonidas, by George Croly

  Episode 7 · 4:33
• Song of the Greeks, 1821, by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 8 · 3:07
• Marco Bozzaris, by Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Episode 9 · 5:59
• Harmosan, by Richard Chenevix Trench

  Episode 10 · 2:19
• Battle Scene, from "The Cid", translated from the Spanish by John Ormsby

  Episode 11 · 1:58
• The Lord of Butrago, translated from the Spanish by John Gibson Lockhart

  Episode 12 · 2:29
• Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles

  Episode 13 · 8:22
• A Danish Barrow on the East Devon Coast, by Francis Turner Palgrave

  Episode 14 · 2:25
• Hermann and Thusnelda, from the German of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock

  Episode 15 · 2:05
• The Battle Song of Gustavus Adolphus, from the German of Michael Altenburg

  Episode 16 · 1:40
• Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks

  Episode 17 · 3:42
• The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond

  Episode 18 · 1:34
• Bingen on the Rhine, by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

  Episode 19 · 5:19
• Hohenlinden, 1800, by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 20 · 2:06
• Ivry, 1590, by Lord Macaulay

  Episode 21 · 5:51
• Incident of the French Camp, by Robert Browning

  Episode 22 · 2:25
• The Bronze Statue of Napoleon, from the French of Auguste Barbier

  Episode 23 · 8:39
• On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington

  Episode 24 · 1:55
• Alfred the Harper, by John Sterling

  Episode 25 · 8:01
• Chevy-Chace, by Anonymous

  Episode 26 · 13:02
• Sir Patrick Spens, by Anonymous

  Episode 27 · 5:18
• The Douglas Tragedy, by Anonymous

  Episode 28 · 5:13
• The Last Hunt, by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes)

  Episode 29 · 3:22
• The Ballad of Agincourt, 1415, by Michael Drayton

  Episode 30 · 4:47
• The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare

  Episode 31 · 2:33
• The Cavalier's Song, by William Motherwell

  Episode 32 · 1:36
• Give a Rouse, by Robert Browning

  Episode 33 · 1:24
• 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

  Episode 34 · 5:42
• The Three Scars, by George Walter Thornbury

  Episode 35 · 1:46
• Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, by Thomas Osborne Davis

  Episode 36 · 5:42
• Battle of the Baltic, April 2, 1801, by Thomas Campbell

  Episode 37 · 3:37
• Burial of Sir John Moore, by Charles Wolfe

  Episode 38 · 2:10
• "Picciola", by Robert Henry Newell

  Episode 39 · 3:25
• Waterloo, June 15, 1815, from "Childe Harold", Canto III, by Lord Byron

  Episode 40 · 8:40
• By the Alma River, September 20, 1854, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

  Episode 41 · 3:04
• Charge of the Light Brigade, October 25, 1854, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Episode 42 · 2:20
• The Relief of Lucknow, September 25, 1857, by Robert T. S. Lowell

  Episode 43 · 4:03
• Danny Deever, by Rudyard Kipling

  Episode 44 · 2:54
• Where Are the Men, translated from the Welsh of Taliessin by Thomas Oliphant

  Episode 45 · 1:35
• Bruce and the Spider, about 1307, by Bernard Barton

  Episode 46 · 2:49
• Bannockburn, June 24, 1314, by Robert Burns

  Episode 47 · 1:35
• Song of Clan-Alpine, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto II, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 48 · 3:03
• Beal' an Dhuine, 1411, from "The Lady of the Lake", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 49 · 6:17
• Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, 1431, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 50 · 1:57
• Flodden Field, September 1513, from "Marmion", Canto VI, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 51 · 15:04
• The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee, about 1688, by Sir Walter Scott

  Episode 52 · 4:15
• Liberty Tree, 1775, by Thomas Paine

  Episode 53 · 2:12
• Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Episode 54 · 1:22
• Warren's Address, by John Pierpont

  Episode 55 · 1:37
• "The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen

  Episode 56 · 1:09
• Nathan Hale, by Francis Miles Finch

  Episode 57 · 3:08
• Song of Marion's Men, by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 58 · 3:14
• Carmen Bellicosum, by Guy Humphrey M'Master

  Episode 59 · 2:09
• The Dance, published soon after the Surrender of Cornwallis, by Anonymous

  Episode 60 · 2:45
• Monterey, Mexico, September 19, 1846, by Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Episode 61 · 1:58
• Coming, April, 1861, by Henry Howard Brownell

  Episode 62 · 1:04
• In State, by Forceythe Willson

  Episode 63 · 7:28
• Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Episode 64 · 2:57
• Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell

  Episode 65 · 5:57
• All Quiet Along the Potomac. by Ethelinda Ellitt Beers

  Episode 66 · 2:48
• The Countersign, by Anonymous

  Episode 67 · 2:26
• Civil War, by Charles Dawson Shanly

  Episode 68 · 2:00
• The Two Wives, by William Dean Howells

  Episode 69 · 1:39
• Three Hundred Thousand More, September, 1861, by Anonymous

  Episode 70 · 2:23
• The Old Man and Jim, by James Whitcomb Riley

  Episode 71 · 3:40
• Stonewall Jackson's Way, by John Williamson Palmer

  Episode 72 · 2:47
• Barbara Frietchie, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 73 · 3:12
• Cavalry Song, from "Alice of Monmouth", by Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Episode 74 · 1:41
• Cavalry song, by Rossiter W. Raymond

  Episode 75 · 2:07
• Kearny at Seven Pines, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Episode 76 · 2:47
• The General's Death, by Joseph O'Connor

  Episode 77 · 1:21
• Dirge for a Soldier, by George Henry Boker

  Episode 78 · 1:55
• Bay Billy, December 15, 1862, by Frank H. Gassaway

  Episode 79 · 5:29
• Wounded to Death, by John W. Watson

  Episode 80 · 4:12
• Somebody's Darling, by Maria La Conte

  Episode 81 · 2:31
• Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, by Anonymous

  Episode 82 · 2:15
• Our Orders, by Julia Ward Howe

  Episode 83 · 1:39
• When This Cruel War is Over, by Anonymous

  Episode 84 · 2:24
• Sheridan's Ride, September 19, 1864, by Thomas Buchanan Read

  Episode 85 · 3:40
• Left on the Battle Field, by Sarah Tittle Bolton

  Episode 86 · 2:41
• Requiem for One Slain in Battle, by George Lunt

  Episode 87 · 1:33
• Music in Camp, by John Randolph Thompson

  Episode 88 · 3:38
• Under the Shade of the Trees, by Margaret Junkin Preston

  Episode 89 · 2:32
• The Black Regiment, May 27, 1863, by George Henry Boker

  Episode 90 · 3:26
• The C.S. Army's Commissary, by Ed. Porter Thompon

  Episode 91 · 3:18
• The High Tide at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, by Will Henry Thompson

  Episode 92 · 4:08
• Lee to the Rear, by John Randolph Thompson

  Episode 93 · 4:55
• Driving Home the Cows, by Kate Putnam Osgood

  Episode 94 · 2:50
• Sherman's March to the Sea, May 4 to December 21, 1864, by Samuel H. M. Byers

  Episode 95 · 3:23
• Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend

  Episode 96 · 4:36
• The Year of Jubilee, by Anonymous

  Episode 97 · 2:49
• The Conquered Banner, by Abram Joseph Ryan

  Episode 98 · 2:48
• All, by Francis Alexander Durivage

  Episode 99 · 1:19
• The Closing Scene, by Thomas Buchanan Read

  Episode 100 · 5:01
• The Men Behind the Guns, the Spanish-American War, 1898, by John Jerome Rooney

  Episode 101 · 2:52
• The Battle of Manila, a Fragment, May 1, 1898, by Richard Hovey

  Episode 102 · 2:17
• Ode to Peace, by William Tennant

  Episode 103 · 2:05
• End of the Civil War, from King Richard III., Act I. Scene 1, by Shakespeare

  Episode 104 · 1:16
• Disarmament, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 105 · 2:29
• Tubal Cain, by Charles Mackay

  Episode 106 · 3:03
• The Knight's Tomb, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Episode 107 · 1:08
• Not on the Battle Field, by John Pierpont

  Episode 108 · 3:55
• The Day is Coming, by William Morris

  Episode 109 · 4:54
• The Grave of Bonaparte, by Leonard Heath

  Episode 110 · 2:12
• The Battle of Blenheim, by Robert Southey

  Episode 111 · 3:42
• At Gibraltar, by George Edward Woodberry

  Episode 112 · 2:08
• The Bivouac of the Dead, by Theodore O'Hara

  Episode 113 · 4:45
• The Arsenal at Springfield, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Episode 114 · 3:26
• An Old Battle Field, by Frank Lebby Stanton

  Episode 115 · 1:08
• The Battle-Field, by William Cullen Bryant

  Episode 116 · 2:44
• How Sleep the Brave, by William Collins

  Episode 117 · 1:02
• Our Fallen Heroes, by George Bancroft Griffith

  Episode 118 · 2:01
• The Cause of the South, from "Sentinel Songs", by Abram Joseph Ryan

  Episode 119 · 2:10
• Sentinel Songs, by Abram Joseph Ryan

  Episode 120 · 2:20
• Ode, by Henry Timrod

  Episode 121 · 1:31
• The Blue and the Gray, by Francis Miles Finch

  Episode 122 · 2:47
• Centennial Hymn, 1876, by John Greenleaf Whittier

  Episode 123 · 2:16
• Hymn of the West, World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904, by Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Episode 124 · 2:55