World's Best Poetry, Volume 8: National Spirit (Part 2)
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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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Hakon's Defiance, from "Hakon Jarl", translated from the Danish of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger by Sir Frank C. Lascelles
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Sword Song, translated from the German of Karl Theodor Körner by Charles Timothy Brooks
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The Trooper's Death, translated from the German of Georg Herwegh by Rossiter W. Raymond
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On the Warres in Ireland, from "Epigrams", Book IV Epigram 6, by Sir John Harrington
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The King to his Soldiers before Harfleur, 1415, from "King Henry V.", Act III Scene 1, by Shakespeare
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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
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Hymn, sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The Lonely Bugle Grieves", from an "Ode on the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1825", by Grenville Mellen
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Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caroline, March 25, 1861, South Carolina having adopted the Ordinance of Secession, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Army Correspondent's Last Ride, Five Forks, April 1, 1865, by George Alfred Townsend
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