Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.
Volume VIII. National Spirit
| Introductory Essay | ||
| The Study of Poetry by Francis Hovey Stoddard (1847–1936) | ||
| I. Patriotism | ||
| “What constitutes a state?” by Sir William Jones (1746–1794) | ||
| “Breathes there the man?” by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| My Country by James Montgomery (1771–1854) | ||
| Father and Mother Tongue by Samuel Lover (1797–1868) | ||
| East, West, Home ’s Best by Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774) | ||
| Gifts by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) | ||
| England by William Cowper (1731–1800) | ||
| Rule, Britannia by James Thomson (1700–1748) | ||
| The Bowman’s Song by Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) | ||
| The Roast Beef of Old England by Henry Fielding (1707–1754) | ||
| The Snug Little Island by Thomas Dibdin (1771–1841) | ||
| The Jacobite on Tower Hill by George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) | ||
| “God save the king” by Henry Carey (1687?–1743) | ||
| Veteran and Recruit by Edward Wentworth Hazewell (b. 1853) | ||
| The Private of the Buffs by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (1810–1888) | ||
| The Turk in Armenia by William Watson (1858–1935) | ||
| Ave Imperatrix by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) | ||
| America to Great Britain by Washington Allston (1779–1843) | ||
| Hands all Round by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| Recessional by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) | ||
| England and Her Colonies by William Watson (1858–1935) | ||
| Scotland by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Bard by Thomas Gray (1716–1771) | ||
| “My heart ’s in the Highlands” by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| Heather Ale: A Galloway Legend by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) | ||
| The Execution of Montrose by William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813–1865) | ||
| Border Ballad by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Exile’s Song by Robert Gilfillan (1798–1850) | ||
| The Irishman by James Orr (1770–1816) | ||
| Turlough MacSweeney by Anna MacManus (Ethna Carbery) (1866–1902) | ||
| A Spinning Song by John Francis O’Donnell (1837–1874) | ||
| The Wearing of the Green—Anonymous | ||
| My Native Land by John Boyle O’Reilly (1844–1890) | ||
| “Bless the dear old verdant land” by Denis Florence Mac Carthy (1817–1882) | ||
| Ireland by Denis Florence Mac Carthy (1817–1882) | ||
| Ireland by John James Piatt (1835–1917) | ||
| Exile of Erin by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| After Death by Frances Isabel Parnell (1848–1882) | ||
| Canada Not Last by William Douw Schuyler-Lighthall (1857–1954) | ||
| Canada by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) | ||
| “What is the German’s Fatherland?” by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) | ||
| Patriotic Song by Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860) | ||
| Men and Boys by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) | ||
| The Watch on the Rhine by Max Schneckenburger (1819–1849) | ||
| Proem to the Kalevala—Anonymous | ||
| Parting Lovers by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| America by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Columbia by Timothy Dwight (1752–1817) | ||
| On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America by George Berkeley (1685–1753) | ||
| England to America by Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) | ||
| Our State by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| The Republic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| America by Samuel Francis Smith (1808–1895) | ||
| “Old Ironsides” by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| Men of the North and West by Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903) | ||
| Our Country’s Call by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| A Cry to Arms by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) | ||
| The Nation’s Prayer by Crammond Kennedy (1842–1918) | ||
| My Maryland by James Ryder Randall (1839–1908) | ||
| Dixie by Albert Pike (1809–1891) | ||
| The Flag goes by by Henry Holcomb Bennett (1863–1924) | ||
| The Brave at Home by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) | ||
| II. Freedom | ||
| The Place where Man should Die by Michael Joseph Barry (1817–1889) | ||
| Liberty by John Hay (1838–1905) | ||
| Patience by William James Linton (1812–1897) | ||
| The Antiquity of Freedom by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Hallowed Ground by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| The Wolf and the Dog by Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) | ||
| Rienzi to the Romans by Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) | ||
| Fallen Greece by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Greece Enslaved by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| Song of the Greek Poet by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| To Althea from Prison by Richard Lovelace (1618–1658) | ||
| Slavery by William Cowper (1731–1800) | ||
| Song of the Western Men by Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) | ||
| “The harp that once through Tara’s Halls” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| “As by the shore at break of day” by Thomas Moore (1779–1852) | ||
| “The hills were made for freedom” by William Goldsmith Brown (1812–1905) | ||
| Switzerland by James Sheridan Knowles (1784–1862) | ||
| “Make way for Liberty” by James Montgomery (1771–1854) | ||
| Poland by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| The Marseillaise by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760–1836) | ||
| A Court Lady by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) | ||
| The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) | ||
| The American Flag by Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) | ||
| The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key (1779–1843) | ||
| New England’s Dead by Isaac McLellan (1806–1899) | ||
| The Reformer by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Freedom of the Mind by William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) | ||
| The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| The Little Cloud by John Howard Bryant (1807–1902) | ||
| Brown of Ossawatomie by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Words for the “Hallelujah Chorus” by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) | ||
| Battle-Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) | ||
| John Charles Frémont by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Heroes by Edna Dean Proctor (1829–1923) | ||
| Laus Deo! by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| A Holy Nation by Richard Realf (1832–1878) | ||
| III. War | ||
| Battle of the Angels by John Milton (1608–1674) | ||
| The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| The School of War by Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) | ||
| Catiline to the Roman Army by George Croly (1780–1860) | ||
| Caractacus by Bernard Barton (1784–1849) | ||
| Sempronius’ Speech for War by Joseph Addison (1672–1719) | ||
| The Death of Leonidas by George Croly (1780–1860) | ||
| Song of the Greeks by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| Marco Bozzaris by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) | ||
| Harmosan by Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) | ||
| Battle Scene—Anonymous | ||
| The Lord of Butrago—Anonymous | ||
| Hakon’s Defiance by Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779–1850) | ||
| A Danish Barrow by Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) | ||
| Hermann and Thusnelda by Freidrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803) | ||
| The Battle-Song of Gustavus Adolphus by Michael Altenburg (1584–1640) | ||
| Sword Song by Karl Theodor Körner (1791–1813) | ||
| The Trooper’s Death by Georg Herwegh (1817–1875) | ||
| Bingen on the Rhine by Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan) Norton (1808–1877) | ||
| Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| Ivry by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) | ||
| Incident of the French Camp by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| The Bronze Statue of Napoleon by Henri Auguste Barbier (1805–1882) | ||
| On the Warres in Ireland by Sir John Harrington (1561–1612) | ||
| Alfred the Harper by John Sterling (1806–1844) | ||
| Chevy-Chace—Anonymous | ||
| Sir Patrick Spens—Anonymous | ||
| The Douglas Tragedy—Anonymous | ||
| The Last Hunt by William Roscoe Thayer (Paul Hermes) (1859–1923) | ||
| The Ballad of Agincourt by Michael Drayton (1563–1631) | ||
| The King to his soldiers before Harfleur by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| The Cavalier’s Song by William Motherwell (1797–1835) | ||
| Give a Rouse by Robert Browning (1812–1889) | ||
| Naseby by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) | ||
| The Three Scars by George Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) | ||
| Fontenoy by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845) | ||
| Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) | ||
| Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe (1791–1823) | ||
| “Picciola” by Robert Henry Newell (1836–1901) | ||
| Waterloo by Lord Byron (1788–1824) | ||
| By the Alma River by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (1826–1887) | ||
| Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) | ||
| The Relief of Lucknow by Robert Traill Spence Lowell (1816–1891) | ||
| Danny Deever by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) | ||
| “Where are the men?” by Taliesin (c. 534–c. 599) | ||
| Bruce and the Spider by Bernard Barton (1784–1849) | ||
| Bannockburn by Robert Burns (1759–1796) | ||
| Song of Clan-Alpine by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Beal’ an Dhuine by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Pibroch of Donuil Dhu by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) | ||
| Liberty Tree by Thomas Paine (1737–1809) | ||
| Hymn Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) | ||
| Warren’s Address by John Pierpont (1785–1866) | ||
| “The lonely bugle grieves” by Grenville Mellen (1799–1841) | ||
| Nathan Hale by Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907) | ||
| Song of Marion’s Men by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| Carmen Bellicosum by Guy Humphrey McMaster (1829–1887) | ||
| The Dance—Anonymous | ||
| Monterey by Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806–1884) | ||
| Coming by Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) | ||
| In State by Forceythe Willson (1837–1867) | ||
| Brother Jonathan’s Lament for Sister Caroline by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) | ||
| Jonathan to John by James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) | ||
| “All quiet along the Potomac” by Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) (1827–1879) | ||
| The Countersign—Anonymous | ||
| Civil War by Charles Dawson Shanly (1811–1875) | ||
| The Two Wives by William Dean Howells (1837–1920) | ||
| Three Hundred Thousand More—Anonymous | ||
| The Old Man and Jim by James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) | ||
| Stonewall Jackson’s Way by John Williamson Palmer (1825–1906) | ||
| Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Cavalry Song by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| Cavalry Song by Rossiter Worthington Raymond (1840–1918) | ||
| Kearny at Seven Pines by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||
| The General’s Death by Joseph O’Connor (1841–1908) | ||
| Dirge for a Soldier by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) | ||
| Bay Billy by Frank Harrison Gassaway (d. 1923) | ||
| Wounded to Death by John Whitaker Watson (1824–1890) | ||
| Somebody’s Darling by Marie R. de la Coste | ||
| Tramp, Tramp, Tramp—Anonymous | ||
| Our Orders by Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) | ||
| “When this cruel war is over”—Anonymous | ||
| Sheridan’s Ride by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) | ||
| Left on the Battle-Field by Sarah Tittle Bolton (1814–1893) | ||
| Requiem by George Lunt (1803–1885) | ||
| Music in Camp by John Randolph Thompson (1823–1873) | ||
| “Under the shade of the trees” by Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) | ||
| The Black Regiment by George Henry Boker (1823–1890) | ||
| The C. S. Army’s Commissary by Ed. Porter Thompson (1834–1903) | ||
| The High Tide at Gettysburg by Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918) | ||
| Lee to the Rear by John Randolph Thompson (1823–1873) | ||
| Driving Home the Cows by Kate Putnam Osgood (1842–c. 1912) | ||
| Sherman’s March to the Sea by Samuel H. M. Byers (1838–1933) | ||
| Army Correspondent’s Last Ride by George Alfred Townsend (1841–1914) | ||
| The Year of Jubilee—Anonymous | ||
| The Conquered Banner by Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886) | ||
| All by Francis Alexander Durivage (1814–1881) | ||
| The Closing Scene by Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–1872) | ||
| “The men behind the guns” by John Jerome Rooney (1866–1934) | ||
| The Battle of Manila by Richard Hovey (1864–1900) | ||
| IV. Peace | ||
| Ode to Peace by William Tennant (1784–1848) | ||
| End of the Civil War by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) | ||
| Disarmament by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Tubal Cain by Charles Mackay (1814–1889) | ||
| The Knight’s Tomb by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) | ||
| Not on the Battle-Field by John Pierpont (1785–1866) | ||
| The Day is Coming by William Morris (1834–1896) | ||
| The Grave of Bonaparte by Lyman Heath (1804–1870) | ||
| The Battle of Blenheim by Robert Southey (1774–1843) | ||
| At Gibraltar by George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) | ||
| The Bivouac of the Dead by Theodore O’Hara (1820–1867) | ||
| The Arsenal at Springfield by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) | ||
| An Old Battle-Field by Frank Lebby Stanton (1857–1927) | ||
| The Battle-Field by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) | ||
| “How sleep the brave” by William Collins (1721–1759) | ||
| Our Fallen Heroes by George Bancroft Griffith (b. 1841) | ||
| The Cause of the South by Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886) | ||
| Sentinel Songs by Abram Joseph Ryan (1838–1886) | ||
| Ode Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead by Henry Timrod (1828–1867) | ||
| The Blue and the Gray by Francis Miles Finch (1827–1907) | ||
| Centennial Hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) | ||
| Hymn of the West by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) | ||