JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ 1807-1873 The Silurian Beach ('Geological Sketches') Voices ('Methods of Study in Natural History') Formation of Coral Reefs (same) AGATHIAS A.D. 536-581 Apostrophe to Plutarch GRACE AGUILAR 1816-1847 Greatness of Friendship ('Woman's Friendship') Order of Knighthood ('The Days of Bruce') Culprit and Judge ('Home Influence') WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH 1805-1882 Students of Paris ('Crichton') MARK AKENSIDE 1721-1770 From the Epistle to Curio Aspirations after the Infinite ('Pleasures of the Imagination') On a Sermon against Glory PEDRO ANTONIO DE ALARCÓN 1833-1891 A Woman Viewed from Without ('The Three-Cornered Hat') How the Orphan Manuel gained his Sobriquet ('The Child of the Ball') ALCAEUS Sixth Century B.C. The Palace A Banquet Song An Invitation The Storm The Poor Fisherman The State Poverty BALTÁZAR DE ALCÁZAR 1530?-1606 Sleep The Jovial Supper ALCIPHRON (by Harry Thurston Peck) Second Century From a Mercenary Girl--Petala to Simalion Pleasures of Athens--Euthydicus to Epiphanio From an Anxious Mother--Phyllis to Thrasonides From a Curious Youth--Philocomus to Thestylus From a Professional Diner-out--Capnosphrantes to Aristomachus Unlucky Luck--Chytrolictes to Patellocharon ALCMAN Seventh Century B.C. Poem on Night LOUISA MAY ALCOTT 1832-1888 The Night Ward ('Hospital Sketches') Amy's Valley of Humiliation ('Little Women') Thoreau's Flute (Atlantic Monthly) Song from the Suds ('Little Women') ALCUIN (by William H. Carpenter) 735?-804 On the Saints of the Church at York ('Alcuin and the Rise of the Christian Schools') Disputation between Pepin, the Most Noble and Royal Youth, and Albinus the Scholastic A Letter from Alcuin to Charlemagne HENRY M. ALDEN 1836- A Dedication--To My Beloved Wife ('A Study of Death') The Dove and the Serpent (same) Death and Sleep (same) The Parable of the Prodigal (same) THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH 1837- Destiny Identity Prescience Alec Yeaton's Son Memory Tennyson (1890) Sweetheart, Sigh No More Broken Music Elmwood Sea Longings A Shadow of the Night Outward Bound Reminiscence Père Antoine's Date-Palm Miss Mehetabel's Son ALEARDO ALEARDI 1812-1878 Cowards ('The Primal Histories') The Harvesters ('Monte Circello') The Death of the Year ('An Hour of My Youth') JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT 1717-1783 Montesquieu (Eulogy in the 'Encyclopédie')