Baltazar de Alcazar 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
  Pere 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 ‘Encyclopedie’)

Vittorio Alfieri (by L. Oscar Kuhns) 1749-1803
  Scenes from ‘Agamemnon’

Alfonso the wise 1221-1284
  What Meaneth a Tyrant, and How he Useth his Power (’Las Siete
            Partidas’)
  On the Turks, and Why they are So Called (’La Gran Conquista de
            Ultramar’)
  To the Month of Mary (’Cantigas’)

Alfred the great 849-901
  King Alfred on King-Craft
  Alfred’s Preface to the Version of Pope Gregory’s ‘Pastoral Care’
  From Boethius
  Blossom Gatherings from St. Augustine

Charles grant Allen 1848-
  The Coloration of Flowers (’The Colors of Flowers’)
  Among the Heather (’The Evolutionist at Large’)
  The Heron’s Haunt (’Vignettes from Nature’)