[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)]