The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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Woman's Indian Ass'n, _for Indian M._ 20.00 Newark.

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Ass'n., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00 Dorchester.

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Ladies Ass'n of Cong.

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“Wounded by refusals, caricatures, those blows with the foot of an ass, have finished me.

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"What an ass you must think I am!

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"At last I myself behaved like an ass.

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Ass'n, _for Santee Indian M._ 10.83 Rev.

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Ladies' Ass'n.

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25.00 Misses Anna L. and Abbie L. Manning, _for Thomasville, Ga._ 10.00 Woman's H.M. Ass'n, by Ellen A. Leland, Treas., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 H. Porter Smith 6.00 W.H.M.

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Ass'n, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 1.00 Charlestown.

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, by Miss E.E.

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, _for Freight to Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 2.00 West Boxford.

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Ladies' Freedmen's Ass'n, 1 Bbl., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ Wilmington, Mass.

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Miss'y Ass'n of Second Cong.

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'It's a shame,' said Mrs. Ally, 'but good King George--' 'Imbecile old ass,' said the mariner--'go on with your story.'

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_Jack van der Beck_, for example, the pompous medical ass with a flourishing practice among the local nabobs, can be found in every provincial town in Europe.

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Ass'n of Central Cong.

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She drooped down towards his mouth, but at the last minute he avoided her kiss and said irritably: "I wonder if Roger made an awful ass of himself preaching to-night?"

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_The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius is a clever sketch of contemporary manners in the second century, painting in vivid colours the reaction that had set in against scepticism, and the general appetite that prevailed for miracles and magic.

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For 't has been held by many, that As Montaigne, playing with his cat, Complains she thought him but an ass, Much more she would Sir Hudibras, (For that the name our valiant Knight To all his challenges did write) But they're mistaken very much, 'Tis plain enough he was no such.

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I therefore fly for justice and relief into the hands of that great rectifier of saddles and lover of mankind, Dr. Bentley, begging he will take this enormous grievance into his most modern consideration; and if it should so happen that the furniture of an ass in the shape of a second part must for my sins be clapped, by mistake, upon my back, that he will immediately please, in the presence of the world, to lighten me of the burden, and take it home to his own house till the true beast thinks fit to call for it.

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If I should venture, in a windy day, to affirm to your Highness that there is a large cloud near the horizon in the form of a bear, another in the zenith with the head of an ass, a third to the westward with claws like a dragon; and your Highness should in a few minutes think fit to examine the truth, it is certain they would be all changed in figure and position, new ones would arise, and all we could agree upon would be, that clouds there were, but that I was grossly mistaken in the zoography and topography of them.

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that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?

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"You have your uncle, at all events; he might like----" "Oh, don't be an ass," says Lady Rylton.

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"Well, telling a fellow not to be an ass, you know.

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Hescott is in South Africa (there was nothing in that really--he had made an ass of himself over that, more or less).

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Ass'n, by Ella A. Leland, Treas., _for Apache Indians, Ramona Sch._ 41.11 Miss Mercy Whitcomb 3.00 Dorchester.

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Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, _for Fort Berthold, Dak._ 5.00 FLORIDA, $2.50.

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Branch Ass'n of Christian Chinese, 28.45 375.10 FROM EASTERN FRIENDS.

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Ass'n, 2 Valuable Bbl's C.; Carter Bros., Valuable Gift of Roger's Plated Ware.

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"Friends" 44; Branch of Newton Ind'l Ass'n, Bbl.

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Hopkins, 250.; Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, 60.

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Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n of Day St.

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Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, 2 Bbls.

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College Christian Ass'n, _for Mountain Work_ 30.00 Wellesley.

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148.40 Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, _for Indian M._ 54.00 Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2 Lithograph Portraits, Whittier and Longfellow, _for Library, Sherwood, Tenn._ Berkeley Temple 21.20 Dorchester.

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With a Biography of the Author Published Posthumously for Private Distribution by the Cleveland Medical Library Association Cleveland, Ohio 1918 CONTENTS Page Frontispiece 5 Explanatory Foreword 7 Biography 9-14 Resolutions of the Cleveland Medical Library Ass'n 15 Gilbertus Anglicus--A Study of Medicine in the Thirteenth Century 17-78 [Illustration: HENRY E. HANDERSON] EXPLANATORY FOREWORD In the summer of 1916 the librarian of the Cleveland Medical Library received a manuscript from Dr. Henry E. Handerson with the request that it be filed for reference in the archives of the library.

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Another philosopher also declared that if you take the heel-bone of an ass and bind it upon the foot of the patient, he is cured, provided that you take the right bone for the right foot, and conversely, and he swore this was true.

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25.00 Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n., _for Indian Sch'p.

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Ass'n 733.33 --------- $8,192.20 CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.

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The most remarkable wild animals of Assyria are the following: the lion, the leopard, the lynx, the wild-cat, the hyaena, the wild ass, the bear, the deer, the gazelle, the ibex, the wild sheep, the wild boar, the jackal, the wolf, the fox, the beaver, the jerboa, the porcupine, the badger, and the hare.

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The rarest of all the animals which are still found in Assyria is the wild ass (_Equus hemionous_).

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The wild ass is a favorite subject with the sculptors of the late Empire, and is represented with great spirit, though not with complete accuracy.

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and the startled wild ass [PLATE XXVI.]

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2]; to the lifelike force of both ass and hounds in the representation [PLATE LXX., Fig.

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Besides the wild bull and the lion, the Assyrians are known to have hunted the following animals: the onager or wild ass, the stag, the ibex or wild goat, the gazelle, and the hare.

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The chase of the wild ass was conducted in various ways.

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They must have been exceedingly bold, if they really faced the hunted lion; and their pace must have been considerable, if they were found of service in chasing the wild ass.

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Considering the speed of the full-grown wild ass, which is now regarded as almost impossible to take, we may perhaps conclude that the animals thus run down by the hounds were such as the hunters had previously wounded; for it can scarcely be supposed that such heavily-made dogs as the Assyrian could really have caught an unwounded and full-grown wild ass.

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Instead of shooting the wild ass, or hunting him to the death with hounds, an endeavor was sometimes made to take him alive.

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1) represents a dog in chase of a hind, and shows that the hounds which the Assyrians used for this purpose were of the same breed as those employed in the hunt of the lion and of the wild ass.

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Again, in the case of certain grotesque statuettes found at Khorsabad, one of which has already been represented, where a human figure has the head of a lion with the ears of an ass, the most natural explanation seems to be that an evil genius is intended.

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He could indulge, however, freely in the chase of the wild ass still to this day a habitant of the Mesopotamian region; and he would hunt the stag, the hind, and the ibex or wild goat.

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War in all its forms--the-march, the battle, the pursuit, the siege of towns, the passage of rivers and marshes, the submission and treatment of captives, and the "mimic war" of hunting the chase of the lion, the stag, the antelope, the wild bull, and the wild ass, are the chief subjects treated by the Assyrian sculptors; and in these the conventional is discarded; fresh scenes, new groupings, bold and strange attitudes perpetually appear, and in the animal representations especially there is a continual advance, the latest being the most spirited, the most varied, and the most true to nature, though perhaps lacking somewhat of the majesty and grandeur of the earlier.

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The chief wild animals which have been observed within the limits of the ancient Media are the lion, the tiger, the leopard, the bear, the beaver, the jackal, the wolf, the wild ass, the ibex or wild goat, the wild sheep, the stag, the antelope, the wild boar, the fox, the hare, the rabbit, the ferret, the rat, the jerboa, the porcupine, the mole, and the marmot.

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The wild ass is found only in the desert parts of the high plateau; the beaver only in Lake Zeribar, near Sulefmaniyeh.

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The Iranian wild ass differs in some respects from the Mesopotamian.

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), the wild ass, the stag, the antelope, the ibex or wild goat, the wild sheep, the wild boar, the wolf, the jackal, the fox, the hare, and the rabbit.

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The wild ass was met with only in the dry parts of Mesopotamia, and perhaps of Syria, the buffalo and wild boar only in moist regions, along the banks of rivers or among marshes.

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Among Persian indigenous animals may be enumerated the lion, the bear, the wild ass, the stag, the antelope, the ibex or wild goat, the wild boar, the hyena, the jackal, the wolf, the fox, the hare, the porcupine, the otter, the jerboa, the ichneumon, and the marmot.

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The mode of chasing the wild ass was for the horsemen to scatter themselves over the plain, and to pursue the animal in turns, one taking up the chase when the horse of another was exhausted.

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The horse and ass, which no one would touch in modern Persia, were thought, apparently, quite as good eating as the ox; and goats, which were far commoner than sheep, appeared, it is probable, oftener at table.

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The other has an eagle's head, ears like an ass, feathers on the neck, the breast, and the back, with the body, legs, and tail of a lion.

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This relative superiority is observable throughout the entire series, which contains, besides several horses (some of which have been already represented in these volumes), a lioness, an excellent figure of the wild ass, and two tolerably well-drawn sheep.

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56° to 58°), this district is an absolute desert, the haunt of the gazelle and the wild ass, dry, saline, and totally devoid of vegetation.

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The fox, the jackal, the antelope, and the wild ass possess this sterile and desolate tract, where "all is dry and cheerless," and verdure is almost unknown.

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The Persian writers state that Varahran was engaged in the hunt of the wild ass, when his horse came suddenly upon a deep pool, or spring of water, and either plunged into it or threw his rider into it, with the result that Varahran sank and never reappeared.

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To this catalogue of their beasts of chase the classical writers add the lion, the tiger, the wild ass, and the bear.

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Woman's Home Miss'y Soc., 400, _for Woman's Work_; 35 from Shawmut Mite Soc., _for Indian Sch'p._ 435.00 "A Friend In Boston," _for Building Fund, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 250.00 Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n 30.00 Dorchester.

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29; San Francisco Branch Ass'n 7.55, (25 of which from Chinese to const.

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Below the fresco which I have thus minutely described is another about the same size, representing a sphinx, with a nondescript animal, which may be either an ass or a young deer standing below it, and a panther or leopard sitting behind in a rampant attitude, with one paw on the haunch of the sphinx, and the other on the tail, and its face turned towards the spectator.

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At Maryhill, in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, about a year ago, when an epidemic of measles and whooping-cough was prevalent, two mothers took advantage, for the carrying out of this superstition, of the presence in the village of an ass which drew the cart of a travelling rag-gatherer.

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ass.

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And he said unto them, "Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a well, and will not straightway draw him up on a sabbath day?"

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Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass."

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SCRAMLING, Ass't Cashier.

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I was struck dumb with Amazement, and while I was considering with my self what this should mean, I observ'd a Man riding up to us, mounted on a Lion; when he came to the others, I found him of the common Size with the Inhabitants of our Globe; he had on his Head a Crown of Bays, which in an Instant chang'd to a Fool's Cap, and his Lion to an Ass.

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This ass ought to be as submissive as a serf of the thirteenth century was to his lord; to obey and be silent, advance and stop, at the slightest word.

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Is it for the purpose of insinuating the imbecility of slumber that the Romans decorated the heads of their beds with the head of an ass?

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THE HUSBAND.--My dear, that ass of a Prosper Magnan is fighting a duel with M. de Fontanges, on account of an Opera singer.--But what is the matter with you?

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And when one comes to think that he for whom these sacrifices are to be made is one of our brethren, a gentleman to whom we would not trust our fortune, if we had one, a man who buttons his coat just as all of us do, it is enough to make one burst into a roar of laughter so loud, that starting from the Luxembourg it would pass over the whole of Paris and startle an ass browsing in the pasture at Montmartre.

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This ass ought to be as submissive as a serf of the thirteenth century was to his lord; to obey and be silent, advance and stop, at the slightest word.

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Is it for the purpose of insinuating the imbecility of slumber that the Romans decorated the heads of their beds with the head of an ass?

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THE HUSBAND.--My dear, that ass of a Prosper Magnan is fighting a duel with M. de Fontanges, on account of an Opera singer.--But what is the matter with you?

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And when one comes to think that he for whom these sacrifices are to be made is one of our brethren, a gentleman to whom we would not trust our fortune, if we had one, a man who buttons his coat just as all of us do, it is enough to make one burst into a roar of laughter so loud, that starting from the Luxembourg it would pass over the whole of Paris and startle an ass browsing in the pasture at Montmartre.

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--In Mr. Coleridge's Ode to an Ass's Foal, in his Lines to Sarah, his Religious Musings; and in his and Mr. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, _passim_.

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Motor cars, side-cars, waggonettes, pony-traps and ass-carts are drawn up anyhow round a clump of whitewashed farm buildings in the background.

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he who sees thee across a broad glass Beholds thee in all thy perfection; And to the pale snout of a temperate ass Entertains the profoundest objection.

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North Ch., Bethany Ass'n., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ ...50.00 Haverhill.

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Ass'n., Mrs. J.H.

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Miss Emma F. Dodge, _for Dodge Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ ...20.00 Woman's Missionary Union of the Tennessee Ass'n, by Mrs. J.E.

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"I am not such an ass.

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Would she not look on him as an unendurable ass?

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I see; that's why she's talking to that portentous old ass, Schweinkopf, the musical critic.

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"Well, then, you'll excuse me saying it, but he's a young ass, to gamble in that fashion," Johnny remarked, bluntly.

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Dedicated in Friendship to KATRINA TRASK AND JOHN HUSTON FINLEY CONTENTS SONGS OUT OF DOORS EARLY VERSES The After-Echo Dulciora Three Alpine Sonnets Matins The Parting and the Coming Guest If All the Skies Wings of a Dove The Fall of the Leaves A Snow-Song Roslin and Hawthornden SONGS OUT OF DOORS LATER POEMS When Tulips Bloom The Whip-Poor-Will The Lily of Yorrow The Veery The Song-Sparrow The Maryland Yellow-Throat A November Daisy The Angler's Reveille The Ruby-Crowned Kinglet School Indian Summer Spring in the North Spring in the South A Noon Song Light Between the Trees The Hermit Thrush Turn o' the Tide Sierra Madre The Grand Canyon The Heavenly Hills of Holland Flood-Tide of Flowers God of the Open Air NARRATIVE POEMS The Toiling of Felix Vera Another Chance A Legend of Service The White Bees New Year's Eve The Vain King The Foolish Fir-Tree "Gran' Boule" Heroes of the "Titanic" The Standard-Bearer The Proud Lady LABOUR AND ROMANCE A Mile with Me The Three Best Things Reliance Doors of Daring The Child in the Garden Love's Reason The Echo in the Heart "Undine" "Rencontre" Love in a Look My April Lady A Lover's Envy Fire-Fly City The Gentle Traveller Nepenthe Day and Night Hesper Arrival Departure The Black Birds Without Disguise An Hour "Rappelle-Toi" Love's Nearness Two Songs of Heine Eight Echoes from the Poems of Auguste Angellier Rappel d'Amour The River of Dreams HEARTH AND ALTAR A Home Song "Little Boatie" A Mother's Birthday Transformation Rendezvous Gratitude Peace Santa Christina The Bargain To the Child Jesus Bitter-Sweet Hymn of Joy Song of a Pilgrim-Soul Ode to Peace Three Prayers for Sleep and Waking Portrait and Reality The Wind of Sorrow Hide and Seek Autumn in the Garden The Message Dulcis Memoria The Window Christmas Tears Dorothea, 1888-1912 EPIGRAMS, GREETINGS, AND INSCRIPTIONS For Katrina's Sun-Dial For Katrina's Window For the Friends at Hurstmont The Sun-Dial at Morven The Sun-Dial at Wells College To Mark Twain Stars and the Soul To Julia Marlowe To Joseph Jefferson The Mocking-Bird The Empty Quatrain Pan Learns Music The Shepherd of Nymphs Echoes from the Greek Anthology One World Joy and Duty The Prison and the Angel The Way Love and Light _Facta non Verba_ Four Things The Great River Inscription for a Tomb in England The Talisman Thorn and Rose "The Signs" PRO PATRIA Patria America The Ancestral Dwellings Hudson's Last Voyage Sea-Gulls of Manhattan A Ballad of Claremont Hill Urbs Coronata Mercy for Armenia Sicily, December, 1908 "Come Back Again, Jeanne d'Arc" National Monuments The Monument of Francis Makemie The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens "America for Me" The Builders Spirit of the Everlasting Boy Texas Who Follow the Flag Stain not the Sky Peace-Hymn of the Republic THE RED FLOWER AND GOLDEN STARS The Red Flower A Scrap of Paper Stand Fast Lights Out Remarks About Kings Might and Right The Price of Peace Storm-Music The Bells of Malines Jeanne d'Arc Returns The Name of France America's Prosperity The Glory of Ships Mare Liberum "Liberty Enlightening the World" The Oxford Thrushes Homeward Bound The Winds of War-News Righteous Wrath The Peaceful Warrior From Glory Unto Glory Britain, France, America The Red Cross Easter Road America's Welcome Home The Surrender of the German Fleet Golden Stars In the Blue Heaven A Shrine in the Pantheon IN PRAISE OF POETS Mother Earth Milton Wordsworth Keats Shelley Robert Browning Tennyson "In Memoriam" Victor Hugo Longfellow Thomas Bailey Aldrich Edmund Clarence Stedman To James Whitcomb Riley Richard Watson Gilder The Valley of Vain Verses MUSIC Music Master of Music The Pipes o' Pan To a Young Girl Singing The Old Flute The First Bird o' Spring THE HOUSE OF RIMMON A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS The House of Rimmon Dramatis Personæ APPENDIX CARMINA FESTIVA The Little-Neck Clam A Fairy Tale The Ballad of the Solemn Ass A Ballad of Santa Claus Ars Agricolaris Angler's Fireside Song How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim A Bunch of Trout-Flies Index of First Lines SONGS OUT OF DOORS EARLY VERSES THE AFTER-ECHO How long the echoes love to play Around the shore of silence, as a wave Retreating circles down the sand!

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IZDUBHAR: He talks like a tablet read upside down,--a wild ass braying in the wilderness.

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THE BALLAD OF THE SOLEMN ASS Recited at the Century Club, New York: Twelfth Night.

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