Highlander's Wounded Beast (Beasts 0f The Highlands Book 3)

✍ Scribed by Alisa Adams

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 128 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B082P9STX3

✦ Synopsis

Dreams and visions -- 'A little child shall lead them' / Isaiah -- St Kevin and the creatures of god / Helen Waddel, Beasts and saints -- St columba and the white horse / translated by Helen Waddell from the Latin of Jonas (A.D. 640) -- The buddah and the tigress / Edwin Arnold, The light of Asia -- The dragon-fly / Walter Savage Landor -- Sanctuary / Hugh B. Scott -- The general deliverance / John Wesley -- The beasts of the Earth, from the Koran -- 'And every winter change to spring' / Alfred Tennyson, In memoriam -- Heaven on Earth / Percy Bysshe Shelley, The revolt of Islam -- Wren and man / Siegfried Sassoon -- Man's guilt -- On a goldfinch starved to death in his cage / William Cowper -- Live dogs dissected for amusement at Port Royal / C. Sainte-Beuve -- Young hounds and a badger / Peter Beckford, Thoughts on hunting -- The badger / John Clare -- The Roman gourmet / Alexander Pope -- De-breaking hens, Report on welfare of animals kept under intensive systems -- Calves for veal / ibid -- Live bait / A.C. Benson -- Favourite dog hanged for stealing a leg of mutton / John Brown, Rab and his friends -- The mongrel / Thomas Hardy -- Experiments in American schools, Report of animal welfare institute -- Slaughter of seals / Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington -- The caged parrot / Konrad Z. Lorenz, King Solomon's ring -- Mouse / Clifford Dyment -- The massacre of species -- The quagga / Richard Carrington, Mermaids and mastodons -- The passenger pigeon / Roy L. Abbot, Natural history journal -- The doom of leviathan / John Gulland -- The mother mourns / Thomas Hardy -- The continuing protest -- Living creatures are not pots and pans / Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato -- Use them with a liberal spirit / Marcus Aurelius -- The hunted hare, 14th-century poem -- Regard must be shown to the feelings of animals / Maimonides, Guide to the perplexed -- The caged bird / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Of one family / Michel de Montaigne, Essay on cruelty -- 'Think they are loth to die' / Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia -- The wounded stag / William Shakespeare, As you like it -- The quality of mercy / Francis Bacon -- The body of liberties of the Bruit creation, act passed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1641) -- When we ride for pleasure / George Wither -- Moths and methodists / Horace Walpole -- God cares for oxen / John Wesley -- Good nature to animals / Christopher Smart -- Descartes, that vain reasoner / Bernard Mandeville -- Animals not machines / Richard Dean -- Against caging birds / James Thomson, The seasons -- The great chain of being / Alexander Pope -- The universe not made for man / G.W. Leibniz -- God's provision for insects / Henry More, Anti-dote against atheism -- Earth-worms in the economy of nature / Gilbert White, Natural history of Selborne -- Lord Shaftesbury on cruelty to animals -- Ode to Richard Martin / Thomas Hood -- Sympathy with animals / Charles Darwin -- On vivisection / Charles Darwin -- On vivisection / Thomas Huxley -- A modern scientist on animal experiments / Adolf Portmann -- Against the massacre of species -- Waste / Richard Carrington, Mermaids and mastodons -- Nature's masterpieces / W.H. Hudson, The naturalist in La Plata -- The ecological communtiy / George Schaller -- The concept of niches / Charles Elton, Animal ecology -- Wolf and deer / F. Fraser Darling, Pelican in the wilderness -- Small scale conservation / F. Fraser Darling, Wild life of Britain -- Man's responsibility / R.A. Fisher.;Foreword / Peter Scott -- The last migration / Ted Hughes -- Author's preface, man'd debt to the animals -- The hunted -- Pygmy song / translated from the French version of E. Trilles by Maurice Bowra -- Father elephant / ibid -- The owl speaks, an Ainu story / translated by Arthur Waley -- A runnable stag / John Davidson -- The death of the wolf / Alfred de Vigny, translated by Rivers Scott -- Theseus and his hounds / William Shakespeare, A midsummer night's dream -- Hunting the hare / William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis -- Fishing / Izaak Walton, The compleat angler -- Young Reynard / George Meredith -- Hart-leap well / William Wordsworth -- Friends, companions, servants -- Dogs -- Extract from The anathemata / David Jones -- The dog from Malta, Greek anthology / translated by Edmund Blunden -- To a black greyhound / Julian Greenfell -- Allendale dog / Lillian Bowes Lyon -- The character of dogs / R.L. Stevenson, Memories and portraits -- Folly: at the death of a dog / Laurence Whistler -- The dog of Odysseus / Homer, translated by T.E. Lawrence -- Man and dog / Siegfried Sassoon -- Cats -- To a cat / John Keats -- An appeal to cats in the business of love / Thomas Flatman -- A cat / Matthew Arnold, Poor Matthias -- To a cat / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Horses -- Horses / Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington -- A proper horse / William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis -- Hunter / John Masefield, Reynard the fox -- The racer / John Masefield -- Birds -- Ducks / F.W. Harvey -- A young jackdaw / William Plomer -- Cattle and sheep -- Cattle / Robert Herrick, The country life -- The cow seeking her dead calf / Lucretius, On the nature of things, translated by Maurice Snowden -- The ox / Addaeus, translated by Walter Leaf -- Man and cows / Andrew Young -- On Westwell Downes / William Strode (1600-45) -- Sheep / Christina Rossetti, An old-world thicket -- The cold lambing / Sir Walter Scott, Journal -- Poor Mailie's elegy / Robert Burns -- Sheep in Australia / Hal Porter -- Pigs -- The poor man's pig / Edmund blunden -- The widow's pig / George Eliot, scenes of clerical life -- The animal for itself -- The sight of animals enjoying life / William Cowper, The task -- Cairo hymn to Amon / translated by T. Eric Peat by permission of the British Academy -- Wallabies, Australian Aborigines' song / translated by Maurice Bowra from the German of C/ Strehlow -- March hares / Andrew Young -- The animals of Africa / Julian Huxley, Essays of a humanist -- The animals of England / Isaak Walton, The compleat angler -- All creatures great and small / Leslie Reid, The sociology of nature -- The happiness of animals / Richard Jefferies, Wild life in a southern county -- The birds / William Wordsworth, Verses written in early spring -- The vixen / John Clare -- The mare / Vernon Watkins -- The seals / L.A.G. Strong -- The great silkie of sule skerrie, Orkney folkl song -- The wild deer / William Blake, Aguries of innocence -- Red deer in Scotland / F. Fraser Darling, The highlands and islands of Scotland -- The greater usurper / William Shakepeare, As you like it -- The dance of the Bohor Reedbuck / Desmond Vesey-Fitzgerald -- La solitude / Théophile de Viau, translated by Rivers Scott -- The fallow deer at the lonely house / Thomas Hardy -- The tiger / William Blake, Songs of experience -- Tigers in India / Jim Corbett, Man-eaters of Kumaon -- The panther / Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by J.B. Leishman -- Pumas / George Sterling -- Insects / Thomas Gray, Ode on the spring -- The spider / Alexander Pope, Essay on man -- Insects / D.J. Enright, Some men are brothers -- Other eyes than ours / Christina Rossetti -- On the grasshopper and cricket / John Keats -- The eagle / Alfred Tennyson -- Birds of paradise / Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago -- Pheasant / Sidney Keyes -- Swan, John Keats, Epistle to Charles Cowden Clarke -- Goldfinch, The floure and the leafe -- The nightjar / Henry Newbolt -- The nightingale / Izaak Walton, The compleat angler -- The swallow / translated from the Latin of Radbod, Bisop of Utrecht, by Helen Waddell -- A blackbird singing / R.S. Thomas -- Dawn chorus, 14th century / Geoffrey Chaucer, The book of the duchess -- Dawn chorus, 20th century / Laurence Whistler, A sedative daybreak -- Skylark / Christina Rossetti -- Secretary bird / Alan Ross -- Silent spring / Rachel Carson -- Death in England / Lord Shackleton, Introduction to Silent spring -- A prayer for the birds / Edmund Blunden -- Delight in birds / Edmund W. Gosse, The farm -- The owl / John Hewitt -- The blackbird / Alfred Tennyson -- Sunset wings / D.G. Rossetti -- Snake / D.H. Lawrence -- Adders / W.H. Hudson, Hampshire days -- The whales / John Milton, Paradise lost -- The voice of whales / John Masefield, Dauber -- Badger, Anglo-Saxon riddle poem / translated by Stopford A. Brooke -- An otter / Ted Hughes -- Bats / Alfred Tennyson, In memoriam -- The white hare / Lilian Bowes Lyon -- Fish / James I, King of Scots -- 'A cold, sweet, silver life' / Leigh Hunt -- The water zoo / E.V. Knox -- Hedgehog / John Hewitt -- The porpoise / Thomas Prys, translated by Gwyn Williams -- The zebras / Roy Campbell, Adamastor -- A crocodile / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- The elephant / John Donne -- Elephants / Alastair Scobie, Animal heaven -- The parakeets / John Holloway -- Mountain gorilla / George Schaller, The year of the gorilla -- The toad / A.C. Benson -- Eagles over the lambing paddock / Ernest G. Moll -- Wolf voices / Lois Crisler, The arctic wild -- Rejoice in the lamb / Christopher Smart -- The common fate -- What befalleth the sons of man befalleth bests -- Me and the animals / David Holbrook -- The near resemblance / Michel de Montaigne, Essay on cruelty -- Youth, love and spring -- The song of the birds in spring turns his mind to thoughts of love / Thibault IV, Roi de Navarre (1201-52) -- The joy of spring / Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- The sweet o' the year / George Meredith -- Death -- The rat / Andrew Young -- Man and beast / Clifford Dyment -- The wounded hawk / Herbert Palmer -- The fly / William Blake -- Social life -- Animal society / Charles Elton, Animal ecology -- Animal conventions / V.C. Wynne-Edwards, Animal dispersion in relation to social behavior -- The morality of the wolf / Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon's ring -- The morality of animals / V.C. Wynne-Edwards, op.cit. -- Companions in suffering -- The blinded song-bird near the battle-field / Edith Sitwell -- The caged starling / Laurence Sterne, A sentimental journey --To a mouse / Robert Burns.