The Evergreen Wildflower: Exploring Nature Poetry

Selections for this episode are read in the following order: John Ruskin, “Modern Painters” Ivan Franko, "Hutsul Fairy Tales” “Kawaida Stories", various North American indigenous storytellers, recorded traditions Matsuo Bashō, 17th century haiku "Malay Folk Tales", various sources, collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Rainer Maria Rilke Wang Wei, “Deer Enclosure” Kalidasa, “Meghadūt...

Selections for this episode are read in the following order: Homer, “The Odyssey” Rabindranath Tagore, "Spring's Whisper" Dante Alighieri, “The Divine Comedy” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Faust, Part One”  John Burroughs, “Wake-Robin” Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace” “One Thousand and One Nights”, Translated by Richard Burton Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Locksley Hall" Murasaki Shiki...

References read in the following order: Swahili Proverb, “The Wisdom of Water” Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Waterfall’s Song” Matsuo Bashō, “Haiku on Waterfalls” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Waterfall’s Song” Paul Verlaine, “Tears of the Waterfall” José Martí, “Isla de Oro” Pablo Neruda, “The Great Waterfall” Su Shi (Su Dongpo), “Ode to the Red Cliff” Omar Khayyam, “Rubáiyát” Leopold Senghor, “The Falls...

Selections for this episode are read in the following order: Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali” Wang Wei (Tang Dynasty) Eino Leino Kahlil Gibran, “The Prophet” Fyodor Tyutchev, “Silentium!” Nguyễn Du, “The Tale of Kiều” Kabir Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Essays: Second Series” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” Vincent van Gogh John Keats, “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket” Buddha Pythagoras Whakataukī Prover...

References of the literary works read in the following order: Mary Hunter Austin, "The Land of Little Rain"  Arthur Mangin, "The Desert World"  Zane Grey, “The Heritage of the Desert” In the Desert by Stephen Crane Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Mary Hunter Austin, "The Land of Little Rain” Olive Schreiner, “Dreams” Zane Grey, “Wanderer of the Wasteland” Rumi Robert Frost, “D...

References of the literary works read in the following order: John Muir, Letter to His Sister [1873] Po-Chü-i, “A Dream of Mountaineering” Hanshan, “Cold Mountain” Annette Wynne, “God Made the Mountain Very High” Tao Yuanming, “Drinking Wine” T’ao Ch’ien [365-427 CE] Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” Robert Frost, “The Mountain” William Wordsworth, “The Prelude” Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Mont Blanc” Emil...

References of the literary works read in the following order: William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” Sima You [1091 jinshi] Paul Laurence Dunbar, “By the Stream” Annette Wynne, “One Little Cloud Is Out To-day” John Wilson, “The Cloud” Hans Christian Andersen, "The Cloud" William Cullen Bryant, “To a Cloud” John B. Tabb, “A Legacy” Chen Xunzhi, “Cantos on Pacing the Void at Ni...

References of the literary works read in the following order: William Stanley Braithwaite, “By an Inland Lake” Robert Southey, “The Cataract of Lodore” W. B. Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” John Pagen White, “Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country” Wang Wei, “Adrift on the Lake” Ellen P. Allerton, “Morning View of Lake Michigan” John Muir, “Steep Trails” Edgar Allan Poe, “To The Lake” Ab...

References of the literary works read in the following order: Robert Hillyer, “Fog” William Wordsworth, "The Excursion" Henry David Thoreau, “Mist” Felix Salten, "Bambi, a Life in the Woods" Li Qingzhao, To the tune “Drunk under the Shadow of Flowers” Sara Teasdale, “White Fog” Anonymous, “The Fog” D.H. Lawrence, "In the Mist" Sara Teasdale, “Gray Fog” Sir Charles Geo...

References of the literary works read in the following order: Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” Christina Rossetti, “In The Meadow - What In The Meadow?” William Blake, “Laughing Song” George W. Doneghy, “The Meadow Path” Claude Mckay, “French Leave” Edward FitzGerald, “The Meadows In Spring” Confucius, “The Shi King” Lewis Carrol, “The Three Voices” Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji" Mat...

References of the literary works read in the following order: Christina Rossetti, "Winter" PrincessShikishi,  “Winter” (Zenshû 259)  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"  Mikhail Lermontov, "Winter Road”  Thomas Hood, "The Frost Spirit" Victor Hugo, "L'hiver" Carl S...

References of the literary works read in the following order: Henry Van Dyke, “Light Between The Trees” Alice Milligan, “The Aspen” George MacDonald, “The Forest Song" William Watson, “The Green Wood” Felicia Hemans, “Autumn” Rabindranath Tagore, “Sunlight in a Forest” Matthew Arnold, “Summer” Matsuo Bashō, “Haiku” Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Love’s Philosophy” Homer, “The Odyssey” Antonio Machado...

References of the literary works read in the following order: Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Snow-Storm" John Greenleaf Whittier, "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl"  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Snow-flakes” Robert Louis Stevenson, "Winter-Time"  D.H. Lawrence, "A Winter's Tale" Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace" Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, "A Happy Boy" Vi...

References read in the following order: Michael Fairless, “Rivers And Streams” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Looking-Glass River” Leigh Hunt, “The Nymphs” Lydia Maria Child, “Autumnal leaves: tales and sketches in prose and rhyme” Homer, "The Odyssey" Virgil, "The Aeneid"  Li Bai, "The Clear Stream Flows" Hsieh Ling-yün, “Dwelling in the Mountains” Khalil Gibran, "The...

References read in the following order: Walt Whitman, “Wild Flowers” from his Complete Prose Works William Blake, "The Wild Flower's Song" Madison Julius Cawein, "Indifference" Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Flower" Robert Bloomfield, "Wild Flowers; or, Pastoral and Local Poetry" John Clare, "The Tell-Tale Flowers" Rabindranath Tagore, “Fireflies”...

Chronological order of prose and poetry reading: The Epic of Gilgamesh Rígsþula, the Poetic Edda Slovo o polku Igoreve, “The Lay of the Host of Igor” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “As the sunbeams stream through liberal space” Alexander Pushkin, "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" Heinrich Heine, “The Pine and the Palm” The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Hilda Doolittle, “Pine Trees” Ikkyū...

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