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, “W

Waterfall Call

Mar 12th, 2025 7m 51s

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 Mar

Nature's Verses

Sep 12th, 2024 5m 32s

Selections for this episode are read in the following order:Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”Wang Wei (Tang Dynasty)Eino LeinoKahlil Gibran, “The Prophet”Fyodor Tyutchev, “Silentium!”Nguyễn Du, “The Tale of Kiều”KabirRalph Waldo Emerson,

Desert Versed

Aug 13th, 2024 13m 42s

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 CraneVictor Hugo, Les Misérables

Alpine Lines

Jul 14th, 2024 15m 21s

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”

Cumuli Versify

Jun 19th, 2024 11m 23s

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 Clou

Lake Escape

May 17th, 2024 12m 14s

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 Englis

Fog Talk

Apr 17th, 2024 14m 22s

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

Meadow Flow

Mar 15th, 2024 8m 44s

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 Le

Ice Rhymes

Feb 23rd, 2024 7m 57s

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"

Shivelight Delight

Jan 23rd, 2024 9m 46s

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 Tag

Snow Prose

Dec 14th, 2023 12m 55s

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. Lawr

Stream Themes

Nov 20th, 2023 16m 7s

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 Ody

Wildflower Power

Oct 30th, 2023 16m 48s

References read in the following order:Walt Whitman, “Wild Flowers” from his Complete Prose WorksWilliam Blake, "The Wild Flower's Song"Madison Julius Cawein, "Indifference"Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Flower"Robert Bloomfield, "Wild Flower

Pine Lines

Sep 17th, 2023 16m 25s

Chronological order of prose and poetry reading:The Epic of GilgameshRígsþula, the Poetic EddaSlovo o polku Igoreve, “The Lay of the Host of Igor”Ralph Waldo Emerson, “As the sunbeams stream through liberal space”Alexander Pushkin