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 of the Sine River”

Māori Oral Tradition, “The Tears of Hine-nui-te-pō”

Saigyō, “A Mountain Waterfall”

Avvaiyar, “Waterfall’s Wisdom”

Mikhail Lermontov, “Waterfall of the Caucasus”

Victor Hugo, “Tristesse d'Olympio”

Korean Buddhist Poem, “Cascading Wisdom”

Bhartrihari, “Reflections by the Waterfall”

Buson, “Waterfall in the Deep Mountains”

Popol Vuh, “The Birth of the Rivers”

John Ruskin, “Modern Painters, Volume I”

Henry David Thoreau, “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”

Li Bai (Li Po), “Viewing a Waterfall at Mount Lu”

Alexander von Humboldt, “Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America”

Mary Wollstonecraft, “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”

William Wordsworth, “The Waterfall and the Eglantine”

Subandhu, “Vasavadatta”

John Clare, “The Cataract”

Joaquín Lorenzo Luaces, “La Cascada”

Wang Wei, “Waterfall in Sunlight”

Bashō, “The Waterfall’s Voice”

Kalidasa, “Meghaduta”

Issa, “Listening to the Falls”

Yi Saek, “The White Cascade”

Birago Diop, “Viens voir”

Kofi Awoonor, “Waterfalls of the Volta”

Jeong Cheol, “Watching the Falls”

Hawaiian Chant, “Mele of the Waterfall”

José Hernández, “The Falls of Misiones”

Tao Yuanming, “Drinking Wine by the Waterfall”

Laozi, “Dao De Jing”

Jalal al-Din Rumi, “The Water’s Journey”