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”

William Wordsworth, "To The Daisy"

William Cullen Bryant, "To the Fringed Gentian"

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, "The Wild Flowers"

Robert Louis Stevenson, "Wild Flowers"

William Wordsworth, “Daffodils"

John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"

William Carlos Williams, "To a Wild Rose"

Lope de Vega, "Wild Flowers"

Toru Dutt, "The Lotus" 

William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring"

Anna Akhmatova, "The Tulip Bed"

William Blake, "The Garden of Love"

Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Flower of Youth"

Kim Sowol, "Azaleas"

Matsuo Basho, "The Temple Bells Die Out"

Henry David Thoreau, “A Yearning Toward Wildness: Environmental Quotations from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau”

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Question”

Su Shi, “Tien Chen Flowers’ Shadows”

Bai Juyi, “When flowers are not flowers”

Su Shi, “The Last Bloom”

Confucius, 551 BC–479 BC

Xue Wang, ~1400 AD

Lu You, 1125–1210 AD

Henry S. Salt, “The Call of the Wildflower”

Henry Van Dyke, “School”

Ma Zhiyuan, “Thinking About Nature”

Wei Ying-wu, “At West Creek in Ch’u-chou”

Wang An-shih, “Events at Bushel Mountain”

Anonymous, “Nineteen Ancient Poems”

Lu Chi Wen Fu, “The Art of Writing”

Henry Van Dyke, “Spring in the North”

Du Fu, “A Lament at the Riverside”

Oscar Wilde, “Flower of Love”

Yu Xuanji, “Selling Tattered Peonies”

Li T’ai-Po, “Eternally Thinking of Each Other”

Liu Shih-an, “One Goes a Journey”

Liang T'ung-shu, “Two Panels”

Oscar Wilde, “Roses and Rue”

Qian Qi, “Visit to the Hermit Chui”

William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”