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 Shikibu, “The Tale of Genji”

“Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali” - Mali oral tradition

Christina Rossetti, "Spring"

Matsuo Bashō

Yosa Buson

Du Fu, "Spring View"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Early Spring Feeling"

Gabriela Mistral, "Spring"

Rubén Darío, "Spring Song"

Olive Tilford Dargan, “Call Home the Heart”

Anacreon, "Ode XVI"

Rumi, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi

Kalidasa, "Ritusamhara"

Lady Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji"

Sei Shōnagon, "The Pillow Book"

Hans Christian Andersen, "The Nightingale"

Frédéric Mistral, (Mirèio)

Lady Sarashina, "The Sarashina Diary"

Mikhail Lermontov, "A Hero of Our Time"

Zane Grey, "Riders of the Purple Sage"

Kobayashi Issa

Władysław Reymont, "The Peasants"

Knut Hamsun, "Growth of the Soil"

Sigrid Undset, "Kristin Lavransdatter"

Emily Dickinson, "A Light Exists in Spring"

William Blake, "To Spring"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "An April Day"

William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring"

John Clare, "Early Spring"

Rudyard Kipling, "In Springtime"

Christina Rossetti, "Spring"

Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Spring"

Thomas Nashe, "Spring"

Jalal al-Din Rumi, "The Festival of Spring"

Meng Haoran, "Spring Dawn"

Su Shi, "Spring Night"

Matsuo Bashō, "Spring"

Hafez, "Spring"

José Martí, "Spring"

Gabriela Mistral, "Spring"

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Spring"