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 Nile"

Victor Hugo, "The Rhône"

Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji"

Gabriel García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

Thomas Mann, "Death in Venice"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

"One Thousand and One Nights" (Middle East)

Li Ba, "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter”

Fernando Pessoa, "The Book of Disquiet"

Jack London, "The Call of the Wild"

Marcel Proust, "Swann's Way"

P’ei Ti, “Wheel-Rim River Sequence” 

William Stoddard, “A Picture”

Elyne Mitchell, “The Man from Snowy River”

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"

Lord Byron, "The Brook" 

Sara Teasdale, “Rivers to the Sea”

Christina Rossetti, "What Sappho Would Have Said Had Her Leap Cured Instead of Killing Her"

Emily Dickinson, "The Brook"

Emily Dickinson, “Have you got a Brook in your little heart” 

John Clare, "The Brook in February"

Ezra Pound, "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" 

Kobayashi Issa, "Beside the Water"

Ahmad Shamlu "The Brook"

Al-Ma'arri, "On the Banks of the River Euphrates"

Xu Xiake, "The River of Golden Sand"

T.S. Eliot, “The Dry Savages”

William Cullen Bryant, “Green River”

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Edgar Allan Poe, “To The River”

Lola Ridge, “East River”

Archibald Lampman, “Spring On The River”

Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Brook”