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Subject: NATIVE AMERICANS - RELIGION
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` CHRISTIANITY HOPPING, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On sunday mornings we were presbyterian so we could drink coffee and
Last Line: Then we got lost somewhere upstairs
Subject(s): Christianity; Churches; Native Americans - Religion; Presbyterianism; Religion - Reformers


EAGLE SONNETS: 3, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We hear the ancients say that man is issue
Last Line: Each part will be too hard at work to hear it.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


EAGLE SONNETS: 4, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And - spirit? Is it some ethereal spark
Last Line: Shall follow where the striving heart has gone.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


EAGLE SONNETS: 5, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower of the dust am I
Last Line: To let new heavens ripple out of dust.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


EAGLE SONNETS: 6, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are parts of a vaster thing than we
Last Line: Inexorably one with all that is.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


EAGLE SONNETS: 8, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faith is the dream that things known false are true
Last Line: Yet we shall find no truer guide than he.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST: YA-IHL'S SONG TO THE NORTH WIND, by ALICE HENSON ERNST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah-hi-yoo ...
Last Line: Cha-it-sc'l, little-brown-partridge, she whom I loved, is dead.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


HOPI SNAKE DANCE, by J. MORRIS RICHARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Waiting, uncomfortably waiting
Last Line: Some lonely butte or hill.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


INVOCATION: NAVAJO PRAYER, by GRACE BOYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Talking god, speaking god
Last Line: Above me, there will be beauty
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


MANDAN PRIEST, by EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: They call me now the indian priest
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


MOUNT AGIOCHOOK, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Gray searcher of the upper air
Last Line: Dwell the strange gods of heathendom!
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion; White Mountains, New Hampshire


OLD MEDICINE SONG; AFTER A WINNEBAGO STORY, by DOLORES STEWART    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once a young man blackened his face
Last Line: We no longer understand
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


PRAYER OF THE NAVAJOS, by LAURA ADAMS ARMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You who dwell in the house of dawn
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


PRAYER TO THE MOUNTAIN SPIRIT, by ANONYMOUS - NATIVE AMERICAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: "young man, chieftain / reared within the mountain"
Last Line: Spirit of the mountains
Subject(s): Mountains;native Americans - Religion;prayer; Hills;downs (great Britain)


SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What moves what
Last Line: Keep your eyes shut
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion


SHAMAN AHGUTINGMARIK'S MAGIC SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Earth everywhere earth
Last Line: Say whatever comes
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion


SONG OF BEKOTSIDI, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now bekotsidi, that am I. For them I make
Last Line: To form them fair, for them I labor. For them I make
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


SPIRIT SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spirit in the sky
Last Line: So it can't see us
Subject(s): Eskimos; Native Americans; Native Americans - Religion


THE ARCTIC INDIAN'S FAITH, by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We worship the spirit that walks unseen
Last Line: But his presence and power we know.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


THE CARRYING OF A GHOST, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away
Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road.
Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement


THE MOHEGAN CHURCH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Amid those hills, with verdure spread
Last Line: Your god -- your hope -- your heaven the same
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


THE VICTORY OF FAITH, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What did the sobbing night wind say
Last Line: "heaven is true, be brave, be brave."
Subject(s): Faith; God; Native Americans - Religion; Belief; Creed


WIFE OF MANIBOZHO SINGS, by JANET LEWIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He comes and goes; %there is no rest
Last Line: Lie still %under the sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Winters, Janet Lewis; Winters, Yvor, Mrs.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion