title: Reading the Voice: Native American Oral Poetry on the Page
author:  Paul G. Zolbrod 
description: Paul Zolbrod is professor of English, Allegheny College and senior curator at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe.
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  > BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS
  
  > One's-Self I Sing
  
  > As I Ponder'd in Silence
  
  > In Cabin'd Ships at Sea
  
  > To Foreign Lands
  
  > To a Historian
  
  > To Thee Old Cause
  
  > Eidolons
  
  > For Him I Sing
  
  > When I Read the Book
  
  > Beginning My Studies
  
  > Beginners
  
  > To the States
  
  > On Journeys Through the States
  
  > To a Certain Cantatrice
  
  > Me Imperturbe
  
  > Savantism
  
  > The Ship Starting
  
  > I Hear America Singing
  
  > What Place Is Besieged?
  
  > Still Though the One I Sing
  
  > Shut Not Your Doors
  
  > Poets to Come
  
  > To You
  
  > Thou Reader
  
  > BOOK II.
  
  > BOOK III.
  
  > BOOK IV. CHILDREN OF ADAM
  
  > From Pent-Up Aching Rivers
  
  > I Sing the Body Electric
  
  > A Woman Waits for Me
  
  > Spontaneous Me
  
  > One Hour to Madness and Joy
  
  > Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
  
  > Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals
  
  > We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
  
  > O Hymen! O Hymenee!
  
  > I Am He That Aches with Love
  
  > Native Moments
  
  > Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
  
  > I Heard You Solemn-Sweet Pipes of the Org