Distant Voices: Poetry of the Preliterate

AFRICA Arthur Grimble beautiful girl beloved's birds Black Orpheus Blanaid Salkeld body C. M. Bowra Cecil Sharp CHATTISGARH child Chinese cloth cloud corn dance daughter dawn dead death Ded o ded drop Dumb corpse eagle Elephant-hunter ESKIMO father flower forest GAELIC GOND ABORIGINAL grass hair hand heaven Hi-iya naiho-o Hoot Hugh Tracey INDIA inheritor Keep it dark land lazy wave light Listen O earth live MANGAREVA mighty Mother Earth mountains NAVAJO INDIAN night oral poetry plants poem poet preliterate primitive rain falling Rain Song rainbow red turban river sing sleep snowslide Song take your bow tell thanks to Mother thee thine things thyme trans translated Trask tree Ulli Beier underworld Unwritten Song URAON Veddas Verrier Elwin verse W. G. Archer water of Kane weeping wife wind wings woman women Wulf yellow YORUBA Young Moon