Hymn of the Great Plains Indians to the Sun

O Morning Star! when you look down upon us, give us peace and refreshing sleep.  Great Spirit! bless our children, friends and visitors through a happy life.  May our trails lie straight and level before us.  Let us live to be old.  We are all your children and ask these things with good hearts.

Aztec Wedding Poem

I know not whether thou has been absent:
I lie down with thee, I rise up with thee,
in my dreams thou art with me.
If my eardrops tremble in my ears,
I know it is thou moving within my heart.

Chippewa Indian Poem of Betrothal

Oh, I am thinking
Oh, I am thinking
I have found my lover.
Oh, I think it is so.

Shoshone Indian Poem

Fair is the white star of twilight, and the sky clearer at the day’s end; but she is fairer, and she is dearer, She, my heart’s friend.

Fair is the white star of twilight, and the moon roving to the sky’s end; but she is fairer, better worth loving, She, my heart’s friend.

Apache Indian Prayer

Now we feel no rain, 
for each of us will be shelter to the other. 
Now we will feel no cold, 
for each of us will be warmth to the other. 
Now there is no loneliness for us. 
Now we are two bodies, 
but only one life. 
We go now to our dwelling place, 
to enter into the days of our togetherness. 
May our days be good and long upon this earth.