Gabriela Mistral

And we go on and on,
Neither sleeping nor awake,
Towards the meeting,
That we are already there

From the icy niche where men placed youI lower your body to the sunny, poor earth
They didn't know I too must sleep in itand dream on the same pillow
I place you in the sunny ground, with amother's sweet care for her napping child,and th...

I
You shall love beauty, which is the shadow of God over the Universe
II
There is no godless art

I feel my heart meltingin the mildness like candles:my veins are slow oiland not wine,and I feel my life fleeinghushed and gentle like the gazelle

The night, it is deserted from the mountains to the sea
But I, the one who rocks you,
I am not alone
The sky, it is deserted for the moon falls to the sea

Let us go now into the forest
Trees will pass by your face,and I will stop and offer you to them,but they cannot bend down
The night watches over its creatures,except for the pine trees that never change:the old wounded springs that spri...

Today I saw a woman plowing a furrow
Her hips arebroad, like mine, for love, and she goes about her workbent over the earth
I caressed her waist;
I brought her home with me