Gabriela Mistral: The Rose

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The Rose

Gabriela Mistral, Gabriela Mistral poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Christian poetry

by Gabriela Mistral
(1889 - 1957) Timeline

English version by
Langston Hughes

Original Language
Spanish

Secular or Eclectic

Christian : Catholic

20th Century

The treasure at the heart of the rose
is your own heart's treasure.
Scatter it as the rose does:
your pain becomes hers to measure.

Scatter it in a song,
or in one great love's desire.
Do not resist the rose
lest you burn in its fire.

-- from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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Themes

Fire

Heart

Pain and Wounding

Rose

Recommended Books

	Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral, Translated by Ursula K. LeGuin
	Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield

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