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Secular or Eclectic
Christian : Catholic
20th Century

About Gabriela Mistral

Timeline (1889 - 1957)

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

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English version by
Langston Hughes

Original Language
Spanish
The Rose

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

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

Amazon.com

 

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