I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,
and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle.

(C) Gabriela Mistral
03/20/2017


Best Poems of Gabriela Mistral

• I Am Not Alone
• Dusk
• The Sad Mother
• The Lark
• The Shining Host
• Creed
• Anniversary
• Those Who Do Not Dance
• The Alpaca
• Pine Forest
• The Rose
• The Stranger (la Extranjera)
• Decalogue Of The Artist
• Death Sonnet I
• To See Him Again
• Tiny Feet
• Song Of Death