Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral

Contents INTRODUCTION by Langston Hughes 9 FOREWORD: Nobel Prize Citation 13 CRADLE SONG 17 Close to Me 19 I Am Not Lonely 20 Cradle Song 21 Night 22 You Have Me 23 Chains 24 Wanderer 25 Gentleness 26 Bitter Song 27 Fear 28 Little Lamb 29 Dew 30 Discovery 31 My Song 32 POEMS FOR MOTHERS 33 Poet's Note 34 He Kissed Me 35 What Will It Be Like 36 Wisdom 37 Tenderness 38 Sister 39 Prayer 40 Sensitive 41 Eternal Grief 42 For Him 43 Quietness 44 Little White Garments 45 Image of the Earth 46 To My Husband 47 Mother 48 Tell Me, Mother 49 Dawn 50 Holy Law 51 FOR THE SADDEST OF MOTHERS 53 Thrown Out 55 Why Did You Come? 56 GRAIN DIVINE 57 Prayer 59 Poem of the Son 61 For Children 64 Children's Hair 65 EARTH AND WOMAN 67 Doves 69 Helpers 70 Earth and the Woman 71 If You'll Just Go to Sleep 72 Asleep 73 The Stable 74 Indian Christmas 76 Seed 77 Song of the Blood 78 Song of the Blood 80 Song of the Fisherfolk 81 Those Who Don't Dance 82 Going Back 83 Maimed 84 The Parrot 85 The Rat 86 The Peacock 87 Hymn 88 Little Workman 89 KINDNESS 91 Richness 93 The Cup 94 Paradise 95 Combing Your Hand 96 Midnight 97 When Snow Falls 98 The Rose 99 Cascade in Sequedal 100 Woodcutter 102 Catalan Women 103 COUNTRY WITH NO NAME 105 Country That Is Not Missing 107 Stranger 109 Things 110 Absence 112 Two Angels 114 The Flower of the Air 116 Old Lion 118 Soap 119