Poem by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral who died in 1957

Poet and teacher Gabriela Mistral, whose real name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga passed away on January 10, 1957 in New York. Among her works we find Death Sonnets, Desolation, Tenderness, among others. For her poetic work, she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. She was born in Chile in 1889.




Give Me Your Hand

Give me your hand and give me your love,
give me your hand and dance with me.
A single flower, and nothing more,
a single flower is all we’ll be.

Keeping time in the dance together,
you’ll be singing the song with me.
Grass in the wind, and nothing more,
grass in the wind is all we’ll be.

I’m called Hope and you’re called Rose:
but losing our names we’ll both go free,
a dance on the hills, and nothing more,
a dance on the hills is all we’ll be.

Dame la Mano (Give Me Your Hand)

Dame la mano y danzaremos
dame la mano y me amarás.
Como una sola flor seremos,
como una flor, y nada más…

El mismo verso cantaremos,
al mismo paso bailarás.
Como una espiga ondularemos,
como una espiga, y nada más.

Te llama Rosa y yo Esperanza:
pero tu nombre olvidarás,
porque seremos una danza
en la colina, y nada más.

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