The speaker of one poem in this collection describes himself as "the word without echoes, he who lost everything and he who had everything" after addressing "you who are silent," a white bee "drunk with honey" that buzzes in the speaker's soul. This collection contains a poem that includes the lines "The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" and "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." The speaker declares, "You look like a world lying in surrender" after noting the "white hills, white thighs" of the title thing in "Body of a Woman." The speaker of the last poem in this collection repeatedly exclaims "In you everything sank!" right after a poem beginning "Tonight I can write the saddes
The speaker of one poem in this collection describes himself as "the word without echoes, he who lost everything and he who had everything" after addressing "you who are silent," a white bee "drunk with honey" that buzzes in the speaker's soul. This collection contains a poem that includes the lines "The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance" and "Love is so short, forgetting is so long." The speaker declares, "You look like a world lying in surrender" after noting the "white hills, white thighs" of the title thing in "Body of a Woman." The speaker of the last poem in this collection repeatedly exclaims "In you everything sank!" right after a poem beginning "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." For 10 points, name this early poetry collection by Pablo Neruda.