The speaker of this set of poems calls a woman's final resting place the "quiet city." The third poem in this series includes the image of "wicked hands" creeping into a crib left in a "snow of lilies in joyful bloom." The second poem in this cycle predicts that "One day, this long weariness will be greater, and the soul will tell the body that it doesn't wish to continue / dragging its mass along the frosted road." The speaker of these poems lea
The speaker of this set of poems calls a woman's final resting place the "quiet city." The third poem in this series includes the image of "wicked hands" creeping into a crib left in a "snow of lilies in joyful bloom." The second poem in this cycle predicts that "One day, this long weariness will be greater, and the soul will tell the body that it doesn't wish to continue / dragging its mass along the frosted road." The speaker of these poems leaves "singing my beautiful vengeance" after "sprinkling earth and rose dust." In the last poem in this set, the speaker confronts God directly and demands: "Return (*) him to my arms or remove him from the flower." These poems won their twenty-five year-old author first prize at the prestigious national Juegos Florales contest. The first poem in this set begins: "Out of the frozen niche where men have put you, I will lower you down to the humble, sunny earth." For 10 points, name these three poems inspired by the suicide of the railway worker Romelio Ureta, written by his lover Gabriela Mistral
The speaker of this set of poems calls a woman's final resting place the "quiet city.
"Sonnets of Death" [or "Los sonetos de la muerte"]