Melodías Del Alma

This book, "De Mi Mente" (Spanish for from my mind), is a book of over 3,000 lyrics of which approximate 2,100 are written for a man to sing and the latter 900 are written for a woman to sing. All songs are interchangeable. Some of the songs are love songs but the lyrics are not written for political and religious reasons. The reader will have the option to arrange each song according to his or her taste of which each and every song can be arranged in a bolero, ranchera, cumbia; etc. The reader can choose at their choice of which song inspires them and in they are not obligated to make any...

Si pudiera regresar yo viajaría, en el corazón del aire, en las gaviotas, en una golondrina y en las notas y en las guitarras de la patria mía. [«Soneto del regreso»]

Cuán importante es La Vida Interior, Y cuán importante de Dios la presencia, Que sin duda para un alma no hay esencia, Más sublime que encontrar El Amor. El Amor de Dios es la llama que aviva, Los corazones de cada uno de sus hijos; Es el Consuelo, la Piedad, es la Caridad, Que a las almas engrandece y da vitalidad. Estas poesías son gotas de sangre vertidas, En la pureza de las páginas de este libro, Que vibra y palpita como un solo corazón, Que Dios mueve, y anima, y da inspiración. Este libro es como una flama encendida, Que alumbrará a alguna alma necesitada, Desubicada y perdida...

Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into English. She deserves better, particularly as the first Latin American recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945), and this selection of her poetry is designed to introduce her to an English-speaking public. Born Lucila Godoy Alcayaga in the Elqui valley in the 'little north' of Chile, she became a schoolteacher at the age of fifteen and went on to become an educator of international...