Ballad by gabriela mistral - Desolation; Gabriela cny.2359media.com English

I loved having the poems side by side and being able to compare the translation to the original as best I could with my somewhat limited Spanish language skills.

Ballad subject matter generally focuses on love, nostalgic events or profound memories.

And, together with him, to be all springtimes and all winters, entwined in one anguished knot around his blood-stained neck! And our four kingdoms, we said, So vast and great would be, That as certain as the Koran They would all reach the sea.