by Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (1889 - 1957), as Gabriela Mistral
Translation © by Albert Theile (1904 - 1986) and by Gisela Pape
Me ha besado y ya soy otra
Language: Spanish (Español)
Me ha besado y ya soy otra: otras, por el latido que duplica el de mis venas; otra, por el aliento que se percibe entre mi aliento. Mi vientre ya es noble como mi corazón... Y hasta encuentro en mi hálito una exhalación de flores: ¡todo por aquél que descansa en mis entrañas blandamente, como el rocío sobre la hierba!
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Confirmed with Gabriela Mistral, Desolación: Poemas, New York : Instituto de las Españas de los Estados Unidos, 1922, p. 177.
Text Authorship:
- by Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (1889 - 1957), as Gabriela Mistral, no title, appears in Desolación, in 2. Prosa, in 3. Poemas de las madres, no. 1, first published 1922 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Albert Theile , copyright © and by Gisela Pape , copyright © ; composed by Sylke Zimpel.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-01-03
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Word count: 60
Er hat mich geküsst
Language: German (Deutsch) after the Spanish (Español)
Und schon bin ich eine andere: eine andere durch das Klopfen [ ... ]
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Text Authorship:
- by Albert Theile (1904 - 1986), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Gisela Pape , copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Spanish (Español) by Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga (1889 - 1957), as Gabriela Mistral, no title, appears in Desolación, in 2. Prosa, in 3. Poemas de las madres, no. 1, first published 1922
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Sylke Zimpel (b. 1959), "Er hat mich geküsst", copyright © 1999 [ women's chorus ], from Gedichte der Mütter, no. 2, Frankfurt am Main : Edition Ferrimontana
Publisher: Musikal Spezial [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
This text was added to the website: 2026-01-03
Line count: 7
Word count: 62