Sor Juana's Love Poems

Inés, yo con tu amor me refocilo / Inez, I Have to Gloat: You're Gorgeous

52 Ines, yo con tu amor me refocilo Inez, I Have to Gloat: You're Gorgeous 53 54 Ines, yo con tu amor me refocilo, y viendome querer me regodeo; en mirar tu hermosura me recreo, y cuando estas celosa me reguilo. Si a otro miras, de celos me aniquilo, y tiemblo de tu gracia y tu meneo; porque se, Ines, que til con un voleo no dejaras humor ni aun para quilo. Cuando estas enojada no resuello, cuando me das picones me retino, cuando sales de casa no reposo; y espero, Ines, que entre esto y entre aquell0, tu amor, acompafiado de mi vino, de conmigo en la cama 0 en el coso. Inez, I have to gloat: you're gorgeous and you love me. All this pleasure-I'll never be the same. When you're jealous, I'm a trembling thread, and when you flirt in front of me, I die. You flaunt those hips to drive me wild. One thrust, you're squandering the honey that makes me high-save it for me, Inez. When you cover me with kisses, I'm transformed. When you're angry with me, I can't breathe. When you go out, I lie awake all night. Still, Inez, none of this really matters. Just take me to bed, where I like it, with my wineskin and your succulent worm. l fP-· -, I: - :., . - . '"". & - • .I ~. . ~ .; 55 ...