Sonnets
On the dying of a rose
On a too-flattering portrait painted of herself
On the world's persecution
Villancicos
This was a Spanish form especially cherished by the poor in the New World. Usually simple carols, villancicos were commonly grouped in a cycle of lyrics to be sung on a religious holiday.
On
Saint Bernard
On the Church as a House of Bread
On
Saint Peter
When Pedro, as a man of the sea...
On Saint Jerome
Guided by a silent clarion...
On Saint Catherine of Alexandria
One of her last commissions, originally to be sung for Bishop Santa Cruz at the Cathedral in Puebla, was a cycle of poems on St. Catherine, martyred on the Catherine wheel. Patron saint of female scholars. Most of these appear in translation in book five of Hunger's Brides.
The triumphs of Egypt...
Pure waters of the Nile...
Rose of Alexandria...
To her breast, pale Cleopatra...
That ancient Tribunal...
The ancient Wonders of the World...
There was a girl...
O Providence most high...!
A Rose that is cut...
There is an excerpt from the novel, in which Sor Juana remininisces about the feast of Saint Catherine during her own girlhood in the mountains of Mexico.
Other forms
On the cruelty of memory (fragment)
...And though among all princes...
on Divine Love
Ascendant Raptor -- speak...(fragment)
For an hour sad Thought...
In truth my sweetest love...
When, Divine Spirits...?
Allegorical Neptune (fragment)
From plays in verse
From "Love is a Greater Labyrinth"
I love Theseus, and thus...
Beautiful Phaedra, whom I adore...
What is this, unjust Heaven...?
From "The Sceptre of Saint
Joseph"
... that Woman, who but through sin....
Beauteous Intelligence, my bride...
So long as rage endures...
From "Martyr of the Sacrament"
On natural magic
Hermenegild in prison
Excerpts
from the prose
From "The Letter Worthy of Athena" (La carta atenagórica)
An entreaty before the Divine Tribunal for forgiveness of her sins
