Leona Florentino [Mother of Philippine Women's Literature] (19 April 1849 - 4 October 1884 / Vigan)

What gladness and what joy
are endowed to one who is loved
for truly there is one to share
all his sufferings and his pain.

My fate is dim, my stars so low
perhaps nothing to it can compare,
for truly I do not doubt
for presently I suffer so.