Nahua women poets

The female poet he names (and whose poem he transcribes from Nahuatl) is Macuilxochitzin, a Mexica woman of noble lineage (daughter of powerful prime minister Tlacaelel), born around 1435. However pride of place in his anthology appears to go to an anonymous girl poet:-
The indigenous chroniclers speak also about several Nahua women versed in the art of poetry. Ixtlilxochitl mentions some of them... Chimalpahin, in his Relations, as well as the Anales de Cuauhtitlan also mention women who composed songs and transcribe a few fragments of their productions.
A magnificent example of the tenderness of Nahua women and their talent for poetry is found in a lengthy song in the frequently quoted Cantares Mexicanos in the National Library of Mexico. It is the transcription of a Cozolcuicatl, ‘a cradle song’, composed for the little Ahuitzotl who later was to become lord of the Mexica. It is known that this song was the work of a woman because several times she mentions herself in it: ‘I am a Mexican maiden... I, the little maid, conceived my song in the interior of the house of flowers.’

Pic 1: ‘Nahuatl women, composers of songs’; Florentine Codex Book X

My song’s begun within that House of Flowers, and at once I carry off my little princeling. I’ll pleasure the little jewel. He dances, this little babe, this little Ahuitzotl.
Cry no more, my little princeling. These flowers and these bells of yours! You’ll dance with these, O little jewel.
I, a Mexican girl, am rocking the world! Off I go, carrying my shield cradle, for there beyond is where he lies, this treasure, this little war-flower babe of mine.

Pic 3: A young Nahua woman; detail from a mural by Diego Rivera, Palacio Nacional