Tonight I Can Write (The Saddest Lines) (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver ...
Pablo Neruda Poems on Love (51 Poems)
Song Of Despair (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The memory of you emerges from the night around me.The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.Deserted like the ...
And because Love battles (Pablo Neruda Poems)
And because love battlesnot only in its burning agriculturesbut also in the mouth of men and women,I will finish off ...
Gautama Christ (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The names of God and especially those of His representative Who is called Jesus or Christ according to holy books and someone's ...
Lone Gentleman (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The gay young men and the love-sick girls,and the abandoned widows suffering in sleepless delirium,and the young pregnant wives of ...
Ode To The Book (Pablo Neruda Poems)
When I close a bookI open life.I hearfaltering criesamong harbours.Copper ignotsslide down sand-pitsto Tocopilla.Night time.Among the islandsour oceanthrobs with fish,touches ...
Castro Alves From Brazil (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Castro Alves from Brazil, for whom did you sing?Did you sing for the flower? For the waterwhose beauty whispered words ...
Ode to Clothes (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Every morning you wait,clothes, over a chair,to fill yourself withmy vanity, my love,my hope, my body.Barelyrisen from sleep,I relinquish the ...
Your Laughter (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.Do not take away ...
A Lemon (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Out of lemon flowersloosedon the moonlight, love'slashed and insatiableessences,sodden with fragrance,the lemon tree's yellowemerges,the lemonsmove downfrom the tree's planetariumDelicate merchandise!The ...
So that you will hear me (Pablo Neruda Poems)
So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklace, drunken bellfor your ...
The Queen (Pablo Neruda Poems)
I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But ...
The Question (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Love, a questionhas destroyed you.I have come back to youfrom thorny uncertainty.I want you straight asthe sword or the road.But ...
Sonata (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Neither the heart cut by a piece of glassin a wasteland of thornsnor the atrocious waters seen in the cornersof ...
The Dead Woman (Pablo Neruda Poems)
If suddenly you do not exist,if suddenly you no longer live,I shall live on.I do not dare,I do not dare ...
Poor Creatures (Pablo Neruda Poems)
What it takes on this planet,to make love to each other in peace.Everyone pries under your sheets,everyone interferes with your ...
Your Hands (Pablo Neruda Poems)
When your hands leaptowards mine, love,what do they bring me in flight?Why did they stopat my lips, so suddenly,why do ...
Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks (Pablo Neruda Poems)
All those men were there inside,when she came in totally naked.They had been drinking: they began to spit.Newly come from ...
In My Sky At Twilight (Pablo Neruda Poems)
In my sky at twilight you are like a cloudand your form and colour are the way I love them.You ...
Sonnet LXXXI: Rest with your dream inside my dream (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Already, you are mine. Rest with your dream inside my dream.Love, grief, labour, must sleep now.Night revolves on invisible wheelsand ...
Love, We’re Going Home Now (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Love, we're going home now,Where the vines clamber over the trellis:Even before you, the summer will arrive,On its honeysuckle feet, ...
‘Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,’ (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret knowledge is clasped between your ...
It’s good to feel you are close to me (Pablo Neruda Poems)
It's good to feel you are close to me in the night, love,invisible in your sleep, intently nocturnal,while I untangle ...
LXXXIV From: ‘Cien sonetos de amor’ (Pablo Neruda Poems)
One time more, my love, the net of light extinguisheswork, wheels, flames, boredoms and farewells,and we surrender the swaying wheat ...
Sonnet IX: There where the waves shatter (Pablo Neruda Poems)
There where the waves shatter on the restless rocksthe clear light bursts and enacts its rose,and the sea-circle shrinks to ...
‘March days return with their covert light’ (Pablo Neruda Poems)
March days return with their covert light,and huge fish swim through the sky,vague earthly vapours progress in secret,things slip to ...
Luminous mind, bright devil (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Luminous mind, bright devilof absolute clusterings, of upright noon---:here we are at last, alone, without loneliness,far from the savage city's ...
Sonnet XIII:The light that rises from your feet to your hair (Pablo Neruda Poems)
The light that rises from your feet to your hair,the strength enfolding your delicate form,are not mother of pearl, not ...
Sonnet LXXIII: Maybe you’ll remember (Pablo Neruda Poems)
Maybe you'll remember that razor-faced manwho slipped out from the dark like a bladeand - before we realized - knew ...
Sonnet LXVI: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You (Pablo Neruda Poems)
I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not ...