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On this list, lovers of poetry will find nine of the best love poems ever written, and they all stemmed from the hand of Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. He won the Nobel Prize and the Golden Wreath Award.
Oct 18, 2023 · Enjoy Pablo Neruda's most mesmerizing love poems, from the "Body of a Woman" to the "Song of Despair". Discover his poetic elegance and eroticism in this collection of 21 love poems curated by Josepha.
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII. By Pablo Neruda. Translated by Mark Eisner. I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
- If You Forget Me
- XVII: I Do Not Love You
- And Because Love Battles
- Don't Go Far Off
- Every Day You Play
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"But if each day, each hour you feel that you are destined for me with implacable sweetness if each day a flower climbs up to your lips to seek me ah my love, ah my own in me all that fire is repeated in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten my love feeds on your love, beloved and as long as you live it will be in your arms without leaving mine."
"I do not love youas if you were salt-rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off I love you as certain dark things are to be loved in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
"Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love."
"Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart."
"My words rained over you, stroking you A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of you body Until I even believe that you own the universe I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
Read excerpts from the most romantic and erotic poems by the Chilean Nobel laureate, dedicated to his wife and other loves. Neruda's love poems express desire, hope, and passion in green ink and various styles.
Explore the greatest love poems by the Chilean Nobel laureate, from sonnets to odes, from metapoetry to elegy. Discover how Neruda captures the intensity, intimacy, and complexity of love in his verses.
Apr 18, 2024 · My friend Ravi introduced me to the love poems of Pablo Neruda when we were teenagers. On the cover of the writer’s “Selected Poems,” Neruda stands wearing a checkered beret, his hands ...
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Spanish: Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a poetry collection by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Published in June 1924, the book launched Neruda to fame at the young age of 19 and is one of the most renowned literary works of the 20th century in the Spanish language.
