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Clenched Soul
We have lost even this twilight.No one saw us this evening hand in handwhile the blue night dropped on the world.I have seen from my windowthe fiesta..
© Pablo Neruda
A Song Of Despair
The memory of you emerges from the night around me.The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.Deserted like the wharves at dawn.It is the..
© Pablo Neruda
Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.Write, for example,'The night is shatteredand the blue stars shiver in the distance.'The night wind revolves in..
© Pablo Neruda
Sonnet Xvii
I do not love you as 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..
© Pablo Neruda
A Dog Has Died
My dog has died.I buried him in the gardennext to a rusted old machine.Some day I'll join him right there,but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,his..
© Pablo Neruda
Your Laughter
Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.Do not take away the rose,the lance flower that you..
© Pablo Neruda
Don't Go Far Off
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -because - I don't know how to say it: a day is longand I will be waiting for you, as in an empty..
© Pablo Neruda
I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not waiting for youMy heart moves from cold to fire.I..
© Pablo Neruda
If You Forget Me
I want you to knowone thing.You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the..
© Pablo Neruda