Twenty Love Poems

Pablo Neruda’s love poetry — sensual, aching, and inexhaustible. The verse that taught the twentieth century how to long out loud.

Neruda, and the body made into language

In this collection

• In the apple-boughs the coolness
• Like as a Ship
• The Wild Knight and other Poems: a Fairy Tale
• Inscription (Poems from Battle Pieces)
• Telesila
• Harry W. Dubiske
• Fragment of "the Castle Builder"
• From the Mountain
• Danger of Fire Arms
• I Wish I Knew that Woman's Name
• Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance
• Religion and Love
• Bulwark
• Hippolytus
• Jan's Courtship
• A Mountain Round
• The Old Professional
• Wherefore?
• Lynchers
• The Mole-Catcher
• Wild Margaret
• The Clock Fallen Into the Sea
• Dametas
• Wind and Fog

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