Azul

Short love poems written in Spanish in the 1860s and still quoted today. Each rima is only a few lines, which makes this a good place to start reading poetry in Spanish.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Nervo wrote these poems after the woman he loved died, and gathered them into one book. The Spanish is direct and the vocabulary stays simple.

Amado Nervo

A selection from the nun who wrote some of the sharpest love poetry in Spanish in the 1600s. It gathers her best known sonnets alongside longer pieces.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Short prose poems about love, published by Storni in 1926. At around 30 pages this is the shortest book on the page.

Alfonsina Storni