Poemas de Amor

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

The book that launched modernismo, mixing short stories and poems in one volume. Darío writes about love, beauty, and desire in language built for sound.

Rubén Darío

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