# Bécquer's most famous rhymes

The rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer most studied, recited and quoted. Untitled, they are known by their number or first line.

- 23 votes · 16 items
- Nov 28, 2025 · Alba Cano
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## Top 16

1. **Rhyme XXI — What is poetry?** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A love answer in four lines.
2. **Rhyme LIII — The dark swallows will return** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — The most famous: what comes back and the love that won't.
3. **Rhyme XXIII — For a glance, a world** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — All he would give for a kiss.
4. **Rhyme XXXVIII — Sighs are air and go to the air** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — What goes away and what is forgotten.
5. **Rhyme LXXIII — They closed her eyes** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A burial and the loneliness of the dead.
6. **Rhyme XIII — Your pupil is blue** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Blue eyes at three different moments.
7. **Rhyme XLI — You were the hurricane** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Two personalities that collide.
8. **Rhyme IV — Do not say its treasure is exhausted** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — As long as there is mystery, there will be poetry.
9. **Rhyme VII — In the dark corner of the room** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A forgotten harp waiting for someone to play it.
10. **Rhyme XI — I am passionate, I am dark** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Three women and the one he can never reach.
11. **Rhyme X — The invisible atoms of the air** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Everything stirs: love is passing by.
12. **Rhyme XVII — Today the earth and skies smile on me** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The day she looked at him.
13. **Rhyme XXX — A tear rose to her eyes** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Two lovers kept silent by pride.
14. **Rhyme I — I know a giant, strange hymn** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The hymn that language cannot capture.
15. **Rhyme LX — My life is a wasteland** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The briefest, bleakest little poem.
16. **Rhyme LII — Giant waves that break roaring** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — He asks nature to carry him away.

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