Bécquer's most famous rhymes
The top 3 according to 23 votes from people: Rhyme XXI — What is poetry? · Rhyme LIII — The dark swallows will return · Rhyme XXIII — For a glance, a world. (Updated Nov 28, 2025.)
The rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer most studied, recited and quoted. Untitled, they are known by their number or first line.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 16
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Rhyme XXI — What is poetry?
A love answer in four lines.
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Rhyme LIII — The dark swallows will return
The most famous: what comes back and the love that won't.
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Rhyme XXIII — For a glance, a world
All he would give for a kiss.
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Rhyme XXXVIII — Sighs are air and go to the air
What goes away and what is forgotten.
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Rhyme LXXIII — They closed her eyes
A burial and the loneliness of the dead.
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Rhyme XIII — Your pupil is blue
Blue eyes at three different moments.
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Rhyme XLI — You were the hurricane
Two personalities that collide.
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Rhyme IV — Do not say its treasure is exhausted
As long as there is mystery, there will be poetry.
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Rhyme VII — In the dark corner of the room
A forgotten harp waiting for someone to play it.
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Rhyme XI — I am passionate, I am dark
Three women and the one he can never reach.
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Rhyme X — The invisible atoms of the air
Everything stirs: love is passing by.
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Rhyme XVII — Today the earth and skies smile on me
The day she looked at him.
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Rhyme XXX — A tear rose to her eyes
Two lovers kept silent by pride.
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Rhyme I — I know a giant, strange hymn
The hymn that language cannot capture.
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Rhyme LX — My life is a wasteland
The briefest, bleakest little poem.
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Rhyme LII — Giant waves that break roaring
He asks nature to carry him away.
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