# Antonio Machado's most famous poems

From Soledades to Campos de Castilla: the Machado poems studied at school, sung by Serrat and still shared today.

- 62 votes · 15 items
- Mar 8, 2024 · Mercedes Álvarez Diez
- https://even.best/en/l/2964/antonio-machado-s-most-famous-poems

## Top 15

1. **Proverbs and Songs XXIX ("Traveller, there is no road")** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Campos de Castilla. The most quoted of all, made popular by Serrat.
2. **Fields of Soria** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — The Castilian landscape turned into emotion.
3. **Portrait** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Opens Campos de Castilla (1912): the poet describes himself.
4. **To a Dry Elm** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1912. Written in Soria while Leonor was ill.
5. **To José María Palacio** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1913. A letter in verse from Baeza to a friend in Soria.
6. **I Go Dreaming Roads** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Soledades. The road as an image of life.
7. **The Crime Was in Granada** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 1936. His elegy for the murder of Federico García Lorca.
8. **Banks of the Duero** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Campos de Castilla. The river and the plateau in spring.
9. **Last Night as I Was Sleeping** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Soledades, galerías y otros poemas (1907). A dream of beehives and fountains.
10. **The Saeta** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Campos de Castilla. Andalusian Holy Week; Serrat made it a song.
11. **Lord, You Tore from Me What I Loved Most** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Campos de Castilla. Grief at Leonor's death.
12. **There, in the High Lands** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Campos de Castilla. Soria remembered from Baeza.
13. **The Land of Alvargonzález** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Campos de Castilla. A long ballad of greed and crime.
14. **Childhood Memory** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Soledades. A rainy afternoon at school.
15. **It Is an Ashen, Withered Afternoon** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Soledades. The melancholy of a grey afternoon.

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