Antonio Machado's most famous poems
The top 3 according to 62 votes from people: Proverbs and Songs XXIX ("Traveller, there is no road") · Fields of Soria · Portrait. (Updated Mar 8, 2024.)
From Soledades to Campos de Castilla: the Machado poems studied at school, sung by Serrat and still shared today.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 15
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Proverbs and Songs XXIX ("Traveller, there is no road")
Campos de Castilla. The most quoted of all, made popular by Serrat.
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Fields of Soria
The Castilian landscape turned into emotion.
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Portrait
Opens Campos de Castilla (1912): the poet describes himself.
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To a Dry Elm
1912. Written in Soria while Leonor was ill.
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To José María Palacio
1913. A letter in verse from Baeza to a friend in Soria.
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I Go Dreaming Roads
Soledades. The road as an image of life.
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The Crime Was in Granada
1936. His elegy for the murder of Federico García Lorca.
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Banks of the Duero
Campos de Castilla. The river and the plateau in spring.
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Last Night as I Was Sleeping
Soledades, galerías y otros poemas (1907). A dream of beehives and fountains.
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The Saeta
Campos de Castilla. Andalusian Holy Week; Serrat made it a song.
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Lord, You Tore from Me What I Loved Most
Campos de Castilla. Grief at Leonor's death.
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There, in the High Lands
Campos de Castilla. Soria remembered from Baeza.
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The Land of Alvargonzález
Campos de Castilla. A long ballad of greed and crime.
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Childhood Memory
Soledades. A rainy afternoon at school.
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It Is an Ashen, Withered Afternoon
Soledades. The melancholy of a grey afternoon.
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