# Federico García Lorca's most famous poems

From Gypsy Ballads to Poet in New York: the Lorca poems most read, recited and studied.

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- Nov 23, 2023 · spoiler_merida
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## Top 18

1. **Sleepwalking Ballad** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gypsy Ballads, 1928. The best known of all, full of green.
2. **Ballad of the Moon, Moon** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gypsy Ballads. The moon comes down to the forge and takes a child.
3. **Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1935. The elegy for his bullfighter friend, with "At five in the afternoon".
4. **Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gypsy Ballads. The assault on the city of the gypsies.
5. **The Faithless Wife** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gypsy Ballads. A night by the river.
6. **Ballad of Black Pain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gypsy Ballads. Soledad Montoya and her sorrow.
7. **The Arrest of Antoñito el Camborio on the Road to Seville** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gypsy Ballads. The gypsy arrested by the Civil Guard.
8. **The Guitar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem of the Deep Song. The weeping of the guitar.
9. **Song of the Rider** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Songs, 1927. Córdoba, far away and alone.
10. **It's True** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Songs. How hard it is to love you.
11. **Sleepless City** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poet in New York. Nocturne of the Brooklyn Bridge.
12. **Dawn** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poet in New York. Daybreak in the big city.
13. **Ode to Walt Whitman** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poet in New York. His tribute to the American poet.
14. **Little Viennese Waltz** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poet in New York. The waltz Leonard Cohen turned into "Take This Waltz".
15. **Gacela of Unforeseen Love** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Tamarit Divan. A love that arrives without warning.
16. **Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sonnets of Dark Love. The fear of losing the beloved.
17. **Absent Soul** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. The last part of the elegy.
18. **Malagueña** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem of the Deep Song. Death comes in and out of the tavern.

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