# Alfonsina Storni's most famous poems (with their best-remembered lines)

"You Want Me White", "Ancestral Weight", "Little Little Man" and "I Am Going to Sleep": the poems by Alfonsina Storni recited in every school in Argentina and Uruguay, each with its best-known lines and the book it appeared in.

- 16 votes · 12 items
- Mar 6, 2023 · Ana Núñez
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## Top 12

1. **Little little man, I loved you for half an hour, / do not ask me for more.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Poem "Hombre pequeñito", from Irremediablemente (1919).
2. **You, who had all / the cups in hand, / your lips purple / with fruits and honeys.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poem "Tú me quieres blanca", from El dulce daño (1918).
3. **Little little man, little little man, / set your canary free, it wants to fly.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poem "Hombre pequeñito", from Irremediablemente (1919).
4. **You want me dawn-white, / you want me of foam, / you want me of mother-of-pearl.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Poem "Tú me quieres blanca", from El dulce daño (1918).
5. **You told me: my father did not weep; / you told me: my grandfather did not weep; / the men of my race have never wept, / they were of steel.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Peso ancestral", from Irremediablemente (1919).
6. **Teeth of flowers, hairnet of dew, / hands of herbs, you, fine wet nurse, / have the earthy sheets ready for me / and the quilt of weeded moss.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "I Am Going to Sleep", her last, sent to La Nación before her death (1938).
7. **I am going to sleep, my nurse, put me to bed.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "I Am Going to Sleep" (1938).
8. **If you want to kiss me, kiss; / I share your whims, / but do not make my mouth your prey, / kiss me softly on the eyes.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Al oído".
9. **Everything is finished. / My good illusion / no longer gives its juice.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Lápida".
10. **Houses in a row, houses in a row, / houses in a row. / Squares, squares, squares.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Cuadrados y ángulos", from El dulce daño (1918).
11. **People now have square souls, / ideas in a row / and an angle in their backs.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Cuadrados y ángulos", from El dulce daño (1918).
12. **I at the bottom of the sea.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Poem "Yo en el fondo del mar", from Mundo de siete pozos (1934).

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