Chile’s Pablo Neruda wrote passionate love poems, odes to everyday things like onions and socks, and the epic Canto General. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
We only host poems that are in the public domain, so this page has no poem texts.
Pablo Neruda’s books are in copyright. Borrow them from a library or buy them from the publisher:
Pablo Neruda’s poems are still protected by copyright, so we don’t reproduce them. This page links to legal places to read them: the poet’s publishers, your local library, the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, which share many poems with permission.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924), Canto General (1950), Elemental Odes (1954).