The poems of the romanticism of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer are contained in the work Rimas of 1871. Many of his poems and prose works were published individually in the newspaper El Contemporáneo.
However, they appeared in book form only after his death, when his friends collected his writings and published them.
You may also be interested in these romantic poems by various authors.
Selection of romantic poems by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquers
The following is a selection of 5 romantic poems by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. In general, the poetry of this writer explores themes of love, delving into themes related to disappointment and loneliness, and the mysteries of life and poetry.
Thus, the romantic poems of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer are sensitive and deeply subjective.
XIII
Your pupil is blue and, when you laugh,
its clear clarity reminds me of
the tremulous glow of the morning
that is reflected in the sea.
Your pupil is blue and, when you cry,
the transparent tears in it
appear to me drops of dew
on a vial.
Your pupil is blue, and if in its background
an idea radiates like a point of light,
it seems to me in the evening sky
a lost star.
XIV
I saw you a point, and floating before my eyes
the image of your eyes stayed,
like the dark spot edged with fire
that floats and blinds if you look at the sun.
Wherever he
gazes, he sees his pupils flare;
but I can't find you, which is your look,
some eyes, yours, nothing more.
From my bedroom in the corner I
watch them look fantastic apart.
When I sleep I feel them hovering
wide open over me.
I know that there are wisps that
lead the wayfarer to perish at night;
I feel dragged by your eyes,
but where they drag me I don't know.
XXX
A tear appeared in his eyes
and a phrase of forgiveness on my lip;
pride spoke and wiped away his crying
and the phrase on my lips expired.
I go one way: she, another;
But when I think of our mutual love,
I still say, "why did I keep quiet that day?"
And she will say, "why didn't I cry?"
XLIV
As in an open book
I read from your pupils in the background.
Why pretend the lip
laughs that are denied with the eyes?
Cry! Don't be ashamed
to confess that you loved me a little.
Cry! Nobody looks at us.
You see; I am a man… and I also cry.
LIII
The dark swallows
on your balcony will return their nests to hang,
and again with the wing to their
playing crystals they will call.
But those that the flight restrained
your beauty and my happiness to contemplate,
those that learned our names…
those… will not return!
The dense honeysuckle
of your garden will return, the walls to climb,
and again in the afternoon even more beautiful
its flowers will open.
But those, curdled with dew
whose drops we watched tremble
and fall like tears of the day…
those… will not return! The burning words
will return from love in your ears
;
your heart from its deep sleep
may wake up.
But mute and absorbed and on his knees
as God is worshiped before his altar,…
as I have loved you…; get off the hook,
so… they won't love you!
References
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