Pablo Neruda

Lovely One

Lovely One - meaning Summary

Intimate Catalogue of Love

The poem is a sustained, sensual address in which the speaker praises and claims a beloved. It strings vivid physical and natural images—eyes, hair, body, voice—into a continuous portrait that mixes erotic admiration with tender possession. Repetition of the poem’s refrain builds an insistence that the beloved belongs to the speaker. The mood alternates between ecstatic wonder and calm devotion, presenting love as both landscape and enduring possession.

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Lovely one, Just as on the cool stone Of the spring, the water Opens a wide flash of foam, So is the smile of your face, Lovely one. Lovely one, With delicate hands and slender feet Like a silver pony, Walking, flower of the world, Thus I see you, Lovely one. Lovely one, With a nest of copper entangled On your head, a nest The coloUr of dark honey Where my heart burns and rests, Lovely one. Lovely one, Your eyes are too big for your face, Your eyes are too big for the earth. There are countries, there are rivers, In your eyes, My country is your eyes, I walk through them, They light the world Through which I walk, Lovely one. Lovely one, Your breasts are like two loaves made Of grainy earth and golden moon, Lovely one. Lovely one, Your waist, My arm shaped it like a river when It flowed a thousand years through your sweet body, Lovely one. Lovely one, There is nothing like your hips, Perhaps earth has In some hidden place The curve and the fragrance of your body, Perhaps in some place, Lovely one. Lovely one, my lovely one, Your voice, your skin, your nails, Lovely one, my lovely one, Your being, your light, your shadow, Lovely one, All that is mine, lovely one, All that is mine, my dear, When you walk or rest, When you sing or sleep, When you suffer or dream, Always, When you are near or far, Always, You are mine, my lovely one, Always.

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