Pablo Neruda Love Sonnet XVII translation
These are my English translations of poems written in Spanish by Pablo Neruda.
Love Sonnet XVII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch
I do not love you like coral or topaz,
or the blazing hearth’s incandescent white flame;
I love you like phantoms embraced in the dark ...
secretly, in shadows, unrevealed & unnamed.
