Jose Asuncion Silva poet from Colombia was born in 1865, had 31 years and died in 1896. Poems were written in Modern age mainly in Spanish language. Dominant movement is modernism, realism.
Top ten poems Jose Asuncion Silva
Nocturne III
... one night in which fantastic fireflies burnt in the humid nuptial shadows, ...
Suspiro (Yearning)
... Instead seek me out in the kingdom of the dead ...
Dusk
... That people the dreams all children have, ...
Butterflies
... Evening sky Or opaline glimmer ...
The Woodsmen Of San Juan
... Sawing on! Straddling his grandmothers firm knees, ...
For The Reader's Ear
... When, shaken by loves power, it trembles, ...
Chrysalises
... If the winged butterfly, I thought, leaves ...
Childhood
... And overhead The star that led them from afar ...
