Throughout his lifetime, Pablo Neruda wrote many Odes, one of which was the Ode to Bees. It is unclear when this work was actually written; however it was first published in the 1957 in Neruda's Tercer Libro de las Odas as the poem Oda a la Abeja. The english work of Ode to bees was republished and translated in 2000 by Margaret Sayers Peden in the book Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda.