diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/bm25.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/bm25.py
index c0e0b248313..0ebaa2c0cd2 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/bm25.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/bm25.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from langchain_core.callbacks import CallbackManagerForRetrieverRun
 from langchain_core.documents import Document
+from langchain_core.pydantic_v1 import Field
 from langchain_core.retrievers import BaseRetriever
 
 
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ class BM25Retriever(BaseRetriever):
 
     vectorizer: Any
     """ BM25 vectorizer."""
-    docs: List[Document]
+    docs: List[Document] = Field(repr=False)
     """ List of documents."""
     k: int = 4
     """ Number of documents to return."""
diff --git a/libs/community/tests/unit_tests/retrievers/test_bm25.py b/libs/community/tests/unit_tests/retrievers/test_bm25.py
index d36f6dae15a..ef40b25ba7d 100644
--- a/libs/community/tests/unit_tests/retrievers/test_bm25.py
+++ b/libs/community/tests/unit_tests/retrievers/test_bm25.py
@@ -32,3 +32,14 @@ def test_from_documents() -> None:
     bm25_retriever = BM25Retriever.from_documents(documents=input_docs)
     assert len(bm25_retriever.docs) == 3
     assert bm25_retriever.vectorizer.doc_len == [4, 5, 4]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.requires("rank_bm25")
+def test_repr() -> None:
+    input_docs = [
+        Document(page_content="I have a pen."),
+        Document(page_content="Do you have a pen?"),
+        Document(page_content="I have a bag."),
+    ]
+    bm25_retriever = BM25Retriever.from_documents(documents=input_docs)
+    assert "I have a pen" not in repr(bm25_retriever)