This poem (and the music that accompanies it) was written to honor the memory of a Japanese woman who survived two American bombings of...

So dark, so dark the willow forests loom, The skies are wintered and the evening hushed. Now neither shroud nor light nor vapors rise,...

Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the...

The Chained Muse is proud to present the first part in a lecture series by music scholar Fred Haight. In this installment, there will be...

My songs travel through the cool night, Searching for you. Find me in the tranquil grove, love— I'll wait for you. The gentle fronds of...

Holy night, descending softly, Descending, too, are our dreams, Like moonlight through a darkened room, Through the depths of a man`s...

Fall rain, fall upon this old world, And wake deep inside me the dreams That I dreamt when I was a child, When rain would wet the golden...

I sit here lonely on a hill Where skies are clear and blue; The sunset casts a glowing veil Over the deep and tranquil dale— I used to...

Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 "Marie and I were sitting in the dining-room when the bell rang, and we heard Brahms go to our mother's room. Soon...

My sleep grows ever more gentle, Only my sorrow, like a veil, Trembles over me. I hear you often in my dreams, Standing at my door,...

Only he who truly longs Knows what grips me! Alone, the love that belongs With me has been set free. I look to the cloudy throngs Across...

Schubert set one of the 28 stanza's of Schiller's poem to music. We present an original translation along with the original German. Stay...

Der Erlkönig (The Elf King) Who goes there riding through the night and fog?— A father and son come journeying along; He holds him tight...

Maiden Away! Away from me fiend! Off you bare-skulled savage! I’m still young, with long to live! Away! And leave me be. Death Lend me...

Discover the true magic of these poems: read along as you listen to the settings of Robert Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder cycle found...

Ethereal, distant voices, Heavenly greetings of larks, How sweetly you move men's hearts With your enchanting voices. As my eyes begin...

Come you lovely fisher girl, Come and bring your boat to land; Join me on the golden shore, We'll cuddle hand in hand. Lay your head on...

Thou sacred art, in how many trying hours When I had been thrown through life’s winding ways Did you come and lift my sad heart into...

I, wretched Atlas, must carry the world, I must carry this wide world of wrenching pain. I bear the unbearable and my heart Breaks within...

Peacefully, I rest in the tall green grass For a long time only gazing as I lie, Caught in the endless hymn of crickets, And encircled by...