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

Here the hills are old and rolling carefully in their old age; on the horizon youthful mountains bathe themselves in windblown fountains...

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...

My spirit is lost in the late afternoon, As it drifts with the shadows that float in the air; It lives in the moment that dies all too...

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...

Tired bends the lily Beneath its gorgeous flower; Weary stoops the pilgrim Drawn on by heavenly power. All the soldier’s glory Is grime...

An errant shape appears upon the sand, Borne from ultramarine depths to wash Among the turquoise waves’ relentless crash Upon another...

A Human Depot, A resting place Full of dignity, history and grace. The monuments Are carefully tended there, Naming who rests where...

The midnight hour had fallen on The hushed city of Babylon. And yet within its castle walls The vassals thronged throughout the halls....

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...