Death and the Maiden
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...
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By David B. Gosselin
- Oct 11, 2018
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: Lerchengesang
We are inaugurating a new series, aimed at taking a different poem on each occasion and analyzing it from the standpoint of how a great...
Original Translation
- Oct 10, 2018
- 5 min
15th and 16th Century Spanish Love Poems from Schumann's "Spanische Liebeslieder"
Discover the true magic of these poems: read along as you listen to the settings of Robert Schumann's Spanische Liebeslieder cycle found...
By Michael R. Burch
- Oct 8, 2018
- 1 min
Observance
Here the hills are old and rolling carefully in their old age; on the horizon youthful mountains bathe themselves in windblown fountains...
Translation
- Oct 4, 2018
- 1 min
"Lerchengesang" (Lark Song) Set by Brahms
Ethereal, distant voices, Heavenly greetings of larks, How sweetly you move men's hearts With your enchanting voices. As my eyes begin...
Translation
- Oct 3, 2018
- 1 min
The Fishergirl by Heinrich Heine
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...
Original Translation
- Sep 30, 2018
- 1 min
An die Musik
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...
Translation
- Sep 24, 2018
- 1 min
Heine's "Atlas" Set by Franz Schubert
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...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
The Seashell
An errant shape appears upon the sand, Borne from ultramarine depths to wash Among the turquoise waves’ relentless crash Upon another...
By Beverly Stock
- Sep 2, 2018
- 1 min
The Human Depot
A Human Depot, A resting place Full of dignity, history and grace. The monuments Are carefully tended there, Naming who rests where...
Original Translation
- Aug 6, 2018
- 1 min
Feldeinsamkeit by Hermann Allmers
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...
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