Schubert Song Texts: Home

Welcome to Schubert Song Texts, a web resource devoted to the poems set to music by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). As well as the full text of all the poems, there are translations into modern English and indexes of the images used by the poets. A sample of what is available is offered below, but for more detail see the About page, which includes a FAQ and a video tour.

On this day, May 16:

A few of the 686 texts presented and discussed on the site:

Am Brunnen vor dem Tore by Oscar Herrfurth

Der Lindenbaum

Gondolas on the Lagoon (Grey_Lagoon) by Francesco Guardi

Gondelfahrer

Pigeon post by Miklos Barabas

Die Taubenpost

Engraving of trout in grass, artist unknown

Die Forelle

JC Dahl View of Dresden by Moonlight

Nacht und Träume

Gretchen am Spinnrade

Some of the 156 poets whose texts Schubert set to music:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich von Schiller

Johann Baptist Mayrhofer

Walter Scott

Wilhelm Müller

Marianne von Willemer

A selection of the many themes and images on this site:

Evening and the setting sun

Age Teaching Youth c.1785-90 William Blake

Youth

Bee keeper 1753

Bees and honey

Caspar David Friedrich, The hiker above the sea of fog, circa 1817. Hamburg, Kunsthalle

Walking and wandering

Pauline von Koudelka Schmerling 1832

Wreaths and garlands

Pepper's ghost illusion, 1862

Appearance and reality