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, October 9:

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

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

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