Best Schubert Poems

Changing thoughts
were creating chaos in frenzy,
unabashed, following the stricken
prey, to reclaim
the violence of a stalker.

Was there any law of jungle ?
Or rule of law in the midstream
of a formless prosthesis,
gaping void, throwing up
a primordial fear.

Becoming tired of looking at
the wastes around. No mystery
was left in...

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Dancing fingers sing me a song of happiness,
And do I not relish the thought and the feeling?
If the element of surprise delights ,
And the rhythms sway my mind,
Am I not complete, the fullness of my body, 
One with the passion of my mind?
If the labourer...

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The Leiermann

(to be spoken or sung to Schubert's The Leiermann)

Here, before the bustling market,
Stands the Leiermann; 
Fingers always dancing, 
Though the air is chill.

Bright dressed, he smiles
And says hello,
But few look into his eyes,
Or mutter in reply.

It is ever thus,
The conscience of their world,
They buy...

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