by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
We'll to the Woods no more Matches original text
Language: English
We'll to the Woods no more The laurels all are cut, The bowers are bare of bay That once the Muses wore. The year draws in the day And soon will evening shut: The laurels all are cut We'll to the woods no more. Oh, we'll no more, no more To the leafy woods away, To the high wild woods of laurel And the bowers of bay no more.
Composition:
- Set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "We'll to the Woods no more", 1927, published 1954, rev. 1954 [ high voice and violin ], from Along the Field, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, first published 1922
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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
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Word count: 69