by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

Language: English 
Our translations:  ITA
Into my heart an air that kills
  From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
  What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
  I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
  And cannot come again.

Composition:

    Set to music by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "The Land of Lost Content" [ voice and piano ], Manchester, Forsyth Publications

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dentro il mio cuore un vento che uccide", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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