by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Into my heart an air that kills
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.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 40, first published 1896 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong (1898 - ?), "Into my heart an air that kills", c1920 [ voice and piano ], from Five Short Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edwin Frank Avril (b. 1920), "Into my heart an air that kills" [ tenor and piano ], from A Shropshire Lad [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "Into my heart" [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "Into my heart", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Nine "Shropshire Lad" Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vernon Duke (1903 - 1969), "Into my heart", published 1955 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Chester Duncan (1913 - 2002), "The land of lost content", 1939 [ medium voice and piano ], from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robin Field (b. 1935), "The land of lost content", 1960 [ medium voice and piano ], from When I was one and twenty [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "Into my heart an air that kills ", op. 226 no. 1 (1996) [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Poems from "A Shropshire Lad", no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "The far country", 1918, published 1926 [ baritone, string quartet, and piano ], from The Western Playland, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by William Barnes Hoskins (1917 - 1997), "Into my heart an air that kills", 1940-5 [ mezzo-soprano, string orchestra ], from The Lost Lands [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "The far country" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Muriel Laura Kilby (b. 1929), "No. 40 from A Shropshire Lad", 1949 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867 - 1972), "Into my heart", op. 54 (Two songs) no. 1 (1914) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alan Leichtling , "Into my heart an air that kills", published 1971 [ baritone and orchestra ], from Eleven Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Home-longing", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from A Shropshire Lad [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "Into my heart", 1932, published 1940 [ tenor and piano ], from Three Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Cedric Peachey , "Into my heart an air that kills", 2005 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "Into my heart an air that kills" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hugh Priestley-Smith , "Into my heart an air that kills", published <<1943 [ voice and piano ], from From the West Country [sung text not yet checked]
- by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "The land of lost content", published c1935 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "Into my heart an air that kills", op. 141 (1947) [ baritone and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edwin C. Rose , "The far country", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Two Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Russell , "Into my heart an air that kills", 1970-4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937), "Into my heart an air that kills", 1904, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from A Shropshire Lad, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "The Land of Lost Content" [ voice and piano ], Manchester, Forsyth Publications [sung text checked 1 time]
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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