by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
When I came last to Ludlow
Language: English
When I came last to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale, Two friends kept step beside me, Two honest lads and hale. Now Dick lies long in the churchyard, And Ned lies long in jail, And I come home to Ludlow Amidst the moonlight pale.
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Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 58, first published 1896 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Geoffrey Allen (b. 1927), "When I came last to Ludlow ", op. 10 no. 1 (1995) [ tenor and piano ], from Bredon Hill : eight songs for tenor voice and piano to poems of A. E. Housman, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "When I came last to Ludlow" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Willy B. Manson , "When I came last to Ludlow", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Three Poems from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest John Moeran (1894 - 1950), "When I came last to Ludlow", R. 3 no. 2 (1916), published 1919 [ voice and piano ], from Four Songs from A Shropshire Lad, no. 2, first appeared in Art and Letters II [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891 - 1918), "When I came last to Ludlow", published <<1968 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "When I Came Last to Ludlow", op. 186 (1948) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "When I came last to Ludlow" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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