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by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

With rue my heart is laden
Language: English 
With rue my heart is laden
 For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
 And many a lightfoot lad.

By brooks too broad for leaping
 The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping 
 In fields where roses fade.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in A Shropshire Lad, no. 54, 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 Percy Lee Atherton (1871 - 1944), "With rue my heart is laden", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "With rue my heart is laden", op. 2 (Three Songs) no. 2 (1928) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Melinda Bargreen , "With rue my heart is laden", 2017 [ tenor or baritone and piano ], from In Fields Where Roses Fade, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ronald A. Beckett , "With rue my heart is laden", 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Poems by A.E.Housman, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gena Branscombe (1881 - 1977), "With rue my heart is laden", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George Sainton Kaye Butterworth (1885 - 1916), "With rue my heart is laden", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Bredon Hill and other songs, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mayme Chanwai , "With rue my heart is laden", 1962 [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William W. Colson (b. 1945), "With rue my heart is laden" [ high voice and piano ], from Three Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "With rue my heart is laden" [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882 - 1950), "With rue my heart is laden", published <<1940 [ voice and piano ], from Nine "Shropshire Lad" Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Vernon Duke (1903 - 1969), "With rue my heart is laden", published 1955 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Chester Duncan (1913 - 2002), "With rue my heart is laden", 1937 [ medium voice and piano ], from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by William Edward France (1912 - 1985), "With rue my heart is laden " [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Linton Gardner (1917 - 2011), "With rue my heart is laden", op. 226 no. 3 (1996) [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Three Poems from "A Shropshire Lad", no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "With rue my heart is laden", 1920, published 1926 [ baritone, string quartet, and piano ], from The Western Playland, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Janet Hamilton , "With rue my heart is laden", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George Heussenstamm (b. 1926), "With rue my heart is laden", published 1971 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Jeffreys (1927 - 2010), "With rue my heart is laden" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Alan Leichtling , "With rue my heart is laden", published 1971 [ baritone and orchestra ], from Eleven Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leslie Mann (1923 - 1977), "With rue my heart is laden", 1954 [ high voice and piano ], from Green Buds [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872 - 1951), "Grief", published 1914, from A Shropshire Lad [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "With rue my heart is laden", 1924, published 1925 [ tenor and piano ], from Five Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. 1, note: publication in the set occurred in 1959 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Nick Peros (b. 1963), "With rue my heart is laden" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "With rue my heart is laden" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "With Rue my Heart is Laden", op. 72 (1945) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "With rue my heart is laden", op. 136 (1947) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "With Rue My Heart Is Laden", op. 571 (1960) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Leslie Russell , "With grief my heart is laden", 1970-4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006), "With rue my heart is laden", 1977, first performed 1978 [ voice and piano ], from Seven Songs of Love and Sorrow, no. 6, Furore Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by David Van Vactor (b. 1906), "With rue my heart is laden", published 1968 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "With rue my heart is laden", 1927, published 1954, rev. 1954 [ voice and violin ], from Along the Field, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George Theophilus Walker (b. 1922), "With rue my heart is laden", published 1972 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Eugene Ward (1917 - 2013), "With rue my heart is laden", published 1949 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Ramsden Williamson (1929 - 2015), "With rue my heart is laden" [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 42

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