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by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)

We'll to the Woods no more
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.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936), no title, appears in Last Poems, first published 1922 [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 Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990), "No more", 1960-8 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Mayme Chanwai , "We'll to the woods no more", 1962 [ alto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Crerar , "We'll to the woods no more", 1954 [ high voice and piano ], from Housman Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Chester Duncan (1913 - 2002), "The End", 1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Four Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "We'll to the Woods no more", 1926-7, published 1928 [ voice and piano ], from We'll to the woods no more, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "We'll to the woods no more", op. 140 (1947) [ baritone and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "We'll To The Woods No More", op. 589 (1961) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Douglas MacDonald Stewart (1892 - ?), "We'll to the woods no more", published 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Harold Flower Thomas , "We'll to the woods no more", published 1930 [sung text not yet checked]
  • 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 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

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