Into my heart an air that kills

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.

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from A Shropshire Lad, no. 40, published 1896

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, no. ?
by Edwin Frank Avril (1920-) , "Into my heart an air that kills" [tenor and piano], from A Shropshire Lad, no. ?
by Edward Toner Cone (1917-) , "Into my heart" [soprano and piano]
by Alfred Redgrave Cripps (1882-1950) , "Into my heart", published <<1940 [voice and piano], from Nine "Shropshire Lad" Songs, no. ?
by Vernon Duke (1903-1969) [pseudonym] , "Into my heart", published 1955 [medium voice and piano], from Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?
by Chester Duncan (1913-) , "The land of lost content", 1939 [medium voice and piano], from Four Songs, no. ?
by Robin Field (1935-) , "The land of lost content", 1960 [medium voice and piano], from When I was one and twenty, no. ?
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "The far country", published 1926 [baritone, string quartet, and piano], from The Western Playland, no. 7.
by William Barnes Hoskins (1917-1997) , "Into my heart an air that kills", 1940-5 [mezzo-soprano, string orchestra], from The Lost Lands
by Muriel Laura Kilby (1929-) , "No. 40 from A Shropshire Lad", 1949. [voice and piano]
by Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867-1972) , "Into my heart", published <<1940. [voice and piano]
by Alan Leichtling , "Into my heart an air that kills", published 1971 [baritone and orchestra], from Eleven Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?
by Charles Fonteyn Manney (1872-1951) , "Home-longing", published 1914 [voice and piano], from A Shropshire Lad, no. ?
by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893-1976) , "Into my heart", published 1940 [tenor and piano], from Three Songs from "A Shropshire Lad", no. ?
by Nick Peros , "Into my heart an air that kills"
by Hugh Priestley-Smith , "Into my heart an air that kills", published <<1943 [voice and piano], from From the West Country, no. ?
by Humfrey Proctor-Gregg (1895-) , "The land of lost content", published c1935. [voice and piano]
by John Raynor (1909-1970) , "Into my heart an air that kills" [baritone and piano]
by Edwin C. Rose , "The far country", published 1926 [voice and piano], from Two Songs
by Leslie Russell , "Into my heart an air that kills", 1970-4. [voice and piano]
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) , "Into my heart an air that kills", published 1904 [voice and piano], from A Shropshire Lad, no. 9.

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