We'll to the Woods no more

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.

by Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) , no title, from Last Poems, published 1922

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Mayme Chanwai , "We'll to the woods no more", 1962. [alto and piano]
by Louis Crerar , "We'll to the woods no more", 1954 [high voice and piano], from Housman Songs, no. ?
by Chester Duncan (1913-) , "The End", 1963 [medium voice and piano], from Four Songs, no. ?
by John Ireland (1879-1962) , "We'll to the Woods no more", published 1928 [voice and piano], from We'll to the woods no more, no. 1.
by John Raynor (1909-1970) , "We'll to the woods no more" [baritone and piano]
by Douglas MacDonald Stewart (1892-?) , "We'll to the woods no more", published 1923. [voice and piano]
by Harold Flower Thomas , "We'll to the woods no more", published 1930.
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.

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