Three Songs of A.E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (1859 - 1936)
Composer Dale Dykins set three poems by A. E. Housman for voice and piano.
The Land of Lost Content The Land of Lost Content
Far in a Western Brookland Far in a Western Brookland
With Rue My Heart Is Laden With Rue My Heart Is Laden
The recordings heard on this page feature Christopher McCafferty, tenor, and Sandy Rawson, piano, performing at the Pleasure for the Ear concert in Seattle on February 8, 2008.
sheet music available from
Art of Sound Music and J.W.Pepper.
The Land of Lost Content
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.
With Rue My Heart Is Laden
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.