`We`ll to the Woods No More` is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1928 by John Ireland. It consists of settings of two poems by A. E. Housman (1859–1936) and a concluding piece for solo...Read more

`We`ll to the Woods No More` is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1928 by John Ireland. It consists of settings of two poems by A. E. Housman (1859–1936) and a concluding piece for solo piano named after a third.

1. `We`ll to the Woods No More` (Last Poems (1922), unnumbered preface)
2. `In Boyhood` (`When I would muse in boyhood`; Last Poems, No. XXXII)
3. `Spring Will Not Wait` (``Tis time, I think, by Wenlock town`; A Shropshire Lad (1896), No. XXXIX)

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