The Land of Lost Content is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 192021 by John Ireland (18791962). It consists of settings of six poems by A. E. Housman from his 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad.
A typical performance takes about 11 minutes. The songs are, with Roman numerals from A Shropshire Lad, and first lines where Housman did not title his poem:[1]
The title of the cycle is taken from Housman's poem "Into my heart an air that kills", XL in A Shropshire Lad: