Of the 42 texts in "Last Poems", all but six have been set by composers. 29 separate settings are due to the enthusiasm of John Ramsden Williamson (1929–2015) alone. Soon after publication, composers began combining them into song cycles. John Ireland’s "We'll to the Woods No More" (1922) included the prologue poem of that title and Poem 32, "When I would muse in boyhood" (under the title "To Boyhood"). The history of "Along the Field" by Ralph Vaughan Williams was more complicated. Its first version with seven songs was performed in 1927 with solo violin accompaniment, but at that time just three were taken from "Last Poems" and four from "A Shropshire Lad". The revised work was eventually published in 1954 as "Along the Field: 8 Housman songs"; in the meantime, one of the original "Shropshire Lad" settings was dropped and replaced by two more from "Last Poems". Vaughan Williams’ student Leslie Russell (1901-1978) also included eight from "Last Poems" in his “Ludlow Cycle”.