When Icicles Hang By The Wall is a poem by Shakespeare taken from Love's Labour's Lost Act V. It was set to music by Moeran and published in 1940 in a collection entitled four Shakespeare Songs (R76). It is scored for Female Voices (SA) with Piano accompaniment.Ernest J Moeran (1894-1950) was an English composer who followed the tradition of R. Vaughan Williams and John Ireland by collecting preserving and using many folk songs mainly from Norfolk Suffolk and Ireland.
