Mother and Child (song cycle)

Mother and Child is a song cycle for soprano and piano composed in 1918 by John Ireland (18791962). It consists of settings of eight poems by Christina Rossetti (183094), from her collection Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872, 1893).

A typical performance takes about 10 minutes. The songs are:

"Newborn" "The Only child" "Hope" "Skylark and Nightingale" "The Blind Boy" "Baby" "Death Parting" "The Garland"

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