Five Sixteenth-Century Poems

Five Sixteenth-Century Poems is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 1938 by John Ireland (1879–1962).

A performance takes about 10 minutes. The poems are:


 * 1) "A Thanksgiving" (William Cornysh (1465–1523))
 * 2) "All in a Garden Green" (Thomas Howell )
 * 3) "An Aside" (Anon.)
 * 4) "A Report Song" (Nicholas Breton (1542–1626))
 * 5) "The Sweet Season" (Richard Edwardes (1525–66))