Mother and Child (song cycle)


Mother and Child is a song cycle for soprano and piano composed in 1918 by John Ireland. It consists of settings of eight poems by Christina Rossetti, from her collection Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book.
A typical performance takes about 10 minutes. The songs are:
  1. "Newborn"
  2. "The Only child"
  3. "Hope"
  4. "Skylark and Nightingale"
  5. "The Blind Boy"
  6. "Baby"
  7. "Death Parting"
  8. "The Garland"