Songs Sacred and Profane


Songs Sacred and Profane is a song cycle for voice and piano composed in 192931 by John Ireland. It consists of settings of six poems by various poets.
A typical performance takes about 14 minutes. The songs are:
  1. "The Advent" ; "Meditation", from Preludes )
  2. "Hymn for a Child"
  3. "My Fair"
  4. "The Salley Gardens" ; "An Old Song Re-Sung", from The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems )
  5. "The Soldier's Return"
  6. "The Scapegoat"