Three Songs, 1918–19

For other sets of three songs with similar names by John Ireland, see Three Songs (1926) and Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy.

Three Songs is a set of songs for high voice and piano composed in 191819 by John Ireland (18791962). It consists of settings of three poems by Arthur Symons (18651945).

A typical performance of the songs as a set takes 7 minutes.[1] The poems are:[2]

  1. "The Adoration" [3][4]
  2. "The Rat" [5][6]
  3. "Rest" [6][7]

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