Three Songs (Ireland, 1926)

Three Songs is a set of songs for voice and piano composed in 1926 by John Ireland (18791962). It consists of settings of three poems by various poets.

A typical performance of the three songs as a set takes 8 minutes. The poems are:

1. "Love and Friendship" (Emily Brontë (181848), from Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey)
2. "Friendship in Misfortune" (poet not identified)
3. "The One Hope" (Dante Gabriel Rossetti (182882), from Poems (1870))

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