title: Five Sixteenth-Century Poems
text: # 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:
  
  * "A Thanksgiving" (William Cornysh (1465–1523))
  * "All in a Garden Green" (Thomas Howell (fl. 1568))
  * "An Aside" (Anon.)
  * "A Report Song" (Nicholas Breton (1542–1626))
  * "The Sweet Season" (Richard Edwardes (1525–66))
  