Mother and Child (song cycle)
# Mother and Child (song cycle)

Mother and Child is a song cycle for soprano and piano composed in 1918 by John Ireland (1879–1962). It consists of settings of eight poems by Christina Rossetti (1830–94), from her collection Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book (1872, 1893).

A typical performance takes about 10 minutes. The songs are:

* "Newborn"
* "The Only child"
* "Hope"
* "Skylark and Nightingale"
* "The Blind Boy"
* "Baby"
* "Death Parting"
* "The Garland"
