Five Sixteenth-Century Poems
# 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))
