''Two Songs'' is a pair of songs for voice and piano composed in 1916 by John Ireland (18791962). A performance of both songs takes around 3 minutes. Both are settings of poems by

Eric Thirkell Cooper Eric Thirkell Cooper (18861960) was a British soldier and war poet during World War I. Cooper was born in 1886 in Beckenham, Kent. He served with the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), reaching the rank of Major. He published two collec ...

from ''Soliloquies of a Subaltern Somewhere in France'' (1915). # "Blind" # "The Cost"

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Song cycles by John Ireland 1916 compositions Musical settings of poems by Eric Thirkell Cooper Songs based on poems {{classical-composition-stub