Songs of a Wayfarer

Songs of a Wayfarer is a song cycle for baritone and piano composed by John Ireland (1879Template:Ndash1962) between 1903 and Template:Circa1911, and published in 1912. It consists of settings of five poems by various poets.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#ifeq: | yes | https://www.allmusic.com/composition/songs-of-a-wayfarer-songs-5-for-voice-piano-mc0002437987{{

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A performance takes about 12 minutes. The songs are:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

1. "Memory" (William Blake (1757Template:Ndash1827); "Memory, hither come", from Poetical Sketches (1783))
2. "When Daffodils Begin to Peer" (William Shakespeare (1564Template:Ndash1616); from A Winter's Tale, Act IV, Scene 3)
3. "English May" (Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828Template:Ndash82); from The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Vol. I (1886))
4. "I Was Not Sorrowful" (Ernest Dowson (1867Template:Ndash1900); "Spleen", from Verses (1896))
5. "I Will Walk on the Earth" (James Vila Blake (1842Template:Ndash1925))

In 1919, Edwin Evans described the cycle as being "of unequal merit but containing at least one song worthy to rank with its successors".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp In 2007, Richard Nicholson in a review of the recording by Benjamin Luxon (baritone) and Alan Rowlands (piano) (1972 or 1973) remarked that the songs "clearly have a foot in the nineteenth-century, with the influence of Brahms and Stanford acutely felt, but they show any amount of artistic promise".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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