Goodnight! Ah no

General information

Lyricist Percy Bysshe Shelley

Settings by composers

• Claude Barton ATTB
• Charles Hubert Hastings Parry S or T solo

Texts and Translations

English text

1  Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good-night.

2  How can I call the lone night good,
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood
Then it will be good-night.

3  To hearts which near each other move
From evening close to morning light,
The night is good; because, my love,
They never say good-night.

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