Good night (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry)

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• CPDL #17852:  Sibelius 4

Editor: John Henry Fowler (submitted 2008-08-06).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 60 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 60 KB, MIDI: 7 KB, Sib4: 40 KB.

General Information

Title: Good Night
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Tenor or Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published: Composed 1881-83 - Published 1885.

Description: English Lyrics Set 1 - No. 2. - Lyrics by Percy Bysshe Shelly - (1792-1822).

External websites:

• Entry at the "Lied and Art Songs Texts Page ."

Original text and translations

English text

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.

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.

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.