Good-Night by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A speaker rejects saying good-night to a beloved because it means separation and asks that they remain together. The speaker calls the night good for loving hearts that stay close from evening until morning without saying farewell.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 123 words
First lines
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.
Genres
- Love Poetry — The speaker addresses a beloved and asks for continued closeness instead of a nighttime farewell.
- Lyric Poetry — Three rhymed stanzas express the speaker's objection to separation through repeated variations on good-night.
Tags
love · parting · night · farewell · companionship
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Love Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 123 words
- Structure: 1 section, 6 paragraphs
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