The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/Good-night
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GOOD-NIGHT
[Published by Leigh Hunt over the signature Σ, The Literary Pocket-Book, 1822. It is included in the Harvard MS. book, and there is a transcript by Shelley in a copy of The Literary Pocket-Book, 1819, presented by him to Miss Sophia Stacey, Dec. 29, 1820. (See Love's Philosophy and Time Long Past.) Our text is that of the editio princeps, 1822, with which the Harvard MS. and P. P., 1824, agree. The variants of the Stacey MS., 1820, are given in the footnotes.]
I
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill[1]
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.
Good-night? ah! no; the hour is ill[1]
Which severs those it should unite;
Let us remain together still,
Then it will be good night.
II
How can I call the lone night good,[2] 5
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood—
Then it will be—good night.
How can I call the lone night good,[2] 5
Though thy sweet wishes wing its flight?
Be it not said, thought, understood—
Then it will be—good night.