by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)
Good night
Language: English
Good-night! Good-night! Our feast is ended, By young and old with smiles attended; Where Wit and Worth and beauty blended, To speed the hours with dance and song. Beauty’s smile Free from guile, Wit that shone Wounding none; And manly Worth and Woman true, Good-night! and joy go home with you! Good-night! and may your minstrel’s numbers Still echo on amid your slumbers, To spell-bind every care that cumbers The lover’s heart, the mother’s breast. Beauty, Mirth, Wit and Worth Fall to sleep, Calm and deep, Nor rouse, till rosy morrow call, “Awake, and joy go with you all!”
Authorship:
- by Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931), "Good night" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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- Also set in English, [adaptation] ; composed by Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir.
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This text was added to the website: 2015-04-08
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