Famous Short Good Night Poems

Famous Short Good Night Poems. Short Good Night Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Good Night short poems

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by Nikki Giovanni

Some people forget that love is
tucking you in and kissing you
"Good night"
no matter how young or old you are


Some people don't remember that
love is
listening and laughing and asking
questions
no matter what your age


Few recognize that love is
commitment, responsibility
no fun at all
unless


Love is
You and me 

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by Jack Prelutsky

 As soon as Fred gets out of bed,
his underwear goes on his head.

His mother laughs, "Don't put it there,
a head's no place for underwear!"
But near his ears, above his brains,
is where Fred's underwear remains.


At night when Fred goes back to bed,
he deftly plucks it off his head.

His mother switches off the light
and softly croons, "Good night! Good night!"
And then, for reasons no one knows,
Fred's underwear goes on his toes.

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by James Whitcomb Riley

 What delightful hosts are they -- 
 Life and Love! 
Lingeringly I turn away, 
 This late hour, yet glad enough 
They have not withheld from me 
 Their high hospitality.
 
So, with face lit with delight 
 And all gratitude, I stay 
 Yet to press their hands and say, 
"Thanks.
 -- So fine a time! Good night.
"

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by Percy Bysshe Shelley

 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.

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by Emily Dickinson

Good night! which put the candle out?
A jealous zephyr, not a doubt.

   Ah! friend, you little knew
How long at that celestial wick
The angels labored diligent;
   Extinguished, now, for you!

It might have been the lighthouse spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
   Had importuned to see!
It might have been the waning lamp
That lit the drummer from the camp
   To purer reveille!

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by Sarojini Naidu

 FROM groves of spice, 
O'er fields of rice, 
Athwart the lotus-stream, 
I bring for you, 
Aglint with dew 
A little lovely dream.
 


Sweet, shut your eyes, 
The wild fire-fiies 
Dance through the fairy neem; 
From the poppy-bole 
For you I stole 
A little lovely dream.



Dear eyes, good-night, 
In golden light 
The stars around you gleam; 
On you I press 
With soft caress 
A little lovely dream.

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by Hilaire Belloc

 The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other:
The moon is my sister, the dawn is my brother.

The moon on my left and the dawn on my right.

My brother, good morning: my sister, good night.

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by Emily Dickinson

 A Wife -- at daybreak I shall be --
Sunrise -- Hast thou a Flag for me?
At Midnight, I am but a Maid,
How short it takes to make a Bride --
Then -- Midnight, I have passed from thee
Unto the East, and Victory --

Midnight -- Good Night! I hear them call,
The Angels bustle in the Hall --
Softly my Future climbs the Stair,
I fumble at my Childhood's prayer
So soon to be a Child no more --
Eternity, I'm coming -- Sire,
Savior -- I've seen the face -- before!

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by Edward Thomas

 IT was a perfect day 
For sowing; just 
As sweet and dry was the ground 
As tobacco-dust.
 

I tasted deep the hour 
Between the far 
Owl's chuckling first soft cry 
And the first star.
 

A long stretched hour it was; 
Nothing undone 
Remained; the early seeds 
All safely sown.
 

And now, hark at the rain, 
Windless and light, 
Half a kiss, half a tear, 
Saying good-night.

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by Emily Dickinson

 Good night, because we must,
How intricate the dust!
I would go, to know!
Oh incognito!
Saucy, Saucy Seraph
To elude me so!
Father! they won't tell me,
Won't you tell them to?

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by Emily Dickinson

 Within thy Grave!
Oh no, but on some other flight --
Thou only camest to mankind
To rend it with Good night --

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by Emily Dickinson

 It tossed -- and tossed --
A little Brig I knew -- o'ertook by Blast --
It spun -- and spun --
And groped delirious, for Morn --

It slipped -- and slipped --
As One that drunken -- stept --
Its white foot tripped --
Then dropped from sight --

Ah, Brig -- Good Night
To Crew and You --
The Ocean's Heart too smooth -- too Blue --
To break for You --

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by Emily Dickinson

 As Children bid the Guest "Good Night"
And then reluctant turn --
My flowers raise their pretty lips --
Then put their nightgowns on.


As children caper when they wake
Merry that it is Morn --
My flowers from a hundred cribs
Will peep, and prance again.

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by Robert Herrick

 Blessings in abundance come
To the bride and to her groom ;
May the bed and this short night
Know the fulness of delight !
Pleasure many here attend ye,
And, ere long, a boy love send ye,
Curled and comely, and so trim,
Maids in time may ravish him.

Thus a dew of graces fall
On ye both ; good-night to all.

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