2014

Goodnight

Composed by Jake Heggie

Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri Song Collection

"Goodnight" is the fifth song of Jake Heggie's song cycle Newer Every Day: Songs for Kiri. Please see song cycle page for further details.

Text

Goodnight
by Emily Dickinson

Some say goodnight — at night —
I say goodnight by day —
Good-bye — the Going utter me —
Goodnight, I still reply —

For parting, that is night,
And presence, simply dawn —
Itself, the purple on the height
Denominated morn.