Lyric Poem · Nature
Buona Notte
'Buona notte, buona notte!' — Come mai
La notte sara buona senza te?
Non dirmi buona notte, — che tu sai,
La notte sa star buona da per se.
Solinga, scura, cupa, senza speme,
La notte quando Lilla m'abbandona;
Pei cuori chi si batton insieme
Ogni notte, senza dirla, sara buona.
Come male buona notte ci suona
Con sospiri e parole interrotte! —
Il modo di aver la notte buona
E mai non di dir la buona notte.
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“Buona Notte” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/buona-notte
Quick facts
- Poem
- Buona Notte
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 12 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 12 lines · 3 quatrains
- Line length
- Lines run 9-10 syllables (median 9). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBBuona Notte by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 c9f69c56ccdd4127…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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