| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Songs in Minor Keys (1884)
V. Good-night | | By Christina Catherine Fraser-Tytler (Mrs. Edward Liddell) (1848– ) |
| | | IT is over now, she is gone to rest; | |
| I have clasped the hands on the quiet breast. | |
| Draw back the curtain, let in the light, | |
| She will never shrink if it be too bright. | |
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| We were two in here but an hour gone by, | 5 |
| No streak was then in the midnight sky; | |
| Now I am one to watch the day | |
| Come glimmering up from the far away. | |
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| What will he say when he comes in, | |
| Waked by the city’s morning din, | 10 |
| Hoping to find and fearing to know | |
| The sorrow he left but an hour ago? | |
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| What will he say, who has watched so long, | |
| When he shall find who has come and gone? | |
| Come a watcher that will not bide | 15 |
| Love’s morning or noon or eventide. | |
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| He thought to kiss her by morning grey, | |
| But God has thought to take her away. | |
| What will he say? God knows, not I; | |
| “Good night,” he said, but never “good bye.” | 20 | | | |
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